Agility, Adaptability + Appropriateness: Conceiving, Crafting & Constructing an Architecture of the 21st Century
Agility, Adaptability + Appropriateness: Conceiving, Crafting & Constructing an Architecture of the 21st Century
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10.17831/enq:arcc.v9i1.65
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2012-12
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B. Sinclair;Somayeh Mousazadeh;G. Safarzadeh
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B. Sinclair;Somayeh Mousazadeh;G. Safarzadeh
当今时代的建筑设计倾向于产生一些建筑，尽管它们具有美学品质，但往往被证明是静态的、僵化的和棘手的。世界各地建筑的密集和大量生产造成了一种情况，即对现有建筑进行修改是昂贵的，困难的，有时是不可能的。从20世纪中期开始，建筑师开始更严肃地质疑狭隘的设计方法，并探索更开放、可变和响应的建筑方式。Kisho Kurokawa和Cedric Price等建筑师努力设想更具弹性和强大的解决方案，探索了设计和施工方法，这些方法可以提供更好的用户控制、修改和定制环境。与用户需要适应环境限制的建筑相反，这些进步的设计师想象的空间可以根据用户的需求进行调整。这些梦想家面临的一个重大挑战是思想与技术之间的滞后——简单的建筑被证明无法完全解决概念问题。如今，随着技术的进步、社会的期望以及对更大可持续性的追求，世界发生了巨大的变化，所有这些都推动了更灵活、适应性更强、更合适的建筑。本文批判性地思考了当代建筑设计的现状，审视了新兴趋势，并提出了一种创新的模式和理念，以实现21世纪更敏感、更负责任和更适合的建筑。在考虑历史倡议、理论和实践的同时，本文还研究了当代的应用和未来的可能性，认为许多力量都有希望以以前难以想象的方式团结起来。在开放式建筑（OB）研究和实践的基础上，在环境设计的整体和相互关联的战略（Sinclair 2009）的基础上，新模式强调并努力提高敏捷性、适应性和适当性——这些都是我们当前不确定和动荡时代迫切需要的。
Architectural design in our current times has tended to generate buildings which, despite their aesthetic qualities, frequently prove static, rigid and intractable. The intense and significant production of architecture around the planet has created a situation whereby modification of the existing building stock is costly, difficult and at times implausible. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century architects began to more seriously question narrow design approaches and in response explored more open, mutable and responsive ways of building. Architects such as Kisho Kurokawa and Cedric Price, in an effort to envision more resilient & robust solutions, explored methods of design and construction which afforded greater user control, modification and customization of environments. As opposed to buildings in which users needed to adapt to environmental constraints, these progressive designers imagined spaces that adjusted to user needs. A significant challenge to these visionaries was a lag between thinking and technology – quite simply construction proved unable to fully address concept. Today the world has changed in dramatic ways, with advancements in technology, expectations of society, and a quest for greater sustainability all driving a push for more agile, adaptable and appropriate Architecture. The present paper critically contemplates the condition of contemporary building design, examines emerging trends, and postulates an innovative model & philosophy for realizing a more responsive, responsible and fitting Architecture for the 21st Century. While considering historical initiatives, theories and practices, the paper also examines contemporary applications and future possibilities, arguing that many forces hold promise to align in ways before unimaginable. Advancing from the established foundation of Open Building (OB) research and practice, and building upon a holistic and inter-connected strategy (Sinclair 2009) for environmental design, the new model places emphasis and effort on heightened agility, adaptability and appropriateness – all urgently needed in our current, uncertain and tumultuous times.