Project 2: Reconstructing In Rehabilitation
Brief This project brief is to design a rehabilitation centre for a selection of recovering schizophrenia patients as they transfer from a more institutional environment and integrate themselves successfully back into society. The building is designed to house 5 characters that have emerged from films and research throughout the course of my dissertation:
Old boy: The main character from the
film Old boy: He has been detained in a small enclosed room for 12 years for no reason and as a response to his environment developed a form of paranoid psychosis.
character from the novel the yellow wallpaper whose illness manifests itself in the form of hallucinations of a character behind the pattern of the wallpaper in her room. The building will contain private living spaces that respond to the individuals inhabiting them and social space that encourage interaction with the environment and other patients but do not force it. The architecture must: -Remind a patient there is meaning in life -Be beautiful enough to evoke joy and happiness -Be generously finished -Be full of natural beauty and positive symbolism
Spider: the main character from the
Provisions for inclusion of such other spaces helpful to the patient like living areas for pets for example should be made.
Ollie/The Tool Man: From my short
The still image screen play-esque methodology used in Assembling the Derailed will be adopted with perspective inspirational filmic like images being first designed to define the feeling and special qualities of a room with the building and rooms then designed from these images.
film, Spider, suffers from an inability to organise and rationalise his memories, he is possibly delusional and has difficulties with distinguishing between various characters in his life.
film Guardians: Suffers from delusions and believes himself to be a super hero and is delusional in seeing crime where there is none and therefore attacks innocent people believe them to be “super villains�.
Morgan: From my short film Froth: Suffers
from hallucinations and delusions coupled with blackouts. He projects his inner turmoil onto the form of an inanimate object.
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Lady from Yellow Wallpaper: Main