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Anti gunman design
There has been some discussion in the States, since the Virginia Tech shooting the other day, about how the buildings where the killings took place could have been better designed to hinder the gun man. There is an interesting column about it in an online newspaper article:
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Are we going to be so traumatized by this madman that were seriously going to reconsider how we design our classrooms?
Will we be putting in extra doors on the off-chance that a pistol-wielding psycho might stalk the hallways?
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the numerous discussion on the tragedy in Virginia Tech has been concerning various aspects and this is quite an intereting point of view if we look at the incident from the design of the classroom point of view. as a yonng architect i can only say walls and ceilings are the basic elements, light and space if not the resultant can only be part of the concept, and may be we take a step back and think about building a community, or enhancing the possibility of growth of a safe environment where there is trust and love among people (residennts) would that be too long a way before we see any light at the end of the tunnel?
seems that the question is back to the basic - where is the community? where is peace of mind? but before we go any further and deeper into the question, where are the kids? how they perceive the world and themeselves?
architects can really play an important part in designing safer places - but we can only play magic on walls, windows, ceilings and spaces, shameful me...
p.s sure most of us know the ingredients of the recipe (of a lovable peaceful comunity), but where to get them? -
Comuhouse, after hearing comments stating that, with more guns around this tragedy would not have happened, I think something essential is missing.
If those people (politicians) really believe that everyone should have a gun to defend himself or herself, they are perceiving a country at war - a civil war.
Perhaps they have not though about the consequences of those words, and that is frightening too. Most definetely architecture cann't help there.
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