Designing the Threshold: A Holistic Center for the Terminally Ill

If Architecture can express the joy of birth and all the infinite aspects of human life, then Architecture can celebrate death as a final rite of passage. Can Architecture celebrate man's transition into the afterlife? How does this celebration translate literally into something tangible? How does this celebration translate figuratively into something tactile?

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Morris, Christie A.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Frascari, Marco
• Kagawa, Ronald M.

• In-Between
• Assisted Living
• AIDS
• Threshold
• Transition
• Hospice
• Death
• Terminal Illness

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-11112002-124855

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/35663