CUBE AND US
CUBE AND US
CUBE AND US
community of practice
Oskar Hansen - Open Form
Open Form is a movement and theory that encourages collective participation to create flexibility and variability. According to Hansen, the role of an architect is limited and architecture should be a tool that can be managed and adapted by users.
I am very interessted in Open Form for its collaborative approach to design. I believe that people and space constantly redefines one another, inhibitors are also designers, and that hows we can be adaptable. It provokes ideas and questions in how this Open Form approach represents the permanent and provisional.
Peter Sloterdijk - Spherology
Sloterdijk describes Bubbles, the first volume of Spheres, as a general theory of the structures that allow couplings—or as the book's original intended subtitle put it, an “archeology of the intimate.” Bubbles includes a wide array of images, not to illustrate Sloterdijk's discourse, but to offer a spatial and visual “parallel narrative” to his exploration of bubbles.
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Sou Fujimoto - Cave and Nest Theory
The concept of a ‘nest’, which implies a space that has been specifically prepared for human habitation. A cave is the opposite of this: a naturally formed space, which to be used for dwelling requires a creative act on behalf of a human. The cave alters the behaviour of its occupant by offering no clear way in which to use the space. Although to some degree this ambiguity is inherent in all spaces, the cave is completely undefined.
Within the cave the body needs adapt to the space to meet its needs. As the body adapts, the space takes on a new subjective and temporal definition, unique to each occupant. A harmonious relationship is established between the body and space. The ambiguity of the cave offers a surprisingly flexible architecture.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller was an architect, system theories and inventor. He was known for his geodesic dome invention that utilizes minimum resources, movable, strong and quick to set up.
His work explore a range of prefab systems and spaces that are inspiring for me in exploring the modularity in an everlasting and ever-changing environment. His inventions only considers design, but resources, conditions and efficiency.
Metabolism Architecture - Kiyonori Kikutake
The movement was a post-war Japanese movement that fused ideas about arhitectectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. Kiyonori Kikutake was one of the founders of this movement, worked on a range of modular system and portable furniture that responded to his principle 'architecture need to adapt to change'.
Alot of my initial ideas and observations began from deriving design and ideas from biological forms, it began in a studio I took about biomimicry. Kiyonori Kikutake was investigating these sort of ideas, and actively responding to the changing environment. By researching into his works, I hope to expand further in adaptable design.
Christopher Alexander
He is an architecture and design theorist who explores ideas of nature of human-centered design, and known widely for his pattern language movement.
As I explore into the connections between modular systems and the human experience of the permanent and provisional, Christopher Alexander's book The Timeless Way of Building, provides interesting insight in the way he talks about influence of patterns on patterns of event. It applies to the idea I explore in how modular systems influence our interior and exterior experience.
Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group that was neo-fututristic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, exploring utopian ideas taking inspiration from technology and expressed through hypothetical project. Some of their works are the Movable City, Plug-in City, Computer City and Instant City.
Archigram inspires my journey in this research project for their idea of the future of cities. They have explore the city as capsules, pods and being in transition and transformation. Their architectural theory, study on living conditions, experience and way of imagining the city can inspire my research in hypothetical thinking.
Charlotte Posenenske
She was an artist associated with the minimalist movement. As an artist and sculptor she explored systems and structures derived from mass production and standardization. We can see how her arts that investigate shapes and geometries translates into her sculptural work.
Charlotte Posenenske experimented systems and structures with a range of medium, and placed them in different settings and situations. I'd like to further investigate these ideas of hers, that experiment with modular systems, and its interaction with people in varying conditions, contexts and configurations.
