“Only Bigness instigates the regime of complexity that mobilizes the full intelligence of architecture and its related fields. One hundred years ago, a generation of conceptual breakthroughs and supporting technologies unleashed a architectural BigBang. By randomizing circulation, short-circuiting distance, artificializing interiors, elevator, electricity, air-conditioning, steel , and finally? The new infrastructures formes a cluster of mutations that induced another species of architecture”
This is quote is a brief explanation about the idea of “Bigness”. Bigness theory by Rem Koolhaas based on the ideas that when the building become too large and massive in size that ones can no longer capture the essence of its true experience that the building try to convey. As Rem Koolhaas mentioned in one of the five theorems of “Theory of Bigness” that “Beyond a certain critical mass, a building becomes a Big Building. Such a mass can no longer be controlled by a single architectural gesture,or even by any combination of architectural gestures”. The example of the building that we can clearly see is the “ Embassy Building” in Thailand. The building itself is killed by their massive size. Compare the size of this building to the other , we will noticed that the size of this building is much more bigger than the football fields. The interior spaces does not serve the best use space of in term of utilizing. As Aj. Taylor mentioned in the class that what he have seen is the space is use for “ children playing remote controlled car.” The size of the spaces make the building lost quality of being as a architecture because it is hard to maintain functional aspects within the spaces such as the quality of light , circulation, the position of air-conditioning and etc. I used to visited this building too 6 months ago. The large spaces rather make the interior become unfunctional. The interior layout make the circulation of people scattered around and struggle to find the way.
In my opinion, in order to creating architecture, ones should not take a consideration that “large and massive” building is perform better. In term of how people look at their exterior , it may does their job as impressing the viewers. But once they go into the space , if the building become too large and complex; there are so many factors that need to take in consideration such as electricity system , light, circulation and much more. If the building can not find the way to intellectually integrated them together, the building will start is lose the essence of being a quality architecture, and once the people does not understand and appreciated it so what is the point of design !!
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