Emotions on Display - Experiential Museum Design

Contemporary architecture has started to receive more accusations of emotional coldness, and restrictive aesthetics, distanced from humans and life.

An essential solution to improve the quality of life is to reconnect architecture with emotions and feelings. Architecture is the main element of our environment. Architecture has an impact on emotions followed by behavior. As the architectural space changes, humans act, think, and feel differently. It is important to architect human emotions of positivity, to create an environment that reduces negative emotions.

Purpose:
Understanding the effectiveness of variations of environmental and design elements upon human emotions.

Objective:
Helping the visitor to understand the impact of different architectural spaces on their mind, identifying with their emotions and what are the environmental changes that they require for their well-being.

Design expectations:
• An experimental model of a museum that displays emotions
• Create spaces that evoke different emotions (Plutchik’s model of emotions)
• The user should be able to identify with the emotion that overpowers their mind, so it is important for the designer to design spaces that specifically evoke certain emotions.
• Give importance to the transition spaces from one emotion to another.
• Spaces can be created as individual emotions or functional spaces that depict a particular emotion.
• The sequence of the emotions matters so zone them thoughtfully.
• You have to design a museum – that displays emotions, eventually leading to healing the visitor’s mind.

Guidelines:
• Site / Location: It can be hypothetical or real, choose wisely.
• You have to design a museum – that displays emotions, eventually leading to healing the visitors mind.
• The word to remember is ‘Experiential’.
• We are expecting spaces that people can experience and identify their own emotions
• Drawing requirements: Conceptual (Priority), Plans, Sections, Elevations, View.
• Support your design with all possible explanation, (Formats that are accepted: Text, Video, Audio and the most obvious drawings).

TIMELINE

Registration deadline: 31st Dec 2022
AR (advanced registration): 1st July 2022 – 15th July 2022
ER(early registration): 16th July 2022 – 31st July 2022
SRL1 (standard registration level 1): 1st August 2022 – 31st August 2022
SRL2 (standard registration level 2): 1st September 2022 – 30th September 2022
SRL3 (standard registration level 3): 1st October 2022 – 31st October 2022
SRL4 (standard registration level 4): 1st November 2022 – 30th November 2022
LR (late registration): 1st December 2022 – 15th December 2022
CR(countdown registration): 16th December 2022 – 31st December 2022
Submission deadline: 15th Jan 2023
Result Announcement: 25th Feb 2023
Participants will be notified in case of an update in the timeline.

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