| What are spaces of healing? | -usually have individual spaces
-community spaces
-intimate
-adaptable
-small or large scale
-natural materials (warm materials like wood and stone)
-psychological/ physical/ spiritual healing
-paths and journeys |
| Name and explain | Alvar Aalto (1878-1976)
-Finnish architect
-Scandinavian style in his design, relationship of human and nature
-savoy vase- ice cube tray mold
-inspired by Le Corbusier and others
-known as a humanist racionalist |
| Name and explain | Paimio Sanatorium, Finland, 1928, Alvar Aalto
-for tuberculoses
-situated in the forest
-concrete, flat roofs, windows
-bright playful colour typical for Scandinavian design
-patient wing- situated to the south to get south sunlight
-all had outdoor space for fresh air as it was important for their feeling |
| Name and explain | Paimio Sanatorium Plan
-long plan to monopoly the land
-green is healing that's why its in nature
-had a rooftop balcony- as Le Corbusier had the concep3t that the roof could be used as a space
-Aalto means wave- so he included curves in his designs
-curves were more healing |
| Name and explain | Paimio Sanatorium
-entrance foyer
-using light colours to give an uplifting sense
-curved forms are more healing
-leather wrapped on the handrails so they weren't cold
-made noiseless sinks so noise was not created |
| Explain | chair for the sanatorium
-bentwood: plywood- birch wood
-inexpensive and easy
-served all functions for TB patients
-perfect 120 degree for loosing of congestion
-slabs for ventilation
-waterfront edge- allows for circulation |
| explain | -instead for the typical metal, he made a wooden trolley so it didn't create noise
-rubber wheels and plywood |
| Name, date and explain | Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada, 2006
-primary colours- to be inviting and childlike
-by adding blocks around the window, it makes the scale seem smaller thus diminishing the large scale feel
-floorplan: understanding of adjacencies: pet room that was on the exterior of the hospital but allowed kids to still interact with their pets
-prayer spaces (green for Islam, circular form, water was important for all religions) |
| Name, date and explain | Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Paraguay, 2010
-scale is smaller as it for children
-brick: to show strength and stability; looks like a spinal cord
-curve forms
-brick gives warmth as well
-rebirth of the culture and human health as at this time the country was coming out of dictatorship |
| Explain | Catacombs, Pairs, 1786
-started in the late 18th century due to health problems with city's cemeteries, due to floods and more, so they transfered it underground
-space of healing, prayer and death
-space where you can remember those who died |
| Name, date adnd explain | Igualada Cemetery (new Cemetery), Barcelona, Spain, Miralles and Pinos, 1994
-garden of the dead |
| Name, date and explain | The Belz Great Synagogue, Israel, 1843
-destroyed by Nazi in 1939
-largest synagogue in Israel
-in 2000 it was rebuilt
-white and iconography- typical for synagogues
-sites for destruction as they are spaces of power
-No crucifix form
-key of the synagogue- arch- where they keep the sacred tora scripts |
| Name, date and notes | The Badshahi Mosque in Pakistan, 1673
-important example of mughal architecture
-red sand stone is very typical for mughal architecture
-central colonnade, and courtyard
-minarets- prayer calls would come out 5 times a day
-onion shaped domes
-always facing Mecca- pray towards mecca
-no representation of humans or animals (only flower and calligraphy) -orgy arch |
| Name, date and notes | The Peace Chapel, Pennsylvania-USA, 1989, Maya Lin
-organic sensibility
-use of stone to create a circular form
-intimate private space
-stone pathway |
| Name, date and notes | Vulture Peak, India 5th century BC
-"do no harm", they used caves
-place were budda did his teachings
-on top of a hill so people can sit and listen to his teachings |
| Name, date and explain | Cave Kuti, Sri Lanka, 1950'S
-date back to the 3rd century BC
-everything in buddism is impermameant |
| Name, date and notes | Arankele forest monastery, Sri Lanka, 6th century
-has a deep ledge- so water doesn't come in |
| Name, date and notes | Brazen Palace, Sri lanka, 1st Century BC
-roof was made out of bronze
-9 storey building
-the plan was from "heaven"
-many monks live there and do their meditation |
| name, date and notes | Dambulla cave temple, Sri Lanka, 1st century BC
-stupa construction |
| Name, date and explain | The great Stupa at Sanchi, 3rd century BC, India
-Emperor Ashoka
-built to keep religious relics
-circumambulation- no interior access |
| name, date and explain | The great Chaitya cave, Karla caves, India, 1st century BC
-carved into a single rock
-inside is a stupa |
| Name, date and explain | Kailasa Temple, Ellora India,
-built on cosmic ideology
-hindu Architecture
-understanding that god is lying
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| name, date and notes | Angkor, 12th century, Cambodia,
-largest religious monument in the world (162 hectares)
-originally Hindu temple then transformed to Buddhist temple towards the end of 12th century
-became more accessible when turned to Buddhism |
| Explain moonstone | -meaning stone in the shape of half moon
-placed on the foot of a slight of stairs
-starts with the animal world then goes to the spiritual place showed by the lotus flower |
| Name, date and notes | Sir Dalada Maligawa
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Kandy, Sri Lanka, 16th-17th century AD
-believed that the Buddhist's tooth in. a casket of gold
-each year it is taken outside and put on an elephant to got through the city |
