The project involves designing a market stall in an underused part of auckland central city (the carpark area infront of the old train station) to encourage a more social atmosphere and some interation and sharing of ideas between local workers and residents. Our group has each been allocated 2 car parks (5x5m) in which to operate our stall with the theme 'sustenance' in mind.
After Judy's lecture we started thinking about what sustains us on a daily basis as humans. All the little things as well as the more complex structures in our lives that keep everything going (all the essential things like food and water) and the not so essential things too!
Judy discussed the industrial revolution and the impact of the production line on so many of our systems in the modern world and how this has changed the way we live. This related nicely to the idea of a market stall in which the architectural response would support these human needs, would sustain people.
Refs:
TED talk 'how food shapes our cities' by Carolyn Steel.
Catherine Ingraham 'The burdens of linearity'
READINGS:
David Leatherbarrow 'Architecture oriented otherwise' chapter 2 'unscripted performances' - This reading was really interesting and easy to read, the main points that caught my attention were the idea that a building is a performative object. That successful architecture can be measured as a building's ability to react and adapt to both predictable and unforseen curcumstances. Architecture sets the stage for the "event" and often unpredictable events are the most exciting and memorable and therefore successful architecture needs to be able to be open to the unpredictability of these events. This led on from the idea that a building's physical actuality is not something that can be understood at the time of design or construction, only when the building is complete and it's physicality is present can you experience it properly, all the things that were predicted and some aspects of the experience that are unpredictable.
I also liked the idea that a building's "performance" is not necessarily a 'movement' but can be it's LACK of movement, it's resistance to movement. this tied in quite nicely to what we're learning about in tech at the moment about material's ability to resist the forces impacting apon it all the time and to stay STILL. I like the idea of this great resistance to movement, and all the strength and effort that the building is "exerting" to make it's resistance to movement look effortless, to stay still.
'Softspace' ed Sean Lally and Jessica Young. pg 69 'dissipative procedures/opensource architecture' - This reading about open-source architecture was a more challenging read with a lot of unnecessary information for someone at the level of architecture that I am at but overall was an interesting piece which brought up the debate of whether with all the complex intelligent software we now have, will there still be a role for architects in the future? If the software can take site date and collate it and produce a 3d file for a new building, where is the architect involved? I personally don't like the scientific approach so much and this point tied back to the other reading nicely in the way that you/software can't predict many aspects of a build until it is built. There is an element that will just happen by itself and software will not get around that, or even, we may lose that nice unpredictable surprise element if the human designer is taken out of the picture.
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