Useful terms

I'm back at the DS looking for inspiration. I read too fast to absorb properly, so usually when I'm looking through something I write down key quotes to think about. Since this is where I'm taking any thesis notes, in this post I'm quoting... myself. Weird.

Flexible space can encourage possibilities that the architect may not necessarily be aware or in control of (abstract)

Microarchitectural articulations are a mechanism to combine flexible and programmed space (abstract)

NB: For my next presentation, it's probably a good idea to start with the abstract to my DS. Some useful terms...

Ambiguity: When a form can be read in many different ways

Articulated space: designed space that uses small-scale details or variations to indicate possible programmatic use

Articulation: a detail added to a building that shows how a building can be used

Flexible Space: space that is able to perform in different ways depending on what is required

and who will be using it. Has an indifferent relationship to the spatial sequence.

Inflection: how the parts of an object relate and the relationship of the whole to its setting.

Interpretable: when something can be read in many different ways.

Microarchitectural Articulation: A human scaled and ambiguous mechanism that allows users to inhabit spaces in a variety of ways that appropriate to a program momentalso the relationship between two surfaces

Neutrality: the result of too much flexibility: tolerable for all but not right for any single user.

Specificity: when programs are so ingrained in space design the space cannot be used for another program.