Sunday, May 2, 2010

Architectural relationship through depth of field

I've been thinking a bit over the weekend about how our architecture will find its form and come into being.
I looked into Archigram and they take an interesting perspective on the future state of architectural form. 'Prepared Landscape' talks about a "Speculative and abstract proposal for a secret serviced landscape with half-hidden screens and fragments of architecture."
Dissolving city was another project and looked at "the modern city of today, constructed geometrically, is changing its form fluidly in the direction of an amorphous format under the influence of the interaction of man and information." Archigram looked at the way the city could become reclaimed back by the natural landscape and how the architecture could develop over time with the changes of man.
Metamorphosis of an english town (1970)

Way out West Berlin (1988)

I am interested in how the architecture actually manifests itself as form for the user/s of the space and how the different manifestations of the same space would interact with different people.
Fragments of architecture would maintain themselves on the landscape. They would be constant as to give a common ground for memory to build from.

The architecture would grow to the memory of the person entering the space.
It would be amazing if the architecture could rapidly dissolve or form as the person moved through it. Like the idea I showed with depth of field and memory the spaces themselves will melt away as the threshold of memory tires. W
ithin a sphere of their architectural memory t
he user maintains the solidarity of the landscape.
The architecture only needs to exist when it is recalled, the fragmental structure that scatters the landscape maintains the memory.
The architecture would evolve as more individuals used the same fragments on the landscape at the same time. The individual "spheres of architecture" would intertwine and add new detail and ornamentation to the spaces. As more and more people joined the structure the building would become a fluid entity, thresholds overlapping constantly to create intricate, dynamic forms.
The model of these spaces intertwining would be similar to bubbles. As the the threshold ('skin') of the bubble is stressed the bubbles influence each other, at a point the threshold is broken and the bubbles become one.

Blow-out village

The entire structure can be influenced by exterior conditions like weather and seasonal change. Having the same base structure brings a community together to reflect upon their individual experience of a space. Having the ability to physically manifest memory through architecture brings a physicality to the way a person understands another. Free from the constraints of language this architecture embodies new depth into interaction of individuals, the communities ethnic boundaries are broken.


The building unveils itself drifting in space, it blooms and memory is visible.


I like the following quote as it relates to my idea of architecture and depth of field:
"One of my favorite situations is the metamorphic form of marshes, insidiously introducing water in the mud and plants, and then withdrawing. Is this land or sea? (...) At what point becomes at what point land and sea?. It is a wonderful model for a city. I am fascinated by the soft limits, the dual function, the dissolution of the suburban city, and the dissolution of all in the field. " (Peter Cook)






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