Drawing Atmosphere: A Case Study of Architectural Design for Care in Later Life

Martin, Daryl; Nettleton, Sarah; Buse, Christina

doi:10.1177/1357034x20949934

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“…Particular devices are designed into carceral space, but whether they are consumed as intended highlights an even more complex amalgam of atmosphere(s) than those that architects ordinarily grapple with. What certainly hits a note in this discussion is the notion that atmosphere is a ‘heuristic device’ (Martin et al, 2020: 64) that can arguably be deployed as a powerful tool to assist designers in communicating the intentions for a particular space. In the prison environment, questions of power and powerlessness are omnipresent.…”

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‘It's in the air here’: Atmosphere(s) of incarceration

2022

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Contrary to descriptions of a desensitising situation – with restrictions on movement, monotonous regimes and sparse surroundings – much research highlights imprisonment as sensorially and emotionally powerful. Following work within the ‘turn to affect’ that focuses on non-verbal, non-conscious and, often, non-human embodied experiences, scholars have attended to how such elements cohere into ‘atmospheres’. Whilst the language of atmosphere is synonymous with the prison – a space that is widely anecdotally considered to conjure a particular ‘feeling’ – discussion of the mechanisms for and experiences of atmospheric production and consumption in this space has, thus far, evaded scholarly attention. Atmosphere is a word often used in prison literature, but it is rarely analytically unpacked. Accordingly, drawing on qualitative research data from individuals designing, and working and living in prisons, we focus on how various components – including aesthetics, olfaction, temperature, and the performances that arise from them – comprise sensory atmospheric affects in prison. In doing so, we find atmosphere(s) emerge – not simply from the materiality of the prison itself, but from cultural constructions of carceral and non-carceral landscapes and in conjunction with personal practice and preference. Accordingly, the prison is tied to particular constructions about what a prison should feel like and how people should (re)act to/in such spaces. In some cases, prison designers attempt to engineer particular atmospheres that cohere with wider political motivations around penal philosophies. However, despite the common reflection that prisons generate some kind of atmosphere, respondents are unable to offer a concrete description of what this may be, and much of our data highlights a definite precarity and changeability to atmospheric affect, which is likely to raise ambiguity around attempts to design carceral atmospheres.

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‘It's in the air here’: Atmosphere(s) of incarceration

2022

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“…When architecture is instead approached as a practice involving myriad moves and counter-moves by human and nonhuman actors it becomes possible to see that ‘a building is not a static object but a moving project ’ (Latour & Yaneva, 2008, p. 80). Recognising the social and political significance of such projects (Gieryn, 2002; Jones, 2011), an emerging sociology of architecture has begun to unpack the ‘doing’ (Jacobs & Merriman, 2011) of architectural work (Buse et al, 2017; Imrie, 2007; Martin et al, forthcoming; Martin et al, 2015; Nettleton et al, 2020; Yaneva, 2005, 2009). For Ingold (2013), this begins with a shift in conceiving of architecture, moving from a focus on building as noun, in terms of physical objects, and towards an understanding of building as verb, as an unfolding process of making, involving human activities and nonhuman agencies.…”

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Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Beynon-Jones

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Buse

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The Sociological Review

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Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture’s relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in architecture, it is more fruitful to explore architecture as inevitably implicated in the making of time(s). Mobilising empirical material from a qualitative study of building design for residential care in later life in the UK, we illustrate various relations with, and visions of, the future that are produced through architectural practice. Rendering architecture’s time-making practices explicit, we suggest, makes it possible to reflect on whether, and to what extent, its time(s) could be done differently.

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Marakeş'teki (Fas) Ben Youssef Medresesi'nin Ses Atmosferleri

ZİANİ,

BELAKEHAL

2023

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This study investigates architectural acoustics in heritage building that is the Ben Youssef Madrasa in Marrakech (Morocco). It aims to characterize the sound atmospheres in this place of learning and community life of el-Tolba (plural of el-Tãleb: student). For this purpose, the study is divided into three parts. The first is the literature review in which we present the definitions of the key concepts, some research on the sound atmospheres in heritage buildings, the different materials and methods used. The objective of this part is to have an overview of the topic of atmospheres. The second consists of architectural conformation reading which is devoted to the identification of the architectural and spatial devices participating in the creation of these sound atmospheres. Special attention was given to the prayer hall as a place of teaching and prayer. The third part focuses on the quantitative characterization of the acoustic environment through computer simulation. The prayer hall and the central courtyard were chosen for the simulation which was done through the Ecotect V5.50. The simulation analysis is limited to three criteria: the uniformity of the sound in the prayer hall, the sound behavior and the degree of the presence of reverberation. The results show that the builders of the madrasa paid attention to the architectural acoustics. Several strategies and devices were adopted to have sound atmospheres appropriate to this building.

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Drawing Atmosphere: A Case Study of Architectural Design for Care in Later Life

Cited by 3 publications

References 77 publications

‘It's in the air here’: Atmosphere(s) of incarceration

‘It's in the air here’: Atmosphere(s) of incarceration

Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Marakeş'teki (Fas) Ben Youssef Medresesi'nin Ses Atmosferleri

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