Trying to understand what is phenomenology, specially when talking about architecture, I found this article which I selected some parts that I felt important to my work.
Article:
Environmental & Architectural, Phenomenology, Place, Environment, and Architecture: A Review
David Seamon
Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter
"In simplest terms, phenomenology is the interpretive study of human experience. The aim is to examine and clarify human situations, events, meanings, and experiences "as they spontaneously occur in the course of daily life" (von Eckartsberg, 1998, p. 3). The goal is "a rigorous description of human life as it is lived and reflected upon in all of its first-person concreteness, urgency, and ambiguity" (Pollio et al., 1997, p. 5)".
"I am particularly interested in why places are important for people and how architecture and environmental design can be a vehicle for place making, so I hope to demonstrate that the phenomenological approach offers an innovative way for looking at the person-environment relationship and for identifying and understanding its complex, multi-dimensioned structure".
"In exploring the value of phenomenology for environment-behavior research, I have come to believe strongly that phenomenology provides a useful conceptual language for bridging the environmental designer's more intuitive approach to understanding with the academic researcher's more intellectual approach. In this sense, phenomenology may be one useful way for the environment-behavior researcher to reconcile the difficult tensions between feeling and thinking and between firsthand lived experience and secondhand conceptual accounts of that experience".
Knowing the Canal and after this research I already came up with some ideas to my bridge: something delicate and elegant, which accentuates the beauty of the place and emerges even more feelings.
Through my research I separated two works that will inspire and guide for my project.