Body - Mind - Spirit : emotional feasibility of the ruin-ed
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To alter the contingencies of a building is to alter its character and story. With aging,
architecture becomes a space of duality, an extent of reality, the physical space, and
the unreality, the mental space. Humans easily form connections and attachments
to their surroundings due to closely comparable traits. The human mind sees in
architecture what it sees in the human body. Together, these observations form
stories and memories as historical recording of time.
When the physicality of the existing is altered through time’s deterioration
processes, so is its psychological realm. Subsequently, modification of the existing
will lead to an architectural form of dementia. The pathology of the circumstances is
progressive loss of psychological connection, memory lost and cultural confusion.
The challenge in adapting existing buildings is finding the point of feasibility
between architecture viewed as ‘ruin-ed' and architecture as the storyteller.
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Copyright © 2013 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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