trees

trees

I don’t know how much i like them!
but I don’t know them much.
I don’t know how to plant or what kind of food they prefer.
I only know they grow.
Grow in the sun and require water to survive like us.

I don’t know how much i love looking at them.
But it seems they make me comfortable.
Their leaves, some tiny, some larger.
They reflects and absorbs lights and sounds independently.
They are together but their angles and positions are all different and never fixed but they are there.
They are always same but always different.
It gives me pleasure to look and listen.
Unlike buildings facade, which has one or two or maybe three clean and smooth surfaces.
They may reflect but not much absorbing anything.
If you are surrounded by these for long enough time, you will feel frustrated and stressed.
Because it is almost one way talking.
Keep listening ones loud voice all the time without chance to talk back or stop would make most of people tired and stressed, unless you dont feel anything.
Like prison cell, why is it horrible?
Why the conditions looks bad and punishable?
Of course there is the size issues but the fundamental error of the space would be the never changing wall, floor and ceiling. These conditions make us tired and stressed. Because we, human are growing too like trees.
And change every time we breathe and every time our heart beat 60-90 per minute in ordinary conditions.

Trees remind me that I am alive.
I wish architecture too remind me that i am alive.

nomad

nomad.

it is a romantic word.

but it is also a suffering,

and pain.

it also can be truth and honesty.

but it is something you have to earn.

But also it is given.

There will be no delivery, because there is no address to deliver.

Without address, no saving will be there.

No saving means no capital.

And no capital means ‘nothing’ in capitalist world.

‘nomad’ is nothing.

this ‘nothing’ includes original.

Nomad is not original.

 

Do nomad have architecture?

without capital would there be architecture?

without saving would there be architecture?

maybe nomad dose not need architecture at all.

because nomad is nothing to us.

Small Daily Thought of Architecture

Architects are like traditional Chinese medicine doctor.

In traditional Chinese or Korean medicine, there is no one correct prescription. Although patients share same diagnoses, the prescriptions are vary.

It is because they understand that each individuals are different. Not only their characters, background, food they eat, environment they are in, and what kind works they do and so on.

So the first thing which doctors are trying to find out what kind of person is the patient, before look into the problem. Is she or he tend to sweat a lot or feeling cold easily, or the opposite. Then try to understand the problem, which is the illness. So they can prescribe medicine accordingly.

In my very limited knowledge of understanding these medicines, there are not one amazing magic portion of cure here. And there is really bad ones neither. They can be all poisonous if it is not dealt properly. It is all depends on how you use and mix the ingredients, and that is why there are variety of combinations of these. Some are good for one particular symptoms, but it brings other side effect on some people so it requires other types of elements. It is almost like tailored suit but it deals with life. It has to be designed for specific patient, at that time, on that symptoms.

I think architects’s job is somewhat similar. There will never be one amazing solution for all buildings and problems. All cities are different and all sites will be different. Of course it would share similar elements as a building or a hut. But not all the problems(illness) can be treated with same one great idea. Understanding the location(patient) will be come first. Then to the cause, why this location has such problems. Also architects should ask whether this problem has to removed or can be cured? Then go on to find the right solutions(medicine) for the site. But it has to remember, everything has its side effects and one should know these by research, like medicine doctors. Without several hundreds years old of traditional medical books, there is no Korean or Chinese medicine today. I believe modern medical doctors same. Without their books about each illness, and studying those, there is no way our doctors know how to deal with our illness. But still there is always unexpected side effete cause, and architects should try hard to minimise those negative symptoms for longer healthy life to continue. And continue to research designs methods(medicine combination).