15 September 2008

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  • Architecture is the tool to re-develop and inspire a tired community.
  • New structures can be an added backbone to a broken civic fabric.
  • Architecture is the beginning to the revitalization of the urban infrastructure.
  • The design of structures that incorporate the greater good of the civic mind is beneficial to that community.
  • A new structure for a damaged community is the answer to a healthy civic body.
  • A well-designed structure for the public can be a place to unify the broken fabric of a community.
  • The design for a more welcoming civic structure has the ability to revitalize the existing community of that area.
  • Architecture has the ability to be the jump of point for the revitalization of a tired community.
  • A well-designed common place for public interaction is key to start a public dialogue for the creation and building of more structures.
  • New design in an old community can spark urban revitalization
  • New development of a decrepit space can be the solution to the broken community adjacent to it.
  • The architecture of a public urban building can be keystone of a community’s image.
  • To redefine a troubled civic body a new public well-designed structure is key.


1 comment:

luis said...

how do you do this? is it only programmatic? (ie. we introduce a desperately needed program to activate the community?) can aesthetics or careful organization really do this? (ie. "well-designed structures can unify broken fabric of a community"?)

are you after something that is really a socially based problem which requires a similar solution?

i'm not sure how your statements point to something architectural about what to do... what are you after? how, seriously, does architecture formally solve this? or formally-programmatically solve this?

and the end result is what? a revitalized community? what does that even mean? can you clarify?

in short, be more specific... these statements are very general and they need to be more pointed. think of how you would try to use the idea as a way to explore a project... how do you test it? (ie. how do we know that it did what it was supposed to do?)