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Making Sense: The MIX House |
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| Authors: | Joel Sanders Karen Van Lengen |
| Abstract: | In an effort to challenge the dominance of vision over the other senses in architectural experience, Joel Sanders and Karen Van Lengen infuse a speculative domestic environment with digital audio technology. Their design capitalises on the augmentation of aural–visual boundaries via technological interventions, ultimately recasting the house from a private and insulated environment to that of a hybridised interactive site. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | ocular-centric design culture Ben Rubin aural-ocular design strategy sonic specificity Le Thoronet Chartres acoustic qualities Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio Le Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe Farnsworth House ‘acoustical glare’ Emily Thompson BlackBerries, iPods and iPhones two sound-gathering volumes outfitted with three audio-visual windows curved profile sonic windows transparent parabolic dish microphone small video camera Mix Counter in the kitchen impromptu original domestic soundscapes |