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DEAD SPACES...


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Fri Aug 11 2006, 08:09am

How many dead spaces exist around us and what can we do to make them alive again. There impacts on us ??
I met somebody who said that spaces dont live... i asked y cant they?? coz i think Spaces can breath, can live....
For my project i am working on a dead space, that exist in my neighborhood. It was an open space for neighborhood people but then later yrs it didnt attracted much of the people there and so it is now acting as a dead space, where no function happens.
I am calling it DEAD b'coz no social activities takes place there and only human interaction and usage makes a place LIVING, ALIVE.

What do u people think ???

NEO

Fri Aug 11 2006, 01:25pm

Registered Member #4 Joined: Thu Aug 04 2005, 04:54am
: Dhaka
Posts: 666

Of course spaces can be dead or live. Space breaths, it laughs, smiles, crys.
When social activities or interaction takes place in a space only then it becomes a 'place'. 'Place' means where 'events' happen.

When we are on a way to make a space live, then we have to notice some points, as the 'scale' of the space, neighborhood interests, special demands of economical sustainability, architectural elements to generate 'social activities'.
All these points are interrelated.
And during the physical designing the last two points are more important thing to notice.
Suppose this was just a green field, with no activies... it was 'dead'. A simple element and some landscappings made it live:
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Unknown

Fri Aug 11 2006, 03:57pm

Thanks NEO for taking it further, i completly agree with you....
my concept is similar to this....
And yes no activities makes a dead corner. Sometimes open green fields have passive activities happening but its useless unless it is balanced by some active activities too.

mujtaba

Fri Aug 11 2006, 08:28pm

Registered Member #14 Joined: Tue Sep 20 2005, 08:54pm
: Honolulu, HI
Posts: 35

Dead spaces aren't dead unless you look at them that way. No space is dead or alive but we culturally tend to impose those values, because our cultured sense of "architecture" tells us that every space should have an "aesthetically" fullfilling, functional quality to them, therefore, any space that does not satisfy that, we tend to call them "dead" (with a negative undertone of course). Why not look at them as "buffer" space, "air" space, "light" space? Its those spaces that make the "live" spaces more meaningful. Besides, some economic body would soon hunt it down and turn it into a "building" so I wouldn't worry too much about "dead" spaces.

lizu

Wed Aug 16 2006, 03:50am

Registered Member #58 Joined: Thu Jun 22 2006, 08:37am
: Singapore
Posts: 4

I agreed fully with Mujtaba. Can not help myself but quoting these few lines from LAO-TSE, the chinese philosopher.
' We put thirty spokes together and call it a whell; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of wheel depends. We turn clay to make vessels; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the vessel depends. We pierce dorrs and windows to make a house; and it is these spaces where there is nothing that the utility of the house depends. Therefroe , just as we take advantage of what is , we should recognize the utility of what is not'
my addition,
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