FLEXIBLE / FLEXIBILITY

Initial Ideas of Flexibility:

• adapt/able
• change
• able to transform
• matter of inovation & convention
• non-specific - non defined
• multidiscipline
• modular / plug in
• discrepancy between idea and reality
• elastic
• push pull - give take
• Mirrored effects of Flexibility – what you do to one side perpetuates the movement of another/next

A Flexible Architecture:

• As an architect you must give up the idea ofbeing personally responsible for wvery deatail
• to design at a high level of abstraction
• a joint with pivot
• ability to change the atmosphere & adapt to new users
• minimal set of requirements
• to a degree not anticipated by the designer
• organic architecture - change over time
• suggests rather than articulate
• flexibility as an entity of movement or entity of manipulation, change and adaptation

"If we want to build in a more flexible and varied manner, the architect must give up the i
dea of being personally responsible for every detail of every building he designs. He must design at a higher level of abstraction -- specify rules and boundary conditions, and leave the concrete instantiation to the end user or to chance."




"A building's actual functions cannot be specified explicitly -- they only emerge in the interaction with the actual users, they keep changing in the course of time, and they need not be fixed unambiguously at any moment."


the game can be played in different ways, with different possible outcomes, not necessarily anticipated by the designer.

 Flexible archi - architecture buildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location.

 "Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change."