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im assuming this is india. I noticed that dividing lines and stop signs rarely exist on the streets and as in this vid people are usually left to their own devices to how they want to move. Im unaware of unspoken rules between drivers but i’m in love with the idea of such a lack of dependance on imposed restrictions on movement. I wonder whether teh driver needs to involve themselves more, concentrate more and are not allowed to let their brains shut off and have the traffic lights green arrows and white lines keep them in an illusiory state of security. its hard to say - but i know one of the more exciting aspects of india (me being a western rule bred passenger) is that I always had the slight fear that i was going to die in my autorickshaw !
Fluid architecture. This is a 21st Century building with two prospects for implementation. One invokes patterns of movement as templates for structures, where the curvilinear and intersecting routes become templates for a bricks-and-mortar edifice. Architecture as frozen music.
The other acknowledges the pattern of motion as the structure, and reimagines architecture as the kitting-out of that pattern. Architecture as choreography.
Think if this as an office of mobile workers. The IT workers and department managers arrive early and move about freely, getting stuff done. A bit later, the accounting, secretarial, and sales staff arrive, negotiating around each other in little swarms. Various others pass through in maverick fashion, sometimes taking advantage of the openings created by the larger groups. The role of architecture is to facilitate stuff getting done by each of these groups. It doesn’t require an edifice.
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April 20th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Simply gorgeous.
April 20th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
im assuming this is india. I noticed that dividing lines and stop signs rarely exist on the streets and as in this vid people are usually left to their own devices to how they want to move. Im unaware of unspoken rules between drivers but i’m in love with the idea of such a lack of dependance on imposed restrictions on movement. I wonder whether teh driver needs to involve themselves more, concentrate more and are not allowed to let their brains shut off and have the traffic lights green arrows and white lines keep them in an illusiory state of security. its hard to say - but i know one of the more exciting aspects of india (me being a western rule bred passenger) is that I always had the slight fear that i was going to die in my autorickshaw !
April 20th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Fluid architecture. This is a 21st Century building with two prospects for implementation. One invokes patterns of movement as templates for structures, where the curvilinear and intersecting routes become templates for a bricks-and-mortar edifice. Architecture as frozen music.
The other acknowledges the pattern of motion as the structure, and reimagines architecture as the kitting-out of that pattern. Architecture as choreography.
Think if this as an office of mobile workers. The IT workers and department managers arrive early and move about freely, getting stuff done. A bit later, the accounting, secretarial, and sales staff arrive, negotiating around each other in little swarms. Various others pass through in maverick fashion, sometimes taking advantage of the openings created by the larger groups. The role of architecture is to facilitate stuff getting done by each of these groups. It doesn’t require an edifice.