Architects tend to create the space and imagine how the blocks that we live in today will behave and react to one another. Phenomenology was a used movement that contributes to how people would dwell in their own habitat, according to Martin Heidegger (Heidegger 1956). Therefore, from the philosophers and psychologists, architects tend to use their theories to connect them with architecture that creates a bond between the living of a human being and its habitat.
Martin Heidegger wanted to see how the space would react within a certain type of community. Habitats in cities and everywhere else in the world are surrounded by either a community or as Martin Heidegger would refer to, space. Space gives us an essence of what is around us as an individual and as in the group of community of what kinds of people live in. Heidegger if he sees a connection between the two communities is like a bridge that connects the bits and pieces of communities. A community that is located to one specific area is described as a locale, where the community is located.
Heidegger also wanted to describe this theory even deeper. Communities can be even separated into neighborhoods that define the space. For instance, when a new building is being built it should relate to the surrounding community. Louis Khan (Khan n.d.) also states that the building is important to know the how it will be designed rather than what will be designed. The building needs to connect with the surrounding buildings that would help bridge the community and neighborhoods together.
Architects plan and work the designs of how buildings would interact in a certain environment. With the help of philosophers and psychologists, they construct a pattern of how communities within neighborhoods and cities will work. That helps with how the design of a building would contribute for better within the community that creates a bridge between one community to another.
Bibliography
Heidegger, Martin. 1956. “Die Sein.” In Sein und Zeit, by Martin Heidegger.
Khan, Louis. n.d. In Heidegger and the Language of Archtiecutre.
Some of your points are quite difficult to relate to the readings – while I’m sure your sentiments can certainly resonate with a phenomenological approach, I don’t see how these ideas were taken from the readings. Or rather, they seem to be so broad that they’re not specific to the readings. I’d like to see specific references from Heidegger/Norberg-Schulz in relation to this idea of ‘two communities.’