Yesha A. Mody – SAIC CLASS OF 2021 GRADUATE WEBSITE

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Yesha A. Mody

Master of Architecture with an Emphasis in Interior Architecture

I am an aspiring Architect, with a passion for all things design and love for travel and adventure. An inquisitive outlook and eagerness to add value to life by exploring different parts of the world shapes my learning process. My academic and professional architectural experiences in India, Sri Lanka and the United States of America have molded me to be a solution-oriented designer, optimistic yet realistic.

Master’s in Architecture with an emphasis in Interior Architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago influences me to make learning, participating and creatively expressing a way of life. I believe that architecture is innately connected with the creation of identity and self-confidence. I love experimenting with materials and creating experiences that encourage an aura of authenticity. My curiosity to explore the relation between nature, culture and architecture lead towards a phenomenological design for my thesis, creating experiences using the material- Light.

Yesha A. Mody - Phenomena 1

Phenomena 1, 2021, Digital collage, 27 x 18 in.

Yesha A. Mody - Phenomena 2, 2021, Digital Collage, 27 x 18 in.

Phenomena 2, 2021, Digital Collage, 27 x 18 in., 2021, Digital collage, 27 x 18 in.

Yesha A. Mody - Phenomena 3

Phenomena 3, 2021, Digital collage, 27 x 18 in.

Yesha A. Mody - Phenomena 4

Phenomena 4, 2021, Digital collage, 27 x 18 in.

Yesha A. Mody - Phenomena 5

Phenomena 5, 2021, Digital collage, 27 x 18 in.

Towards a Phenomenological Design explores the importance of psychology and phenomenon in design. Phenomenology is defined as the study of the structures of human experience. These studies frame an architectural awareness or ‘consciousness’. Phenomenology within architecture highlights the ways in which heightened sensory encounters create memorable experiences. Within architecture, what defines a memorable experience? How do built environments persuade users to behave and act in certain ways? Memorable experiences are created through mood changing light and shadow, the movements of the physical eye, tactility of materials, sonic spatial definitions, pleasant or foul smells, taste of sweet to bitter.

‘Light’ is architecture’s first material, and it is the medium that reveals space, form, texture and color. Sight is the sense without which architecture, objects, events, time, self and space are experienced differently. Within the Light Museum situated at the southern end of Northerly Island in Chicago, explorations of light and lighting effects carefully choreograph experiences of space to create visual phenomenological impacts. The observation of lived experiences exposes visitors to interpretations of light and its varied interactions with the space located between sky, city and inland sea. Light reflected, refracted, absorbed or transmitted is perceived and experienced differently by various visitors. The surface interacting with light creates echo, the memory of sounds in the past and the anticipation, or dread, of sounds in the future. Time is registered as much by the hand and nose as by the eye. Visitors’ perceptions are bound into time and memory along with space and form, which connect them intimately and profoundly to their surroundings. The Light Museum will begin a new dialogue between architecture design, time, light and experience.

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