COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Reconstructing Health Using Our Vernacular History: The Art of Working With What We Have
Creator:
Bartholowmew, Sarah Kathleen
Subject:
Thesis (M.Arch.) -- Architecture
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Architecture
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
Organic building materials, natural ventilation, and a connection with the
environment; these are all common denominators to a healthy living setting.
Thus, we must understand how the environments in which we live directly
affect the health of our communities. It is this basic understanding of
individual health, of realizing what makes us sick, and what environments
make us healthy which drives us towards a compromising design
solution. Michael Hough states the following in Cities and Natural Process:
…Nature should be brought to the city to improve the health of the
people, by providing space for exercise and relaxation. It was felt
that the opportunity to contemplate nature would improve moral standards.
With today’s push towards sustainability, and towards creating a holistically
healthier individual it only seems fitting that preservation and health would
begin to work together to create such a health-centered future for ourselves.
Could empty buildings be our creative key to a healthier living environment?
With present day technology and a strengthened understanding of disease,
mental stability, and happiness added to that we are given a rare opportunity
to enhance the community’s definitions of public health as well as quality of
life. Empty buildings provide the structural base by which to implement these
ideals. Architects can eradicate the negative health images of contemporary
American buildings. History has provided the ingredients for the solution.
environment; these are all common denominators to a healthy living setting.
Thus, we must understand how the environments in which we live directly
affect the health of our communities. It is this basic understanding of
individual health, of realizing what makes us sick, and what environments
make us healthy which drives us towards a compromising design
solution. Michael Hough states the following in Cities and Natural Process:
…Nature should be brought to the city to improve the health of the
people, by providing space for exercise and relaxation. It was felt
that the opportunity to contemplate nature would improve moral standards.
With today’s push towards sustainability, and towards creating a holistically
healthier individual it only seems fitting that preservation and health would
begin to work together to create such a health-centered future for ourselves.
Could empty buildings be our creative key to a healthier living environment?
With present day technology and a strengthened understanding of disease,
mental stability, and happiness added to that we are given a rare opportunity
to enhance the community’s definitions of public health as well as quality of
life. Empty buildings provide the structural base by which to implement these
ideals. Architects can eradicate the negative health images of contemporary
American buildings. History has provided the ingredients for the solution.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2014-05
Format:
PDF : 148 p. : ill