Tactics in the Home
Within the text of Practice of everyday life, it is apparent there is a clear distinction between strategies and tactics. As best as I understand, strategies would be an action that is possible through will and power or a place that relates to research, economics etc. To me this sounds like it would take a lot of effort to accomplish the strategy? Tactics are more about the individual and how to manipulate situations into opportunities, it becomes this "in between area without space".
A prime example of this would be the Lacaton and Vassal Mulhouse and how they used this situation of lack of affordable housing (the problem) and created unique opportunities to use greenhouses and a prefabricated system to blur the interior and exterior in-between spaces. Allowing for everyday life to take over creating large and cheap architecture expanding the townhouse square footage.
I'm glad we're seeing more precedents/examples of techniques used in everyday (and affordable housing). I think it helps drive the point that innovative architecture can be applicable and impactful on any level, whether it's a small residential project or a large scale social housing development
ReplyDeleteI really like in that example how it combines multiple social and environmental problems into a single tactical solution. The residential scale is encouraging for how design can make such personal differences to these larger problems.
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