Contextual Design; Creating Connection and Calm | Shane Coen | TEDxWilmington
Summary
TLDREl discurso narra la experiencia del orador creciendo en un entorno amoroso y cómo la calma y la inspiración se derivan de su pasión por el diseño. Con 25 años de experiencia, ha trabajado en proyectos que buscan traer tranquilidad y motivación a través del diseño de espacios. Inspirado por su padre artista, aprendió a apreciar la belleza en lo cotidiano y a enseñar a las personas a ver y conectar con su entorno. Su enfoque en el diseño de comunidades y la integración con la naturaleza se refleja en proyectos que promueven la conexión humana y el respeto por el paisaje, culminando en una visión para una ciudad que valora la arquitectura y la experiencia humana.
Takeaways
- 🌱 La calma y la inspiración a través del diseño es una constante en la vida del orador, desde su infancia hasta su carrera profesional.
- 👨🎨 El padre del orador, un artista, le enseñó a ver la belleza en lo simple y cotidiano, lo que influenció su enfoque en el diseño.
- 🛣️ El diseño de comunidades debe respetar y dar vida al terreno, creando un intercambio simbiótico entre la gente y el espacio natural.
- 🏡 La arquitectura familiar y la herencia escandinava se reflejan en el diseño de las casas, buscando una conexión con la luz y el espacio.
- 🌾 El uso de materiales y patrones locales, como el pasto de pradera, contribuye a la creación de un paisaje urbano que celebra la tierra.
- 🌳 La importancia de la naturaleza en las ciudades, y cómo el diseño puede evocar experiencias al aire libre en espacios urbanos.
- 🏢 La responsabilidad de los desarrolladores y el gobierno en el diseño de infraestructuras que inspiren y mejoren la vida de las personas.
- 🏛️ La colaboración con arquitectos talentosos para diseñar edificios públicos que sean más que estructuras, sino también experiencias inspiradoras.
- 🌵 El proyecto en Riad, Arabia Saudita, que busca conectar a las personas con la naturaleza y el paisaje a través de un parque y un diseño urbano innovador.
- 🕌 La incorporación de patrones islámicos y la celebración de la cultura local en el diseño para enraizar al espacio en su contexto cultural.
- 🏙️ La visión del orador de cómo los edificios y el espacio público deberían ser diseñados para durar y ser respetados por las generaciones futuras.
Q & A
¿Cómo describió la persona su infancia y cómo influyó en su vida actual?
-La persona describió su infancia como muy activa, corriendo por la casa de sus padres, lo que le enseñó paciencia y amor de su madre. Esto ha permanecido con él hasta el día de hoy y le ayudó a encontrar la calma a través del diseño.
¿Cuál es la relación entre el trabajo del padre de la persona y su propia filosofía de diseño?
-El padre de la persona es un artista que pinta lo que siente en su corazón. Esta filosofía de expresión personal y la conexión con el significado se han mantenido con él y lo han influenciado en su enfoque en el diseño de espacios que inspiran y calman a las personas.
¿Cómo se describe la forma en que la persona aprendió a apreciar la belleza en lo simple a través de su padre?
-A través de los paseos con su padre, aprendió a apreciar la belleza y simplicidad en elementos del paisaje como una carretera de gravilla que se pierde en el horizonte, lo que más tarde se convirtió en una metáfora para su trabajo en diseño de paisaje.
¿Qué lecciones sobre el diseño de comunidades aprendió la persona de su experiencia en el campo de maíz?
-Aprendió a escuchar y preguntarle a la tierra qué hacer, a diseñar comunidades donde la gente diera a la tierra y la tierra diera a la gente, y a considerar la forma en que los elementos familiares y el color pueden hacer que el paisaje se convierta en una obra de arte.
¿Cómo se describe el proceso de diseño de la comunidad que la persona y su ex-partner John Stumpf crearon?
-El proceso incluyó caminar por el terreno, considerar la topografía y el clima, y utilizar elementos como el pasto de pradera y las casas como 'bolsas de heno' para crear una conexión con el paisaje y la herencia cultural escandinava.
¿Qué valores compartieron los habitantes de la comunidad que diseñaron y cómo influyeron en la creación de la comunidad?
-Los valores compartidos incluyeron el amor por la naturaleza, el medio ambiente, la arquitectura, el arte y las casas. Estos valores individuales y compartidos formaron la comunidad y la hicieron única.
