Week 14 Project Mission

SCRIPT

-Reality

As a society, social media impacts our daily lives in ways that we could have never imagined five years ago. Social networking sites like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter are fast becoming a constant source of alternative news for Internet users, and also becoming a channel in which users can direct the focus of national news media.

The issue with social media is that we are all aware of what everybody else is doing at any given time of the day. Social media is slowly taking over. Engaging with the society, with everyone, be it social activity, political activism, news updates

-Creativity

Running out of solitude. Everyone is sharing personal info to each other. Social media is still relatively recent concept. When you think about in 10 years time, there will be no secret for anyone. Anonymity wont exist..when we become more public.  Where do you go when you’re tired of listening to everybody else and you want time to reconnect to yourself? The Garden of Solitude.

STAGE

-Purpose

we all have a need for solitude. Time to get away from coworkers, clients, phone calls and email. Time alone to access your own source of knowing about your life’s work, your business and your purpose.

Function – sports centre, multi media library, café, garden, relaxation

Place for people to reflect  ( space for solitary reflection ), somewhere to relax, to gain knowledge, get connected, space to reflect, to reconnect/not lost connect with the earth. A space to get away from the city but you don’t have to leave the city to get away from the city. Because the place will get you the space to reflect. 

-Navigation

It is globallisation's great virtue....and vice. The result are cities in a state of dynamic flux with short-term memory, yet always with an air of deja vu.

-Integrity

The Garden of Solitude is a generous and flexible building and its spaces should have a personality that are clear and not confusing. It is also a beautifully composed architecture - not high modernist's great plea - but specific in purpose and perfectly formed. Simplicity is key of the Garden of Solitude.

SCENES

-Presence and Identity

A close connection between place and a singular form of identity.

To create a place in a mobile world. To acquire the identity and features of others by osmosis accelerates change and results principally from development of low-grade fashion and rapid construction.

-First person experience

A need for a clear sense of boundaries around the Garden of Solitude seperating it from the world outside.

To create a stage for city-dwellers. An escape hatch/relaxation zone within the extreme urban contexts. The man-made landscape represents the land on the Earth; the reflection pool represents the water element; and the canopy represents the sky. The façade of the building is made of glass, it is clear and can reflect the sunlight. It represents crystal which means wisdom and a clear mind. This connection is conceived as a "progression towards solitude."

source: GOMA Thames & Hudson