Order Challenges through Anarchy

    Sometimes Order can come from Disorder.  This is evident through the work of Walter Segal and his housing project in England that was shown in the video.  His housing project did not create a grid like we see within American Suburbia.  His grid comes from having no grid.  The houses are not placed perpendicular to each other.  and they are built using normal materials that you can find at a hardware store.  This way of designing a neighborhood challenges the normal way of looking at them.

    The idea of challenging design is something that can happen more today and across many places.  One idea that is challenging a topic today is the tiny house.  It challenges the notion that everyone needs to go out and buy a 3 or 4 bedroom house in suburbia.  This is not necessary for everyone to have a house that large.  One reason is the amount of space within a 3 or 4 bedroom house that is wasted or not efficiently used.  A tiny house takes about 10 to 20% of a normal 3 bedroom and compacts it into what is necessary and removes unnecessary space.  The method of efficiently designing should be incorporated more in today's design.  There should be no reason for wasted spaces.

    We should challenge everything we know.  Sometimes by challenging things we can creates something better by adding a little chaos to something.  I am referring to architecture and design and how people think about the subject.  Last semester, while in Charleston, I was in a studio that was about Parklets.  Parklets create urban park spaces through the act of removing street parking and creating a space that can be extensions of a business or place.  This challenge gives back to the city and makes it a better place in my opinion

    So go out and challenge something in Architecture.  You might find a different and better way for it.