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Task of Architecture
Why architecture exist in the first place?
Accommodating
Activity
Spaces
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Function
+The search for shelterShelter: A structure affording protection from rain, wind, or sun; in wider sense, anything serving as a screen or a place of refuge from the weather. – Oxford English Dictionary
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The primitive hutMan wants to make himself a dwelling that protects but does not bury him…
Let us look at man in his primitive state without any aid or guidance other than his natural instincts. He is in need of a place to rest.
Abbe Laugier’s Essay sur l’architecture, 1755
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The discovery of creating shelterDrawing from Viollet le Duc’s Dictionnaire raisonne de l’architecture, 1856
+FIND PLACE for SHELTER
MODIFYING PLACE by MAKING FORM (STRUCTURE) for ACCOMODATING
ACTIVITIES (SPACES)
Need space for (dry) activities: shelter1
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sheltering
THE BUILDING TASK [Schulz-65]
1. Physical Control
2. Functional Frame
Concern with the relation between building & surroundings
Activities of a number of persons need a practical architectural frame
the BUILDING TASK [Hillier, Musgrove, O’Sullivan-73]
1. Container for human activities
2. Modifier of given climate
Internal spaces which will exist in physical relationship with each other
Modifyer boundaries between the enclosed space & the external environment
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ACCOMODATING WORSHIP ACTIVITIES (SPACES) IN A CERTAIN PLACE
Need space for religious activities
Containing “settled” activities
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Placing the religius form : highest hirarchy
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MAKING FORM (STRUCTURE) for ACCOMODATING SERVICES
ACTIVITIES (SPACES) IN A CERTAIN PLACE
Need space for other activitiesContaining “settled” activities3
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Utilitas
Firmitas
Venustas
Function: both sheltering activities and symbolizing societies’ cultural and social condition
from biologi: firmus and latin: firmness meaning “stable, strong, firm, steadfast”
Aesthetics, beauty
VITRUVIUS : architecture should embodied
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Function
Context Free
Form
Structure
Meaning
Form
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Utilitas
Sheltering Symbolizing
Creating
Activity
Spaces 4
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Practical Symbolical
Physical Control Functional Frame Social Milieu Cultural Symbolization
Container ofhuman activity
Modifier given climate
Cultural Symbol Consumer of resources
ShelteringActivities
Needs
[Hillier, Musgrove, O’Sullivan-73]3. Cultural symbol
...Symbol operates even when the architect has intended it would not (so called ‘functional’)
4. Cultural SymbolizationIt’s evident that the cultural symbolization is closely related to the formation of the social milieu : -
social structure-symbol system
[Schulz-65]3. Social Milieu
A social factors which should enter the architectural concretization : -status /role in groups -institution
The building task
s y m b o l i s i n g
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ARTICULATING (SIGNING) FORM (STRUCTURE) TO MAKE MEANING for IDENTITY
Need identity, distinct from other
Symbolizing forms and activities
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[Hillier, Musgrove, O’Sullivan-73]4. Consumer of resources
All building material must developed further. Each operation adds to its value.
The building task
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ARTICULATING (SIGNING) FORM (STRUCTURE) TO CREATE LIFE STYLE and
COMMODITY
Wants another valueCo modifying forms
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Needs
And now ….
Wants
b e f o r e a f t e r
Needs
Wants
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Is it sheltering / physical needs? Or social / symbolizing needs ? Or just want another value: symbolizing personal and commodity.
What is the TASK of Architecture ?
Physical Control Functional Frame Social Milieu Cultural Symbolization
Container ofhuman activity
Modifier given climate
Cultural Symbol Consumer of resources
Utilitarian Symbolization Practical Symbolica
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ShelteringActivities
SymbolisingCommodity
Needs
Wants
+And the story goes…..
needs or wants remote?