Warning! Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

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Warning! Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2018

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title: Warning! Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

creator: Brian Sandford

subject: Mirrors, Installations (Art); Pavilions, Designs and plans

description: Architecture and the built environment have immense power of how urban citizens perceive the social and cultural connections they hold with others in public space. Installation-scaled architecture can work to highlight and strengthen these connections on a much faster timeline than standard construction, and with a much greater focus on user interaction. To make up for some of the weaknesses this smaller scale brings, installations can use mirrors as a medium to create unique spatial conditions. These conditions are brought into existence when a user looks into a mirror, and they take a view of the real, physical world and make it unreal. Within this unreal space, standard conventions of orientation and hierarchy do not apply, and suggest a breakdown in the common social barriers as well. People can see each other in a multitude of new and provocative ways.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2018

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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