- Glenn Murcutt
Architects play a significant role in reconciling current and
future human needs with a sustainable future. To do that you actually
need to engage, in a lot of different areas; visioning,
identifying and inventing the future of design and construction, from new
processes of digital design to off-site construction methods through to novel
fabrication tools and strategies. Their aims and
objectives and their designs have always reflected changes in public opinion,
taste, developments in technology together with the need to provide
accommodation for a wide variety of occupants and functions in buildings. These days, some of the most elegant
and innovative interiors emerge from a creative use of compact quarters.
One of the defining characteristics of sustainability was its attempt to
simplify and separate systems, so you have a compact space. In shifting towards a more
sustainable lifestyle, consolidating your space is a pretty easy way in achieving ‘satisfaction
and aesthetic pleasure’. A
smaller home takes less material to build, and requires fewer resources to
maintain indoor comfort translates into a material pallet where you have a one-to-one
relationship between the material. Modernism’s moralistic relationship
to “honesty of materials” is a vestige of this, surviving as a kind of
dogma.
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