Kossman Design
Thesis Reviews
2014 Winner
Veronica Patrick
Veronica Patrick was named the winner of the 2014 Kossman Design Thesis Reviews for her project titled “An Architecture of Vitality.” She shares this award with Dustin Julius.
Interaction in our current western society is increasingly nonexistent. Both our relationships with each other and our relationships with the built environment are fading into an overwhelmingly disengaged state.
Although architecture once stood as the physical means of connecting people, a digital immaterial has taken its place. This shift of our public interactions out of a lively social space and onto the lifeless screens of our devices has created an overarching perception of isolation and state of loneliness within people.
The work within An Architecture of Vitality, Liminal Space for the Disengaged combats perceived isolation at the moments of boundaries, instilling an architectural space with the vitality currently absent in the urban public.