atom11:Connections

Patrick Healy

Senior Lecturer, Delft School of Design

Professor Healy will be unable to attend our critique

due to an impending deadline

According to Mr. Healy, cataloguing the affordances of the environment is an act of abstraction. The power of the work of Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl or Daniel Libeskind lies in their ability to create an extra architectural concept, an idea that organizes and validates the following design decisions.

Abstraction or not, the research methodology we have employed has resulted in a database of information from which we can draw certain concrete conclusions about how humans experience their environment. The question of an “extra architectural concept” will be an integral part of how we proceed in Phase II.

More from Professor Healy

Water to water is intimate, like kissing.

Conversation chair

"the most profound experience of intimacy is that we are born into well being"

M. Dudley Weems M.D.

Head Psychiatrist, The University of Georgia

Dr. Weems will be unable to attend our critique due to time difference and physical impossibility.

He will, however, continue to provide feedback and validation for our ideas.

Dr. Weems has, with over 25 years of experience in Student Health, a keen since of the basic principles that govern our behavior. In the following interview he discusses some of these principles, as well as his take on what the term intimacy means.

"if you can’t see if something is behind you, then that leaves all sorts of imagination for what might be there. It’s reassuring to know that somebody has your back—that somebody is taking care of you—and that you don’t need to worry about it."