i watch tv shows now.. Who knew.
so i've been working on the computer while watching the backlog of episodes from numb3rs. it made me think a little bit about what things i liked about the show and i think i've come up with a decision.
my favorite part of the show, the best character, the strongest set. they're all the same
the house is the best thing about the show.
now i love the show for the nerd aspect. its been on for a while and i'm pretty surprised by the quality of the story arc that seems to have been rolling for a 5 year period. (i only hope that fringe can keep up that sort of quality without losing sight of its main goal {it already started to}) but the show has helped to prove to me that the quality of a well designed space is not always the pre-destined function of a room, but its surplus functions.
when you put a stairwell in a house you know it will be used to climb to a higher level or lower one. what you cant truly expect is how often people will sit on those steps and chat with one another. when you have a porch on your house, you have no way of knowing as the designer excatly how much time will be spent there, be it a front or back porch. that doesn't say if it will become a garden or a secondary (or hell, maybe a preferred) living room. it says almost nothing about he quality of the climate or the atmosphere or ambiance of the surroundings.
what i'm getting at is that the spaces in the show focused on the house show a type of use of a house that i think i would love to explore. the ideal of helping research what the plans of a designer result in when the designer focuses on the utility of the spatial design.
oh yeah, and also. i'm a big fuckin nerd.
my favorite part of the show, the best character, the strongest set. they're all the same
the house is the best thing about the show.
now i love the show for the nerd aspect. its been on for a while and i'm pretty surprised by the quality of the story arc that seems to have been rolling for a 5 year period. (i only hope that fringe can keep up that sort of quality without losing sight of its main goal {it already started to}) but the show has helped to prove to me that the quality of a well designed space is not always the pre-destined function of a room, but its surplus functions.
when you put a stairwell in a house you know it will be used to climb to a higher level or lower one. what you cant truly expect is how often people will sit on those steps and chat with one another. when you have a porch on your house, you have no way of knowing as the designer excatly how much time will be spent there, be it a front or back porch. that doesn't say if it will become a garden or a secondary (or hell, maybe a preferred) living room. it says almost nothing about he quality of the climate or the atmosphere or ambiance of the surroundings.
what i'm getting at is that the spaces in the show focused on the house show a type of use of a house that i think i would love to explore. the ideal of helping research what the plans of a designer result in when the designer focuses on the utility of the spatial design.
oh yeah, and also. i'm a big fuckin nerd.