Assignment 2 - 100 words Reviews

Review on Systemic Delay

A contemporary architectural solution is an articulation of an abstract idea to its concrete form through exploiting its generative potentials, balancing opposing forces fields and advancing design with conceptual diagrams. The complexity of architecture and actaulisation of the idea, however, depends largely on the “systemic delay” between conception and realisation, which allows infinite creativity in which ideas are articulated. With the aid of high-end computer programs, the processes are often non-linear and forms are often not pre-determined but “found” through compromising numerous simple interrelated systems that deals with aspects of design in vastly different ways. This process of optimisation, is what exploits the generative potential of systemic delay and breaks the conventional mold of architectural making.

Review on Hypertextual Picturesque

Architectural ideas are often a recycled product of the past which “reinvents” an old idea with a contemporary twist. While the scenic representation of English picturesque may seems inadequate and nostalgic to contemporary society, by looking at it at a different perspective, new idea may be born which changes the gameplay in an inconceivable way in similar way that gave rise to the white boxes in Modernism. 

With an evolving society driven by economy and efficiency, fully utilising the existing "landscape" is as essential as the intervention itself. Contemporary architectural intervention should aim to achieve a mosaic “hypertextual picturesque” quality - an image composed of different interwoven systems operating on various scales and aspects, reacting and interacting with each other to achieve an optimised output - in order to encounter the fast-pace change of the contemporary society.