Rehabilitative Architecture
| dc.contributor.author | Willis, Jacob Robert | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Schnoedt, Heinrich | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Dunay, Robert J. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Jones, James R. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Architecture | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-30T08:01:21Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-30T08:01:21Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-05-29 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The following document is the accumulation of assumptions to engage the architectural qualities of water and courtyards in drug rehabilitation recovery centers to improve patient recovery rates and provide a response to the challenges of addiction. The proposed long-term drug rehabilitation center is intended to serve young men between ages of 18-25 who have suffered from drug abuse trauma. The need for improvement in drug rehabilitation is highly prevalent with our current addiction nation's crisis which runs rampant. The work here represents a search to better understand what the role of architecture might provide. | en |
| dc.description.abstractgeneral | This thesis is developed based on the belief that individuals undergoing addiction recovery processes will have the greatest response to a rehabilitative environment when water and courtyards are incorporated. By determining the common challenges of addiction, qualities of architecture can be poetically articulated to meet these difficulties. The final project is the design of a rehabilitation center which through varying architectural studies summarizes the principles of community, tranquility, vitality, regeneration, and belonging. The importance of this research lies in the out of control addiction crisis which lacks a fundamental response to those in need. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:43997 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10919/134291 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Architecture | en |
| dc.subject | Water | en |
| dc.subject | Courtyards | en |
| dc.title | Rehabilitative Architecture | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Architecture | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Architecture | en |
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