Examining Relationships Between the Individual and the Community Through Social Densification.
THINK ABOUT DESIGNING A SHELL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TO FILL, LET THE COMMUNITY CREATE ITSELF...
ideas for this thesis have come to be developed in two ways:
1. Readings / conceptual thinking
I. To begin, readings concerning the sociality of housing that help understand what makes up these spaces regardless of the architecture itself. First its understanding who are the people within these spaces. Second is understanding the relationships between them.
“It starts with man, the subject of all building, not with the building as an object in itself, or with its material makeup. As a social effort, it is exposed to social pressures and influences, to class conflicts and the contradictions of the social interests of the ruling class.”
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How does a space construct
itself for domesticity?
itself for domesticity?
II.A. The Individual vs The
Community. What sort of values does each bring, and does one rein more importance over the other or is there a certain balance to be addressed?
Community. What sort of values does each bring, and does one rein more importance over the other or is there a certain balance to be addressed?
II.B. Following the previous, what does variability provide within a territory of uniformity? There should be a Focus on
flexibility over specialization.
flexibility over specialization.
“determinacy gives way to spatial indeterminacy”
“univalent gives way to multivalent made up of sub-spaces”
“univalent gives way to multivalent made up of sub-spaces”
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2. Diagrammatic / physical Studies
After reading, or perhaps throughout it, diagrams will be useful to begin to realize these rather theoretical ideas:
I. What is the relationship between the social aspects of housing and the physical?
II.A. The idea of individuality will focus more on smaller scale iterations. Understanding what happens at the unit level. Communal spaces perhaps take shape in larger organization and understandings of circulation and gathering (programmatic spaces like
laundry, child-care, greenspace, and work spaces are placed in localized areas to promote interaction).
I. What is the relationship between the social aspects of housing and the physical?
II.A. The idea of individuality will focus more on smaller scale iterations. Understanding what happens at the unit level. Communal spaces perhaps take shape in larger organization and understandings of circulation and gathering (programmatic spaces like
laundry, child-care, greenspace, and work spaces are placed in localized areas to promote interaction).
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What would the two philosophies look like at both extremes?
*(Documents and diagrams should be created that examine each user type present within the building and what they need both spatially and socially).
*(Documents and diagrams should be created that examine each user type present within the building and what they need both spatially and socially).
II.B. Studies should take place that explore a contextual thoughtfulness and unification.or rather, as developed in the fall Phase 2 work, a set of rules such as datum lines, colors, textures, or patterns of proportions. In contrast, diagrams should evaluate the necessary components of living for each inhabitant type.
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THE GROUND FLOOR OF EACH COMMUNAL BLOCK IS A PUBLIC SPACE THAT CULTIVATES SOCIAL INTERACTIONS THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, GATHERINGS, ANN EVEN TRADING BETWEEN NEIGHBORING BLOCKS
TWO SPATIAL CORRIDORS FORM THE LIVING-ZONE OF EACH BLOCK: THE KNOWN AND THE UNKOWN.
PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS SUCH AS THE LAVATORY, KITCHEN, AND STORAGE RESIDE WITHIN THE INNER CHANNEL. WHAT OCCURS BETWEEN THIS AND THE FIXED OUTER SHELL IS UNKOWN.
THE UPPER-MOST FLOOR OF EACH COMMUNAL BLOCK INCLUDES A ZONE OF COLLABORATION. THIS SPACE OF PRIVATE GATHERING DIFFERS FROM THE PUBLICITY OF THE GROUND FLOOR, YET BOTH ALLOW FOR INDETERMINACY THROUGH FLEXIBILITY.
