tirsdag 13. april 2010

completition


Architects tend to design a "finished" building that once its completed starts to impair itself. Landscape Architects creates a premise or a process- they design a system, something that starts when they leave it, ie. starts to develop itself on its own terms and thus frees itself from the intended. This can be achived in architecture as well if one emphasized the quality of underspecification. The notion of an architecture as a system with underspecified goals suggests an architecture that evolves and therfore is never complete, like nature itself. This will break down the distinction between a building and its environment; it presupposes that a building creates an environment and carries on creating an environment as it attempts to specify itself.
The architecture then cant help but be ecological in the sense that the input sources and output sources become part of the same architectural system, it reflects the innovation, replenishment and reconstruction. Like landscape architects design with ephemeral materials like plants, wood, water, iron etc, the architect may emphasize the ephemerality of architectural constructions and help counteract the usual architectural obsession with permanence...

3 kommentarer:

  1. the expiring date of architecture. idea: every architect could say ahead when his building expires. It would make future urban structures more flexible and free.

    SvarSlett
  2. the picture is from the construction of Hindenburg, this is rude, but, it expired...

    SvarSlett
  3. involuntary, ha ha! (it made some nice dramatic film/sound footage.

    SvarSlett