Phenomenology explores the concept of how the basic character of living experience is influenced by one’s environment. Place does not apply to locality, but consists of variables that are consolidated together to shape the identity of the environment. The rationality of architecture and development is at the core of human value and devotion.

The sensory elements of architecture are emphasised by Peter Zumthor. He plans to investigate in architecture the metaphysical and transcendental dimension of language.

Zumthor succeeds in explaining the experience of atmospheres, and how nine distinct attributes must be taken into account to accomplish this. As he tries to clarify that architecture is not just an electronic, apathetic system, but one that requires emotional feeling and human comprehension, a process of observation and appreciation is essential.It is an art that includes individuals and affects their state of mind profoundly, stimulating all senses.

Zumthor starts his talk with The Wonder of the Actual, where he explains how art and graft are responsible for building an architectural environment. A great deal of effort and thinking must go into making a quality that is structurally harmonious.

The body of architecture; that is, in architecture, the anatomy of a building is important. The exterior is a membrane, and a body is shaped as each part comes together. In a piece of architecture, the material existence of objects brings one to material compatibility – the capacity to transform thoughts into reality.

Via numerous formulations, watching the reactions of materials and their infinite possibilities helps one to better understand which materials can fit a space better.

Comfort and familiarity could create a space that determines an individual’s relation to the location, even if not physically recognizable, but psychological. Components that control this are referred to as the space tone. Interiors absorb sound, enhance it and relay it (like instruments). This sound production is influenced by the form of a space and its material composition. A familiar sound eases one into their world, helping them to create memory connections.

A space’s temperature can add or take away from one’s experience of a location when it affects one’s comfort when surrounding objects and the interaction between objects is what generates a ‘sense of home’ that adds atmosphere and vigour to an environment, as well as influences architectural movement.

Are you going to be guided or seduced by an interior, encouraging one to let go and saunter? Composure and seduction are introduced by the opportunity to make us want to linger, or be pulled around a corner. Zumthor emphasizes the importance of composure by building a path of exploration, whether it be the way the sun falls or the curve of the halls.

By building thresholds that trick the eye, a precise equilibrium in the stress between within and outside is achieved. A transformation must establish mystery between within and outside, leading to degrees of intimacy. The proximity, distance, height, dimension, scale, and gravity of objects are the foundation of how the façade talks.By relating to the discourse of buildings, he brings life to architecture, giving considerable emphasis to first impressions. How’s a house relating to you? What’s it saying? Does it stand erect and proud, or are you deluded? Its speech is due to the form; the distinction, the scale and grandeur, between interior and exterior. Zumthor explains how, although some intimidate, certain spaces encourage you to breathe.

This concept of improving spatial consistency is blended into The Light of Objects, Shadow, and Surface Quality. This process is defined by Zumthor as hollowing the darkness out of a mass, allowing light to seep in.

Architecture blends itself into the lives of individuals. It encourages experiences to take place and memories to be formed as part of one’s surroundings.

When buildings become cohesive, «everything refers to everything else, and without destroying the whole, it is impossible to remove a single thing.» Architecture evolves from the primary stages of construction and anatomy, where its biology asks for rational fashion, to an art that presumably must shift the individual. It must be gorgeous. Its voice, its silence, its anatomy, but its environment, mainly.