09/05/2022
【An Experiment about Architecture - Homestay X Art and Craft Market】
The father of modern architecture - Le Corbusier once suggested that house is a machine for living in, as a container for live to happen inside, to serve the need of what is happening inside it.
So is the 'machine' define meaning of architecture? Or the living being inside? What is the true meaning of architecture? This is a question we have been asking since we were in school.
I think architecture is about dialogues / interactions between the living being and the space itself. Each and every individual that occupying the space started by experiencing it with senses, the experience will then transformed into emotion and reaction towards to space. Then, the character of the space will be changed due to the reaction by the individuals. And I think this dialogue between an individual and a space is the true meaning of architecture.
The 1502A by Mushroom Projects is an experiment to our hypothesis that we are constantly interested in - a dialogue between the users and the space. What is the potential of a space and how activities that happen inside the space can give character to it? We have started the design of 1502A by imagining it as a vessel for events that we imagine it could possibly happen, and giving freehand to the occupants to interact with it.
1502 Art & Craft Market that we have hosted together with Overdose Kitten and Suagu was a very exciting experiment and that was the first time we invited more than 35 individual artisan brands and artist to take over the space. As the vendor starting to occupy the space, we enjoy ourselves by observing how each and every vendors reacting to the space and how their reactions gives character to it.
I'm glad that we have took a risk jumping out of the box, and doing something that we do not familiar with, so we are able to see a bigger picture. And once again, we proved to ourselves that architecture is incomplete if we are merely sketching on papers and complying to by laws and requirements and making sure that the building built according to drawings.
So what's the next experiment? I am looking forward already!
https://www.mushroomprojects.co/events/art-and-craft-market/
*photo credit to Boon Hoaw