Abdellah Lammoudden

PART ONE:

Moving to another city, another country, another continent, is definitely a life-enhancing choice, and the way i fell in love with this city is unreal.

If you ask me about my best place of this city I would say all of them, in fact i did like few corners, but what i admire the most is this small bar in front of my house , i don’t recall its name but it is just a favorite spot to me.

-Why did you choose this place?

When i arrived to this city it was the first place i went to , and the way it is designed, the experience and moments i made there were graved into my memory, from getting to know people to having drinking challenges with random tourists. When you open the door and walk into it you see the barman making usual drinks, the old men sitting around the big table at the bar probably laughing about their life mistakes, the university students getting to know each other sitting on the high wooden chairs that look like they were out of an old ship, the huge fans that make an irritating noise , a sound that made all tables around it empty , the violet lights in the corner, that add a euphoric vibe to the bar.

-What makes you be at ease?

Normally a place that would make me feel at ease is a small coffeeshop or a calm place generally, however, despite my preferences, the minute bar found a way to enter my comfortable zone.

-Is there any disruptive element?

it does not bother me that much but sometimes I get annoyed by the noise of the people in the bar when I’m home since the bar is right in front of me, especially when i have long tiring days.

-Do you think you’d feel the same way in another space right now?

I don’t think I can feel the same if i go to another bar, since I will not get the same feeling that I had of coming to a new country and visiting and drinking in my first bar ever on that country.

-Do you think that the particular conditions of this space may influence its occupants? How?

I highly think that this bar influence its overall surroundings, since it has a good location around universities, and college students tend to go to cheap bars more than anything else, but i also think that any other bar would do the same job.

-Would you change anything?

still there are few little adjustments i would make such as , the way the chairs are crowded and placed next to each one , which makes not enough space for people to move around, and the paintings on the walls that annoy my eyes especially with the colored lights all around the place.

PART TWO:

The book provides insight into the poetic yet convoluted method used by architects to create structures that interact with their surroundings. enhancing the aesthetic appeal of their structure to create an ambiance that the people using it deeply desire and feel.

In the book, Peter Zumthors discusses his perceptions, beliefs, and biases on atmosphere, architecture, and how a simple or a complicated building is more than just a physical or aesthetic phenomenon. As he bargains with the physicality of the form and material to develop emotional sensations that stimulate and affect people, the author also discusses his method and style in the book.

Despite its brevity, I find that the book encourages me to view architecture with a more reflective and sympathetic eye. It gives me the vantage point to observe mediated, individual, and infinitely small things with an attentive eye.

Reading this book enabled me to respond to architecture in the same manners that I would to music or literature, by carefully, consistently, and mostly intuitively exposing the anatomy of buildings. I find that Zumthor’s way of thinking is surprising and has taught me to value the art of construction that goes beyond form.

In a more personal way , i have experienced what the author is talking about every time I travel to a city such as nyc , I felt that the buildings speak words of cement and steel right to my face , you would think that newyork is a new recent built city however and despite this it has some sort of mesmerizing vibes that I personally could feel that time, like a mixture of revolution, creativity, organization and chaos.

reconstruct an atmosphere lived in the first person on a trip:

When I was in highschool I went to in NEWYORK with my school mates under an program called: the young ambassadors of the united nations, It was also my first time flying to NEWYORK and I remember the feeling that I got once I got to the city, I felt the best chills in my life, it was the first time that I have seen huge really HUGE buildings, and my heart stopped and glitched for a whole minute, it felt do unreal, the big buildings felt like they were hugging you and protecting you from something yet they also gave me the vibrance and the craziness of how NewYork can get, it was the first time that I feel that very random constructions can actually go with the environment around it, but even be a part of it. It was and will always be the best feeling in my life and I will do anything to feel it again.