Listening to space.

Space is aural. Architecture is about shaping space in a noisy world, so listen...

Architecture and sound inter-relate in:

musical proportion
architectural acoustics
sound in space.

Architecture is so often conceived as a visual rather than a spatial art. The invisible acoustic dimension of space and activity can be overlooked. Today's listening agenda can be described as:

listening to space - the activities of a room or street and how the architecture shapes and modulates sound to create a healthy functioning environment
listening to users - their aspirations, views, and intelligence about a building, street or district, an essential prerequisite for making change.

The dimensions of space are audible.

The three 'Cartesian' dimensions of space are embodied in the labyrinth - our our sensory organs of balance - in the inner ears. To listen is to begin to understand not only space but also size, materials, activity and ambience, what is best now, what is most open to improvement, without constraint what users want, and what will work in new built spaces. Architecture is bruit reality - richer and deeper than designs on paper - whose deeper resonances link human experience through music to the natural cycles and vibrations of nature in inner and outer space.

Vibrations of a stretched string or enclosed column of air - the early harmonics.
Music

Night traffic.