¿Cómo se relaciona el diseño de la comunidad con la idea de abstracto de la naturaleza en lugar de imitarla?
-El diseño de la comunidad se basa en la idea de abstracto de la naturaleza, utilizando líneas geométricas simples y elementos del paisaje que contrastan con la naturaleza en lugar de intentar copiarla, lo que celebra la tierra y la conexión con el entorno.
¿Qué concepto de diseño se aplicó en la biblioteca pública que trabajaron y cómo?
-Se aplicaron piedras de un cantero abandonado y árboles de abedul para crear un espacio que evoque experiencias en la naturaleza del norte de Minnesota, promoviendo la conexión con la ciudad y entre las personas.
¿Cómo aborda la persona la responsabilidad de los desarrolladores y las agencias en el diseño de infraestructuras urbanas?
-La persona sugiere que los desarrolladores y las agencias deben rendir cuentas por el diseño de infraestructuras que duran cien años, buscando inspirar a las personas y no solo satisfacer necesidades funcionales.
¿Qué desafíos y oportunidades identificó la persona al diseñar el espacio público en Riyadh, Arabia Saudita?
-El desafío principal fue crear un espacio icónico y contextual que atrajera a la gente en una cultura de automóvil y con un intenso sol. La oportunidad fue diseñar el primer jardín botánico del país, combinando elementos de la cultura islámica y el paisaje del desierto.
¿Cómo se describen las estructuras de bronce que formarán parte del diseño del parque en Riyadh?
-Las estructuras de bronce están diseñadas con patrones islámicos y tienen una altura de 1200 pies, ancho de 1200 pies y se elevan 600 pies, sin necesidad de columnas, con el propósito de inspirar y ofrecer un lugar de calma y conexión con el paisaje.
Outlines
🏡 Inspiración y Calma a través del Diseño
El narrador comparte su experiencia de infancia, describiendo cómo su mente siempre estaba activa y cómo encontró tranquilidad en el diseño. Expresa su gratitud hacia su madre por su paciencia y amor, y cómo eso influyó en su vida. A lo largo de 25 años, ha trabajado con su equipo y colaboradores para crear espacios que inspiren calma y serenidad a las personas. El padre del narrador, artista plástico, le enseñó a ver la belleza en lo simple y cotidiano, como los paisajes de su tierra natal, Lamar, Colorado. El narrador reflexiona sobre cómo la simplicidad geométrica puede enriquecer la percepción del paisaje, y cómo su padre le enseñó a apreciar la belleza en los detalles que a menudo pasamos por alto.
🌾 Diseño Comunitario y Respeto al Territorio
El narrador cuenta su enfoque en el diseño de comunidades, donde la interacción entre la gente y el terreno es fundamental. Al recibir la tarea de diseñar una comunidad, él y su ex-partner John Stumpf se inspiran en un campo de maíz y deciden crear un espacio donde la tierra y las personas se den a la vez. El diseño se basa en principios de diseño sencillo y respetuoso con el entorno, como poner las carreteras en las partes más bajas de la tierra para que no se vean y utilizar formas familiares que celebren la herencia escandinava. El narrador enfatiza la importancia de la luz en cada habitación y cómo esto conecta a las personas con el espacio. Describe cómo el diseño de la comunidad se basa en valores compartidos y cómo esto ha llevado a una comunidad unida.
🌳 Integración de Naturaleza en la Ciudad y Proyectos Arquitectónicos
El narrador discute la importancia de la naturaleza en las ciudades y cómo los espacios urbanos pueden evocar recuerdos de experiencias naturales. Cuenta cómo, al trabajar en la biblioteca pública, usaron piedra de una cantera abandonada y árboles de abedul para crear un espacio que inspirara recuerdos de Minnesota septentrional. Aboga por hacer responsables a las autoridades y agencias por la infraestructura de las ciudades, sugiriendo que se involucre a diseñadores talentosos para mejorar la experiencia cotidiana de las personas. También comparte su experiencia en Riad, Arabia Saudita, donde diseñaron el espacio público alrededor del distrito financiero del Rey Abdullah, creando un parque que atrajera a las personas y celebrara el paisaje y la arquitectura. El proyecto incluyó la creación de viviendas, la reutilización de agua, y la incorporación de patrones islámicos y elementos del desierto local, como dunas de arena y un jardín botánico, para crear un espacio ícono y contextual.
