Bigness of the commercial building
vs
The true Public space
The man lives in a chaotic
city. He wanted to take a break from a rush
hour when everybody is in hurry to do things or go to work. He
then enters the place where provide everything for leisure. A
huge structure in the middle of the city.
When he has a first glance
on the facade, he cannot predict what activities will happen inside. What
kind of space or how many of them. Due to the bigness of it. When
he first enters the building. He passes through a big
pathway which has many type of spaces and shops all along. He
notices that there is various type of people in here. They
do different activities. Some in a different type of
space, some in the same. He even perceives the space
that make him feel like a garden or a small park inside the building, where
people can take a break from their activities and just relax. It
provides skylight and trees that make you feel more intimate with the nature,
unlike your absence is in an interior.
He cannot justify the
purpose of this building by a single gesture of an individual. But
everyone seems to use this building as their want comfortably. When
he reaches the core of it. He sees the massive
circulation that make him feel like its a small city. Where
people is traveling in it. Go through various spaces,
experience various things. But eventually there are all
in the same place. He wonders what is the meaning of BIGNESS. What
is the relationship to the context. Or the subtext of it is to
fuck the context? The only space that people has an interaction toward one
another is at the core, if this building can be compared to the city then the
core is like a park in the city.