This lecture, focusing on the folie design and the creation of a strong concept was really helpful in developing my personal design. A key thought related to communicating a thought and communicating a reponse to this thought. The lecture re-highlighted the design criteria and experiential qualities multiple times which immediately suggested that our folie must meet all of these criteria to be successful.
The implication that this lecture had on my personal design development were profound. As yet, my design concepts are fairly simple, practicle reponses to the site and site users. The exemplar folies presented all seemed to contain extensive theoretical backgrounds and were abstract in their way of presenting thei message.
The grid layout implemented by Bernard Tschumi within La Villette to spread his folie interventions throughotu the site seems successful in that it allows people to move through the site in unique ways while experiencing different qualities at each mark along the way. Theis concept creates a journey through the site, activating the entire site. This is another key aim of our folie design - ACTIVATION OF THE SITE.
Although our primary folie has already been restricted to a 5m x 5m boundarym if a similar principle was used within future design stages, it would help to activate Howard Smith Wharves. Multiple follies could be designed, each with a different experiental quality and function.
Another interesting theme of the lecture was how such an abstract and unique project such as Lebeus Woods' Space of Light project can be followed from intial design concept to physical models and shadow photography to construction documents to ulitmately its real world application and construction.
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