Saturday, April 24, 2010

Oh My God, I just had an Epiphany!

So as i have been blogging about my distress on getting my "point" across. I realized what I have been trying to say reguarding plant forms in the enviroment of healing patients!!!! So I dabbled a bit into architecture because i know they have some crazy ideas for feung shwai idk how to spell or what not. So i found out more about the idea of "Articulated Skin" and this whole idea of how human skin correlates with walls and wht not. For instance, human skin perfoms critical functions such as the control of body temperature and moisture, and even produces important life-sustaining chemicals in response to sunlight. Hmmm, THIS got me thinking! So i dabbled further, and gained new insight stating: human skin has two other functions. 1 pyschologically and 2 as a means of communication this STRUCK me! For instance, we can visually show how we feel by facial expressions! Now for the major correlation! The exterior of a building (its skin) is expressive of the body of the building, its identity is a form of space just as human skin is expressive of a human body in space!!! And when the skin is removed, we take away from the identity and feel unnatural. So I began to think HMM PLANE TREE?! PLANTS EVERY WHERE?! And pyschologically we are feeling torn from our identity and planted in a hospital space. So I made the connection of how plant forms in space (building skin) can be a means of communication and means for keeping the patient sane! This is only the beginning...Will blog more about this later!

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