LECTURER 04

CEDRIC PRICE

Non-Plan & Activity and Change

Cedric Price suggest total dissolution of the planning system. The idea non-plan is highly controversial, but it has a continuing influence. Non-Plan infuriated many architects and planners because not only was it extremely provocative and contentious but it also went against the established order and controlled uniformity of the built environment. Non-plan is intended to destroy a system of value. I disagree with this point. Although good planning will give us more clearly directions and preparation to face the out-coming problems, non-plan also will bring us to an unexpected outcome and the result might be more stunning and unprecedented that we cannot imagine how the outcome will be. The reason is non-plan encourage unevenness of development and reducing the permanence by avoiding the very reinforcement. Thus, you might exploit peculiarity and even more discoveries through the non-planning process. However, for our pasar design now, due to the restriction of timing, we still need a good planning of time while doing the design. Although non-plan sometimes will give us an unexpected splendid result because of the unbounded restriction, but we still need some plan or else it might exceed the requirements and time given to finish the works for my final design now.

Non-plan: City Movement

I support Cedric Price's concept of "anticipatory architect" in which the general public could determine, control and shape their own surrounding freely. All buildings should allow for obsolescence and complete changes of use. It might establish a new order of priorities of land, sea and air that related more directly to social and economic life-span of use. Non-plan explored ways of involving people in the design of their environments. I agree with the statement that people's own choices should be respected. It is good that we ask everyone ideas and preferences before designing a space because we also do not want to force the people to fit in a place that dislike to stay or join. Architecture bring life to humans thus we should let people shape the environment they want to live and work in so architecture will bring people together in the end. This is the reason why we should do the survey of people in pasar and ask the things that they prefer or hope to improve the environment or space. I hope to design the pasar that will associate with social life of kajang community and we should consider the economic life-span of pasar use in the future. Hence, pasar should allow to change and establish some new input to enliven the pasar for the coming years.

Cedric Prices Fun Palace sketches architectural details

Cedric Price favours non-architectural solution to the accommodation of human activities and denigrate the limitations of permanent and monumental buildings. It is easier to allow for individual flexibility than organisational changes. For example, the expandable house, the multi-use of fixed volumes and the transportable controlled environment. It is useful to applied in our final project now that we can design modular stall that is expandable and multi-functional for sitting and display items purpose. It is allowing for change and flexibility. It is essential that the variation provided does not imposed a discipline that everything is permanent and load-bearing. We should open-minded that design is flexibility and allow for change if it is not suitable to apply. When designing pasar we can plan for activities that allow for change not only in content but in means of operation. For instance, we can have two planning in pasar, which are day market and night market that the operation time are different but with movable stalls of different arrangement that can be different in activities and operations but at the same place.

Peter Andrew : Non-plan city movement

In a nutshell, non-plan enables uneven development, the particularization of occupation, habitat and appetite to occur in place and at times best suited to it. Through its permissive attitude to change, it increases the validity of continuous redevelopment resulting in activities and forms as yet unrealized. Although the result might be unexpected, we still need to accept along the time. For pasar design, we can apply some non-plan ideas above that make the design more lively and interesting because sometimes you will unrealize to obtain the outstanding result when go through the process. Therefore design process and development are vital. However, we still need to emphasize the planning of time. Remember design is allow to change and flexible. Don't bash one's head against a brick wall. We should think out of the box sometimes but do not forget the practicability and functionality.


Written by Chiew Jing Yi, 1001644071