New movement ? Bigness

     Modernist cares about function with the simplest forms without decorative facades. Also, they do not care about the site context. On the other hand, Post-modern style brings context to their attention, their architecture deliver the message to the public by using architecture such as decorative facade etc.

     Rem Koolhaas consider mass-produce building such as shophouse, suburbia etc as a junk space, space that not incorporate with site, you can put it in any location. It does not matter where the building located. His solution to the Junk space is "Bigness" He said "Bigness is ultimate architecture. It seems incredible that the size of a building alone embodies an ideological program, independent of the will of its architecture "For example, CCTV building does not cooperate with its site; however, it does not matter because the building is already became the context itself, because of its bigness.

     Personally, I adore his break through thinking and his terms, like Bigness or S M L XL. When you are in a gigantic building, you are being attracted to its bigness so much that you could be ignoring some primary elements or contexts of the site. For instance, the light affect to the building, or the surrounding of the building itself. Indeed, being big does not always has the upsides. The downside of being too big is that the building to become hard to control in term of both construction method and effects to the people inside of the building.With more advance in technology like parametric program etc., it could change the ways the architect designs architectures. Bigness is primary break-through idea of architectural design. In the near future, we might found the new source of architectural movement, WHO KNOWS.

CCTV BUILDING

Seattle Central Library