Sense of Smell

This week, I explored the sense of smell and how it contributes to making places. I visited Victoria Market and walked all around the various zones, the bakery, meat market, and the fruit and veggie market. During the visit, I made some diagrams that explain what I experienced during the visit.

 

My first diagram is about the different odors I was able to smell in the bakery area. Through the size of the rectangles I was able to portray the intensity and the common-ness of the smell. In this case, cheese and olives were the more powerful scents, where are orange juice was the least powerful.

 

The next diagram is about the location of the smells in the bakery. I drew a small plan for the entry of the bakery and marked out where the different smells one encounters wen first entering the bakery come from.

 

The third diagram is about the "big hit" one gets once they enter a space. As soon as you enter the bakery, there is a strong smell of cheese, and when you enter the fruit and veggie market there is a rich smell of herbs until you get closer to the meat market entrance, and once you enter the meat market, you smell the overwhelming odor of raw meat and fish.

My fourth diagram shows the different smells I encountered in the meat market. Raw meat and fish, garbage, sweet chili, marinades, and dips are the main smells within the space.

My last diagram is about the smells within the fruit and veggie market from the bakery door til the meat market entrance. The odors I could smell were herbs, rock-melon, mango, oranges, cigarettes and garbage.

After the visit I made a wire model about the ideas I got from the diagrams. The concept I am trying to portray through my model is that a combination of various smells creates an overall experience that a person can usually associate with a particular space. The coloured wires represent the different smells in a space, and the silver wire wraps up the odors into an experience.