The Influence of Cognition in the Change of Architecture as Product

Abstract

Concepts of both "Change ", "Architecture" are explored in relation to each other on the one hand and their relation with "Man" through "the product of architecture", aiming to clarify the influence of the recipient cognition in the process of change in architectural products, and also to clarify the act of continuous change taking place in the building and its effects on both form and meaning through time. The assumption here is that change takes place in architecture when the understanding of the designed and function has been changed to a new use. This change happens when the potentials of the building (under change) has come to a state in which it is ready to accept the new situation, so it resembles the (state of physical presence) while the new objective resembles the state of absence or absent potential, depending on the cognition of the recipient to be brought to actuality to in a combination, which is one among other possibilities in function and form shown in space I place though time. Research one discusses the concepts of change and architecture by building a theoretical frame work in order to conclude the research problem, which appears in the ambiguity of knowledge about the theoretical and applicable relation between the designed and produced architecture in reality and what is produced after its change in time. It also discusses the aspects this change has, and the role of the "potentiality" in its taking place in both sides, the object, physical architectural product (a building) and the recipient subject.