Monday, September 6, 2010
1 + 3 + 9
A study of the contradiction between the user’s perception about architecture and the architect’s intention.
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• How successful is it for architects to anticipate, predict user’s perception and experience in built environments.
• Investigate the area of separation between architects and users.
• What are the capabilities of roles in architectural design and latter performance?
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1. Architecture is meaningless if without of participation of users, then users perception should dictate the creation of architecture.
2. Architecture therefore is about user’s perception, furthermore an architect must be aware of the users’ limitation on stellar concepts.
3. Architects are sometimes trapped in their own minds; therefore tend to manufacture ideas out of their own perspective that’s disconnected with the user public.
4. Users perceive the building beyond the basis of form and function, and adds more personal emotion to a space.
5. Users go through a learning process when experiencing a building, and this initial learning experience will judge the perception of the architecture.
6. Users of one building have a huge wide variety of socio background, how should architects treat this over complexity of demand, or ignore it.
7. Architects with innovative ideas, designs and proposals must also be based on the acceptance of users, but at the same time challenge/enthrall the user’s senses.
8. Architects can possibly drastically improve the energy efficiency in buildings when they are informative to their users on the inner workings of the building.
9. Users will experience a high quality of life and improved efficiency in a building jointly designed by the architects and users. Who is the architect? The user? or the architect? or both?
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I am very interested in the intention vs perception dichotomy of architecture that you have presented here. However, I don't feel that it can realistically resolve itself in some sort of middle ground (who's the architect/whose the user) scenario. I also think that it would make a much richer thesis project if you were to pick one of the extremes, where the architect imposes intention on the user or even the user imposes perception on the architect.
ReplyDeleteInteresting POV. I think ultimately architects who impose on their users are not sustainable in their practice, eventually they will be washed out of the field.
ReplyDeleteInstead of compromising, I think the opportunity is for a synthesis. The collaboration should not be subtraction, instead the sum of the parts should be greater than the whole. 1 + 1 = 3
Interesting topic but what is the project?
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