Research on Architequture

In the midst of the feeling

Research:

Source 1:

Architecture, unlike all other arts, serves a functional

as well as an aesthetic role.

The architect Louis Kahn once commented that

while a painter can paint square wheels on a cannon to express the futility of war,

and a sculptor can carve the same square wheels, an architect must always use

round wheels.

Although he was making a polemical point, his aphorism does

hold true: a building must not just look good; it must also serve a purpose.

https://www.academia.edu/2291027/How_do_buildings_mean_Some_issues_of_interpretation_in_the_history_of_architecture

by: WILLIAM WHYTE

Source 2:

Each nuance that a building emits comes together to become more than the sum of its parts. And often, that sum can be said to be an inherent character that a building exudes. But where does such character come from? And how do we know that a building has personality?

Even something as simple as the way a handrail feels as you glide your hand along it while going up the stairs can feed into what you perceive as an environment’s personality. Those details that feed the senses come together to engage you — just as the sounds that a building’s materials make as you walk across the floor can tip you off about that space’s characteristics. Again, such details all come together to yield more than the sum of their parts. But what does this mean? Why care about your building’s personality?

In all of the places where your architecture “touches” its occupants, its personality gets formed. And this is true for all those that experience your building — both for those within it and for those who experience it from the exterior. This means that your building also gains personality in the way it relates to its neighbours — where it takes its own place within a larger context. Perhaps that means it has a role to fulfil or that it has a message to convey.

Whatever the case, know that when you design, you need to think about how your building will take its place, as it “touches” its occupants in meaningful ways. And each time that your building interacts with occupants, it is revealing a piece of its personality.

http://sensingarchitecture.com/8743/what-gives-a-building-its-personality/

Comments:

It make me think that architecture sometimes has to scarify some of its meaning for usefulness and to bare with reality, I wonder it it happens the same with us, we also tend to chop down some of our expressions to make an effort to move with our respective roles: I no longer see adults run on streets or smile too much, maybe they are contracted with too much utility and functionality. They have cease to give a meaning of fun and leisure, even friendliness, for their functions as “adults.”

Also there is the idea that as life happens it appears to faint our facade. Our expression seemed more heavy and more attached to the bone, silly lines tend to curve our in expressions.We must not forget that life is gives us character and courage, they are an impression of a lifetime.