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Keywords
💡Paciencia
💡Diseño
💡Inspiración
💡Artista
💡Paisaje
💡Minimalismo
💡Comunidad
💡Herencia
💡Práctica sostenible
💡Cultura islámica
💡Conexión con la naturaleza
Highlights
The speaker's childhood was marked by a wild nature and a nurturing environment from his mother, which influenced his current approach to design.
Design is a method to calm the speaker's active mind, a practice he has pursued for 25 years with his team and clients.
The speaker's father, an artist, inspired him with the beauty of simplicity in landscapes and the importance of painting from the heart.
The concept of seeing and understanding the environment around us is a lesson imparted by the speaker's father and integral to the speaker's design philosophy.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of respecting the land and designing communities that give back to it.
The design process involves listening to the land and creating spaces that celebrate the landscape and its heritage.
The speaker discusses the contrast between the natural landscape and the mathematical, less connected developments that replaced farm fields.
A community design project started with a vision to create a place where people and land mutually benefit each other.
The design of the community incorporated Scandinavian heritage, white houses, and specific architectural elements to connect residents with nature.
The use of prairie grass and hay bales as design elements abstracts the prairie, celebrating the land without mimicking it.
The speaker's house uses the spaces between structures to frame views and encourage interaction with the environment.
The speaker advocates for abstracting nature in urban design to evoke a sense of connection and inspiration.
The Public Library project utilized an abandoned quarry stone and birch trees to create a connection with nature in an urban setting.
The speaker calls for holding elected officials and agencies accountable for the design of city infrastructure that impacts daily life.
The design of a community in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aimed to create a public realm that draws people in and celebrates the landscape.
The project in Riyadh involved designing a park and a botanical garden with star-shaped canopies to provide shade and inspire visitors.
The design process in Riyadh included studying local context, such as the sun, water sources, and Islamic patterns, to create a meaningful public space.
The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of ideas born out of context and the collective excitement in bringing them to life.
Transcripts
I was a wild kid I used to just take
laps through my parents home through the
kitchen through the living room
I joke my mom crazy but she showered me
with patience and love and that has
stayed with me to this day
my mind raced as a kid and it still
raises today and I found that one of the
ways that I can calm it is through
design and I've spent the last 25 years
working with my team and my clients and
collaborators on the idea that we can
bring this sense of calm and inspiration
to other people as they entered the
spaces that we create my dad is an
artist and I have watched him paint his
way through his life he is always
painted what is in his heart what is
meaning to him and that too has stayed
with me when I was in junior high he
started painting his homeland Lamar
Colorado and we used to drive and sit
right here and he would talk to me about
the beauty and the simplicity of a
gravel road piercing through the
landscape and vanishing into the horizon
line and I would return to this image
later in life and and study how the
landscape around comes to life
juxtaposed against these simple
geometrical lines that we can create he
paints stuff that we drive by every day
and don't take the time to look at and
see he taught me to see
who taught you to see do you take the
time to see and to understand what's
around you and how that's making you
feel do you teach people to see I love
to teach to people to see my dad used to
talk to me about the absolute simplicity
of a field of wheat next to a field of
corn and how your eye goes to these
simple patterns created by the farmer
and the fields we talked about what I
still believe to be the ultimate
statement of minimalism a field of hay
with hay bales sitting on it and on our
trip back to Boulder as we got from
Lamar to Boulder when we got closer to
home the farm fields would turn to
developments and all heritage of the
land was a race these are mathematical
equations developed in an office they're
not communities that were designed by
walking the land and in a sense they say
we're more important than anything that
was here before us and yet we ask people
to live in these and connect to them and
so the first time I got asked to design
a community I hike to a cornfield and I
stood right here with my ex-partner John
Stumpf and we looked out at this land
and we said I think we can design a
community where the people give to the
land and the land gives to the people
and so we started walking that land that
day and we did what I still do to this
day whenever I walk it a new site is I
asked the land what to do because the
land will always speak to you
we were walking around this hill and we
said let's put the put the roads at the
lowest part of the land so you won't see
them let's revolve around this
whalesback we called it the architect
David some sumela incredible architect
said we should paint all the houses
white they should have familiar forms
that celebrate the Scandinavian heritage
12 12 pitch roofs standing metal seam
