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Synopsis No: 04 Students Name: 1. Ang Boon Cheong

2. Chua Sor Hong3. Gan Sze Hui (Scarlett)4. Ahmad Farhan Shah5. Yasaanth K.

6. Preshant Rasu7. Hans Hosea Gonza

Text: From Towards a Critical Regiona lism Author: Kenneth Frampton

Year Written: 1981

Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one box)

X Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary context X Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a problem X Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture: presenting a theory/manifesto

X Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a design method

Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a theory Others:

Please complete the following:

What are the issuesaddressed? Lack of sense of place in modern architecture

With the onslaught of universal civilization stirred byincreasing hunger for development, freestanding high-rises and freeways more concerned with utility

Avant-garde become rational and used to destroy cultureand retard society.

Critical Regionalism not just stuck to vernacular but isabout implemented newness .

New form generates placelessness, or anindistinguishable domain.

.What are the designmethods/strategy/theoriesproposed?

Critical regionalism should adopt modern architecturecritically for its universal progressive qualities but atthe same time should value responses particular to thecontext.

A design method that is assuredly modern architecturebut relies on1. Organic unity of topography,2. Local material3. Climatic,4. Light,5. Cultural characteristics,6. Tectonic form and7. Tactile sense

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Relate the text toarchitectural/urban formsby illustrating one keyimage.

Justify the selection.

Rokko Housing I,II, and III, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 1999by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

The architect should enter a dialectical relation withnature , taking clues from the topography and avoidingbulldozing in order to flatten space.

The Rokko housing project is characterized by the steep

60 degree slope of the site located at the foot of Mt.Rokko. Avoiding the modernist tabula rasa approach oflevelling the site, Ando chose to situate his building onthe severe slopes to make a quiet building standingquietly in nature, one that preserves the tectonicqualities of the mountain.

The passageways were intended to be activated by theinterpenetration of public and private realms so thatone can get the sense of the life in each housing units.In the past, streets, particularly back alleys in japanserved as communal spaces for the neighbourhood; thesecommunal spaces threaded their way among buildings andwere intimately connected with everyday life culture .

Andos architecture gives rise to a revitalized Japanesefeeling for the interplay of light, material and detail(traced to the history of Japanese architecture).