Enmeshed experience through existential characteristic of a micro living unit Volu-te

This thesis focuses on the unity of body and space within the scope of the notion, experience. Revealing the experience of architectural space through its characteristics has been questioned. In this context, the definitions of body and space were examined from a phenomenological perspective and the relationship between subject and object is questioned. With the concept of "experienced space", the space is positioned at the centre of the experience. Since the subject and the object create each other, the perception of the body through the senses has been questioned. Thus the reading of the space was done through the sensation. The thesis argues that the "existential characteristics of the object" should be examined to reveal the experience. In this context, the micro-housing unit called Volu-te (designed and produced during the graduate program Alternative Architectural Practices ) has been discussed as an architectural object. It has been aimed to start a discussion on the experience from the perception of Volu-te by deciphering the existential characteristics. During this discussion, the spatial perception of which these characteristics provide to the subject has been emphasised. In order to express the experience revealed in Volu-te, a terminology of Steven Holl was used. "Enmeshed Experience" is a concept that used to express an urban perception that has been redefined over the micro-housing unit. In this way, the possibility of revealing the experience has been explored.