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Every significant experience of architecture is multisensory"

Article:  Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

Author: Charles Spence

SCENT OF EARTH

-a hand-crafted installation,  2021

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The boundary between indoor and outdoor is often too rigid, interior space cuts off the connection between nature and our life. "SCENT OF EARTH" is a handcraft installation that explores soil scent producing mechanisms. The involved sensory experience blurs the boundary through introducing the natural atmosphere into our interior living space and recalling a specific memory and emotion.

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Turf

Rural Soil

Leaf mold

Humus Soil

soil scent trace map after raining...

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