Week 10 - Lecture

An interesting topic from today’s guest lecturer was the ‘augmentation of spatiality’. This was described as basically a concept to get people excited about their city again. The intervention driven by this concept was an interesting manipulation of glowing ropes used through a laneway. The intervention reminded me of last week’s lecture of a ‘minimal solution’. I feel the laneway intervention was a great example of how such a small intervention can totally reinvent a space. This goes to show how the overall physical scale of an overall project does not have to match the size of the desired outcome.

Another aspect that really caught my attention was her views of how to work from a naive possibility. This could apply to Paddington Central, as our future scenario may seem a bit naive at times, they can be justified into practicality that can be applied in these situations:

• ·         Have a propostion of how things might happen

• ·         Be free about it and believe it is a possibility

• ·         Have a clear idea of sequence

 Whilst these aspects can tie back into the minimal solutions plan, the above justifications do seem overly optimistic and vague, especially the second point of believing it is a possibility.



The following link is to Sanal Architecture, and the design that was used in the lecture. It was their work that the guest lecturer was representing. Their work is very minimalistic, yet produce very large outcomes.
http://sanalarch.prosite.com/58484/813236/selected-works/augmenting-spatiality