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Breathing is Spatial

Breathing is Spatial OP / POSITIONS As a child, I had a bad case of asthma. Breathing, or rather the inability to breathe, was ever present in my childhood. My activi- ties, and the radius that I was allowed to travel from my home, were all predicated on the tethering distance required to grab an inhaler or run home. Asthma attacks had a way of making visible that invisible act of breathing. To see air as an asthmatic does is to see dust mites, cat dander, spring pollen, pine needles, sweet grass, mold spores, chemical disinfectant, exhaust fumes, second-hand smoke, smog, carbon emissions or, now, the novel coronavirus, filling undetect- able aerosols, always ready to infect. Billions of people around the world are awakening to what those with respiratory diseases have always felt: that the air around them is spatial. The Architecture of Epidemics The compendium of design strategies that ensure we breathe freely have largely been relegated to the field of mechanical "People around the world are engineering and guideline improvements. But the pandemic awakening to what those with exposes a flaw in this system, which is that few buildings have respiratory diseases have always felt: or will ever have the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Technology Architecture + Design Taylor & Francis

Breathing is Spatial

Murphy, Michael
Technology Architecture + Design , Volume 4 (2): 4 – Jul 2, 2020
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Breathing is Spatial

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OP / POSITIONS As a child, I had a bad case of asthma. Breathing, or rather the inability to breathe, was ever present in my childhood. My activi- ties, and the radius that I was allowed to travel from my home, were all predicated on the tethering distance required to grab an inhaler or run home. Asthma attacks had a way of making visible that invisible act of breathing. To see air as an asthmatic does is to see dust mites, cat dander, spring pollen, pine needles, sweet grass, mold spores,...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2020 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
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2475-143x
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2475-1448
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10.1080/24751448.2020.1804749
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Abstract

OP / POSITIONS As a child, I had a bad case of asthma. Breathing, or rather the inability to breathe, was ever present in my childhood. My activi- ties, and the radius that I was allowed to travel from my home, were all predicated on the tethering distance required to grab an inhaler or run home. Asthma attacks had a way of making visible that invisible act of breathing. To see air as an asthmatic does is to see dust mites, cat dander, spring pollen, pine needles, sweet grass, mold spores, chemical disinfectant, exhaust fumes, second-hand smoke, smog, carbon emissions or, now, the novel coronavirus, filling undetect- able aerosols, always ready to infect. Billions of people around the world are awakening to what those with respiratory diseases have always felt: that the air around them is spatial. The Architecture of Epidemics The compendium of design strategies that ensure we breathe freely have largely been relegated to the field of mechanical "People around the world are engineering and guideline improvements. But the pandemic awakening to what those with exposes a flaw in this system, which is that few buildings have respiratory diseases have always felt: or will ever have the

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Technology Architecture + Design – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 2, 2020

References

  • “What Tuberculosis Did for Modernism: The Influence of a Curative Environment on Modernist Design and Architecture.”