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The Uniqueness of People’s Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested

In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect the constructed item to its surroundings and context, is completely missing. The participation of the users in the design process will not properly resolve this issue, unless the required decision is made at the right moment in the sequence of decision making during design. The organic unfolding of a building tells us when various decisions must be made --as an example, the decision point for sizes and shapes of windows will be after decisions on position and size of rooms, and on position of the windows in each room in relation to views and light have been finalized. The uniqueness of people's individual worlds and the geometric uniqueness of each space are tightly intertwined and arise from proper sequence in the process of design.
Areas of focus:
Design and Building Process
Guiding idea:
Participation of Users
Thoughts and Arguments Explored and Developed

A process so finely tuned to circumstance that every part becomes unique
Uniqueness arises naturally from sequence, from doing things in the right order and from the appropriateness of repetition
Respect for what exists
A direct sequence of logical steps leading from people’s wishes to a useful geometric form

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