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Case Study: Tale of Two Houses
The study presented a stark contrast between the designs of two houses. One that can fit three generations under a single roof of luxury. It presented the purity of concrete form reminiscent of Ando's, but fundamentally understood the needs of its clients.
Another is the emphasis of form over function. In fact with the obsession of form, the house lost its role, it became a dwelling in a sculpture. The shifting of tectonic planes enabled the holiday house to transform into a work of sculptural art within a small building footprint. However its attention to detail goes unnoticed. Soon the clients that once desired the house abhors it - to the extent of writing a book and selling off the house.
Architecture is constantly part of our everyday lives, and its agreeable that it became oblivious in our daily activities. However architecture should not present a 'rude awakening' to one's spatial experience, making it inconvenient to conduct activities within a program of a space. Attention to detail heightens users' curiosity, which the smallest of things informs us of our judgement to architecture.
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