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9_23 presentation

1+3+9_redo

1.  Furniture can be used to create more meaningful, intentional, and physically connected architecture.

3.  Humans interact most closely to furniture in a scalar relationship.  Furniture is the mediator between the human scale and the built scale.  We can enhance the sense of purpose in both furniture and architecture by designing furniture in conjunction with the space it is to fill.

9.  Since furniture is designed to be fully inhabitable, it is experienced on a 1:1 relationship.  Furniture is designed ergonomically and in response to the human scale and proportion.  However, architecture is designed on a much larger scale and varies from built structure to built structure.  Some of the built scales may be modest and others grand.  One way to understand the scalar relationship of human to architecture is through furniture.  Since furniture comes in a variety of built form, disparate pieces of furniture will contrast that of built-in form.  This contrast will help in showing the different qualities of space while being measured in the same manner.  I propose that designing the space in conjunction with the furniture to fill the space, creates much more rich and intentional spaces.  This choreography of use and program comes through the manifestation of built-in furniture conceived in conjunction with the architecture.

Methodology_redo

This information is brought about through a set of 3 primary categories-1, the ergonomic category and experiencing furniture in a 1:1 relationship, 2 being ways that architecture may be experienced in a 1:3 or 1:4 etc relationship depending on scale of space.  This scalar relationship is dependent on a number of variables of built environment and viewer.  Lastly, the 3rd category is a study of interior typologies (varying from large modestly furnished interiors to smaller more filled interiors) and how these changes create an aesthetic, perception and different experience to each viewer.  Through analysis of precedents that fit these typologies and a melding of that information with the study of furniture's relation to it, stressing different forms of furniture will be emphasized.  The use of built-ins gives a sense of purpose and intention to a space.  The utility as well as the form were thought in conjunction-this is how, I feel, most purposeful architecture is created.  Rather then building a space and filling it, thinking of the process of design and use in conjunction seems to make spaces most intentional.

1+3+9

1_Furniture can be used to make more meaningful architecture.

3_Humans interact most closely to furniture in a scalar relationship.  Since the space must constantly reference back to the furniture along with the users inhabiting it, furniture often depicts the quality of the space; whether it be grand or modest.

9_Since furniture is designed to be experienced on a 1:1 relationship, we can always use this scalar relationship as our default reference point.  Since all spaces must use furniture, in some way or another, they can all be judged from this same base point-the furniture default.  By looking at precedents, both grand and modest, we can gain knowledge of the array of variables in judging space based on furniture.  Upon acquiring such knowledge, we can begin to inform our own architecture.  By studying the precedents as a set of building|furniture typologies, we can begin to pick and choose what sorts of aesthetics to apply to our structures.  Along the same lines, we can begin to understand the ramifications for breaking pre-existing building|furniture typology guidelines-and what these ramifications can bring to the project, whether it be positive or negative.  In order for meaningful spaces to be created, architects should design space in conjunction with the furniture that the users will inhabit.

Architecture is...

...the study of space and the human scalar relationship to the built environment.  It is a thorough understanding of building typology and the interiors that those typologies create.  It is not only an understanding and design of the building aesthetic, but also that of structural integrity and engineering.  Architecture is not only the knowledge of such typologies and methods of using these typologies, but is also the understanding of what ramifications will ensue if breaking or altering such typologies occurs. 

Architecture is a steady and stealthy use of the hand, weighing out each option and choosing the next step carefully, for everything has its consequences in a projects chain of events.  The results of weighing these options is that which creates the aesthetic and social flux. In order for the architect to make purposeful and intentional structures, all spectrums must be analyzed along with the correlated affects upon people and place.  

Architecture is focused on the detail.  This focus towards detail is what creates the purposeful aesthetic.  Until the project is realized at a detailed scale of some sort, the projects full potential has not been met.  Once the detail can be resolved and well executed, then spaces have been truly realized and fully thought out.

At the base of architecture lies the user.  The user can't fully relate to architecture at a scalar level however.  Much of architecture would be lost to ambiguity if it weren't for furniture.  The user can relate to furniture at the guttural  and intuitive level simply due to scalar similarity.  I feel that architecture should be realized in conjunction with furniture design, use, and placement.  Once spaces are thought through to the detail of the intended use, circulation of users, and the placement and design of furniture, this architecture is enlivened with a sense of place and purpose.