Week 9 - Lecture

Architecture as assistive devices

Protection - means to defend
opportunities - means to progress

Protect people from
- Natural environment (weather)
- Other people and their intentions (conflict)
- Social obligations (privacy)

Provide opportunities for 
- Making and using
- Thinking and reflecting 
- Thinking and taking actions
- Selling and buying
- Presenting and watching
- Sharing and collaborating

Need to taking into account the number of people space, facility, logistics

1 - The locals close off the road and draw games on the street. Is able to be washed up afterwards. Letting the locals program their own spaces

Provide the platform for people and allow them to expand on it. I don't think you need to design everything right down to the detail, but you provide them with a space or an object or something different and let them play their own ideas on it. Sometimes you might not take into account the way will use it properly, therefore you design something that wont be used to the fullest potential. 

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2 - Rather than just being a front yard, the loacls usie it a as a community, meeting and relaxing space. Alot of community interaction seen where other places would be deserted or soley thoroughfare

like the lecture says, Using architecture as an instigator. Provide the first block and let everyone build on it from their. The people know what they want the best or how they are going to use it the most.

3 - The kids design their own block set ups ad play games with their imaginations. No adult could mimic and design for a child's imagination

Like we have seen in past lectures, you can program a space for something, but people may want to use it for something else (e.g. the bank foyer in Asia where people meet up weekly or fortnightly for a picnic. You can give kids a simple space with a hole heap of block lying around. those kids will move and place those blocks where they like to suit the kind of game they are playing. You can't program all these blocks so they suit every kids imagination, therefore it is better to let them do the designing themselves.


Images from 
1 + 2 http://www.greenpointnews.com/news/4605/bedford-avenue-rethinks-its-public-space
3http://kristin-senseofwonder.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/blocks-rock.html