posted on 2013-12-18, 10:14authored byJames Carroll
It could be argued that architecture in the era of mass production and the great
societal changes of the last century or so has left us surrounded by many repetitive
and rectilinear buildings, especially in mass housing projects. The thesis aimed to
establish the reason for this and through the texts of several writers on architecture
show how this type of space is perhaps at odds with our natural and pre-cognisant
understanding of space. The thesis further, hoped to define some of the qualities that
these primordial spaces contain at the micro and macro level and how a renewed
expression of these spaces may have a greater relevance in our continuously changing
world. Concluding, in part that space should be fluid, changeable and adaptable, the
thesis hoped to be expressed in the design project, where a large disused clothing
factory would tie together programmes for housing, education, agriculture and
recreation; using fluid, changeable and adaptable spaces and components to create
cohesion at tactile micro and homogeneous macro levels.