Interpreting Place Attachment – The link between Emotion and “Sense of Place”

Architecture can activate emotions. Diverse design pieces of architecture can accelerate sentiments like happiness, pride, gratitude, or pessimistic state. Likewise, various types of buildings can induce astonish or can leave a positive impact on one’s mood. It becomes substantial that how designing of a place is done to accelerate for a sentimental reaction in its users. An emotion or a sentiment in architecture can commonly be connected to how well an architecture oozes a “place sense”. The sentiment or emotion evoked by a specific architectural design piece can be mended by its “Place Sense”. Usually, sense of place can assist the architecture to perceive a form of a character and this character can help to activate the sentiments and emotions in occupants of a specific building design because it relates with the occupants. Now a days the themes such as place sense, attachment to a place, place uniqueness, defining a place, has contributed in theory and many studies related to architecture and field of urban design specifically in the domain of environmental psychology. It is quite evident that in different themes and concepts, a wide range of aspects of communication between a person and a place and the impact that places leave on humans has been brought forward. This paper describes the diverse ideas of place sense and discusses the various factors that leaves impact on them. Sense of place is an integrated idea which means feeling places, perceive the places and defining attachment to them. By knowing the basic aspects of place sense, it can be productive in examining the stages of people – place attachment and inclination of public toward places. This paper further reviews the interplay between architectural design and human psychology and it’s is significant after analysing the role of emotions in Architecture.