The idea of project as process is the basis of all design projects. Without the iterative process of refinement and rethinking, design would be a limited realm of objects. Mateo's description of this seems so simplistic. Is this not how we have approached projects in the past? Is his understanding not the fundamental ideas of a design project? I find myself sitting here still confused about how to approach this project. Mateo speaks of structure and hierarchies, space and void, yet it is not the process that intimidates me. It is the starting point. Now, I understand this point of departure is not the "end all be all" of the project, but with out this platform, this idea or stance on a subject, one cannot move forward. I find myself even as I type this becoming more confused about how to begin this almighty process.
So it is not the process in which my head is entangle, but the starting point of that process. Where does one begin? I think of words like layer and network...connections to and fro. But Mateo seems to inadvertently skirt around this fundamental point in the process. And I still think, "where do i begin?"
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drew,
ReplyDeletei find myself asking the very same questions and had a very similar take on the reading. the biggest difficulty, at least for me, is trying to synthesis all of the possible starting points from the knowledge base that we have gathered over our years. Based on your concept sketch i think you at least have a fundamental idea encompassing a very dynamic relationship between city and suburb. using this as an underlying direction perhaps the key element that is missing is context. where or how to pick this context i am unsure or perhaps the place chosen for now doesn't have to be the context for your final project but simply a starting point that informs and gives you a general idea of the relationship of city through the lens of the suburban sphere.