Essay

Featured Image Takeaway Design Strategy:

What happens when you use color to dictate a building language to communicate with your occupants? Do you appeal to their sense of structure or contribute to their deeper understanding about the inner-workings of your design? Some architecture conceals its inner mechanisms while other designs go out of their way to reveal them. So, I ask you — how transparent are you with your occupants when it comes to how much your building designs reveal about their operation and maintenance? By concealing you may create a simplicity and mystery that triggers curiosity or appreciation in your occupant, while by revealing inner-mechanisms you provide a new kind of information that your occupants can use along their journey through your building.

To Apply This Strategy, Ask Yourself:

WOULD TRANSPARENCY THAT REVEALS OR GESTURES THAT CONCEAL MAKE MORE SENSE FOR MY BUILDING DESIGN? HOW WOULD EACH SCENARIO HELP BUILDING OCCUPANTS? AND WHICH WOULD HELP THE BUILDING ITSELF TO BE MAINTAINED, TO BE MORE COST-EFFECTIVE, OR TO BE CHANGED FOR FUTURE USES?

Image Caption: Broadwick House, Richard Rogers Development

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