1 _ architecture will be the main player in a more physically, mentally and socially healthy tomorrow.
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3 _ given the current well-being of individuals today and the overall predicament of societies in general, there is a dire necessity for public health. modern medicine is a brillant and evolving tool that comes to aid many of these issues, however public health seeks to improve lives through prevention. architecture designed to house and inspire such programs will become the foundation for improved current and future health conditions.
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9 _ an understanding of the evolution of sport as entertainment instead of activity has thus seen individuals become spectators instead of players. increases in deaths realting to health concerns rise every year, as does the number of structures that house our favorite fast food restaurants that are placed quite abundantly within our urban landscapes. erasing these popular imentities is not in the spectrum of do-able, however efforts to parallel these constructions with an equal number of health facilities that inspire a more positive outlook on the future of our well-being is do-able and should become a major priority. physical culture has always had an unchallengable presence in society. through historical precendent relating to fitness facilities and health care programs, this will aid in guiding an overall programmatic nature of the project. these landscapes and activities have been molded by the society that resides in its context. "Sport is both a relection of the civilisation in which it functions and integrally related to that society's political and social needs." realizing that sport can convey an ideology, the fusion of architecture for sport holds an incrediable amount of potential for the future of individuals and societies. the main aim will be to find reason and justification for the implementation of sustainable health facilities within both urban and rural societies to increase and encourage participation to insure a healthier future.
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Rachelle, I agree with you completely on this. Our society for the most part HAS become a society of spectators rather than players. What is interesting to note is later in the school year when one person gets sick, our entire studio does as well. There is an interesting exception, however. Most of our peers who play sports and engage themselves in physical activity rarely catch whatever is going around. The physical activity and healthy eating (to maintain enough strength to play said sports) keeps the body in top shape, able to combat diseases that spread. Additionally, recalling Vivian's Enviro I class, she had information backing up that a well planned hospital room with natural daylight and views of natural landscape allowed its patient to recover some 30-50% quicker than a patient who's room had no window, or no natural daylight. This goes to show that a "healthy" space or building can offer similar results for the user.
ReplyDeleteSome interesting observations regarding health and athletics, as well as the increasing tendency to treat sports as a spectator activity rather than engagement. All of which sparks the question: So what do you want to do with it?
ReplyDeleteI see the potential to have a project that is directly addressing some of these (programmatic) issues in playful ways (pun intended): large plasma screens with which to watch the game that work only so long as the viewer is working the treadmill, games that allow the amateur to become the professional (ala wii or rock band?), strategies to compel groups of strangers to participate in neighborhood-scale games whereby they are part of large teams. How do all these transform spatial experience -- and the city (assuming this is a scale you're interested in)?
Also, I fail to understand your graphic. Is it anything more than a rhetorical statement?
rami,
ReplyDeletein all honesty i am still trying to decipher the magnitude of my thesis. the graphic is primarily a rhetorical statement... i was simply trying to represent a notion of the decomposition or "molding" of what started as a healthy whole and how this relates to a large societal issue based on behavior. in which case, implementation of architecture [sports facilities, health care centers, or even smaller scale structures like playgrounds, green space, etc.] could transform the urban fabric but also the lives of those inhabiting the space for the better.
the other direction i'm considering is a little more basic in a concentration on stadiums and their relationship to urban fabric, but also possibly focusing on olympic stadiums and their effects on the physical and cultural realms.