Probe 12: Sustainability Analysis

original orientation: winter

original orientation: summer

Probe 11 Spatial Joint

Probe 10: CANstruction

Probe 9: Adaptive Component

Probe 8 Rendering

Probe 7 : Modrawel

Response to report on integrated practice 1: Change or Perish

It is easy to understand why many architects would be alarmed by the remark that they must change the way they think and work or else they will be left in the dust.  Most of us have come to the architectural discipline through a love of drawing and artistic representation, not necessarily because we have hopes of maximizing environmental efficiency or choosing a design from hundreds of computer generated models.  Many of our decisions are intuitive rather than calculated and therefore Mayne's emphasis on performance and speed is somewhat alienating.  I know that using a computer does not by any means eliminate the human element in a design, it is simply another tool, but that is assuming that the process originates in the human mind. I would find an architecture that revolves around picking between different models generated by defined parameters to be quite cold and less able to generate the striking works we know that have a particular psychological and cultural effect on our environment.  I do agree that architects need to step up and take responsibility for more than just the decorative aspects of a building.  We should be concerned with all aspects of its function.