Lecture: People and Lifestyles

Although this lecture was perhaps more relevant to Project 2, it was extremely helpful in providing a starting point from which to approach the Architectural Possibilities inherent to our site and future context. A number of questions listed below were put forth, and ideas regarding storyboarding and other representation techniques were conveyed. I would really love to do something other than the standard comic-style storyboards and perhaps make all four panels speak one cohesive story. We will have to work on this in our group however and I look forward to coming up with something I haven't attempted before. Following are questions about designing a space for 2 or more people in our future scenario...

• what will affect these people's lifestyles?
• are these people friends? colleagues? strangers? family?
• what to they want to do? their desires? their goals?
• what do they need? and how can they be provided for?
• are they there to eat? sleep? drink? enjoy? shop? rest? survive? to be separated? to be protected?
• what would 1000 people need?
• what would 10,000 people need?
• what happens to the space when scale of people increases?
• what if you don't know exactly who they are or what they need?
• how do we deal with 'indeterminacy'?
• how can we 'future proof' this space?
• what do people carry around with them?
• what if people could change parts of the space?
• how can machines contribute?
• how can we activate existing systems?

So many questions and so few answers right now. The following images portray how architects Jagnefalt Milton have tried to answer some of these questions in the past. The project is called A Rolling Masterplan.

Rolling-http://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/22/a-rolling-masterplan-by-jagnefalt-milton/