Anxious Architecture

Consider the following research question: is there a valid architectural strategy irrespective to individual brief requirements as it acknowledges the greater significance of context? To add clarity, ‘architectural strategy’ and ‘idea’ are used interchangeably.

Within the chapter Codes of Misconduct of book Architecture Depends, author Jeremy Till argues that the role of the architect should stem beyond the typical architect and client relationship1. According to Till, the architect should situate an architecture in response to future foreseeable social problems2 and as Till underlines (2009,183) ‘…always in the service of the other’3. Till (2009, 182) further elaborates with an example ‘Designing to address the cause and effect of climate change is necessarily a long-term issue.’4

Ultimately this project is about designing a new housing estate model by rearranging standardised components in an attempt to uncover an inherent architecture. By developing the typology through a series of iterations, at what point is the ubiquitous housing estate no longer recognisable and instead, it is considered an architecture of value.

1 Till, Jeremy. 2009. Architecture Depends: Codes of Misconduct. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The MIT Press

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.