Help
One of the problems I having at the moment after reading the Sanford Kwinter text "Who's afraid of formalism" is trying to generate a building form not just in terms of the building as an object but going inside the object to internal rules of formation as well, which can generate different spaces, organisation of spaces, materiality, etc. My first attempt at a building was generated from my diagram by an abstract elaborate process, which in the end created a form in the most basic sense of the word, void of anything other than looking similar to a space ship! Doing exactly what Kwinter talks about as poor formalism, maybe this is why I disliked it. Don't get me wrong there are lessons to be learned from the critical analysis of this abstract from but it's like an object without a purpose. I suppose what I’m trying to say is I either seem to look at one or the other separately, the form of the object (form of expression) or the form of the theme (form of the content). I'm having real trouble trying to create a building holistically, generating the formation of it in all senses of the word together. At least with folding it wasn't just internal or external, the formation of a building was generated through a series of moves, it could created a geometry, organise space, act as the structure and start to express materiality, so maybe that’s the answer. I've looked at projects by other architects but sometimes it's hard to trace their moves in the design process to achieve just this because some of these things are intuitive to them. Does anyone have any ideas, or am I the only one whose struggling with this?