Tag: great ideas

impossiblearchitecture:

Flesh-like architecture. 

I think this stylistic vocabulary in architecture needs to be more than just formal explorations through computer programming gymnastics, it needs to consider what it is to be ‘flesh-like’ – the healing or regenerative capabilities, elasticity and compression, density and functionality. Should a building breathe through its skin, how should it breathe? or secretion of fluids and gas.

Now this may seem grotesque and almost irrelevant to architecture but is the body not born from the architecture it inhabits? From the translucency of human skin to the functional sweat glands from beneath the skin, which allows the body to cool, there is much architecture can draw from the human anatomy, especially in this futuristic-deconstructivist style of architecture 

Why is the ceiling in a room generally static and flat? In a hospital scenario, it could be designed so that it aids a person to fall asleep, or create a restful ambiance. Superfluous or overlooked?