A column is a room
A Blog of Architecture
Is a column a room?
Throughout time, rooms have come to signify programming and the jobs we assign them in society. However, to architects and theorists, rooms can scantly be an expression of space and materiality. Some rooms need not even be inhabited to be functional. Can we accidentally create them? Is a room a room if not human can inhabit it?
A room is not a cavity. It has a role in to the person who built or uses it. However, if all humans stopped existing for a day on earth - would every room suddenly become a cavity? If we look at a room as an emergent phenomenon of the building, something that can evolve on its own without our assistance - we can start to see the whole architecture as something more than just a building. We don't live in buildings, we live in environments. and thusly a building is an environment.
“A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.”
— Lebbeus Woods