Synopsis No 4

STUDENT NAME STUDENT ID

: Semiotic Structuralism in Architecture

: Wan Noor Azhar Bin Wan Mohamed Noor : 0807P68011

Text: Whatever space and time, place and occasion mean more. For space in the

image of man is place, and time in the image of man is occasion. Provide that place, articulate the in betweenmake welcome of each door and a countenance of each windowget closer to the shifting centre of human reality and build its counterformfor each man and all man
Author: Aldo Van Eyck Year Written: 1993 Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one box) X X Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary context Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a problem Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture: presenting a theory/manifesto Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a design method Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a theory Others: PLEASE SPECIFY

Please complete the following: What are the issues addressed?

Built structures corresponding in the appearance to social structures Based on the idea that all things are built from a system Space was categorized and divided according to use patterns and combined according to devise sets of rules The building-as-city with streets and plazas: variety of spaces

What are the design methods/strategies/theories proposed?

Imply a break away from the contemporary concept of spatial continuity and the tendency to erase every articulation between spaces Unification of elements into a larger whole, mass production Categorize types of spaces into public and private such as kitchen and living room on the lower floor, master bedroom on the upper floor Having passages in dwellings are similar to streets and public squares in cities parallel to living rooms

Relate the text to architectural/urban forms by illustrating one key image. Justify the selection.

Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie in Montreal, Canada Habitat 67, an experiment in apartment living, the Canadian architect Moshe Safdie's experiment to make a fundamentally better and cheaper housing for the masses. He attempted to make a revolution in the way homes were built - by the industrialization of the building process; essentially factory mass production. Safdie was dissatisfied with both suburbia, which destroyed open space surrounding cities and cut off people's enjoyment of the facilities of city life, and with the high-rise apartment block, which concentrated people on less land. Apartments generally were too small for growing families, and lacked both privacy and outdoor space. He was convinced the later were inadequate as family housing. He planned Habitat with the goal to find a way to put a great many people on a small space, yet provide them with at least some of the pleasures of a private home