Monday, August 14, 2006
Concept and Idea
What's the difference between "concept" and "idea"?
I was explaining to the studio the other day that there is a discernible difference between the two, but concept and idea are closely intertwined with each other.
I said that a door is a concept, or a boy or a girl is a concept, but what type of door? It could be a sliding door or one with different parts that could fold. Hence two doors may have different set of ideas and therefore have two different concepts. I mean the Martial Arts Centre and the Community Centre that the students will be designing this semester, are two basic concepts waiting to be "realized" by the imagination and visualisation of the students.
We are getting excited. All of us in the studio. The more you think the more real and convincing your project will be and the more the tutors will also fall in love with your concept of the project.
I was thinking about the Garden City Concept by Ebenezer Howard. How did it come about to be a concept? He thought about all the components of what makes a city. The streets, the houses, the farms, the railway lines and the population necessary to make it work. He arranged the parts in a radial manner, and he wrote about many issues of urbanity faced at the turn of the 19th century.
It is true that the Martial Arts Centre and the Community Centre are concepts on their own, without the students designing any yet. We saw the case studies and precedent studies of other martial arts and community centres that existed before, presented by the students last Thursday. They had different ideas shoring up their approach to a martial arts or a community centre. There were precedents from the U.S.A., U.K., Japan, Singapore and even in Malaysia.
The case studies were very interesting as the students had to interview and visit the premises of these places. It made us think about the project more and more. We shall see tomorrow.
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