Conflicts of society are the main ingredients in the analytical work of creating architecture. Instead of looking at the conflicts of a given project as limitations, a structure works perceptually as the product of these conflicts and tensions in the psyche of the individual. The reconstruction of an object made necessary by this process of analysis and reduction, involves the use of codes which are themselves meaningful and coherent,and are “a way to incorporate and integrate differences … by tying conflicting interests into a Gordian knot of new ideas.” This involves the dismantling of the preconceptions which would allow one to have a ready-made idea of what a “house” is, and insists that the observer or user carry out a reconstruction of the object.
The ideology of form seems to abandon its own vocation of realism, no sematic distinction exists between functions and forms. An attempt is made to counteract the processes that have concretely risen above the ideological level by recuperating Chaos,they reinforce each other to produce meanings which extend in an unbroken chain from the most habitual and redundant to the most complex and information-laden. Therefore,architects tie conflicting parts together and hereby create something radically new.
The architecture reinforces the theory that structural form is a product of conflicting ideologies which result in a "Gordian knot of new ideas." This is evident through the tension between the two central elements of the facade whose chaos combines to create a new entity.
The school and its surrounding valley terrain.
The facade and bridge between the valley.
The relationship between the folly, elevators and school.
Please note: the details and locations of the room requirements for the assignment are posted below entitled "Drafts and Details".
ELEVATOR VIDEOS:
Unfortunately fraps only allows 30seconds of video which was not sufficient for the video to capture the full span on the elevator from folly to bridge. However, the speed of the elevator was increased for the student elevator video to 7m/s which in turn resulted in the jolting of the imaging.
