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The Necessity of the Parkland within Urban Landscape - 256 Days Till Graduation
525/779 The inclusion of the urban parkland has always been considered as one of the most important aspect of the urban space, from Nash's redevelopment of the Regent' park to the more recent Le Corbusier's Garden City based on the communal living idea, the planning of the park area has always been considered quite thoroughly throughout the course of history.
Base on my limited understanding of the constructivists' idea of architecture or landscape design, actually architecture mainly, the plan view of the parkland is somewhat considered as important, and the arrangement and order of each elements are pre-determined in order to preserve the spatial continuity that comes from the form.
Bernard Tschumi's scheme for Prac da le Villette however demonstrates a rather different attitude towards the unity of the form. Instead, he promotes the discontinuity of the form, which the segment are to be arranged through a rational process of patterning. Yet, by looking at many of the de-constructivist architects, the so called rationality was in fact achieved through an unjustifiable process, mostly through instinctive judgement, experience or aesthetic aspiration. It is hard to remain rational through the whole process.
As the development of the city scape is usually a process of organic growth, as the patterns are developed over time and refined constantly through frequent use. Through parametric design, it is possible to model such changing pattern by introducing time, and using the data to simulate the changing pattern therefore as a result, achieving the most desirable form through experimentations.
The Necessity of the Parkland within Urban Landscape - 256 Days Till Graduation
525/779 The inclusion of the urban parkland has always been considered as one of the most important aspect of the urban space, from Nash's redevelopment of the Regent' park to the more recent Le Corbusier's Garden City based on the communal living idea, the planning of the park area has always been considered quite thoroughly throughout the course of history.
Base on my limited understanding of the constructivists' idea of architecture or landscape design, actually architecture mainly, the plan view of the parkland is somewhat considered as important, and the arrangement and order of each elements are pre-determined in order to preserve the spatial continuity that comes from the form.
Bernard Tschumi's scheme for Prac da le Villette however demonstrates a rather different attitude towards the unity of the form. Instead, he promotes the discontinuity of the form, which the segment are to be arranged through a rational process of patterning. Yet, by looking at many of the de-constructivist architects, the so called rationality was in fact achieved through an unjustifiable process, mostly through instinctive judgement, experience or aesthetic aspiration. It is hard to remain rational through the whole process.
As the development of the city scape is usually a process of organic growth, as the patterns are developed over time and refined constantly through frequent use. Through parametric design, it is possible to model such changing pattern by introducing time, and using the data to simulate the changing pattern therefore as a result, achieving the most desirable form through experimentations.