[MUSO-ARCH]itectonics

Abstract

Music and sound, from simple rhythms and pulses to the most intricate harmonies and scales, offers the complexity of experience inherent in things dependent on a medium of time; habitually, musical perception corresponds to auditory experience. Architecture and space, from primitive huts to the most elaborate of forms and details, illustrates the complexity of experience inherent in things dependent on a medium void of time; habitually, architectural perception corresponds to visual experience. This project proposes an investigation between two seemingly disconnected phenomena. The hypothesis claims that there is a kind of architecture that can disclose itself in both the domain of the spatial world and the aural world—when looked at from either angle, this architecture is transparent, layering the essential qualities of both. The result could be a richer architecture—one that is conscious of something not completely clear in the lived world. Perhaps to fully experience architecture, an individual needs to listen and see.