• We should come up with questions, produce hypotheses and enunciate solutions, focus on the small details that make the difference • people are amalgamated into spaces by way of processes of perception, imagination, and memory • Including functionalism, everything has a purpose in only its aesthetic considerations, and contextualism • The importance of active, embodied engagement with the world, as the body is a barrier between us and the “outside” world • The Spirit of place and the reactionary conservatism and nostalgia VS the fundamental principles of form, space, and materiality.
• To dwell implies the establishment of a meaningful relationship between man and a given environment . . . and that this relationship consists in an act of identification, that is in a sense of belonging to a certain place • The feeling of belonging or alienation and how comfort is achieved, inclusion and exclusion, the material and non-material character • Sustainability is also about sustaining the unique features of this community and keeping the Socio-spatial perspective • Dealing with the way people take control of the space and their everyday lives • Louis Khan’s idea that it is not what a place is that is important, but what it wants to be
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RESEARCH PHASE OUTCOMES
The first phase was a research phase, mainly our group was tackling the phenomenological approach and its theories in order to understand our site. There were some key points that we took out of the readings that we did, here are some of them:
