Shree: Fragmentation and architecture

 

Shree: Fragmentation and architecture

Reliance on online media suggests a disconnect of wholesome connections with physical space and time and further with consciousness meaning of space and time. At the core is the meaning of space and time that seems to get generated within us. From tribal architecture wherein the space-time relationship started from the imagination of the cosmos to ancestors to territories to geographies to people to climate to architecture or the spiritual architecture of way of perceiving space-time dimensions of connections, we have come all the way to community architecture to individual driven architecture to the fragmentation of the individual.

The nature of online space is fast, changing, disconnected, non sequential, spontaneous, microscopic, distorted and so on. that shapes our perception too and hence the quality of architectural spaces. One thing is sure – what or how one thinks or perceives, gets projected as a quality of space ‘outside’. That being said, the truth is there is nothing ‘outside’ as an independent reality – all depends on the quality of the inner world. If it is comprehensive, then we have something called as wholesome architecture and if it not, what we end up is a very fragmented idea of a form – already fragmented as a process, technology, consultants, output and so on.

The problem is defined by this language of fragmentation or rupture of sorts and the solution is also in this language – defined as further sequences of data or variables! Is that the solution? Or slowing down the solution or suspending the problem in the mind itself? Or just simple concentration?

Hari Om.