following are excerpts from a Student Handbook 2015-2016, produced by the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ - https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/architecturalstudies/:
“The inhabitants of a single building live a few inches from each other, they are separated by a mere partition wall, they share the same spaces repeated along each corridor, they perform the same movements at the same times, turning on a tap, flushing the water closet, switching on a light, laying the table, a few dozen simultaneous existences repeated from storey to storey, from building to building, from street to street.”
Georges Perec: Life A User’s Manual
“One of the prime purposes of architecture is to heighten the drama of living. Therefore, architecture must provide differentiated spaces for different activities, and it must articulate them in such a way that the emotional content of the particular act of living which takes place in them is reinforced.”
Edmund N. Bacon ‘Design of Cities’
Housing developments are traditionally viewed as the building blocks from which the city is formed. Cellular components are repeated in an organised manner to become the physical backdrop to the urban realm. As the city is continually renewing and developing, one might almost argue that physical form erodes and decays, through natural and unnatural processes, and as such these building blocks need to be continually replaced and re-invented. The manner in which this happens is dependent on contemporary issues (e.g. budget, style and construction methods) and wider global issues (e.g. climate change and sustainability). Development may acknowledge the preceding urban form, the urban rules established by patterns from the past, or subvert these rules to its own agenda.
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