FIRST ENTRY

thesis blog








Documentation of my thesis project on the relationship between object and subject in architecture

The project began back in September 2006 with an idea based on philosophy
Objects and subjects are always embedded in architecture. Subjects are the thing doing something, objects are the thing doing something being done on. Then, is architecture and object or a subject, are the people inside the objects or the subject? With this question in mind, the development of the project continued with choosing a site, designing programs and having a building... An appropriate building type to carry this idea is an Art Gallery. Often in Art Galleries, art works are being displayed. When we view the art work, who is the subject and object? The relationship between object and subject is fluid. There is no definite answer to this. To complicate things even more, I want to design a Digital Art gallery, because it has not been done before in Toronto. An approach to designing a Digital Art Gallery is to make the architecture interactive. As an architect, I feel that architecture always have to be subjective, it always needs to be doing something. Understanding a subjective architecture can be hard. In simple terms, a subjective architecture is responsive architecture.

Over the past 4 months, a lot of research has been done. Research regarding interactive and responsive architecture. Different architects and designer choose to represent interaction differently. A focus I had was to carry out the interaction between human and architecture through perception. A theory by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is that Perception is made strong when it is in motion and in action. Someone standing and looking at something have less of an impact then someone walking and looking at something.


In September...manifesto , site chosen (Nathan Phillip Square)
In October...pre-limnary design
In November...development of schematic design
In December we had our schematic design presentation. Work in progress.... (hard to put 4 month's work in ONE single entry )