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Water acess/ boat entry/ boat launch
Indoor boat building
Outdoor boat building/ workshops/ Classrooms
Gallery and corridor attached
Light friendly and Light sensitive gallery sessions/ Ramp for cafe entry
Admin offices and main entry point/ Cafe outdoor seating and lookout point
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INDOOR BOATBUILDING/ BOAT STORAGE
GALLERY AREA
CLASSROOMS ADMIN OFFICES & CAFE/ ACESS TO DOCK AREA
OUTDOOR BOATBUILDING & WORKSHOPS
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entry to bbss
entry way to cafe
boatbuilding area
I N T E R I O R
M A N I F E S T O
COMPLEXITY & CONTRADICTION Simplicity can be incompetent at times if one looks for clarity of meaning extremely. Buildings should compromise to the needs of people. Hybrid elements bring richness to architecture, not complexity. It is difficult to embody unity and composition with hybrid elements but it is what contemporary world demand for. Architects are neither artists nor planners. Equilibrium must be created out of opposites. Medium of architecture must be re-examined to express the goals of complexity of current affairs. Simplification or superficially complex forms will not work. Acknowledgment of growing demand in complexities of our functional problems in contemporary architecture is expected. Far more complex programs has come in compared to previous centuries. Those unique programs in our time demand designers to be more compromising and ambiguous. In general, we as architects need to be responsible and realistic. Designers need to dream in clouds while rooting in ground if we want to inspire our next generation. Modern architecture shifted us to functionalism and contemporary world is taking over by practicality which cannot be considered as barbaric or dry indeed as this is what contemporary world is thriving for.
E S S A Y
ARCHITECTURE Architecture is not about private affairs. Architecture can be everything but not decorative arts or blunt simplicity. Simplicity as competent gesture but not excluding conventional sufficiency. Architecture is not about purely theoretical or functional but the art of what is possible. Architecture is not just the art but a universal language which has to deal with real situation; it has to do something good for society. (Quintal, B. 2017) Twenty-first century is not twentieth century or Renaissance time. Problems increase in quantity, complexity and difficulty in terms of economical and sociological issues. [1] Sustainability is highly measured in contemporary architecture. Le Corbusier mentioned that “It is time for construction not for idle talk.” Since modern times in his “eyes that do not see.” [2] Architecture is much more than the building of an object on a site: it is reinvention of the site itself. (Quintal, B. 2017) Forced simplification results in over simplicity. [1] Domestic, spatial and technological possibilities should include in architecture but not just simply following theoretical or minimalism trend. “ The architect determined how problem should be solved but not which of the problems should be solved.” Robert Venturi stated in his “complexity and contradiction.” [1] Excluding considerations and simplifying into narrower scope just for clarity is nothing more than avoiding the reality. A building with insufficient service is nothing but a junk food in urban space, satisfying designer and feeding his ego with so-called aesthetics. Architecture should focus on significance of project, site and environment. Architecture cannot solve all problems but if it is a house if has to meet needs of all people and friends coming over. (Quintal, B. 2017)
MANIFESTO + MODERNISM
Simple architecture can be incompetent at times if one looks for clarity of meaning extremely. Buildings should compromise to the needs of people. Hybrid elements bring richness to architecture, not complexity. It is difficult to embody unity and composition with hybrid elements but it is what contemporary world demand for. Architects are neither artists nor planners. Equilibrium must be created out of opposites. Medium of architecture must be re-examined to express the goals of complexity of current affairs. Simplification or superficially complex forms will not work. [1] Acknowledgment of growing demand in complexities of our functional problems in contemporary architecture is expected. Far more complex programs has come in compared to previous centuries. Those unique programs in our time demand designers to be more compromising and ambiguous. In general, we as architects need to be responsible and realistic. Designers need to dream in clouds while rooting in ground if we want to inspire our next generation. Modern architecture shifted us to functionalism and contemporary world is taking over by practicality which cannot be considered as barbaric or dry indeed as this is what contemporary world is thriving for. Modernist architectural principle of form follow function is the shape or form of building or structure is dictated by its function. It is considered as a defining characteristic of modern architecture. [5] Taking to its extreme, it is a design philosophy that the role of architecture is to define structure and not aesthetics. This tends to result in rectangular forms with little or no ornamentation. Modernists believed form follows function and they apply practical architecture. They decadence in favor of “machine aesthetic.” [2] They believe that a building should be honest in its intentions and transparent in its structure. Modern architects also emphasized volume over mass and adopted “essential” materials such as concrete and steel as their materials of choice like Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus school ( Germany) and Mie Van Der Rohe’s Seagram building ( New York ). (Sloyer, Sloyer and profile, 2017)
