creator Ghods, Ramin advisor Denison, Dirk Every experience of architecture is rooted in multi-sensory and embodied interactions with surroundings. All sensory modalities as well as linguistic paradigms are integrated in the sensorimotor cortex of brain where mirror neurons are originated therein. Neurological understanding, on the other hand, suggests that meaning is always contextually grounded. Metaphor, in its very essence, is an expression to convey meaning to spectator. It stimulates ventra premotor cortex of brain, wherein mirror neurons activate the embodied simulation of actions, emotions, and corporeal sensations. So conceptual metaphors in everyday language are highly based on bodily interaction and encountering with surroundings. Additionally, they are also rooted in context and primordial images. Metaphor creates an interactive atmosphere in which symbolic and literal meanings are conveyed to beholders. Atmosphere is the essence of a space, in other words, understanding this atmosphere is the most crucial for understanding architecture. Spatial experiencing in its complete entirely could be taken through the emissions of atmosphere. In general, interaction in the 6th sense is focusing on a methodology of design to facilitate immediate perception of spatial settings of architecture. Far from abstraction and intellectualism, an atmosphere conveyed meaning through sensual perceptions. In this case, several modalities of architectural design, including materializes and de-materialized qualities such as light, texture, geometry, reflection, smell, sound, air, have been identified as contributing to atmosphere. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2014-10-20T20:38:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Thesis_Ramin Ghods_MAY2014.pdf: 50779587 bytes, checksum: 2e7d5f877b7fe6ca35ff77b3b6a4a389 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-20T20:38:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thesis_Ramin Ghods_MAY2014.pdf: 50779587 bytes, checksum: 2e7d5f877b7fe6ca35ff77b3b6a4a389 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05 M.S. in in Architecture, May 2014 2014 2014-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3286 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access ARCH / Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department