Some remarks and points to consider in the near future, to be resolved by midterm milestone

1. I like Karen’s remarks on the issue of synesthesia as the simultaneous experiencing of multiple senses. This simultaneity is catalysis in bringing vitality to the elders’ spaces. The amplification of sounds (the sounds of running waters, brushing of leaves, of outdoor activities) or the enhancing of scents (of bakery, garden’s flowers) are the few examples to break the monotonous atmospheric condition of the nursing home as in an institution.
I want to develop a clearer diagram expressing this spontaneity within the site, or essence of the project.

2. The possibility of incorporating the screen from the Sketch project in which so far I have lost it…while the definition of the screen as a device to
to shelter, protect, or conceal
to select, reject, consider, or group
to sift or sort by passing through a screen

In redefining what does that screen mean to me now and in the contexts of the nursing home…the screen in the sketch project was primary a sensual device response to the sensitivity of light…perhaps in redefining it something as a sensual filtering device…that now responses to the permeating of scents or amplifying of sounds…

This would yield a different tectonic quality to the screen. On one level it protects and provides privacy to the elders while simultaneously at another level it conceals certain undesirable sensual exposure of the city while amplifies or allow the passing of other senses, the sounds of brushing leaves outside the windows rather than traffic’s noises…for example.
This new tectonic quality of the screen could lead into the questions of materials. What materials are appropriated and can perform the desired conditions? How would it affect the spatial conditions and allow the simultaneously experiencing of multiple senses?