Instructor Feedback Intensive

Annie Kemp, August 08 Intensive
Feedback by Heinrich Hermann following final review on Aug 23, 08

Hello Annie,

As I look at my notes from the review and revisit the paper copy of your proposal, the following thoughts come to mind:
· Your work thus far was well done and it is both a very stimulating and valuable topic that should allow you to make an unusually rich, timely contribution
· The comments on the architectural strategy for researching, i.e. which focus might be particularly helpful, were constructive. The suggestions for focusing on paths [including tacticle and sound sensations, and including doing it both in plan, section], or on spaces close to the body
· The role of light and a systematic investigation of understanding it also in relation to materials, or the revelations it might bring when the person washes his/her face and sees close-up
· The concerns of those left behind you have already dealt with, but it certainly warrants further exploration
· One writer coming to mind about death is Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross , whose most famous book was On Death and Dying, and she formulated the famous ‘Five Stages of Grief’. Other books by her may offer insights or references to your subject matter
· The treatment of the arrival/departure points is relatively clear in your mind but warrants more investigation (e.g. formulate the extreme poles between which the work happens and settle on fundamental choices in between)
· Again, I think that finding reports from people from just before they went through this, or their relatives, might be extremely important.
· Re the various designs of the rooms it would be interesting to see what happens if everything were understood as ‘patient-centric’, i.e. that if a curtain needs to be drawn, the patient still has’ the views s/he can enjoy otherwise, and rather the relatives’ spaces get smaller, etc.