01-patient bedroom/balcony - relationship to sun, view, separation from medical staff
02-reading room - social, relaxing, regularity of life
03-kitchen - senses, timeless, recollectionWhile collaging these spaces, I also realized that the different rooms all would have doors to physically separate from the rest of the building. As important as the connection becomes, it is also just as important for the choice to diassociate. In the case of Aalto's Sanatorium, long term patients need non-medical spaces in order to have moments of normalcy.
The complicated part is to understand how to connect disassociated spaces with the rest of the building.
Connecting the unconnected? I'm back into heterotopia mode. oops.
(images also updated to voicethread in case the advisors would rather comment on there)
The kitchen is my favorite, I think I'm drawn to the bright colors. One thing I do find kind of funny is that you only have one person in the kitchen; for me, cooking is a very social activity; you're preparing food for other people, most people hang out in a kitchen during a party, etc. However, in all the other spaces you have more than one person.. you mentioned having the ability to dissociate yourself, does that mean you need privacy or you just need to be able to physically separate yourself from others?
ReplyDeleteDoes this feel more like your voice? Are they helpful as you define heterotopia (ore define heterotopia as your own? What/where is teh architecture for you in these images?
ReplyDeleteShall we move on? What is the next sketch problem? Or topic of research? Or both?!?
This definitely feels more like my voice. I actually was pretty pleased with how they came out. They took some time (finding photos through my albums), but I think these could possibly have a place in my book, so I'm good with these for now.
ReplyDeleteThe architecture for me in these images actually came through time, which is something I hadn't considered yet. The space was created in the 1930's, but today is still being utilized as the Architect's intention. I guess the architecture for me in the Sanatorium did not become walls, but more spaces of time.
Moving forward, I want to do a quick charette this week for a pastry shop. I'm going to use Robyn's article as a program, and see where it takes me. I like the multimedia overlays, so I thing I'll keep going that route. I hope that while doing something design related, I can start moving back into Architecture and how this all relates. Hopefully by the end of the week, I can move back to my 25 words, and maybe see if I am more comfortable with the beginnings of a thesis statement.
What do you think?
These all sound like good possibilities for the next few days. I have another one to add to the pile....Since heterotopia keeps coming up...what if one of the chapters in your thesis proposal was a "graphic novel" that works out the idea of heterotopia - where it comes from - the many existing definitions of it, how it manifests in our current culture, how you understand it, how you want to employ it in your thesis (I know, we aren't ready to talk about the last one), but you probably are ready to do some of the other things? This would count as "research" and "paper" for you and your proposal....
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