Saturday, May 20, 2006
Why can't Singapore have such creative solutions for high density housing?
From ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
Design philosophy:
"Every architectural intervention represents a destruction. 'Destroy intelligently,' Snozzi admonishes. How much architectural intervention is necessary for the design to suffice?
We acknowledge that people who have migrated by sea, such as those around the Pacific Rim, have traditionally developed as tension cultures (lightweight and renewable, to bend with the earthquakes and wind). In Europe, where buildings are constructed of stone and brick in order to defy nature and time, a compression (heavy) culture has developed. The combination of these different forms can give security of enclosure as well as flexibility to engage with or retreat from the land as mood and climate allow."
Lenz at 6:59 PM