Abstract:
Globalization has resulted in the emergence of mediascapes that form new relationships
between man and its surrounding context. Consequently, the behavioural changes become the
catalyst to change at a level of societies. The argument relies on an association that can be made
between periods of modernization and the media in which information has been communicated to
cause a change in societal behaviours which ultimately results in reactions in architecture.
The question that this research seeks to address is to discover an architecture that caters to
the psychologically displaced user group with an awareness of the emerging trends. It aims to create
spaces of meaning to address the displaced individual of today. The focus of this research is to then
look for an architecture language that responds to this society, the understanding of which is created
by a narrative of acceptance, rather than that of denial.
The thesis project will focus on juxtaposing narratives of time with an awareness of space
using contrast as a device to create experiential awareness of architectural space within the users. The
aim of this research is to unfold spaces that, along with the phenomenological rationale, are able to
resonate with the displaced individual of now.
