ARCH202- ARCHITECTURE AND THE PUBLIC.pptx

architecture and the public

1. ARCHITECTURE AND THE PUBLIC

2. Guide Questions: How do we use these definitions and/or concepts to understand ‘the public ’ for whom we plan, as architects? What aspects of the field, social, public, or natural ‘settings’ are we to observe?

3. Book’s preface: Architecture's most significant impact is not its visual style, but its creation of space , which directly structures social life by dictating patterns of movement, encounter, and avoidance. This direct, material relationship between spatial organization and social relations is crucial but poorly understood , leading to problems like the "lifeless and deserted environments" of modern high- and low-rise housing.

4. Hillier & Hanson assert that resolving this issue requires a new theoretical approach. Traditional models fail because they view society as a-spatial and space as purely physical. They introduce "space syntax," a new theory and method that conceives of spatial order as restrictions on random processes and analyzes the social content of spatial patterning. Book’s preface:

5. This new framework deliberately departs from other theories by being distance-free and prioritizing morphology (complexes of relations) over location. By establishing a "spatial logic of society," this seeks to provide the necessary understanding for better architectural design. Book’s preface:

6. summary some societies seem to invest much less in spatial order than others, being content with random, or near-random arrangements, while others require complex, even geometric forms. Chapter 2 is all about: physical patterns of space arranged for human purposes. It is based on two premises: human spatial organisation , whether in the form of settlements or buildings, is the establishment of patterns of relationships composed essentially of boundaries and permeabilities of various kinds; although there are infinitely many different complexes of spatial relations possible in the real world, there are not infinitely many underlying sets of organizing principles for these patterns.

7. Natural Spatial Arrangement

8. Man-made/ Artificial Spatial Arrangement

9. Examples:

10. BEADY RING

11. BEADY RING