CLIENT(S) PROFILE
The building is a research centre and it is meant to be a
permanent construction. The building contains a museum that focuses on
information about the insects found in corpses and around crime scenes. Also an
activity or interactive stations for younger kids. The accommodation is meant
for visiting groups of mainly forensic entomologists who would either undergo a
projects or investigations, for visits that last for a maximum of a month or
two. Students can also use it, or anyone undergoing scientific research that is
closely linked to forensics. The centre also contains classrooms and learning
centres for students at university or college who want to become forensics or
even for younger primary and secondary students who are interested on a weekly
basis.
Concept
Forensic Entomologists use insects from a crime scene to investigate the time of death and location. Stages of an insects life, or how much of the kind, can determine this. My concept will be to do with or time related things, a mix of the old and new, past or the present. For my materials for example I would like to do a mix of sci-fi and ancient. The structure looks new and old and the ‘in-between’. The rooms are arranged like a chronological story, the interior also with a mix or modern and also more Victorian type furniture etc.
For my design, for example, I could represent each stage of insect (as it matures on a body) or what insects sit on the body depending how long the body has been decomposing for.
Concept
Forensic Entomologists use insects from a crime scene to investigate the time of death and location. Stages of an insects life, or how much of the kind, can determine this. My concept will be to do with or time related things, a mix of the old and new, past or the present. For my materials for example I would like to do a mix of sci-fi and ancient. The structure looks new and old and the ‘in-between’. The rooms are arranged like a chronological story, the interior also with a mix or modern and also more Victorian type furniture etc.
For my design, for example, I could represent each stage of insect (as it matures on a body) or what insects sit on the body depending how long the body has been decomposing for.
Investigating what
insects they find and also how their life cycles determine the time of death
The process of using insects to determine time of death is
called insect succession.
The first insects are insects called microphagous which scoffs the bodies flesh. They are attracted by the smell of the dead body decomposing.
Blow flies also come with also flesh flies. Then comes dermestid beetles who also eat up the flesh.
The first insects are insects called microphagous which scoffs the bodies flesh. They are attracted by the smell of the dead body decomposing.
Blow flies also come with also flesh flies. Then comes dermestid beetles who also eat up the flesh.
More house flies
come also.
Also maggots and beetle larvae, they get eaten by parasitic insects and predators.
Also maggots and beetle larvae, they get eaten by parasitic insects and predators.
When the body finally dries hide beetles and clothes
moths remain.
It is said that blow and flesh flies are the most
determining factor of the time of death. This looks at the stages of life of the
insects by its age. From here they can determine, by going back, the time the necrophagous invaded.