EXP 3: Mashup

Space should not be seen so much as walls but as an object, as a piece of furniture. Like a piece of furniture, a designed space is defined by its functionality. What is “form”? The problem is that both media and dictionaries define it in the most reductive and banalising way: “form as the outline of an object against a background”. The relationality of programmatic elements, articulated in terms of dynamic coexistence, continual variation and fluid, interconnected space. I find more pleasure in what I would call “concept-form”, bringing a high level of abstraction in orchestrating together a complexity that includes materials, movement and programmes in the definition of architectural form.  Reference1) Stickells, Lee. 2010. "Conceiving an architecture of movement." Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 14, no. 1: 41-51. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed May 20, 2013)2) Rude, Kelly. 2000. "Maximizing minimalism." Canadian Architect 45, no. 4: 16-17. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed May 20, 2013).3)  Tschumi, Bernard, and Michele Costanzo. 2009. "Twenty years after (deconstructivism): an interview with Bernard Tschumi." Architectural Design 79, no. 1: 24-29. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCOhost (accessed May 20, 2013).