Sunday, March 16, 2008

Architecture and Pain

Architecture and Pain...

Architecture transforming pain/Pain transforming architecture

The statement encapsulates two ideas, the first being the transformation of the pain of the architect, builder, client and whoever else finds themselves in the position of being involved in the creative process being transformed into the resultant physical and emotional environment. The second idea is that of the transformation of architecture when it is then subjected to pain, whether it be in the pain of breaking or demolishing the architecture, the pain of the human inhabitant transforming the emotional response to the architecture or lastly the influence of a being in pain then altering the physical environment to then remove that pain (eg. a person who stubs their toe on a step then being in pain and altering the built environment in order to stop this from happening again)

It can go a lot further, I will continue to look at it and would love any thoughts!

1 comment:

Sports Car Girl said...

This is a very interesting concept and I will eagerly watch its progression.

Question - what types of pain produce positive outcomes... how would these be visually depicted? Would that sort of footage already be available?