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This 30 page paper analyzes elements from the Eichler Homes Group (Wright, Schindler, Scharoun)for their application and theories dealing with experiential continuity in the residence. Specific examples given, applications for modern construction debated. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is it something more? While it is difficult to predict building design, it is possible to bring to any project a type of continuity between elements which allow for a
certain tone, certain experience, certain atmosphere to prevail. This is especially prevalent in residential architecture, both interior and exterior in the modern era. What is Experiential Continuity?
The experiential situation is one where people become bodily and emotionally attached to their geographical world. In this case; the home. The crux of the experiential continuity
is a feel that is consistent throughout the structure. Often this can be accomplished with a simple element, repeated throughout the structure. For example, exposed ceiling beams, or the use
of a textured ceiling can be a unifying element. Other elements can include shapes which are reinforced and utilized in the interior and carried through to the exterior.
Human beings seem to have the singular ability among all of the animal kingdom to construct new knowledge based on what has been learned from others and
what has been gained from an exploration and experience of his environment. Everything, in other words, that a person touches, or uses his/her senses to experience is judged against previously
held conceptions about that object or concept. The Experiential continuity, when it is achieved, experts state, produce an ability for human beings to
take for granted their space. But what, exactly do they take for granted? For one thing, they take for granted that they will feel the same basic level of comfortableness
in each room. Each room will have about it some element which reminds the person of the previous room, though each room will also be distinct in some way, too.
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