While reading Chapter 2, I realized that Anna's class really helped me to understand how the different senses could be used (kinesthetic, auditory, olfactory, etc. ) and how important they are when designing a space. However, after reading this chapter it taught me that every smell, sound, sight, or touch/texture brings an old memory back from different past related things in different people's lives. For example, a piece of wood with a certain type of stain may recall a memory of an old log cabin that you and your family used to vacation at, that would make you go back to that certain place. Every person is different in some ways, but we all have this similarity with the senses taking us back to a place. The universe is big, however; each home has a poetic meaning (a story behind it, a memory that one can recall, etc.). Each house has a reason for being in the universe and that is for it to be a HOME for someone. In the book it talked about the house being like the cell of the body with the walls close together. To me each part of the cell has an important part for something else to work right. In a house it's in a way the same thing..... for example, the foundation of a house, helps the house stand strong and the roof protects us from storms (a shelter for us). Every part of both things, cell and house, has an important part for it as a whole to live/stand. To me this chapter was more about the broader vision of the world of design, whereas the next chapter talks about intimacy.
Chapter 3: Drawers, Chests, and Wardrobes
This chapter talked more about the intimacies of spaces. In this chapter he focuses on drawers, chests and wardrobes. He also mentions caskets and how one could analyze that as being intimate (very intimate-you only put one person in this to be buried). First drawers, we look at drawers as a place to place our clothing, jewelry, junk, toys.........it is a place for miscellaneous things. There is no specific thing for a drawer, it is however, you want to use it. Whereas, a filing cabinet, which acts as a drawer only holds files? The author thought that this design of the filing cabinet was a magnificent design, because people do use it as filing. Chests, on the other hand our usually treated more intimately. People treat chests to store more valuable things. It was designed for storing things in which you aren't going to take out for a while, or you don't want to get dirty. Chests normally become an aesthetic part of the room, a seat at the end of the best and place for your quilt to show, etc. Wardrobe, is also treated for valuable things, but mostly your clothes. A wardrobe is big enough though that one (child) could treat as a hiding place. A place to get a way, but also a place to store things that you necessarily don't want to have out. To me this chapter describes that you as a person have different meanings and places for different things. Each object in your life goes in a specific place. Also, how you value a certain thing reflects on how you store it. Which intimate place will choose for your next item you want to store?
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