This is a true story, of six students, picked to live in a studio, work together to design a medical facility in Aruba & have our lives Blogged. To find out what happens.. when people stop being polite, and start doing Architecture.. The Desert Rat Pack
Like the colors post, I want to ask, "What is the so what?" b/c we quickly recognize what this technology does (transparent vs. translucent, check). To question the material/technology in terms of your interests in interactions between tourist and local populations would require the analysis to go beyond the scale of the room.
If adjacent rooms can shift between "public and private" then a "semi-private" space could result from one room being "public" and the adjacent being set to "private" ... multi-continguous rooms could further establish hierarchies of publicity and privacy at the scale of the entire building (ex. an entire floor that is trending "public" if three out of four occupied rooms are similarly set vs. a building wing that is moving toward a more "private" condition - if rooms across the hall from one another are mimicking each other). As people learn to interpret these architectural cues, their behaviors can support or deny social interactions with the architecture's inhabitants.
Like the colors post, I want to ask, "What is the so what?" b/c we quickly recognize what this technology does (transparent vs. translucent, check). To question the material/technology in terms of your interests in interactions between tourist and local populations would require the analysis to go beyond the scale of the room.
ReplyDeleteIf adjacent rooms can shift between "public and private" then a "semi-private" space could result from one room being "public" and the adjacent being set to "private" ... multi-continguous rooms could further establish hierarchies of publicity and privacy at the scale of the entire building (ex. an entire floor that is trending "public" if three out of four occupied rooms are similarly set vs. a building wing that is moving toward a more "private" condition - if rooms across the hall from one another are mimicking each other). As people learn to interpret these architectural cues, their behaviors can support or deny social interactions with the architecture's inhabitants.