Time and MindOctober 11, 2026Sevil Mehdilou, Fariborz Dolatabadi, Masoomeh Yaghoobi
This article proposes a four-layer phenomenological–semiotic model of appresentation, understood as the symbolic and affective co-presence of unseen dimensions within embodied spatial experience. Drawing on phenomenology, archetypal symbolism, and theories of cultural memory, the study conceptualizes sacred architecture as a dynamic field in which symbolic meaning and lived presence emerge...
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,...