When
I Initially enrolled in DAB810 I was apprehensive yet intrigued about what
‘Architecture Fiction’ meant and how this topic would be integrated into our
design work for the semester. I started
to think about fiction and what my earliest memories of fiction were to
me. The pretend lands and characters of
storybook fantasies came to mind. Tales
of childhood favourites such as Cinderella and Mary Poppins were envisaged and
brought to life so clearly not only by word but through movies and subsequently
resonated strongly with me during my youth.
In this sense, I portray Fiction as; a made-up story/ a world of pretend
that enables the imagination to cast away from any fixed reality and in which
anything can exist. With this thought process I realised that this subject may
require us to incorporate a contextual story to our design. My memory was then cast back to the subject;
DEB601 - Collaborative Design from Semester 2, 2011 in which our group had to
come up with a pretend context which came about from a ripple effect of a
particular event. Perhaps this imagery
producing scheme is also what is required of us in DAB810?
With
my initial ideas on the subject starting to develop, I waited for the current
outline to be uploaded to the DAB810 Blackboard (Bb) page. Upon opening the DAB810 page, I was
immediately struck by the header image.
Shown below, this image caught my imagination and further spurred my
curiosity into what ‘Architecture
Fiction’ could entail.
DAB810’s
Bb Header Image (Santo 2012).
The
image vividly shows a play being conducted on a stage which is surrounded
completely by a large audience. In
context of ‘Architectural Fiction,’ this portrays to me that perhaps we are
being asked to imagine a future scenario to which we will act out and produce a
suitable development. As such perhaps
those actors featured in the image are a metaphor for our building and that the
audience is the future public that we have to design for and whom must be happy
with our future entities. I also found it interesting that both the actors and
the audience are wearing noticeable casual attire. Perhaps this means that we need to focus on producing
buildings that interact and perform at higher levels on a daily basis with the average
person.
I
believe that this image portrays a thousand words and was carefully selected to
provoke thought and stimulate ideas. In conjunction with my initial ideals of
fiction, this image has prompted me to realise that I will need to think
outside the box and think more 3-dimensionally to produce a more creative and
believable context/ outcome.
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