Week Three - Flexible

This week we focussed on architecture that could alter in shape to basically accommodate for different needs of users?

We agree that Flexible is/means...

• Fluidity
• Movement
• Adjusting
• Adapting to users
• Extended/ flexible boundaries
• Space activation
• Diverse
• Response to change
• Change to meet needs
• Continuous change (to moods, technology, etc.)
• Growing
• Flexibility (of materials, form, etc.)
• Designed for the future

The redesign of a transportation hub, or better known as a T.O.D. - Transport orientated Development as a possible design problem to adess within the capital is something we began to focus our attention too - especially how this city element could be "flexible" also.

For example, what if transit centres such as bus station, train stations and even ariport were able to adjust in size according to the peak time?

The ability for these spaces to be manipulated based on the needs of the individual users and services load at any given time not only means flexibility, but also an increase in efficiency, diversity and uniqueness of any individual building design.

The following video by Carlo Ratti teaches us some important things about how flexibility it is not about the flexible nature or architecture of the "physical four walls" but about the architecture of interaction between the elements of a structure, "maximising the usage of those elements to interact with everyday human beings."