ENAU, University of Carthage, Tunisia, Tunis, imenregaya@yahoo.fr
This work emerged from a questioning about the contemporary architecture of meditation spaces as a signifying system, more precisely, on the relationship between the social actor and his “inhabited” architectural space. The study of contemporary contextualized projects make it possible to detect the production of a sense effect resulting from the mobilization of “inhabited” space and the signs appearing there and characterizing it. We try to discern the relationship between the user and the fragmentary space, namely, the set of elements belonging to the building part where he lives and to his immediate environment. These fragments acquire significant values during the performance of particular sacred rituals, which occur in a specific location in space. It is a temporalized place, charged with meaning. The architectural space thus gives a spiritual dimension to this relationship between the social actor and the contemporary architecture. We conclude that the contemporary “inhabited” architectural space is not only a framework of actions but also an active agent coming into contact with users. We have chosen to ask our third-year architecture students to read analyze and rewrite this architecture dedicated to meditation. Our main aim is to make them aware of the need to combine the different components of the architectural space, which must be conceived as a signifying system in a perpetual relation with the inhabitant subject, and which is able to provide solutions that allow them to adapt and recognize themselves in these spaces.
fragmentary space; production of a sense effect; narrative sequence; syntagmatic chain; segmental value
Download textFor citing: Regaya I. (2023). Towards a contextualized contemporary architecture, between sense and significations. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(53): Spatial semiotics: architecture, place and sign, pp. 27-50. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2023.01.02