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Experiential Architecture, Social Exclusion in Architecture - Coggle…
Experiential Architecture
Social Exclusion in Architecture
Regulatory power of Architecture
Man-made physical features
Highway
as a moat
Detour of
bridge
to avoid traffic near the wealthy
lack of
street signs
Low Bridges
to block access to public space
Long Island State Park
Commission in 1924 by
Robert Moses
to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway.
Compund walls and Fences
Detroit, Eight Mile Wall/ Berlin Wall
one ways
from wealthy to poor neighbourhoods
Green Mount Avenue, East Baltimore
Placement of
public transport hubs
Lack of Foot paths
Residential parking limit
Walled ghettos
Location of malls away from public transport
Inability to protest
no access to public transport
Boulevards
isolation
Razed out communities- homelessness
kept out, excluded
Zoning to prevent movement
Prevent sale of properties- financial losses
Racially restrictive covenants, grass only in lawn
controls movement hence behavior
Architecture as powerful as law as a century passed, laws changed yet architecture still divides
Exclusion of the poor and the Blacks by the rich, the policy makers and the Whites in the 20th CE
To reduce crime and drug activity
keep visitors out
prevent communicable diseases
protect property values of the whites
Court as the defender of justice
Controls behaviour
