Week 1 - Beginning of DAB810 [Architecture as fiction]

This post is the start of many to come for the DAB810 unit for semester 2, 2012. The focus for this semester is to imagine architecture as "Fiction" which really seems to inform our design with the architecture telling a 'story' which will capture the audience in the best possible manner. What was interesting to note, was that within the lecture we were guided to let our project site become a "stage" and the "architectural entity" (substituted word for building this semester) will set the scene.  Also, the interaction of people will act as being the characters within the play. This view of architecture being a story is very unique and one which now actually makes sense when I think about it. We truly are telling a story to the clients and it is the users which end up acting out the play that us 'architect' design. Hopefully this new found way of approaching design may help to create innovative outcomes from previous semesters.