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1967 Osmo Lappo
The Need for Flexibility: A Problem of
Modern Architecture
Close on nine months after the Danish architect
Jørn
Utzon gave up the planning of Sydney Opera House, after much disagreement, the
architects who had started to continue his work there announced that it was impossible
for them to meet the demand that the great hall should simultaneously be an
opera, concert and meeting hall. Without giving any further thought to the
question of whether the original designer could have honourably met the demands
made of him, we can draw a couple of conclusions bearing on the subject of this
lecture from the announcement I just mentioned. First, we can say that the
client would like a flexible space suitable for more than one purpose, that is,
more use of his expensive investment. Second, we note that the designers cannot
fulfill this requirement. The question is probably of a demand for flexibility
which is – with present means, anyway – almost impossible to attain without
compromising over the quality of the finished product.
There
are, of course, many planning jobs where we have long been used to the demand
for flexibility. One example is the office block: one of its fundamental
characteristics is a window axle distribution based on the size of the work
points, making it possible to divide up the floors into rooms of different
sizes with light, movable partition walls. Here , the need for flexibility is
well-founded, clearly defined and relatively easy to produce.
It
is, however, by no means always possible to inform the architect in advance
what kind of flexibility is expected. In the case of many building jobs,
flexibility is even thought unnecessary. Function is conceived of as something
static, the present situation permanent. In many cases, only a few years after
the completion, the architect may see to his amazement that the space is not
being used at all in the way he had planned. What goes on in the building is
not following the line mapped out beforehand. A good example of this is Paul
Rudolph’s plan for the new building of the Department of Architecture at Yale
University, which is certainly not being used in the way the architect
originally planned. The students have divided up the central hall, which was
designed to have a monumental effect, into separate little working cubicles
with paper walls and bits of curtaining. Or to come closer to home, when have
you ever seen the 4th year drawing room in our own Department of
Architecture full of hardworking architecture students?
The
need for flexibility – the chance to make changes – always exists, even where
no one expected it beforehand. There are also sectors of planning for which we
know in advance that we can absolutely certainly expect changes. An example is
modern university planning, where it is almost impossible to predict the
development
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