COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Literature & architecture: a transformative exploration of Lord of the flies
Creator:
Jazeel, Saara A.
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:
The Intent of this thesis is to design an architectural construct that shall enable young juveniles to develop and maintain a physically balanced and healthy mindset. This will be attain through the transformative study of literature to architecture, with elements and ideals of neuroscience, resulting in an architectural facility that affords the adolescents
Thesis Intentthe opportunity to be mentally and physically stabilized - while still functioning under a system of order and control.
Significance of Study
Young adolescents who are deemed harmful to themselves or society are placed in correctional institutions: detention camps, reformatories or juvenile detention centers, to be reformed. Correctional facilities aim to retain individuals from committing the same acts of violence and crimes that had them placed under detention. How though, does a person begin to heal and reform when isolated and secluded to a time schedule that prevents them from the social interaction and activities that shall further their progression to success, as opposed to prolonging it?
Response to Problem
Literature and the written narrative have the ability to affect change, and behavior. Authors through written narrative, are able to create worlds far beyond the imagination of what exists in real life. Furthermore, it is not only the creation of these space(s), but the emotional and corporeal responses that are inflicted in the readers. Architecture likewise has the ability to form spaces and instill in the user physical and psychological responses - However, there is a certain fascination in the imaginative and creative words that describe architecture and spaces that begin to form images and representations in the mind, ultimately resulting in a mental impact. Therefore, literature and fictive graphics, depicting punitive and rehabilitative environments, shall be analyzed and studied to determine characteristics that will be implemented in the expected architectural construct.
A brief analysis of current juvenile ‘correctional’ facilities, to establish what types of spaces impose mental fracturing. A study in neuroscience, with an understanding of spatial characteristics will establish the defining factors of spaces that instill certain emotional and physical responses from its inhabitants.
Thesis Intentthe opportunity to be mentally and physically stabilized - while still functioning under a system of order and control.
Significance of Study
Young adolescents who are deemed harmful to themselves or society are placed in correctional institutions: detention camps, reformatories or juvenile detention centers, to be reformed. Correctional facilities aim to retain individuals from committing the same acts of violence and crimes that had them placed under detention. How though, does a person begin to heal and reform when isolated and secluded to a time schedule that prevents them from the social interaction and activities that shall further their progression to success, as opposed to prolonging it?
Response to Problem
Literature and the written narrative have the ability to affect change, and behavior. Authors through written narrative, are able to create worlds far beyond the imagination of what exists in real life. Furthermore, it is not only the creation of these space(s), but the emotional and corporeal responses that are inflicted in the readers. Architecture likewise has the ability to form spaces and instill in the user physical and psychological responses - However, there is a certain fascination in the imaginative and creative words that describe architecture and spaces that begin to form images and representations in the mind, ultimately resulting in a mental impact. Therefore, literature and fictive graphics, depicting punitive and rehabilitative environments, shall be analyzed and studied to determine characteristics that will be implemented in the expected architectural construct.
A brief analysis of current juvenile ‘correctional’ facilities, to establish what types of spaces impose mental fracturing. A study in neuroscience, with an understanding of spatial characteristics will establish the defining factors of spaces that instill certain emotional and physical responses from its inhabitants.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2014-08
Format:
PDF: 385 p. : ill. (some col.)