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On Being Selfish Songwei Wang
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Dr. Strangelove (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick
H Architects, Planell Civic Centre, 2016
On Being Selfish
Songwei Wang
In the film Dr. Strangelove, all Dr. Strangelove does is that he can realize the task entrusted to him by his former head of state Hitler. In this film with the background of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States, everything is because of Dr. Strangelove’s personal ideas, which is more like a game dominated by him. He doesn’t care about everyone’s life in order to achieve his goal. We also got the same inspiration in another film “squid game”. It is also because a rich old man wants to hold his own game and completely ignores the lives of others.
The precedent planell Civic Centre inspired us. We noticed that in this triangular building, H architects “roughly” divided the building into different spaces through several straight lines (it is well known that we should be very careful when dealing with the triangular space, otherwise some acute angle spaces will bring people a very poor spatial experience), This reminds us that architects are also rule makers, who can formulate the spatial order of buildings and the spatial experience brought by buildings to people. This is the architect’s responsibility for himself, which is the embodiment of selfishness.
In our transformation of u-house, we have created many sharp angle spaces and some seemingly incomprehensible space orders, which will bring some inconvenience to the users of the building. For example, the students of the new building (Antoun Studio) will have to endure the crowded environment and some unpleasant light and shadow, but we still claim that this is responsible for the former u-house. Actually, this is selfishness in architecture.
Just as we follow Michael’s rules of the game in Antoun studio, we use architecture to interpret the fears that people don’t want to face. But in fact, each of us has a very different design, because we all claim to be responsible for Anton studio. In fact, we are only responsible for our selfishness.
