Chapter 21 my architectural ideal

Today we are experiencing an information technology revolution. The development of computers, internet, communication technology, and satellite technology has had a huge impact on people's work and life, which will definitely have a huge impact on architecture.China is in the heyday of architectural development that has never been seen in history. This is a once-in-a-century architectural opportunity.Some people call this great change the new economy, the Internet age, and the information age. No matter what you call it, it will bring us a more free and democratic social life. The buildings produced in the feudal society must be buildings that reflect the feudal imperial power. From the palace where the emperor lived to the temples of the gods, they are all centralized buildings with strict hierarchy.In a feudal society, people needed an emperor, and only when they had an emperor could they feel at ease. The society needed centralization, and people also needed centralization, and centralized buildings were born.Look at our Forbidden City, there are so many walls and steps, it is very complicated and far away for people to meet the emperor.Emperor, prince, duke, earl, each level is a distance, a wall.The most obvious thing about buildings in the feudal era is that there are too many walls, forming a situation of mutual isolation.In the era of industrial civilization, the structure of the entire society is a complete pyramid structure. Workers must listen to the instructions of the squad leader, and the squad leader must listen to the instructions of the factory manager. Strict management and discipline have produced unprecedented efficiency in industrial civilization and promoted social progress.This model is reflected in the architecture and must be a centralized building. Compared with the feudal architecture, it only uses more reinforced concrete, which is more iconic and exaggerated.Comparing the height of buildings has become synonymous with comparing the wealth of cities.However, the "9.11" incident in the United States has given people some new thinking. Is such a building in line with our era?Is such a building safe?Is such a building efficient?As a developer, I have been thinking about building buildings that fit this era.After the Jianwai SOHO designed by Mr. Yamamoto Riken was completed, I got a lot of inspiration from looking at this group of buildings.Jianwai SOHO has no pretentious architectural symbols, no symbols of wealth and power, not even a square, no walls.All building units are equal, and everyone living in Jianwai SOHO is the owner and equal.Riken Yamamoto believes that the smallest architectural space that meets the behavioral scale of Chinese people is a small cube of 3 meters x 3 meters x 3 meters. This is the cells that make up buildings and cities. Let these cells grow freely to form buildings, streets, and integrate into The city becomes part of the urban organism.In the process of design and construction, Jianwai SOHO takes democratic architecture as the starting point, giving future users enough flexibility and various possibilities, not restricting people's lifestyles and working methods, but providing a space as large as possible. The platform allows everyone to play freely.Historically, any idea of ​​unifying people under one way of life, the final result is a disaster for mankind.As the largest man-made object in the living space of human beings, architecture is usually used by the ruling class as a medium to express their opinions and publicize their power, and undoubtedly has various symbolic decorations.I very much appreciate Riken Yamamoto's "poverty" thought of de-"meaning", doing subtraction, constantly doing subtraction, until it can no longer be reduced, and the last thing that must be kept is often what people need most.There is a kind of minimalist aesthetic thought in Western postmodernism, the main purpose is to subtract all unnecessary pretense and get straight to the essence.The essence of architecture is to accommodate, and it should be as clean as a glass bottle. For people, this kind of clean space, a space without complicated information, can give him real tranquility.

Jianwai SOHO is a building designed and constructed for today's democratic society in China, which emerged from the centralized architectural thought.It is the result of thinking about the dangers of social change and centralized architecture in cities today.Democratic architecture will bring as little pressure on the city as possible, and become a beneficial supplement to the city's functions.It will allow people living and working in it to enjoy more sunshine and flowing air, and enjoy the convenience and high efficiency in work and life.Democratic architecture allows people who live and work in the building to lose the self-enclosed superiority and the psychological pressure of the hierarchical system, gain spiritual liberation, and gain more development space and opportunities.It will undergo various tests, and I believe that time will tell everything.From architecture to community, and then to city.Someone once asked Confucius to summarize education in one word, and Confucius answered: reciprocity.This word can also sum up the essence of the city.The original meaning and function of the city is to provide a breeding ground for settlement, communication and creativity.People gather here for reciprocity.

Since the founding of New China, for a period of time, each unit was relatively independent, and the city was composed of isolated community islands that were closed to each other.People from this unit cannot go to that unit. If they must go, they must issue a unit certificate and issue a letter of introduction.The function of cities is not reciprocity, but segregation, unit to unit, city to city, city to countryside.Since the reform and opening up, the rapid development of the market economy has quickly demolished all kinds of barriers in the city.Because market exchange activities require people to come and go frequently, barriers that hinder exchanges will be reformed.In the market, there are human flow, material flow, capital flow and information flow. No matter what kind of flow it is, flow is needed.For this kind of flowing water, the ancient Chinese sage Dayu had valuable experience: it cannot be blocked, it can only be smoothed.In order to build a city that can accommodate all kinds of dynamic and mobile things, attention must be focused on how to make urban residents better integrate rather than segregate.

The first is the fusion of functions.A person who sends a child to school cannot travel across the city, a pizza seller can run to a hungry person in the office within 10 minutes, and a truck can quickly drive to the door of the warehouse.The so-called poor and rich should also live together.The city is only efficient if you live together. Otherwise, there will only be rich people in this area. The aunts, nannies, and drivers at home live in places that are far away from each other, and these rich people will not be able to live.People of different income classes are mutual markets, why use walls to surround them?The fence will lead to a very high crime rate, the highest rate is the rape rate, there are too many dark places, girls dare not walk through, and the theft rate is also high.Good community planning should not have dead corners. Like Jianwai SOHO, there are no walls and no remote places, so crimes cannot occur.Anywhere, there are many people coming and going, where do you go to rape?If you open the window, all passers-by are your security guards, so pick up the phone and call 110.

In our architectural community planning, I emphasize the integration of nature, taking the beautiful nature as an example, and nature is an integrated whole.Our Chinese Taoists most admire the characteristic of "water". The exchange principle of the market makes people in the same flow as water. They not only provide services to each other, but also complete various exchanges, and eliminate misunderstandings through various consultations to achieve consensus.