Wayne Kwok -Final Year Studio

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Competition Entry Reflection


This is one of the diagrams of an entry, the diagram can be explained in two ways: programmatic and sectional.

Programmatic diagrams are strategies of setting up logic for the autonomy of buildings. Indeed, the logic often refers to abstract system, for instance, the relationship of activities or the patterns of population.
The programmatic diagrams denaturalize abstract aspects from reality. The denaturalization gives spatial preconception from universal acknowledgement of actions, activities and conventions. Then these biases contribute to particualr programme in the project, such as the vectorial relationship of functions. However, these kinds of acknowledgement changes over time deal to the civilization progress. The strategies proposed in programmatic diagram may not able cope with that, for instance, the way how people travel within a city, do we still rely on public transport in the future? Hence it may bemuse to the statement “ Programs are also mutable, transformable in time”

A sectional diagram supports the unconventional idea of stacking. Stacking is to “make a heap of things (elements, shapes, activities or programmes) one atop another’. Each of the ‘things’ can be independent to each other in terms of function and structure. In regard to such a great variety of ‘things’, sectional diagrams provide interfaces for the architects to experiment different stacking outcome. As a result, the diagram avoids the architects engaging with repetition from floor to floor. In this entry, the architect lines up the independent functional block in a random manner. The outcome of this occasional setting allows the visitors to keep refreshing their spatial experiences when they travel from floor to floor. Also sectional diagram can provide vertical variation in term of structural consideration.

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