Different Way of Seeing

Abstract

Perception plays a huge part in human's life that is continue in a lot of different interior spaces so the term of architectural perception will be mentioned for all people. This architectural perception is actualizing with using human senses. And people, with use their own thought that are taken from the result of their perceptions, identify the architectural structure as beautiful or not. People have five common senses which are used in perceiving process however they do not use their senses equally because of the dominance the sense of eyesight. That's why they decide is interior space beautiful or not without use their another senses which are necessary as much as eyesight. The aim of the study is to question the importance of common senses in perceiving the space and explaining the dimensions of space which are not related with the vision. For test these aims, a created method was regulated and selected participant's usage rates of their senses were tested in selected area with in the two phase. In the first phase of method they could use their eyesight but in the second phase their eyes were closed. As a result of the method, the sense of eyesight is more dominant than hearing, touching and smelling and eyesight block usage of these senses. Also, hearing, touching and smelling can only work when eyesight is opened but for the true perception all senses should have used together and the environment is aesthetic or not decide after the true perception.