Role of Spatial Memory in Cinematic and Architectural Narratives

Abstract

The research paper intents to challenge the current realm of architecture to rethink the notions of spatial thinking and its effects on the narratives in the field of architecture and cinema. With the research we discuss on various example the spaces that we live in and breathe in have been impacting us on a metaphysical level that we ignore on a daily basis. When we talk about the memory that it forms, then that is what Spatial memory is. Throughout history, architecture has emerged, evolved and has been perceived as a form of art that blurs boundaries between, science and art. While cinema, though being a relatively new form of this umbrella term, has affected all the other forms so extensively that it almost camouflages itself with some of them. So, with this research paper we intend to discuss, the co-existence of cinema and architecture, how they have been affecting each other. Discussing about Narratives in architecture in relation to the narratives in the cinematic universes, we first need to discuss about the how they both blur boundaries that separate them. Architecture and cinema inform, inspire and articulate each other. Cinema imitates the spatio-temporality of built spaces. Architecture has been inspired by cinema in more than one ways and thus cinema becomes a model of spatio-temporality that architecture should aspire to create. Both the narratives have constraints of their own may it be the technical constraints in architecture, or the time constraints associated with the cinematic universe. But both fields when addressed together can really overcome each other’s constraints, When we are talking about the modes with which we experience architecture, they become identical in the mental space of the viewer, without any fixed boundaries.