Padmini
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Padmini
Are you very much affected by your environment? If so, how?
This basically comes down to Neuroarchitecture which is the study of how we interact with our built environments. Truly the main if not only reason I chose to design buildings really.
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Architecture is for people, and people live through architecture by experiencing it. We think about the quality of experience we want to achieve, and design to accomplish it.
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instagram.comthis is an interesting thought - for hospitals, it feels they are built for process and organizational ease. which makes sense, but what are these process for? to treat the people. and do these spaces serve those people?
John Ruskin proposed that we seek two things of our buildings. We want them to shelter us. And we want them to speak to us – to speak to us of whatever we find important and need to be reminded of.
Alain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness
It was then I realised architecture is not about creating structures that are aesthetically pleasing or merely functional: it’s about designing spaces that evoke emotion and resonate with the human spirit. The Farnsworth House may have been a triumph of modernist design, but it lacked the warmth and humanity architecture should embody.
“Two days into my mother’s last hospital admission, I was walking down the corridor when I discovered a seating alcove. It was located between the entrance to the visitor’s bathroom and the lift lobby, just out of sight of the lift doors but less than three steps around the corner. As an architect, I’ve long been a fan of intimately scaled seating... See more
“the practice of putting one’s own life on hold as a family member nears the end of life is not widely recognised. Because this is so seldom talked about, it is seldom adequately designed for. In shedding light on this experience, these four stories make evident the ways that aesthetics are felt emotionally as the built environment takes on a... See more
“Yet, scholars have pointed to the importance of gathering these views precisely because needs and preferences are prone to change as a patient more closely approaches death (;”
Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
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Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
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“a question I am often asked is whether there were any observable differences between what patients wanted or needed from the built environment, and what their families wanted or needed”
Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
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Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
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“grounded in the belief that the architecture created for palliative care should do more to accommodate and express compassion towards its occupants”
Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
via Instapaper
Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life
https://mh.bmj.com/content/51/1/86
via Instapaper