| dc.description.abstract | Architecturally we can control the sense of
place by using darkness. Most of the time people turn
into darkness when people want to live in their own
thoughts. Religious places are places which has a huge
relationship with human thoughts because it cures
human mind and people usually look for the truth and
inner peace. Identified matter was, there is a dark
chamber in every religious place. Hindu kovils has
chamber where the god lives. Catholic churches have
altar space which covered from outside and light up
only the god. Buddhist temples has buddha chamber
which is dark inside. The question identify was why all
religious chambers are dark? Does it give some kind of
a spiritual feeling to the pilgrims? Does darkness can
enhance the spirit of place? If the darkness can treat
the human mind then as an Architects, we can use it to
enhance the spirit of place. Then it will help people to
create inner peace in their own places. This research
focuses to identify how darkness affect pilgrim’s
thoughts and how feels the sense of place with darkness.
Developed a questionnaire to identify the participant’s
perception about being dark the worship spaces and
they got many different answers with equal base. All
comments relate the darkness helps to concentrate their
mind and helps to create a virtual gap with the outside
busy world. After doing a survey test it proves that
darkness helps people to concentrate their mind and
calm down inner thoughts. Finally, architecture can use
darkness for spaces that need relaxation | en_US |
