043 Reading: [Personal] Architecture & Mobility

Part 1.2 Scenario - Outside the Centre, pg 95.

The fact is recognised that even in the countryside people tend to live in an urban way and that the city exercises an influence and an attraction on the territory which leads to urban centres being seen as common spaces, shared by the whole population in a broader dimension.

Part 2.1 State of the Art - Tradition and Innovation, pg 149

...the shell is the instrument that establishes new potential relations, even is sometimes only symbolically. 

Part 3.3 Application - Transport Design, Design, pg 286

...technically advanced environments are similar to residences and offices, though remaining intelligent mobile projected forms in harmony with the places that receive them and capable of communicating with each other and with central and peripheral infrastructures. 

Finizio, Gino. 2006. "Architecture and Mobility". Italy: Skira Editore.

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This book is an exploration based on the work of research on the relationship between architecture and mobility coordinated by Gino Finizio Design Management, on behalf of Fiat Research Centre. It is the prelude to the development of a series of design proposals developed by and interdisciplinary team of designers and researchers. It encompass a series of scenarios that included studies on urban landscape and the road network, followed by a study of issues that can be solved by design through the perspective of tradition and innovation, before coming together with a few proposal of a design presence in the forms of static and dynamic architecture. A lot of the research regurgitate back and forth between the built form (architecture) and a mobile entity (car), which explained how a design can be perceived "mobile" as an outcome.

My take-way from this reading, is how architectural design can address current trends of urban growth, management and, sometimes, cultural forces in the spirit of innovative mobility thoughts. A few of my other readings centralise on the idea of boundaries, periphery and the likes. As has been said in entry 039, I think I am leaning towards the periphery of metropolitan cities of Australia as my context and location.

What this means, is that it will be a design that connects back to the governmental city of Canberra. But for a hypothetical Australian capital, I am moving towards decentralising the education of governmental connections into "friendly" sites that acts like a chameleon into the backdrop of these periphery areas.

This all sounds all over the place, chaotic almost, but I will try to sketch this out!

~ H