Immersive Design
  • Introduction
  • Course Program
  • Showcase
  • References
  • Class 0-2 Bootcamp
    • The Last Great Battle of the Samurai
    • Class 0: Sensing
    • Class 1: Design Tools
    • Class 2: Evaluation Basics
  • Spatial
    • Spatial Rationales: Food for Thought
    • Spatial Intimacy: Public Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Social Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Personal Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Intimate Space
    • Spatial Form: Proportion & Rhythm
    • Spatial Flow: Movement & Direction
    • Spatial Sensing: Sensory Expressions
    • Spatial Sound: Edible Flavor
  • Embodiment
    • Embodiment: Kinesthetic Space
    • Embodiment: Gestural Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Bodily Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Harmony & Balance
    • Embodiment: Affordances & Microinteractions
  • Evaluation
    • Evaluation Topics: Immersion & Presence
    • Evaluation Topics: Emotional Immersion
    • Evaluation Topics: Body-Ownership
    • Evaluation Topics: User Tasks
    • Evaluation Topics: Navigation
    • Evaluation Topics: Wayfinding
    • Evaluation Topics: Human-System Control
    • Evaluation Topics: Feedback, feedforward & force feedback
  • Methods
    • Evaluation Methods: Setting up an Experiment
    • Evaluation Methods: Quantitative & Qualitative
    • Evaluation Methods: Materials
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Spatial Intimacy: Public Space

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Edward T. Hall described the interpersonal distances of man (the relative distances between people) in four distinct zones:

Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication and social interaction.

Public distance is used for speeches, lectures and theater; essentially, public distance is that range reserved for larger audiences.

  • Close phase – 12 to 25 feet (3.7 to 7.6 m)

  • Far phase – 25 feet (7.6 m) or more.

Example Kohnstammhof at HvA

"Public space is a place where one may freely enter. This type of territory is rarely in the constant control of just one person. However, people might come to temporarily own areas of public territory."

Kohnstammhof

Kohnstammhof is situated in proximity of other HvA-buildings, which means that in itself it is made is to facilitate educational purposes.

https://www.ibelingsvantilburg.nl/projecten/kohnstamm-ensemble-amsterdam-3/
https://www.ibelingsvantilburg.nl/projecten/kohnstamm-ensemble-amsterdam-3/
https://www.grijsen.nl/amsterdam-kohnstammhof/
Architect's point of view on designing Kohnstammhof