Project Development Post 4

 Architecture has always been the physical manifestation of so many diverse, even conflicting issues.  Up until this reading my thoughts had been structures by needs for warmth, for security etc and while I was  dealing with the social and community aspects, my thoughts had not ventured towards politics or moral dimensions. The reading POLITICS AND THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL  had one quote which drove our session as a group "individual existence is the sole ground of all legitimate thinking" . Spaces should not be created for utilitarian groups but for individuals and groups of individuals, we use spaces for ourselves not for others. This is why it was so essential for the development of our sustainable retail center to  be based around providing individuals with experiences that they could treasure alone or share. As a group we became Blix and walked in his shoes for an hour in our retail center experience:

ARCHITECTURAL MANIFESTO - 

 

The choice of what people do and how they chose to live is so important for the continuing success of any space.  Just as many architects before me I think the key to creating meaniful architecture does not exist in the physical built form but the ideas and choices contained within. In order to become a physical space of new ideas the communication and co-learning of people within the space are of paramount importance.  The media of communication needs to be limitless not the constrained method of the past, the lecture halls and static publications but a new ever evolving way of being. 

Wigley's thoughts on students attitudes towards sustainability is  that they consider it to be the "most interesting philosophical and technical challenges to the architect". I agree as rather than static codes and existing methods of greening the environment students are able to view sustainability as a baby step, a starting point to challenging preconceived notions and creating something new.