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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?