POLYVALENCE: THE COMPETENCE OF FORM AND SPACE WITH REGARD TO DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION

摘要

The more narrowly you keep to the programme of your brief, the less you will be at the service of your client and, ultimately, of the community as a whole. This applies especially to the meticulously enumerated dimensions of spaces, now a firm fixture it seems, where each square metre is presumed tamed and with an indestructible penny-wisdom it is assumed that everything has been done well and done to advantage. Yet even before the building is taken into use the dream is dashed when this state of affairs fails to square with the demand, which has been modified in the meantime. When designing a professional kitchen, not the least specialist of subjects, Architectuurstudio HH consulted the person we took to be the most appropriate and best informed - the chef who was to work in it. We then sought to determine with great accuracy all the distances between appliances and their relative positions as well as the right places for waste discharge, vapour extraction and other specifications vital to the kitchen's proper functioning during all routine activities. When it was taken into use, however, we found a new chef we had never seen before wondering in stupefaction who on earth had thought up what to him was a totally unworkable situation.