Experiencing Built Space: Affect and Movement

This paper aims to look at the experience of built space beyond the subjective and signifying connotations of phenomenology in architecture. Instead of experiencing through subjective meanings, the attempt is to look at the affective dimension of space. What does it entail to experience built space in terms of affect? If affect pertains to an affection that modifies both the mind and the body, 1 it is at once a perception and a sensation, and tied to the idea of movement. So how does phenomenology rid itself of the ideas that have helped define it? It will be through Deleuze's critique of phenomenology and the notion of affect as seen through his conception of the body without organs that will set the ground for a possible new way of experiencing architecture.