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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 explainAlvar 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 explainPaimio 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 explainPaimio 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 explainPaimio 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
Explainchair 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 explainAlberta 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 explainSpinal 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
ExplainCatacombs, 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 explainIgualada Cemetery (new Cemetery), Barcelona, Spain, Miralles and Pinos, 1994 -garden of the dead
Name, date and explainThe 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 notesThe 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 notesThe 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 notesVulture 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 explainCave Kuti, Sri Lanka, 1950'S -date back to the 3rd century BC -everything in buddism is impermameant
Name, date and notesArankele forest monastery, Sri Lanka, 6th century -has a deep ledge- so water doesn't come in
Name, date and notesBrazen 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 notesDambulla cave temple, Sri Lanka, 1st century BC -stupa construction
Name, date and explainThe great Stupa at Sanchi, 3rd century BC, India -Emperor Ashoka -built to keep religious relics -circumambulation- no interior access
name, date and explainThe great Chaitya cave, Karla caves, India, 1st century BC -carved into a single rock -inside is a stupa
Name, date and explainKailasa Temple, Ellora India, -built on cosmic ideology -hindu Architecture -understanding that god is lying -
name, date and notesAngkor, 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 notesSir 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