Architectural Design

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The design project

Construction and occupation

Occupation

The revised design was constructed and handed over to

the members of the theatre company at a meeting to show

them how to mount and demount the booth. The last test

was its use in a busy city street where it succeeded in

robustly providing visible publicity without obstructing

everyday activity.

Ralph Saull anticipating the effects of change and the

passage of time in his design studio project:

Why do we programme change and flexibility into our

architecture? Is it so the sense of possibility is preserved?

My design will not just allow for change and decay, but

depend on it. The materials I specify will mature to define

the aesthetic of the complete; not decay and break the

sense of completion.

Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez on why it is necessary to design

with the intended occupation of the building in mind:

Building, machine and body come together. The materiality

and function are the product of an interaction between them;

how one thing relates to another is defined by dimension and

detail, but how the space will become inhabitable depends

simply on how well all elements are compared and layered.

Anna Beer (Information Booth live project) on the

continuation of design activity into the construction phase:

Initially, we had thought of using a lightweight construction

fabric with a rod support skeleton, to contrast with the

more solid frame of the actual booth; however, this caused

problems because we couldn’t find a way of supporting

a lightweight fabric in the preferred concertina shape without

adding significantly to the stress on the ticket booth. We

solved this by adding a back wall to the ticket booth which

attached to the roof in an upside-down L-shape. Even with

a ‘final design’, the ticket booth was constantly morphing

and we were constantly questioning it. The construction

was definitely a learning curve.

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