The promenade’s focus on a sensorial rather than conceptual order creates a more human language in which forms, with other elements of design and expression (water, light, shadow), are arranged to stimulate an arousal of sensations related to sexuality. It is the erotic understanding of one’s movement through sequences of forms, which inspire constantly varying states of awareness. It will be an investigation entailed to finding a common ground between the issues of representing sexuality in the literal sense expressed in today’s society versus the Renaissance belief in beauty and harmony.
Human understanding of space is rooted in one’s own perception of beauty. By developing the relationship between a unique moment of observation of the seeing subject and curiosity of space, one can experience the architectural event. This event is presented as a space which inspires sexual desire (dream) as well as the awareness of wholeness of one’s body (presence). Such space can bring about the issues of vulnerability, strength, self-transformation, or ethics. It is a result created by fragmenting and uniting the senses through space.
