"Architecture for discipline" : examination and analytical study through military architecture, with special reference to "officer mess buildings" in Sri Lankan army camps

Abstract

Architecture is the art of creating built environment, the thoughtful structuring of spaces and articulations of hollows to inhabitant by the man. It is conscious change to the environment, which leads to man's physical and psychological well being. Human beings perceive and understand objects through various expressions. Semicircle appears rigid and contained, while the parabola papers dynamic and directed in architecture various sign and symbolic elements and creating appropriate spaces. Most scholars agree that these expressive qualities in a given physical environment affect the behavior of the human being. Maurice Broady describes, " . . . That architectural design has a direct and determinate effects on the way of people behave. It implies a one way process in which the physical environment is the independent, and human behavior the dependent, variable." Architecture facilitates different senses to people through the elements and spaces, such as happiness, sadness, fear, sexuality, security and sacredness etc. A monastery gives a sense of sacred quality; also school or a university give a sense to learning. Like wise we can identify difference senses through a military camp, which is facilitated through their spaces and architectural elements such as security, moral, relaxation, discipline etc. For the above task architecture act as the media of stipulating people's senses, as very important qualities. These qualities or "attitudes" can be never seen in science, but in every forms of art and in the architecture - the unavoidable art. These inherent attitudes use for the expression of massage in architecture, which fulfills the qualitative needs of the user If we take the army, there are some principle factors for the dependability of that organization and highly effected to the qualitative being of the army. Such as moral, courage, efficiency, loyalty, enthusiasm and pride of the job etc. To maintain those factors constantly, discipline must essential.