I had a moment...

...today. I just wanted to be by myself. And the only possible way was to stay back at work. But yet...my phone was still there..the computer was still turned on and it reflected me back to one of our readings from week 3 (Zelfde, J. V., 2012. "The aspatial city." The continuous partial everywhere. http://juhavantzelfde.com/post/23506562343/the-aspatial-city.) 

The only way to escape would be through this little monster...

the Faraday Tent.

It was created by Sarah Faraday for her desire to 'a right to silence'.  I feel like we are so overexposed and overstimulated by technology at the present time, there comes a need to just shut it all off, (if only for a brief period, to get away from it all).  When technology becomes more and more integrated in our lives - yes, even more so than it is now! - will we all need a Faraday tent built into our dwellings to give us the chance to exercise our right for silence?

Individual Project One Statement

The approach that I think we took with our proposal was one that is self-sustaining (food, energy, economy, trade etc) and allows people to participate in and give back to their community.  It allows freedom as such, in that transport is both solely and publicly driven. Freedom is also echoed in the interconnectedness of society today through means like Facebook, Twitter and the internet at large, frees an individual up from physical being because of our multiple virtual beings.  With more and more development, people of the future will be somewhere without physically being at that somewhere.
A focus on the co...co-mmunity, co-existence, co-hesion, co-habitation, co-mmodity, co-mmunication...having flexibility in design and thinking about how that archetype will act in x amount of years and thinking about and designing for how that building will need to be modified to keep up with changing trends/advancements.

WEEK 5 | READING

Isozaki, A. (1999) Erasing architecture into the system

Cedric Price - his chief aim was to provoke and challenge the norm by injecting systemised ideas that break clean away from existing notions.  Price was very closely linked with Archigram who were well known for their images which conveyed both ideology and technical solution with particular emphasis on figurative breakdowns and diagrammatic drawings. Yet Price preferred focusing on raising issues and what the solutions would be to such issues over visual communication.  A lot of Price's work was composed of lightweight re-combinations of disposable components.  
If you look at Fun Palace (1960-65), it is a continuous but changing dialogue which varies dependent on time and the users etc..the mechanical system configuration is forever changing in response to circumstances in that it almost makes the architecture a living thing.
Price has in effect, designed a big park. He has given (if not misled) people with a sense of freedom. It has no entry, it is open...but the users are always on show as much as the audience is always watching. Theater as architecture. I don't think this was Price's intent.  The notion of being on show at all times at first is a terrifying idea for me, but it made me think that maybe being in the Fun Palace would be like something never experienced before, perhaps you would be able to learn from watching other people...perhaps you would socialize 
Whenever I revisit Price's work, it gives me a cold feeling.  There is this totalitarian quality to it...not only with his visual representation but with the underlying ideology present in his work - there seems to be a "big brother" like controlling entity (there was mention of George Orwell 1984 in this reading in regards to Price's ATOM project), and I feel like we have kind of touched on the same issue with some of our ideas involving the all-knowing computers.
So it begs me to ask the question, how much control are we willing to give up to computers?

Kazi, O. (2009) Architecture as a Dissident Practice: An Interview with Diller Scofidio + Renfro

theory is good? theory is bad? theory is food? ah i don't get it...but this is one of their projects that I had stumbled upon some time ago and I thought it rather fitting for this project. It is focused around collaborative consumption..the emphasis on service rather than ownership.

I feel like its rather appropriate to our project to since we have taken such a 'community' stance with our coming proposal.