SensArc Wing

A set, built to harness a dramatic narrative, whether film or theatre, references and suggests realities outside of the apparent. Hospitals, internally and externally, are identifiers of themselves and the formal realities inferred by their programs.

This thesis seeks to investigate affectations of dissociative aesthetic and sensory mechanisms through a composed procession and built environment at a range of scales, using the prescribed program of a Medical Rehabilitation hospital wing as one example of how this may be tested. These architectural interventions discussed through this proposition, though purposefully distinct from conventional approaches to healthcare facility typologies, should inform a new framework and approach to contemporary architectures of the wider context.

Through this lens, I argue that an inclusive architecture is to be experienced at all scales, using recognition as a malleable tool to deliberately refer or dissociate program and function, this framework for architecture is to benefit all, not just those who need to use it. This new polemic advocates for the ability to compose and inject an additional generosity through offering suggestive readings at every scale of human interaction.

Sensations, sentiments, emotions, impressions, thoughts, associations, feelings, ideas and memories are the ornamental facets of human existence.