Anjana Nandakumaran ARCH1101

What role can architecture play in encouraging a heightened awareness of our precarious existence, our dwelling with and in nature? The building is a Tsunami-proof hovering architecture that creates a porous micro-climate of public open landscape. We all realize that a “sense of place” is of fundamental value to people everywhere — one assumption is that our dwelling and living spaces affect our consciousness, which in turn affects our behavior. As a tropical strategy, the building and the landscape integrate several new sustainable aspects. Much has been written about the effects of the "built environment" on our everyday consciousness. It is not a perfect building, but it is the kind of serious work that we don’t see enough of in New York: a bold architectural statement of genuine civic value. The best of this work involves the claim that our quality of life, our sense of refinement, and our moods are affected by where we eat, sleep, think, and find repose. A micro-climate is created by cooling ponds fed by a greywater system. Home is a central theme in Heidegger's thought and his own hut on Todtnauberg was such a home. Its lively public spaces reaffirm that enlightenment comes from the free exchange of ideas, not just inward contemplation. Home is not a place, a set of coordinates on a map. Home is a space, brought to life by a deep need for security, attachment, and comfort. The building has a green roof with solar panels and uses local materials such as bamboo. The first thing one does after buying a house is transform it into a home. If there is anything universal about human (and animal) behavior it is the desire for a home. . Design and architecture critics frequently ignore the human aspect of buildings and focus merely on form. The underside of the floating structure becomes its main elevation – the sixth elevation - from which ‘Shenzhen Windows’, offer 360-degree views over the lush tropical landscape below. It is difficult to imagine a person or a group that does not orient itself around some sense of home; my place, where I am from, where I belong, where I long to return. A public path beginning at the "dragon's head" will connect through the hotel and the apartment zones up to the office wings. A home is a space that has taken on strong associations of security, comfort, and attachment. When they write their enormously influential critiques, they don’t concern themselves with how buildings shape human experience, or how those buildings make people feel. A home is inextricably linked to one's identity. Consider the meanest cubicle in a large, sterile, office building. They fail to engage with the way that architecture impacts our innate sense of place. What is the first thing one does? One decorates, places photos and other personal mementos in the space, claiming it as one's own. What does it mean to be truly at home? As communities around the world increasingly recognize that creating great places should be at the top of their agenda, such self-focused designs may retain value as iconic visual elements.

Red: http://www.pps.org/reference/toward-an-architecture-of-place-moving-beyond-iconic-to-extraordinary/

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Black: http://architizer.com/projects/horizontal-skyscraper-vanke-center/