My life in an Architectural study: System & Deep planning architecture...

The word "system" is introduced to us a while ago, often to increase the awareness of its importance and hopefully influenced us to how we adapted the idea to increase our performance in different aspects. We viewed system as being well-organized, well-established, anything with a certain form of system insisted "order" and act as a structure that usually help the place to survive and outshine the others that don't. Nevertheless, many things around us have their own systems which is unique to the region, this system is the structure of the place, it creates the place and it's what made the place unique in itself. As architects, we looked at "places" differently than others, to view the place for its physicality is common but to understand a specific place requires the understanding of the "system" of that place.

System of the place could be linked to many aspects such as social and environmental. In a way, understanding the "system" of the place is a crucial point in "deep planning" architecture, where not only the holistic quality of the site is taken under consideration prior to the designing stage but the architects would look at the ecological aspect of the site and uses that as an influences or concept of the building. Thus from my point of view, deep planning will helps create a more of an "empty form" architecture as the form of the building would come from its context in terms of its surroundings etc. , hence, its ability to survive over time as it has a better understanding of not just the physical aspects of the place but also a more ecological way of understanding which means that it is much deeper in context. To my surprise I actually think that many of the successful buildings today are somewhat relate to this concept of "system" and "deep planning" and similarly the trend of new architecture projects today also shifted to be more site-related and somewhat with an influenced from the ecological aspect of the site.

One example that I could think of is the project called "Geotube; Vertical salt deposit" by Faulders studio in the text "On Farming" as a text about how to use new architecture to improve our farming industry. I'm interested in this concept of farming because in itself, lies a many systems - the system of operation and production as well as the need to understand the environments and the ecology of the area of the farm as well. Thus when combined with architecture, many of this aspects will influenced the design which is a lot more interesting personally. Geotube is a project proposing a new way to create salt farm that would take up less space and allows multiple programs to be held in the area. The interesting aspect of this project is that it is very site-related and that it required the deep planning and an understanding of the ecological aspect of the site to come up with this architecture. located in Dubai, where the salinity level in the sea is higher than many other places, salt are traditionally collected horizontally and the space has no other uses. The proposal is to build a tower with an external mesh facade, being nearby to the shore, the sea water would then be pumped to the tower and releases down the mesh facade. With the unique extreme dry climate of the area, the water would evaporate fairly quickly, leaving the salt which can be collected on the mesh, by doing this, it is a quicker method to produce salt and required a lot lesser space. The way that the salt can be collected is also a lot easier and the tower could be used for other program as well. Thus, to me, this seems to be a very creative yet possible project which displays how the "system" and "deep planning" could be combined to the project to create a unique architecture that goes beyond the normal aesthetics and functions of but also reached out to being a part of the already established "system" of the place and being a part of its ecology.