Squared up – Build a home using squares and squares only
PREMISE
Curves add slightly of pleasure to anything static, but when it involves functionality; straight elements are an important a part of structures that are made anywhere.
Most buildings in past used right angles in resonance with stable structures and were the sole possible approach with the technology available some time past .
Right angles are attributed to efficiency in every aspect of our planet and this universe, right from laws of physics to human skeletal structures.
With times and technology shifting to curves as an aesthetic (Eg. Parametric Architecture), the facility of rectilinear forms is overlooked with attribution to budget and mundane-ness.
What if squares are all we had? What if the sole choice to deliver an idea space for you was only rectilinear?
BRIEF
The qualm of using rectilinear forms usually comes into the spotlight once we check out generic urban environments at large. It creates this uneasiness of delivering average forms within the name of functionality.
When we check out the flip side, parametricism or deconstructivism on the converse can dominate the function also while implemented to serve the spaces – hence the bias isn’t entirely accurate.
The exercise is focused on getting back to the basics, what if – all we had a single shape to design our buildings on? What if this shape’s positives and negatives were balanced out to make things work spatially and architecturally?
The challenge here would be constructing every element of a house to just one shape, a Square.
How would you as a designer interpret the qualities of the form in the physical realm of geometries translated into real forms?
How will the shape limitations help you shape a new experience through this form of limitation?
