Non-Plan & Activity and Change

Cedric Price

Architectural plan design is invariably obey the principles of form and space design, constant the relationship between building and environment. However, non-plan design concept has unlocked the door of freedom, trying to turn into impermanence space organization. It has provide a platform for the people to decide the shaping of an environmental design and circumventing planning bureaucracy. In short, people could stay in their dreamful space to live or to work. For me, I am not sure about the application, but as a thesis it has last and well-known currently. A proposition was succeed if it has been ubiquitous no matter how it works as every people have their own perspective, nil people will be the same.

Function should follow fiction as building design should base on culture rather than nature. As a designer, we have to consider the characteristics and habits of client. For wet market design, it is possible to apply cross-program in the design consideration. Visitors are allow to have different kind of activities on site. After operation hours, market is not merely a market anymore. It has play the role as another space function to serve the client’s requirement.

Site Environment of Pasar Sungai Chua, Kajang

In Fun Palace, project accomplish by Cedric Price, express the great influences of contemporary architecture to the society. It has some new technology ideas into the building so that visitors may have fun and examine their intelligence at the same time. Besides, it was special for the flexible structural framework, permits the possibility of changes. In my opinion, a building should not be constant at one form as time fades and alter could turn the fates of that specific building. Fun Palace has serve the public and expand human freedom, restricting the impact of any architectural style. Thus, it creates infinity opportunity in the future.

Fun Palace by Cedric Price

Human activities will change directly proportional to the time. For all assets and non- assets, it will depreciate gradually with time. So does the building elements, it will not be judged by its value separately, but the whole building condition. Time change, things change. As such, architecture is the medicine of building, design with a most long-lasting and useful space for human activities. The flexibility of design in wet market by making the plan expandable has persuaded the client to satisfy with the overall design.

To wrap up my view, non-plan directs freedom of architectural design.

Written by Wong Rong Song, 1001746688