I found the designs created by the acclaimed architect Lebbeus
Woods extremely intriguing. At first glance I saw a wonderful and weird world,
however once I started doing further research I found the concept behind his
ideas were far more interesting to me. What particularly stood out to me was a
concept building I found (shown below) Lebbeus designed when he was working as
a consultant in a project to rebuild Berlin after World War II. The idea was
that he would create ‘new spaces’ that didn’t have a predetermined use. He
deliberately made rooms that were hard to live in, by making them abnormally
shaped and windowless, so people would have to create they way the could be
used. The idea of deliberately creating something that is unpractical and even inconvenient,
in a world of standardization and rationalisation, really appeals to me, which
is why I chose it as a precedent concept.
Image sourced form:curetheblind.com/2009/lebbeus-woods-author-of-fractures/
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