Emily Dunne is an architecture graduate student in her final year at Catholic University studying disorientation in architecture for thesis research and design methodologies
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Thesis Research:
Contention in Healthcare
Posted on: October 15th, 2011
Disorientation in health care is often blamed on factors such as rigid constraints mandated by doctors and nurses on locations of nurses stations, hallways, machines, patient rooms and medical equipment due to a need for hyper efficient accessibility. The psychology of the patient and the family is rarely considered as a design factor in space planning...
Thesis Research:
Understanding Orientation
Posted on: October 1st, 2011
It is clear that we orient ourselves in physical space. The physical sense responsible for our understanding of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement of such parts is called proprioception. This sense is tested frequently in field sobriety exams where a person in question of DUI is tasked with touching their nose with their finger...
Thesis Research:
Disorientation in Architecture
Posted on: September 15th, 2011
Disorientation is detrimental to psychological hardiness especially for those in vulnerable states such as mid or post-trauma. A state of being, affecting normal states of physical and mental awareness first in time, then place and finally person, disorientation is ironically found in spaces of physical healing, bucking the philosophy...
Thesis Research:
Inspiration and Passion
Posted on: September 1st, 2011
...I am currently entering into my final year as a full-time student enrolled in the master of architecture program, concentrating in real estate development at the Catholic University of America. I remember the first day I arrived at CUA for classes I received a phone call whisking me away to the Brigham and Women's ICU in Boston...