1_Architecture should acknowledge the constantly growing population.
3_Population growth is a compelling problem with society today. The designs of architecture in times like these needs to recognize and respond to the population growth. This awareness is specifically important in growing economies like India, China and Singapore.
9_ Humans make architecture successful. But architecture also has the possibility of failing as a great piece of design if exposed to a large no. of people. This is true for individual buildings as well as cities themselves. Buildings are required to comply with privacy, comfort and code. On the other hand, some of the pressing issues with population management on a city scale lead us to understand and contrast cities like Singapore and New Delhi, which have completely different problems with the vast population. While New Delhi has the option of expanding outside the “main city”, Singapore is bound by water, and thus needs to deal with the issue differently. The answer could potentially lie within group housing, mass transit or other architectural elements dealing with large masses of people. The compelling issue thus remains; How do we design for large group without compromising the individual experience, or completely isolating from the group? Does a balance exist, and if so, where?
Are you planning on looking at both New Delhi and Singapore and designing mass population housing that can be applied to both cities? I think that looking at either city would be a more interesting proposal because of the uniqueness of the culture. What defines privacy, comfort and personal space for the people of that culture and how can that be navigated to provide more housing with less building footprint?
ReplyDeleteI think its positive to look at non-building solutions of transit and urban planning to account for the expansion of a population's needs.
how are you getting started? what specific things are you doing to widen or narrow your focus?
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