F Davari Dolatabadi

The existential hologram: toward a neurophenomenological and symbolic theory of sacred presence in architecture

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications April 17, 2026 Sevil Mehdilou, F Davari Dolatabadi, Masoomeh Yaghoobi 1 citation

This article develops the Existential Hologram as a configurational model for analysing how sacred presence becomes experientially available in architecture. Rather than treating presence as symbolic content lodged in built form, the model approaches it as a fragile yet repeatable achievement that arises when four analytic fields—Embodied, Mnemonic, Symbolic, and Resonant—are coupled under LUX,...