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1. The Gaylord Texan as Heterotopic Space
by Wendy Strain
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2. Heterotopic Space
Heterotopia are « real places – places that do exist and
that are formed in the very founding of society – which
are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively
enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real
sites that can be found within the culture, are
simultaneously represented, contested and inverted …
[they are] outside of all places, even though it may be
possible to indicate their location in reality. »
~Michel Foucault
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3. Mirrors provide
excellent examples of
a heterotopic space.
Foucault says all
societies constitute
heterotopias.
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4. The Gaylord Texan
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5. Entrance to Heterotopia
Heterotopia always presupposes a system of opening and closing, which both
isolates it and makes it penetrable. A heterotopia is not accessible for everybody
as a public space, but rather poses certain criteria.
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6. Entering the Atrium
Heterotopia is usually
linked to slices of
time.
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7. Blending Realities
Heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real
space several spaces, several sites that are in
themselves incompatible
• Alamo stands on an • Hill Country to Northwest
empty, flat plain • Rolling hills, more fertile,
• Desert sandstone cliffs
• Areas are blended –
Riverwalk winds through
them all
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8. Hegemonic Function
A heterotopia can change its function because
of changes in the society that occur over time.
Any heterotopia has a specific function with
regard to the society to which it is related.
Overseeing eye
Tiny Town
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9. Heterotopic Order
• Heterotopia always have a
function in relation to all the
places/spaces that remains
outside. Either in terms of
creating an illusional space
and reveals the ‘real’
spaces as built on
illusion, or by creating a
space that is another real
space – which is just as
perfect as our places are
messy and disjointed.
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10. What does this mean?
Architectural design has strong but modifiable
effects on social behavior and users’ mood and
productivity and, to some extent, design features
also affect health and well-being.
~Ayers 2007
What happens to truth when the places and
spaces around us, such as the Gaylord Texan,
are heterotopia rather than real?
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