Year three final project. Evocation of the Lost Sense: The Upper Derwent Monastery | 聾人修道院
Hidden deeply in the forest of the Upper Derwent Valley to the north of Howden Reservoir of the Peak District national park, the site is attractive as it remains a peaceful landscape and brings some fresh silence to the people coming from the noisy society. The area is currently owned by a number of water companies and access of vehicles to the whole area is usually controlled thus visitors mostly choose to ride bicycles or horses as an easier way. It is why the area is popular that it sits away from towns but not too far where noise is just avoided, whereas it is still convenient to reach. As a special group of people in an unfamiliar society, the deaf encounter an unfair treatment and are hardly accepted by the majority. Being unable to hear is largely depressive, somehow, as one sense loses, they would theoretically gain much greater potentials on other senses than a full-hearing people - these even raises the pap between the deaf and the hearing. However, an opportunity is desired to give respect to explore the hidden potential of their sensitive perceptions. The monastery is a place where it brings faith to the deaf and works as a media to introduce a parallel world, in where deaf may 'hear' by the ear of hearts. The architecture seeks a phenomenological way to capture and perceive the impressions of sound and to help the deaf to experience via senses of seeing, touching and imagination. However, the experience of hearing the sound of soundless is extremely challenging and would be, to great extents, entirely different from what a normal person experiences. The project is a complex of chapel, residence and spaces for eating and bath. ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2001) — CHICAGO (Nov. 27) -- Deaf people sense vibration in the part of the brain that other people use for hearing – which helps explain how deaf musicians can sense music, and how deaf people can enjoy concerts and other musical events. “These findings suggest that the experience deaf people have when ‘feeling’ music is similar to the experience other people have when hearing music. The perception of the musical vibrations by the deaf is likely every bit as real as the equivalent sounds, since they are ultimately processed in the same part of the brain,” says Dr. Dean Shibata, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Washington. This project is inspired by a product named ‘Bone vibration conductor. Sound information is captured and transferred in a form of vibration, through a close contact to the skin, the product greatly helps understand appreciate sound without hearing. In this project, similar principle is studied. The picture is a key installation of the pipe organ mechanism. An additional dynamic projection is added to the typical mechanism in order to allow its audiences appreciate the music by senses of seeing. Meanwhile, vibration created by organ pipes is transferred directly in a particular way to the back of the audience. 基地是在英國國家公園里一片風景優美,與世隔絕的山谷里,這裡由於它的寂靜,給來自吵鬧地區的遊客帶來新鮮感而出名。這是一座為聾人設計的修道院,其中包括一個大教堂,一個通過身體其他器官感知音樂的空間和一些獨立住宅。 牆上的竪向木架子是管風琴的一部份,隨著管風琴的機械一起運動,相當於演奏者手指的投影。聾人失去聽覺卻得到了其他感官的增強。此設計從這裡著手進行深入討論,聾人是怎樣感知音樂的?美國幾項測試表明,失去聽覺的人腦部活動與健全人是略有不同的,這種不同明顯體現在他們對觸覺(震動),視覺,嗅覺等的反應。對這些感官刺激的敏感反應使得他們也能像健全人一樣欣賞音樂,這是一種截然不同的體驗。 管風琴機械系統:最左面為風管,發聲部份。風管連著風箱,內部是密集的木杆件和金屬弦,他們都受控于琴鍵。按下其中一個按鍵,相對應的木杆件會帶動其中一個風管使得空氣進入從而發聲。風箱後面和底下是入風口,風由幾個大型的類似鼓風機一樣的機器提供。風箱同時連著木質投影,風管口連著金屬部件傳到震動直至’傾聽者‘的背後。 |
Year Three Final Project. Xutong Zhao. Department of the Built Environment. University of Nottingham. Fall 2012.