PDP Daniel Coley Student Number: 11350787 ...

PDP
Daniel Coley
Student Number: 11350787

I feel that having investigated globalization and localization, I have been able to use their principles to better inform the context of my design project. My project focuses on an autonomous architecture that reacts to changing regional adjustments. The idea of a global product which results in a trickle-down effect amongst other regional architectural persuasions has parallels with my design project. In my project I have designed an informal take on a local town hall which identifies and articulates a programme for architectural responses throughout the community; in essence a ‘new vernacular’. These responses are defined by the townspeople and are carried out by a second intervention in the form of a workshop, creating a discourse between the two buildings. I feel that the town hall draws parallels with the global, political product, and the ‘new vernacular’ with the trickle-down effect which is flexible to local conditions. This allows my project to adapt to not just to the aspirations of the local people, but also to emerging regional cultures. I feel that my project ties in both pro and anti-global principles; ideals that I have since discovered need not be mutually exclusive.
I am of the opinion that, in addition to a place's given characteristics, the user's own aspirations, preferences and culture must then be overlaid over the site's intrinsic qualities. The result should give one an envelopment of sensory input that achieves a level of aptness and harmony. I believe that too often, architects lack understanding of the liberating opportunities offered by technology, and tend to choose its restrictive potential. Architecture is not, nor ever has been, an autonomous art, as some claim. I feel that our need to define and construct shelter has implications beyond the specific place that we choose to live and work. As creators of man-made forms, architects have the challenge of forming spaces, that have the potential to stimulate or pacify, inspire or placate, but ultimately that must respond to the sense of place that makes a site idiosyncratic from all others.
PDP
Daniel Coley
Student Number: 11350787
For this unit I have chosen to discuss the role that architecture plays within globalization. I have decided to write about this topic as I am interested in how architectural trends have been, and continue to be, shaped by global, economic, and cultural changes. This relationship intrigues me, as my design project deals quite heavily with the link between the individual and the state, and I hope to use this essay as an opportunity to better inform my future contextual decisions. I am interested in the organic processes at a local level which cause architecture to adapt and react to regional circumstances. I believe in the city as being a living thing, able to respond to the populace that inhabits it, and the built environment ...