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Planting Clay and Mental Health
Clay Lace. Winterton, J. Unit 17. 2021.
Jodie Winterton
BArch 2021Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Gregory Katz
Unit Tutor: Jaco Jonker
Unit Assistant: Senzo Mamba
UNIT 17︎︎︎
To Be Orna-ment To Be
My MDP focuses on the healing power of plants and the effects it has on our mental health (Charles Hall, 2019) by using clay as the main material of focus to create different technologies that could help facilitate and promote plant growth.
Through making and experimenting the project aims to look at the details of how elements are assembled and connected. This will help to achieve a greater understanding of the different technologies created, and how they can be scaled up and used to improve our current built environment. Ornamentation can broadly be explained as a decorative element (Dictionary, 1884–1928), but this project hopes to create elements that are beautiful, as well as having a functional purpose.
The site of focus is a hospital environment, as many people spend a lot of time recovering from illness within these sterilised, depressing spaces. Adding plants to our lives will drastically improve our physical and mental wellbeing. (Charles Hall, 2019). The implementation of the different plant growing technologies can be used to revitalise our existing architectural spaces, while incorporating ornament in the way that creates beauty with a functional purpose.
Through making and experimenting the project aims to look at the details of how elements are assembled and connected. This will help to achieve a greater understanding of the different technologies created, and how they can be scaled up and used to improve our current built environment. Ornamentation can broadly be explained as a decorative element (Dictionary, 1884–1928), but this project hopes to create elements that are beautiful, as well as having a functional purpose.
The site of focus is a hospital environment, as many people spend a lot of time recovering from illness within these sterilised, depressing spaces. Adding plants to our lives will drastically improve our physical and mental wellbeing. (Charles Hall, 2019). The implementation of the different plant growing technologies can be used to revitalise our existing architectural spaces, while incorporating ornament in the way that creates beauty with a functional purpose.
Keywords:
Healing, Mental Health, Growth, Revitalise
Healing, Mental Health, Growth, Revitalise
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