The Intervention.

An extract from a lecture I attended a few months ago presented by:
Rare [ www.r-are.net ]
Data Nature [ www.datanature.com ]
MUF art & architecture [ www.muf.co.uk ]
6A architects [ www.6a.co.uk ]
Surface [www.surfacearchitects.com ]

‘…we are interested in discussing differing strategies of INTERVENTION. As designers, we are constantly asked to intervene in a variety of existing systemic, social and architectural contexts. When presented with these situations, we are immediately faced with a number of questions:

• How does one structure an appropriate response to the conditions one is presented with?
• What procedures structure this response?
• How does the pre-existing condition shape and sculpt this response, and to what extent is it dialogical?
• To what extent is an engagement with historical and cultural enquiry appropriate?
• Which layers of material or information become primary working elements as part of a design strategy?
• What becomes masked, what is erased, and what is retained?
• To what extent are the decisions involved ideologically driven?’

These are key questions I have to always consider when working, no matter what the project requires. As a Interior and Spatial student I aim to explore methods of recieving new programmes of habitation and how people respond to those spaces. I also intend to explore what those space have to offer, i.e. pleasure, commodity...ultimately I have to strive to find the answer to those questions.

Spatial Design:  'the glue that joins traditional built environment disciplines together'