Maria Cassarino
ON BEING PRESENT. Heterotopias of Care: From the edge to the community, rethinking the spaces of Hospice San Vito.
Rel. Alessandro Armando, Federica Joe Gardella. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Architettura Costruzione Città, 2025
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Abstract
If there is no architecture without disease and no disease without architecture, can structures be designed in a way that increase the separation between the sick and the healthy society? How can we reintegrate the sick if we are increasingly frightened by the progression and development of diseases? The answer lies in the idea that modernity and progress emerge precisely from disease, or rather, we move forward, we evolve, in order to combat what frightens us the most. This is how progress is made, how vaccines, therapies, and places to fight diseases are created. As Beatriz Colomina writes, over the centuries, medicine has influenced the architectural conception of buildings, or rather, of the body-shifting from an internal vision of ourselves, thanks to X-rays, to a revelation of the interiors of buildings.
So, if modern architecture reflects an agile and masculine body through strong windows and slender structures, what happens when we talk about hospices? How are these bodies perceived? […]Alvar Aalto’s Sanatorium can be considered the precursor to hospices, or rather, to all those structures designed to function as medical instruments
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