As usual, the week one lecture produced a lot of provoking
and thoughtful suggestions to the overall unit theme: Future Architecture. The
idea of investigating and finding solutions for future scenarios seems
interesting in a sense that all predicted futures will be different from the
concept to the completion of the architectural project.
From the proposed theme groups
[Urban/Suburban/Regional/Virtual], I found Suburban the most interesting for
the potential of actually designing & creating a future concept that is
both engaging and possibly set within reality. Virtual, if I had the
technological expertise, would be fantastic, but I foresee a lot of rendering
and general technology usage in its path.
Initially, the first thoughts that came to me when I heard
Suburban was set within a shopping centre, I had ideas of zombie uprisings or a
post-apocalyptic world (i.e. Dead Rising/Fallout series) where the shopping
centre only exists in its physical form. The functions change dramatically and
the existing spaces inside are determined by harsh external realities of the
surrounding world… but this may be too extreme and be lacking in reality…
From this train of thought, I feel that possible futures
surrounding suburbia, though not quite as extreme as a zombie apocalypse, may
be negative, resulting in issues such as population crises, overcrowding roads,
concrete sprawl and other such unappealing futures that are entirely possible
to occur if current trends continue. With further predictive ideas and
“storytelling” I can create more than just a building for DAB810.
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