Thesis update!

Mobility: Changing Lives through Mobile Initiatives

Thesis Abstract

How can a deployable, repeatable architecture create change in lives of people?

Majority of third world countries are currently living in conditions that a typical American could not imagine.  Families cannot to move out of because of poverty; they live on less than two American dollars a day.  To borrow money, means to borrow money from loan sharks at impossible interest rates, so the cycle never ends.  Currently there is an opportunity of bringing capitalism to these areas through micro financing.  This allows people to get small loans to start their own business at low interest rates and have the opportunity to start their own lives on their own terms.  In order for this to happen, a facility needs to be available.  The facility is more than a bank.  It represents an opportunity, safety, and independence.  How could a piece of architecture be functional in changing the financial situation and also represent hope for third world slums?  Micro financing can be implemented in any city.  Taking that concept of being able to be put anywhere, something deployable would be the best solution.  The reason for deployable architecture is because it allows for a progressive, new idea to be implemented.  Having a prototype of a building that is visually different allows for ideas to be acknowledged and adopted.  After the program is adopted and stable, it is time for a separate permanent structure that represents something that the people created.  The deployable architecture would move on to another city and the cycle continues.  As the building moves, micro financing spreads, and little by little families develop. 

Issue – how architecture and economics work together to help poverty

History – micro financing, slums

Intervention Idea – deployable, repeatable banking social center

Effect – families starting their own business and establishing their own capitol

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Intervention – deployable, foreign object

Program – safe, micro financing center

Location – anywhere…urban, rural, war torn

Tectonics – …Materials - …

Garmz

i like this. designer consumer relationship at its finest. 

GARMZ

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.

JAPAN

Just got back from Japan 
Finally seeing traditional Japanese architecture, you can understand how so many architects are inspired by it.  The use of layers, boundaries and sense of perception and approach are outstanding.

Shisendo

Shiragamo Shrine

Ando - Times Building

Kiyomizu Temple

Spacial Investigation

Here are the original collages that were part of project 1, better late than never 

color

movement

 passage through time

this went from passage of time to light and shadow

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.

First iteration

Thesis Abstract - the first attempt of many......

Perception of Color in Architecture 

Color in architecture magnitude has varied throughout history.  Color is not just the Benjamin Moore paint chosen; it is a variable in design that affects the quality of the designed space.  From cities to facades to an individual space, color affects experience.  Color is not a superficial element but a factor in design.

Certain colors have specific associations to everyday parts of our built environment.  From the red fire station to the color of the Southwest’s adobe homes, color is part of history.  Color has been used with specific agendas to create a conscious and or subconscious affect on people.  Color is tied to memory, emotions and consequently actions.  Understanding color allows for the opportunity to mold an experience.

Color in architecture can be determined by materiality.  The color and texture of a material creates depth to a space.  The way that light hits a material, it can highlight parts that potentially could have been overlooked.  Color is a factor, along with materiality and light, in creating that experience that evokes a reaction.

Color in architecture is not just materiality but in the opportunity color allows to play with perception.  The building façade of Museum Brandhorst in Munch, Germany plays with the use of scale.  During the precession to the building, the color of the façade creates a mental interaction for the viewer.  From afar the pastel panels blur together to have a simple coating over the pieced together volumes.  Up close, the panels start to pull apart, differentiating in color and creating a rhythm through the façade.  Color changed its appearance because of how it is viewed.

The implication of color is that it is not just an aesthetic property, but also an ability to create a sensory overload.  Color works with form, materials, and humanity to create a reaction, memory and experience.