Architectural Design Issues
May 25, 2014 at 12:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2014 at 1:05 am by Azurisy.)
Architectural design is strongly mathematical as well as technological and scientific art.
Refer to my website to suit your curiosity and interests.
Solid foundations are welcome, including algebra, integral calculus and geometry.
I intend to post here questions on architectural design verities, both specifically and generally, in the context of the following issues.
Critical issues include
1. Subversive/existentialistic Design of Architecture, to reinforce and maintain Human Existence and Identity against both natural and built environments
Some architectural designs are too predominantly expressive and so immoral. Examples are Churches, Mosques, Castles, White House, Buckingham Palace and Kremlin.
As modest lay citizens, do we want to overthrow this autocracy? Do we want to restore and uphold our dignity as simple humans?
What are the architectural design ways to mitigate such differences and strike a balance between one side of parties favouring singular identities, and another, heterogeneity, diversity and sociocultural inclusivity? Questions include publicity versus privacy.
2. Hybridisation of natural and human worlds and wilderness
Should we replace zoos with a more ecologically friendly design of places that consider the seasonal and annual migrations of wildlife, and accommodate their changing tenure arrangements of ecologically sound, inhabitable land uses? Questions include safe transitional spaces for human spectators, and managerial spaces for ecologists.
3. Inside-out places
Do we want fresher air? Do we want trees inside our houses? Do we want every house, bedroom and commercial office complexes to be fully atrial?
4. Spatially both Functional and Expressive architectural design of sky-like infinity, serenity and beauty
How do we want to capture each individual's perfect spirit, dream and harmonious relationships to the surrounds and worldly extremities who owns and inhabits the architecturally designed place?
5. Architectural design of adventurous, free and homely spaces and world, including the physical, artificial and virtual
What are the ways to redesign the infrastructure, including roads, parks, underground and municipal, to accommodate the possibilities of freer sport like soccer, skating, scooting, outdoor fencing, racing and so on, without fear of police interventions, arrests and authoritative persecutions? Do we want every house to be connected to a public complex, so as to blur the demarcations b/w municipalities, suburbia and rural estates? What should we do to help materialise and make architecturally real the digital world, individual's imagination and implausible ideas?
6. Architectural design integrity that avoids any values conflict, such as b/w clients, owners, inhabitants, users, communities, tourists, publicity and government
What if a single person within a rarest minority in the whole world hates the very thought/idea of a smallest and most minor edifice on the other side of the world? What should we do to laterally solve this pettiest issue?
7. Architectural design economics, sustainability, resourcefulness, flexibility and legitimacy
Every good architect does not impose his/her ideas on the world - a good client-architect contract involves cooperation and client's chances to participate and decision-make equally well throughout the lifecycle of architectural design projects.
Questions to consider
1. What is good architectural design
2. What is bad architectural design
3. What are the pros and cons of each?
4. What are possible syntheses?
Refer to my website to suit your curiosity and interests.
Solid foundations are welcome, including algebra, integral calculus and geometry.
I intend to post here questions on architectural design verities, both specifically and generally, in the context of the following issues.
Critical issues include
1. Subversive/existentialistic Design of Architecture, to reinforce and maintain Human Existence and Identity against both natural and built environments
Some architectural designs are too predominantly expressive and so immoral. Examples are Churches, Mosques, Castles, White House, Buckingham Palace and Kremlin.
As modest lay citizens, do we want to overthrow this autocracy? Do we want to restore and uphold our dignity as simple humans?
What are the architectural design ways to mitigate such differences and strike a balance between one side of parties favouring singular identities, and another, heterogeneity, diversity and sociocultural inclusivity? Questions include publicity versus privacy.
2. Hybridisation of natural and human worlds and wilderness
Should we replace zoos with a more ecologically friendly design of places that consider the seasonal and annual migrations of wildlife, and accommodate their changing tenure arrangements of ecologically sound, inhabitable land uses? Questions include safe transitional spaces for human spectators, and managerial spaces for ecologists.
3. Inside-out places
Do we want fresher air? Do we want trees inside our houses? Do we want every house, bedroom and commercial office complexes to be fully atrial?
4. Spatially both Functional and Expressive architectural design of sky-like infinity, serenity and beauty
How do we want to capture each individual's perfect spirit, dream and harmonious relationships to the surrounds and worldly extremities who owns and inhabits the architecturally designed place?
5. Architectural design of adventurous, free and homely spaces and world, including the physical, artificial and virtual
What are the ways to redesign the infrastructure, including roads, parks, underground and municipal, to accommodate the possibilities of freer sport like soccer, skating, scooting, outdoor fencing, racing and so on, without fear of police interventions, arrests and authoritative persecutions? Do we want every house to be connected to a public complex, so as to blur the demarcations b/w municipalities, suburbia and rural estates? What should we do to help materialise and make architecturally real the digital world, individual's imagination and implausible ideas?
6. Architectural design integrity that avoids any values conflict, such as b/w clients, owners, inhabitants, users, communities, tourists, publicity and government
What if a single person within a rarest minority in the whole world hates the very thought/idea of a smallest and most minor edifice on the other side of the world? What should we do to laterally solve this pettiest issue?
7. Architectural design economics, sustainability, resourcefulness, flexibility and legitimacy
Every good architect does not impose his/her ideas on the world - a good client-architect contract involves cooperation and client's chances to participate and decision-make equally well throughout the lifecycle of architectural design projects.
Questions to consider
1. What is good architectural design
2. What is bad architectural design
3. What are the pros and cons of each?
4. What are possible syntheses?
Yet, whilst it is expressive and vernacular, in John Utzon's statement, it has a lot of structural and acoustic design issues.
Zen is from Melbourne (slightly better designed). Have you been to Perth and seen what they have done over here in terms of infrastructure?