Author(s): Christopher Cleland
An architectural phenomenographic method derives meaning from lived experiences of buildings. It manipulates image data sets to capture prominent architectural moments in the form of gestalts. Composite collages and relational landscapes concentrate the variation of activities from photographs by reconstructing those spaces and events.When using the found gestalts as spatial narratives and then translating the relational landscape into ‘chrono’-ortho- graphics and deriving design, lived experiences (activity) inform every step of the process. This research assumes the form of three alternative futures in the manner of the family that inhabited the Schminke House, each derived from an experiential gestalt: physical play, learning and toys, and swimming and bathing.This phenomenographic architecture is composed from existing performing contexts and remains weak to future performing contexts to accommodate the life of its inhab itants, which gives agency back to those who live with architecture. Design principles include indiscrete boundaries (superimposition), indiscriminate programming, and material vessels that can be inhabited. Just enough architecture allows inhabitation to choreograph the architectural construct by prescribing less. In a way, inhabitants are the new ‘designers.’
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978-1-944214-49-4