Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Ashley Bigham
Architecture is inseparable from defense. From its most primitive and revered “origins,” architecture was rehearsed in environments of conflict. As an alternative to the term defense architecture, a category which typically refers to forms and types (fortresses, citadels, bastions, urban walls), this project proposes the idea of an architecture of defense. An architecture of defense sees of architecture as a reaction to some measure of paranoia and studies the built environment to recognize measures and methods used to subdue these fears. Safety Not Guaranteedexplores the architecture of paranoia through a series of design manipulations. Its setting is the network of suburbia and everyday domestic scenes—those most commonly associated with spaces of privacy, safety, and security—and where fortification occurs on the scale of the front door, the home, the cul-de-sac, the neighborhood.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.33
Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne
ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4
