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Urban Community: URBAN RETREAT

“We shape our buildings,

Thereafter they shape us.”-Sir Winston Churchill

“We shape our buildings,

Thereafter they shape us.”

HOW?


“For death is in the end a personal and private matter, and the area contained within this memorial is a quiet place meant for personal reflection and private reckoning.”

Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin

How e, Robert, Monumental Achievement, www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues02/ nov02/pdf/smithsonian_november_2002_monumental_achievement.pdf

A memorial that gives a sense of quietness, privacy and serenity.


This memorial combines the tact ile exper ience of s ight, sound, and touch. It activates a full-bodied response of the viewers. It connects the viewers with its material aspects as w el l as w ith the pr ivate memories and thoughts that t r ansform pas t events in to aw akenings in the present.

Jim Burke, “Vietname Veteran Memorial wall”, No Date, Online Image, Alicia’s Wall Poem 21 February 2005, <http://www.englishcompanion.com/illuminating/aliciaswallpoem.html>


Pantheon, by Giovanni Battista P iranesi

We interact with the space through our senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.

Through interaction, we recognize the value of the space, and it becomes meaningful to us.


It is through touching that our relationship becomes intimate and meaningful.


TOUCH – HAPTIC ARCHITECTURE

Komyo-ji Temple by Tadao Ando

Use of materiality, texture, light and shadowto allow direct unselfconscious experience.


“Our culture of control and speed has favored the architecture ofthe eye, with its instantaneous imagery and distant impact, whereas haptic architecture promotes slowness and intimacy, appreciated and comprehended gradually as images of the body and the skin.”

Pallasmaa, Juhani, “Hapticity and time”,Architectural Review, May 2000, p.78-84


What’s wrong with today’s life?


See today’s lifestyle:


Today’s society

http://www.1adventure.com/archives/cat_urban.html www.ilarawan.com/photofriday/pf1107.html

What are we building for?


“Architecture can give the life lived in it a sense of dignity, it can color every activity from washing clothes to entertaining guests with a sense of fitness and beauty, it can evoke a sense of pride; it can establish a sense of comfort and security, and it can bring a sense of satisfaction in living.”

Mousson, Noverre, “Buildings for the elderly”, NY: Reinhold Publication, 1963, p.20


Can contemporary architecture offer our society a restful place for the mind, and where one can be away from everyday world and stress?


What?

Who?

Where?

How?


WHO?

CHINESE



Chinese Architecture

WHERE?Chinatown

-nosiness

-rapidness

-liveliness

-lots of movement / activity


WHERE?Chinatown


Bounded by Rue St-Laurent and Rue Clark.

Hierarchy from public (busy and noisy) to private (calm and quiet ).

Rue St-Laurent

My Site

What do we want / need to rest for our mind?

RETREAT

[1] withdraw after being defeated or when faced with danger or difficulty.

[2] withdrawal into privacy.


Retreat: Tea House

-where people interact with friends calmly and ritually.

-where people can be away from the vexation of the everyday world, and refresh themselves.

-where simplicity and purity evokes calmness and comfort.


Retreat: House of Silence by Peter Kulka


It incorporates twenty rooms where guests may experience the monastic life of contemplation and spiritual reflection for a time. The House of Silence is intended as a place where people can cultivate their spirituality, a growing need these days in reaction to our frenetic daily routine; visitors can retire to the peace and quiet of the building and the landscape that surround it.

Zumthor believes that all design works start from the physical sensuousness of architecture, and of its materials. To truly experience architecture is to feel it with one’s body.

