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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