Meaningful place-making can be defined as the sphere or space where conscious and deliberate reflection occurs. Such a sphere ends up enhancing the local experience and makes local visual information represented by the surrounding facades explicit to inhabitants and other users. Space is an area configured by nature to accommodate the fundamental evocation of human feelings. This evocation is at worst reflective, at best epiphanic.
Place; however, is an area in space designed in order to accommodate some certain, specific human activities and behaviors. There are some continuous shifts in the whole architectural experience of the place where these practices are situated and of space where local experience occurs. It is very ambiguous to move from one category to another, based not surprisingly on their individual degrees of ambiguity or the lack thereof.
The addition of any built form in a space leads to the making of a unique place that would experience gradual habitation and transformation. Like a delicate eco-system, a deliberate intervention might cause an irreversible loss of the local identity and the alienation of the local cultures in the complete system. A more forceful economic pressure re-shapes and re-configures a place that loses local experience and drifts towards a new architectural culture. Many European towns such as Plymouth, Warsaw, or Berlin lost local characteristics during the Second World War, this was however, attributed to destruction, rather than creation. The modern architecture does not exactly need war to recreate and innovate – they use this opportunity quite well on their own.
This article series tests this hypothesis and traces the impact of the introduction of glass ceilingsand facades in urban places. In an article in the publication Prostor, Francis Violich developed ten properties of place identity from his extensive field research in the urban places of various scales and forms. He aimed to create an understanding of the connection of identity with the place for the twenty-first century. Violich investigated the potential of nature inspired open spaces for allowing socio-cultural reinforcement and enrichment of the community life, which is the principal source of the environmental spirit. Violich's properties mainly concerned spatial and a-spatial arrangements of places rather than structural surfaces' role in defining place. His method helps in setting a theoretical framework for the effects of glass ceilingsand facades on place identity. This theoretical framework has been tested by architects far and wide over the course of history in order to understand more of what Violich was looking at when he developed these 10 principals. This has led to an increased awareness and understanding of the various aspects of place making that were previously unknown.
Over the next couple of weeks, Palace of Glass will seek to present articles that will try to adopt properties that identify place and use them to investigate the effect of glass ceilings. This will involve brief mentions of the historic work that has been conducted on this topic. Most of the writers that have worked on this agree on the major points, and for the purpose of clarity and consistency, we will seek to build up on those.
Place; however, is an area in space designed in order to accommodate some certain, specific human activities and behaviors. There are some continuous shifts in the whole architectural experience of the place where these practices are situated and of space where local experience occurs. It is very ambiguous to move from one category to another, based not surprisingly on their individual degrees of ambiguity or the lack thereof.
The addition of any built form in a space leads to the making of a unique place that would experience gradual habitation and transformation. Like a delicate eco-system, a deliberate intervention might cause an irreversible loss of the local identity and the alienation of the local cultures in the complete system. A more forceful economic pressure re-shapes and re-configures a place that loses local experience and drifts towards a new architectural culture. Many European towns such as Plymouth, Warsaw, or Berlin lost local characteristics during the Second World War, this was however, attributed to destruction, rather than creation. The modern architecture does not exactly need war to recreate and innovate – they use this opportunity quite well on their own.
This article series tests this hypothesis and traces the impact of the introduction of glass ceilingsand facades in urban places. In an article in the publication Prostor, Francis Violich developed ten properties of place identity from his extensive field research in the urban places of various scales and forms. He aimed to create an understanding of the connection of identity with the place for the twenty-first century. Violich investigated the potential of nature inspired open spaces for allowing socio-cultural reinforcement and enrichment of the community life, which is the principal source of the environmental spirit. Violich's properties mainly concerned spatial and a-spatial arrangements of places rather than structural surfaces' role in defining place. His method helps in setting a theoretical framework for the effects of glass ceilingsand facades on place identity. This theoretical framework has been tested by architects far and wide over the course of history in order to understand more of what Violich was looking at when he developed these 10 principals. This has led to an increased awareness and understanding of the various aspects of place making that were previously unknown.
Over the next couple of weeks, Palace of Glass will seek to present articles that will try to adopt properties that identify place and use them to investigate the effect of glass ceilings. This will involve brief mentions of the historic work that has been conducted on this topic. Most of the writers that have worked on this agree on the major points, and for the purpose of clarity and consistency, we will seek to build up on those.
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