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At least, it is in most senses. Other than the place you live, architectural
is a temporal experience, like a meal or a drink, it’s only an experience while
you’re enjoying it; then and there. Once
you leave, it’s over; done and dusted; just a memory for you to relive and
enjoy.
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| http://cognacs.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/cognac- cocktails-the-dra-kahlua-combines-kahlua-cognac-triple-sec-and-lemon-juice/ |
So a building like the pantheon for me, even if the building
stands for thousands of years; it’s fleeting in my mind because I’ve only been
once, and if I don’t go again, it’s not there.
So really I’m talking metaphysically, the experience of my time there,
not just the longevity of materials.
While most architecture is a material thing, it’s not experienced on a
material level for more than the time taken within.
So, architecture is temporary, well at least in my
mind. So if we are looking at
architecture as a passing experience than it is more than just the materials of
the walls and the sustainability elements slapped on the roof, it’s the smells,
the sounds, the population of the space; its everything that we as architects
have very limited control over.
So if we cannot control it, then what are we to do?
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So maybe we need to develop a framework or a system in which
the space exists, not just an envelope, structure and stuff, but a lifestyle
event generator; an event space that is activated in a systematic way maybe; or
maybe a blank canvas in which the experience is the population changing the
space through use and abuse.