Re:Architecture I Chase Johnson Architecture, at a fundamental level, is the physical transformation, through design, of the Earth's natural resources to better accommodate life in a meaningful way. This Architecture should be informed by the forces acting on it, the reaction of those forces, and the integration of the two through a framework.
Architecture Re: acts to its context through tectonics. Architecture Re: connects its users to the building's context.
Re:act Architecture should acknowledge its context, and work to adapt and improve it; whether it is built, a natural environment, or an urban infrastructure. This is the first vector, which imposes itself inward towards the architecture from the exterior. This integrated advancement of architecture into the existing framework should be what drives the formal and material nature of the building. Form and material should develop further, different aspects of surrounding elements physically (locally sourced natural materials), and immaterially (placement of elements) Adapting the surrounding context through more modern tectonics and formal strategies of a building grants it a sense of consistency while also augmenting the identity of an area.
Re:connect Experiencing architecture should be a connected, transformative understanding. This should be influenced by demonstrating how buildings are an extension of the environment, and serve to reconnect the inhabitants to the outside world. This is the second vector, of the architectures reaction to the first. Framing views to the exterior, implementing indigenous foliage, and suppressing the effect of the thresholds' transposing qualities, all serve to bridge what it means to experience an interior space to that of the building’s exterior environment. The internal quality of the architecture should serve as an enhanced form of the experiential quality of its surroundings.
Architecture Re: frames the experience holistically
Re:Frame
The hierarchy of architecture (spatially, formally, and tectonically) should be determined using the organizational framework reacting to its setting. This ties the two vectors together, and is the means by which the inhabitants and architects understand their relationship with the physical context through the architecture. This framework is to be a multi-layered, complex entity that is comprehensible from a range of different scales to provide an inter-changeable experience. The structure of a building is the optimal element to use for the establishment of such a framework, and should impose itself on multiple building aspects to provide a cohesive understanding from general to intimate scales. This framework, and subversion thereof, should be a primary means by which experience inside and outside of the architecture are set and interact.