“Thermal Bath”, No Date, Online Image, Thermal Bath, Val, 21 February 2005, <http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/zumthor_vals/pages/vals_01.htm>

One experiences the thermal bath through the sense of touch. One feels the materiality with the body, like walking bare foot on the stone, sitting bare on the stone, and in water. Natural light streams through the slots and onto the skin, along with the warmth of the steam, it gives a sense of comfort.

by Peter ZumthorThermal Bath


What I want to do:

to provide:1. a place which allows no distraction, a place beyond everyday world.2. a place where one can find calmness, quietness for his/her mind.3. a place in where one will spend time, and be comfortable.

to allow:1. visitors a chance to gather and interact with friends without thinking of their works and daily responsibilities. 2. one to have a place of silence to think and reflect by oneself.

to contrast:1. with recent architecture which is visual-dominated - built for the eye;instead: time required to experience the space, thus evoking domesticity.2. with today's society governed by overwhelming activity and daily routine.


HOW?

Experience

Interaction

Sense of Touch

Hierarchy of space – experience from public to private

Symbolizes the breaking ties from everyday world.

Chinese Architecture: "the whole design is to be apprehended as though one walks through it in time and space. The whole axis is never supposed to be revealed at once. A sequence is set up to establish a progressive sense of privacy and an interplay of solid and void, light and dark."


Quantity of activity


HOW?

Interaction

People People

People Space

Space Space


Kahn: “one must conceive of different types of space, each mutually supporting the other.”

Mitchell, Thomas, Living Design, London: McGraw-Hill, 1998, p.16


HOW?

Hierarchy of space + Interaction


HOW?

Touch / Hapticity

"Whereas the architecture of geometry attempts to build dams to halt the flow of time, haptic and multi-sensory architecture makes the experience of time healing and pleasurable. This architecture does not struggle against time, it concretizes the course of time and makes it acceptable. It seeks to accommodate rather than impress, evoke domesticity and comfort rather than admiration and awe."


Pallasmaa, Juhani, "Hapticity and time", Architectural Review, May 2000, p.80

materiality, texture, light & shadow


THE END OF DRM…


WHY? 1. Our overwhelming responsibilities, and work loads contribute to daily accumulation of stress.

2. Recent architecture tends to be visual- and object - oriented, built for the eye.

3. Buildings tend to be built for function, but not for human.

depersonalized society

WHAT? 1. A space where one can find calmness, quietness for his/her mind

2. A place beyond everyday world.

3. A place where a people can gather and interact with friends without thinking of their works and

daily responsibilities.

urban retreat


HOW? 1. By evoking domesticity and comfort.

2. By giving a sense of belonging.

3. By allowing quietness and calmness for the mind.

4. By making people aware of their surroundings.

Experience, Interaction, Haptic Architecture


WHO? 1. a community with lots of movements and activities. A community which always

gives a sense of noisiness, liveliness and rapidness.

Chinese

Bibliography & References:Books

1. Cataldi, Sue, Emot ion, Depth and Flesh, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993

2. Co, Francesco, Tadao Ando, The Complete Work, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000.

3. Crisp, Barbara, Human Space, Massachusetts: Rockport Publisher Inc, 1998.

4. Day, Christopher, Spirit & Place, Boston: Architectural Press, 2002.

5. ---, Places of the soul, Boston: Architectural Press, 2004.

6. Lawson, Bryan, The Language of Space, Boston: Architectural Press, 2001.

7. Lin, Maya, Maya Lin Boundaries, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

8. Lang, Jon, Designing for human behavior, Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1974.

9. Moller, Clifford B., Architectural environment and our mental health, New York : Horizon Press, 1968.

10. Mitchell, Thomas, Liv ing Design, London: McGraw Hill, 1998.

11. Spring 1981 China Study Group, Walls, Inside China and Its Architecture, Minneapolis: The Study Group, 1981.

Journals

1. Holl, Steven, Juhani Pallasmaa, A lberto Perez-Gomez, “Questions of Preception, Architecture and Urbanism, July 1994 Special Issue.

2. Pallasmaa, Juhani, “Hapticity and Time”, Architectural Rev iew, May 2000: 78-84

Electronic Sources:

1. Davey, Peter, “Zumthor the shaman”, Architectural Rev iew, Oct 1998, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/ is_n1220_v205/ai_21269556

2. “Thermal Bath, Val, Switzerland”, Galinsky, http://www.galinsky.com/build ings/baths/


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