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye The first promoter of Purism, Le Corbusier, mentioned that “A house has to fulfil two purposes. First it is a machine for living in, that is, a machine to provide us with efficient help for speed and accuracy in our work, a diligent and helpful machine which should satisfy all our physical needs: comfort. But it should also be a place conducive to meditation and lastly, a beautiful place, bringing much needed tranquility to the mind.” (Weston, 2005) Le Corbusier is the famous figure of modern architecture world and he crystalized in the mid-1920s around the ‘Five Points of a New Architecture’ with his design Villa Savoye, redefining about the use of columns, flat roof as roof garden, free plan, glazing and horizontal windows. Meanwhile in Russia, having the art of revolution which evaluate about constructivism. [3] El Lissitzky , the constructor (1924) stated that “ Every form is the petrified snapshot of a process. Therefore work is a station in evolution and not its petrified aim.” Constructivist architecture is derived from principles of constructivism which came from Supremacism, Newo Plasticism and Bauhaus. [4] Although the movement did not last long, effects are still seen today. (Galuzin, 2017)
On the other side, while modernism focus more on purpose of structure and basic geometry, minimalism has been reached out to express the simplicity essence of architecture. Minimalist architects value simplicity, formal cleanliness and empty space. Using fewest and barest elements to maximum effect. Mies Van Der Rohe, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier with his theory about purism, they believe in less is more. Merit of Mies is always in having created a slogan, easy to remember, nice to hear and extremely brilliant. This phrase has helped his architecture famous, first in US and then in the rest of the world. Less is more is a precept of modern architecture and minimalism. It is associated with functional designs that are reduced to their necessary elements in an expression of extreme simplicity while Robert Venturi claims that less is a bore. In contrast with many of the dictates of modern movement. His architecture associated with postmodern architecture and the return of ornate designs and expressive forms. (Sloyer, Sloyer and profile, 2017)
PATRON + NEMISIS
Walter Gropius’ Bauhuas School (Germany)
Farnsworth House, Mies In Balmain Boatbuilding and Sailing School (BBSS) design, public and private functions are interrelated with simple geometry shape but with intricate internal spatial planning. Characteristic of design like columns growing from dry dock supporting the floating floor and wall while boat traffic is going on underneath. Rooftops serving as bridges for park users to cross over as well as to peak the activities and ongoing movements in the building. Bringing entertainment or liveliness to the site without disturbing the existing function of site and vice versa. Users in building should also be benefitted from the site elements which are green vegetation, nice view, flowy ventilation and water as calming effect. Structural system is composed to support the form and order of the space without no disturbance to the order of BBSS. The design denies to be compacted or simple as it represents as an act of manifesting the contradiction of simplicity and insufficient minimalism. Like Le Corbusier mentioned, architecture can be a machine that can serve people with sufficient physical needs and lastly can be a beautiful space. (Weston, 2005) We architects cannot define what to exclude but how to solve the problems with what we are given in this twenty first century. In that sense, “Ask what is more not what is less.�
ENDNOTES
[1] Robert Venturi, “Non-straightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto,” in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (New York: Museum Modern Art, 1966), p. 16-19. [2] Le Corbusier, “Eyes that do not See,” in Toward an Architecture (Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Research Institute, 2007), p. 145-90. [3] Naum Gabo & Antoine Pevsner, “Basic Principles of Constructivism,” in Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970), p. 56-7. [4] Walter Gropius, “Bauhaus Program,” in Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programs and Manifestoes on 20thCentury Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970), p. 49-53. [5] Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, ““Functionalism,” in The International Style (New York : W.W. Norton, 1997), p. 50-54. [6] Weston, R. (2005). Modernism. London: Phaidon, pg-9 [7] Gans, D. (1987). The Le Corbusier guide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press. [8] Christian Norberg-Schultz, “The Phenomenon of Place,” in Christian Norberg-Schultz, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1980), p. 6-23.
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IMAGE SOURCES
Fig 3: Michael Sloyer, Less is more. Less is a bore, 2009. The Architectural mirror Fig 1: Renato Saboya, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0), Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye Poissy, France, 1929, Khan Academy Fig 2: Archdaily, Architectural Adventures: Bauhaus and Beyond, 2017