WEAVING PLACE THROUGH MOMENT: A CASE FOR ARCHITECTURE IN THE MEDIASCAPES OF A GLOBALIZED WORLD

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.