Give an inch, lose a mile

If architects give away the design of the interior due to the tight restrictions being placed on buildings than more and more will also start to be taken away with new restrictions leaving designers with nothing.  The interior is one of the most important spaces if not the most important in terms of the experience of the user. The majority of the user’s time is spent inside a building doing one thing or another rather than on the exterior of the building. Even if a large number of restrictions have been placed then it is the designer’s job to try to look for creative solutions with those restriction. Some of the best design can come from when designers are boxed in.

Some architects have chosen to simply focus on the facade to be able to have freer control over. In the example of the new building by BIG in which he had chosen to focus primarily on the facade of the building. Though I understand that idea that it might be easier or more freeing to simply focus on the facade in reaction to this problem in this case it just felt like that if he can’t have free control of the interior of the building then I am going to use to facade to extend the living space of the building. So in other words since he can’t work with the interior then I am simple going to make the space exterior so that he can do whatever with it.