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A Pedagogy of the Base Building: Design Reasoning in an Architecture Studio
Most buildings experience in their lifetime a certain “open” relationship between built form and human activity. We can observe that different uses can occur in the same form, and the same activity can take place in different forms. These relations are complex and varied, yet appear to have certain interdependencies and regularities at different levels.
This behavior of form in relation to use is operational in practice today, in buildings which are subject to transformation because of changing needs of occupants for which the buildings offer space over time.
A design pedagogy is discussed in this article based on this concept. How do we design with such transformations in mind? How is such a building constructed? How do the various stakeholders in such a building distribute and yet coordinate themselves and the parts they control, so that at any time, the building is whole? What are the regularities and variables in these dependency relations between form and use?
The design of a residential rehabilitation project is used to discuss these questions. Special issues come up in such a use type when it is assumed to be subject to form transformation and change or use. These issues are discussed, and illustrations given of how such designs would be developed and what they would look like.
A Pedagogy of the Base Building: Design Reasoning in an Architecture Studio
Most buildings experience in their lifetime a certain “open” relationship between built form and human activity. We can observe that different uses can occur in the same form, and the same activity can take place in different forms. These relations are complex and varied, yet appear to have certain interdependencies and regularities at different levels.
This behavior of form in relation to use is operational in practice today, in buildings which are subject to transformation because of changing needs of occupants for which the buildings offer space over time.
A design pedagogy is discussed in this article based on this concept. How do we design with such transformations in mind? How is such a building constructed? How do the various stakeholders in such a building distribute and yet coordinate themselves and the parts they control, so that at any time, the building is whole? What are the regularities and variables in these dependency relations between form and use?
The design of a residential rehabilitation project is used to discuss these questions. Special issues come up in such a use type when it is assumed to be subject to form transformation and change or use. These issues are discussed, and illustrations given of how such designs would be developed and what they would look like.
A Pedagogy of the Base Building: Design Reasoning in an Architecture Studio
Kendall, Stephen (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 43 ; 29-41
1990-01-01
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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