Thank you, Siavash I am sorry that I could not attend your presentation. Because of that, I have a disadvantage of potentially misunderstanding your intent and the message that you wanted to convey here.
First, as I mentioned in other comments, developing statements of purpose, position, strategies and tactics is laborious and time consuming process and one needs to spend lot of time improving them. Asking your colleagues and profs to proofread so they can give you feedback on how they understand what are you trying to say (and point out spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies) is perfectly normal part of the process. Now, I don't pick on you for latter, because I make mistakes as well, especially when I am in rush, but for every major submission/presentation of my research work, I still do proofreading and, potentially, editing.
But, apart from that, I am not so sure that I can quite get your strategies; to me, this whole part reads as a manifesto (but in not so positive manner). I am not even so sure what kind of housing you are challenging, as housing design is (or can be) as much a result of the cultural, as well as natural/ environmental, economical, technological and other factors. But, OK, I can accept that challenge is needed, but the question is: how/what do you propose that challenge to be?
Because, at the bottom of the slides, when you are proposing the program, everything does sounds very conventional to me. In addition, the floor plan of the proposed house keeps being very conventional, with the exception of the curved walls. Moreover, I don't see it being successful design even functionally, as there are large transitional spaces (i.e bedroom "corridor"), while one has to pass through the kitchen to get to the sleeping quarters. Also, the kitchen is so tiny that it is hardly usable, unless one envisions that we will all eat meals that are prepared in advance somewhere else that only needs to be microwaved to be served. But, wait, we already have that today, and it didn't turn out well: processed food is proven to cause obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, strokes, etc. Not exactly a healthy environment that you are trying to achieve.
I also wonder about the purpose of the detaching bays (and this may have been addressed in the presentation). Where do they go when they are detached (i.e. why wheels)? Also, they are not versatile, i.e. each one of them can only be attached to the very specific place. And what happens to the “core” building once the bedroom bays are gone?
Finally, if you are situating your structure in the neigbourhood on the Algonquin Island, please show some sensitivity and respect to this very unique and fragile environment. The final images depict landscape more similar to the Algonquin (Provincial) Park.
Thank you, Siavash
ReplyDeleteI am sorry that I could not attend your presentation.
Because of that, I have a disadvantage of potentially misunderstanding your intent and the message that you wanted to convey here.
First, as I mentioned in other comments, developing statements of purpose, position, strategies and tactics is laborious and time consuming process and one needs to spend lot of time improving them. Asking your colleagues and profs to proofread so they can give you feedback on how they understand what are you trying to say (and point out spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies) is perfectly normal part of the process. Now, I don't pick on you for latter, because I make mistakes as well, especially when I am in rush, but for every major submission/presentation of my research work, I still do proofreading and, potentially, editing.
But, apart from that, I am not so sure that I can quite get your strategies; to me, this whole part reads as a manifesto (but in not so positive manner). I am not even so sure what kind of housing you are challenging, as housing design is (or can be) as much a result of the cultural, as well as natural/ environmental, economical, technological and other factors. But, OK, I can accept that challenge is needed, but the question is: how/what do you propose that challenge to be?
Because, at the bottom of the slides, when you are proposing the program, everything does sounds very conventional to me. In addition, the floor plan of the proposed house keeps being very conventional, with the exception of the curved walls. Moreover, I don't see it being successful design even functionally, as there are large transitional spaces (i.e bedroom "corridor"), while one has to pass through the kitchen to get to the sleeping quarters. Also, the kitchen is so tiny that it is hardly usable, unless one envisions that we will all eat meals that are prepared in advance somewhere else that only needs to be microwaved to be served. But, wait, we already have that today, and it didn't turn out well: processed food is proven to cause obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, strokes, etc. Not exactly a healthy environment that you are trying to achieve.
I also wonder about the purpose of the detaching bays (and this may have been addressed in the presentation). Where do they go when they are detached (i.e. why wheels)? Also, they are not versatile, i.e. each one of them can only be attached to the very specific place. And what happens to the “core” building once the bedroom bays are gone?
Finally, if you are situating your structure in the neigbourhood on the Algonquin Island, please show some sensitivity and respect to this very unique and fragile environment. The final images depict landscape more similar to the Algonquin (Provincial) Park.