EXP3 - MASHUP THEORY

FRUITION OF FORM

It’s not only about buildings, but it’s also about engaging edges exploring at a much smaller scale the obsession with the ritual symbol of the mandala and astronomical observation, not domineering depending on which angle you view it from how people relate to the built environment that has a surface that reads as a colour field rather than a series of tiles with the intention that they will be altered and added to in time in favour of an ever-unfolding dialectic of form and life turns radical ideas into built projects to resolve a more instinctive merging between interlocking levels and interior gardens makes architects think about all the elements of cities that aren’t buildings devoted to the unruly instinctive merging between the tower and the use of natural ventilation and passive energy systems of buildings that are accretive rather than rupturing repetition is used to create grain and a pattern of complexity against singularity and for diversity,  eloquent, rebellious, endearing, and superficially unassuming rooms open to the sky, on the roof you have a very clear, direct conceptual relationship with the old,  that is to say, every day it offers more in the way of skills, activities, opportunity and a passion for working with the people who make your buildings and a real respect for the ephemeral: the evening stroll.

¹Amanda Levete: organic forms and material complexity, Christine Phillips, Architecture Australia, Jan 2015, Issue 1

²Josh Stephens, “Jane Jacobs: 100 and timeless as ever”, The Architects Newspaper, May 3 2016

³Charles Correa obituary, Joseph Rykwert, The guardian, Saturday 20 June 2015