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This is the 'Pantheon of Wonder', a journal with over 550+ essays on the poetic design of architecture, art, music, and meaning. It is a growing chronicle of over 25 years of research and innovation by Maria Lorena Lehman that helps you develop your creative projects for advanced beauty, function, and transcendent experience.

Strategy: Consider Your Building Message to Outside Observers

by Maria Lorena Lehman

Image Strategies

Featured Image Takeaway Design Strategy:

While the above photograph isn’t of a building (it is a metro sign), it suggests what may lie ahead for urban architecture. What if your building could communicate with observers in entirely new ways? Your architectural exterior skin could announce or respond to changes in weather, urban events, or even changing trends made available through the internet. Suddenly, your building becomes a beacon — that perhaps behaves differently from day to night.

To Apply This Strategy, Ask Yourself:

Should my building communicate with exterior observers about changes in the weather, urban events, or even about what is going on inside? How can my building add value to its urban context by announcing or responding to such changes? And how will such communication affect those inside the building?

Image Credit: © Stig Nygaard | Flickr

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