An Architecture Sensitive to the Automobile

Within what proximity should a designer design his or her spatial condition to be receptive to the human senses? If an experience occurs within immediate visual contact with a built form then maybe architecture, to encompass all depth of ones sensorial experience, must engage us endlessly; rather to the extent that we may be in front of the building or within a car, miles away but in some visual contact. As these man-made edges (highway and street systems) continue to thicken, stretching our visual sight further from the city edge, maybe what is needed in design is a means of spatial engagement when the physicality of the building is too far from reach. However, this does not mean that architecture should scream of its presence but rather be conscious of its presence within the context of the city; as a figure amongst hundreds of others, in the landscape of lights, sounds, and rigid forms.

As these images press within our mind and defines us, they in turn, takes dramatic roles in determining our desire for growth or decay. Should a adaptable architecture then understand the complexities that constantly grows around us, in us, within our world, our cities, home, and place?

Perhaps what is needed is an architecture that is sensitive to how it is perceived within the automobile... not to say at all that this is the only intent but rather perhaps this acts to be an addition included within architecture to create for an overall sensorial experience.