WEEK 9 - LECTURE AND READING REFLECTION

Considerations:
-Making and using
-Thinking and reflecting
-Learning and taking action
-Selling and buying
-Presenting and watching
-Sharing and collaborating

These will be three criteria in which I will strongly consider developing throughout project two’s architectural proposal.

The lecture brought forward the issue that differences and conflicts occur everyday between people - so how can architecture provide solutions for this in residential or public spaces?
To answer this more in depth research needs to be conducted as to what kinds of spaces are used for different functions and activities in peoples everyday lives?
I believe diversity within design may be to a degree the answer to catering to a wider range of people, especially when considering individually dwellings within a complex. BIG architects won many awards based on their multi residential complex in copenhagen with over 60 variations to individual dwellings within a singular project. 

 Apartments are designed as individual ‘unique’ dwellings that are pieced together as though a puzzle to form the exterior shell of the building. 

VM houses by BIG architects

FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM:

Function follows form vs. form follows function - we have all heard this debate throughout the years as developing students; although with greater knowledge acquired, form follows function seems to deliver this view of ‘selfish architecture’ for a buildings shell may never deliver an empowering user experience if the function has been completely neglected within the development process. Bjarke Ingles from BIG architects explains that, ‘you should never get attached to a form to early in a project, as the true essence of the project may end up lost’. The reading by Yona Friedman again conveys to us what exactly it means to create architecture where function follows form. 

The dual of the linking scheme.