Theory, Principle & Methods

Designing Memory : Context, Cultural

Value, & Force Base Framework
Asas Perancangan Arsitektur 4
Didit Novianto
13 Feb 2023
https://www.its.ac.id/arsitektur/id/dosen-staff/dosen-arsitektur/didit-novianto/
1. Understanding Context
2. Context and Design
3. Force Base Framework
Understanding Context
We can know something without understanding it. So achieving understanding seems an
additional step forward, and we would not take this step if it did not have some additional
value.

Furthermore, knowledge may easily be acquired through the testimony of experts;

understanding, by contrast, seems more demanding and requires that an epistemic agent
herself puts together several pieces of information, grasps connections, can reason about
causes, and this too suggests an added value.

The difference of knowledge and understanding Source: What is understanding?

An overview of recent debates in epistemology and philosophy of science (Baumberger et al)
Basic Kanji Book Vol 1.
By nature, context is about everything. And if something is about everything, how
can we even begin to understand it?

Source: Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and

Information Architecture (Andrew Hinton, 2014)
Whenever we’re trying to figure out what one thing means in relation to
something else, we say we’re trying to understand its context.

Source: Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and

Information Architecture (Andrew Hinton, 2014)
Source: Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and Information Architecture
(Andrew Hinton, 2014)
Context and Design
Relation between concept, content, and context
Source: Architectural Concept: Red Is Not A Color (Bernard Tschumi, 2012)
Relation between concept, content, and context
Source: Architectural Concept: Red Is Not A Color (Bernard Tschumi, 2012)
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Mirikaroden Nakagawa
Force Base Framework
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WHAT IS FORCE?

Non-formal factor that can be

used to make decision that
define form
Forces
• The type of forces and their specific composition come from the situation to
which the architecture respond. It can be:
Context
Cultural content
Recognition of need
• Any force can be used as long as the result can be expressed in a formal response.
• The easiest forces to make relevant are, environmental, physical and social, as
they directly affect formal expression.
All design is based on
forces...
Designers need something to respond to make decisions

Dr. Philip D. Plowright

The project/proposal departs from the forces that are divided into (context,
culture, needs) and then translated into assets, constraints, pressure to
formulate a form
https://contexto.me/