Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Flexible

What is it that will make people use and interact with space? Innovative ways to move and recreate space that are user friendly that create intriguing new places with an easy interface - anyone can do it!

Spaces should be able to be easily modified to respond to altered circumstances or conditions.

Architects should design ad a level of abstraction - allow the user to choose multiple uses within a single project

What does it mean to have flexible architecture? Is it simply that there are multiple uses occupying the one space at different times or is it something more than that? Are the flexible uses able to exist consecutively?

Flexible architecture/design should be judged on the degree to which it can accommodate challenges; both in the present and the future.

How do you change the feeling/sense of the palace to suit it's different uses? Ie. Turning a nightclub into a cafe.

Everyone aims to be flexible to some degree, but how successful is it? What are the reasons for either its success or failure?

We usually think of only a building's uses or programs being flexible, but what about the building itself? How can the building change and manipulate itself to comply with the individual needs of the user? We tend of think only of the fit-out of s building being flexible - why is this?

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