{"id":918,"date":"2016-09-23T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=918"},"modified":"2016-11-09T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T18:31:47","slug":"architecture-as-contemporary-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/architecture-as-contemporary-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture as Contemporary Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_921\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/tc-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-921\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/tc-2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Wolf - Tokyo Compression\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/tc-2-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/tc-2-210x262.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/tc-2.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Michael Wolf &#8211; Tokyo Compression<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.\u201d- James Polshek<\/p>\n<p>Most of urban dwellers in developed Asian cities suffer from mental disorder. They are caged by the repetitive mode of space and trapped in an ever-looping work schedule day by day. It is a complex issue yet of surprisingly low awareness to its harm to individual and our society.<\/p>\n<p>Since architecture is the collective emotions of individuals -We cling our perceptions to the space we occupied, while space around us responds and influences the way we think- it is possible to introduce the city with an architectural level of interference to urge our society to build up a discourse between\u00a0mental health and social engagement. The thesis aims to look into the possibility of using architectural authority and its monumental value to enhance our social awareness towards psychological well-being, and also explore the possible therapeutic ability of architecture by manipulation of atmospheric rhythm, spatial sequence, geometrical configuration and programmatic order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cI&#8217;ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.\u201d- James Polshek Most of urban dwellers in developed Asian cities suffer from mental disorder. They are caged by the repetitive mode of space and trapped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[291,196,290,289],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}