Flexibility

First Iteration of Abstract: Flexibility: Architecture Adapting to Time and Change

A building has always been synonymous with being permanent.  Permanent does not mean timeless.  Being timeless means being used to your full advantage always.  Society is always evolving.  Today, we are changing at alarming rates.  People can update everything with a click of a mouse.  Why should the architecture we live in and around be any different?

The idea of flexibility in architecture means a building could potentially be timeless.  It is able to change with time.  It is using time to its advantage instead of making it the building’s death sentence.  Allowing a building to change or be flexible mean it can adopt to change.  Programmatically, looking at the way we plan spatially differently to create a successful space and looking at a buildings structure and boundaries (or lack of boundaries) and alter them to design a flexible building.

The scale of change can vary.  Allowing a whole building to change its purpose over a human’s lifetime verses it changing seasonally or changing hourly, can have an affect on experience.  Time based architecture can take full advantage of a site and be extremely efficient, economically, ecologically, and functionally.

Being able to change a building flexibility is the opposite of doing a full overhaul or gutting a building.  It means designing for change and when change occurs, it does not consume time and resources.  Using time-based architecture at an hourly or daily scale can be simple changes, like changing proportions, accessibility or connections, create new programmatic functions.  This brings concepts of having part permanent and part temporary structures to a building.  Creating a semi-permanent structure can allow for the possibilities of a flexible, timeless building.

soo a change of plans..

after doing more research, I have decided to change my topic.  here are my new idea map and visual abstract.  New written abstract soon to come, still trying to create something more specific.  


using time based architecture and flexibility of form to create series of experiences for numerous users.

Visual Abstraction: process 2

For some reason my images are not always showing - hopefully I can fix it.... hmmmmm

This is the next iteration of combining interests of color, light and shadow, and informal cities

The connections are a stretch, but the general idea is using these design elements, architectural innovations and urban analysis to create something better in the worst scenerios.  This is a start of making these informal cities that started temporary to being permanent in hopes for it to become something better.  This is VERY broad, but its just the combination of my interests.

This is my idea map of my visual abstract with a few sources

Both are still a major work in process.  More iterations to create an idea, a question... a thesis.

Visual Abstraction: process

In thesis prep II, our last assignment was to explore and represent an architectural term.  The current assignment is to create an idea map that helps explore options for thesis, techniques and work with composition. As a first basic run is my attempt at a simple display of color.  

For light and shadow, I used words and imaged to describe a path of potential ways to use light and shadow.  I derived the terms from my original image.