project24:Frontpage
VARIATIONS
author(s):Ana Anton & Serban Bodea
Summary
Any object is, more or less, a product of its environment, it inherits all the characteristics of the society it is created in. As a product of a particular society, it inevitably is a variation of the all the processes of this environment. One may see the assignment of building on water(even if in a dock) as a sort of terra-forming. Whether we speak of islands of soil and rock, or islands of memory(Solarys) or even "social islands" (more than physical ones-The lord of the flies), we must recognize that all of them speak about the same thing, they all create views of the world.
We are going to name these views "variations" as these views transform a mere object into a process. This transformation is possible through variation as this method allows one to decode the process into physical entities. Each entity is precious as it is a link to the other objects in the same class, only together can they be coherent enough to convey meaning to the design research. Variation inside a class of objects describes its complexity. Describing these variations means finding small differences which make each element of such a class unique. Using variation as a method of research means not just designing one building but a series of buildings. For this, we aim to investigate the possibility of associating the notion of behavior with a building or with a built environment. Thus, variation can be seen as a way of describing, say, the changing in morphology of an architectural object, but most importantly, "to vary" means to transform a common building into a class, to give it a special array of behavioral characteristics. The team's strategy will be that of firstly looking at objects and trying to describe them as a variation of multiple factors, once this stage is over, the part this project will play within the group (as the environment the architectural variation describes) and within the city(as a design exercise) will become clearer.
Connections