roofs no house can be wider than 24 feet
so light meets each person in every room
you're always connected to the room what
happens when you do that the familiar
forms and the a singular color landscape
comes to life the land is celebrated we
studied the heritage that was before the
farm there was a Prairie a sacred
Prairie filled with little bluestem we
took that single prairie grass and we
had it drilled into the entire landscape
to abstract the prairie not to recreate
it and the little bluestem became our
hay and the houses became our hay bales
this is my house we use the spaces in
between the garages and the house is to
frame views and when you have a detached
garage like our grandparents did you
actually walk outside to get to your
front door you actually breathe the air
you might say hi to your neighbor you'll
definitely notice the Stars and you can
celebrate the landscape by positioning
these structures in a very respectful
way with the surrounding we experimented
with how straight lines piercing through
nature is more powerful than trying to
pretend like your nature because I
promise you mother earth is way too
powerful to try to mimic and when you
try to pretend like your natural I think
we kind of take something from her
rather than celebrate her through
contrast so it was so cool about
creating this community with values as
they we all moved in with a shared sense
of values we loved a call
we love the environment we love the farm
we loved architecture we loved art we
loved our homes and it's in those shared
values and the individual values of each
person there that community has formed
you can take these same ideas into our
cities when we walk down the streets of
our cities we actually crave nature we
love being in cities but we crave nature
and I believe the most powerful
landscapes are ones that abstract nature
rather than mimic it
they are spaces that you walk by in a
city that make you recall spiritual
experiences that you've had in nature so
when we were working on the Public
Library we took a stone that wasn't
being used at an abandoned quarry and we
stacked it all around the library and we
planted birch trees three feet on sinner
in hopes that when people walk by there
they would recall subconsciously or
consciously an experience they had in
northern Minnesota and they would take
the time to sit connect with the city
connect with each other we need to hold
our elected officials and agencies
accountable for all the infrastructure
that goes into our cities imagine how
much money spent on our bridges and and
on ramps and off ramps these are given
to two engineering firms and and they
typically get paid six to seven percent
to design these you know we can reach
out to the greatest thinkers in the
world the greatest designers in the
world and they can design the same
riches in the same on-ramps but when we
go over them we're gonna feel inspired
and our day is gonna be better when you
drive down a highway and you drive by a
sound wall how many of us drive by these
all the time again
somebody's making six to seven percent
on these things maybe they should
collect energy maybe we should grow
vines on them and then when we drive
back and forth every day we'll feel
better
each day
it's so great that our cities are
finally reaching out to the world's
leading architects to design our museums
our performing arts centers our
libraries it's fantastic
we need to keep that up and and reach
out to the emerging the emerging talent
but we also need to hold our developers
accountable because when they put a
building into our city it's gonna be
there for the next hundred years and so
they have a responsibility not to the
people that are living in that building
but to the them to but to us as we walk
by as we drive by we need to be inspired
by their work we recently had a chance
to put these ideas together in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia and we were asked to design
1,200 acres surrounding the King
Abdullah financial district think of
wall street in the desert five miles
outside of Riyadh but the government
hired 50 architects to do incredible
buildings and they asked us to design
the public realm around it and to create
a park that would pull people to it see
it's a car driven culture they actually
don't walk very much in in Riyadh and so
our challenge was to create something
iconic enough contextual enough that
people would want to come to it and
celebrate each other and the landscape
so we walked this land this is a mile
long and we felt inspired we kept
stopping all the way down and looking at
those buildings there's a 12 lane
highway that divided us from those
buildings and we said how should we do
this we should study the context the Sun
the Sun is intense in Saudi Arabia it's
a requirement to cover all parks 50%
from the Sun when we were walking that
land we couldn't believe it that there
was water traveling underneath this all
the water from the surrounding
communities that were washed down a sink
we're flowing in a pipe right underneath
us we said we want to use that water we
walked through the soups we walked
through the city and we were mesmerized
by the Islamic patterns this is
something our country could do a lot
better office about celebrating their
culture and their architectural pattern
you just feel rooted in place and then
when you go outside of the city the sand
just grabs you and everybody drives
outside and they sit on a blanket and
they have tea and they connect with the
desert but when you're in the city
there's no desert so we we said well
what could we design that could it be as
powerful as these 50 towers I mean
they're immense and we want people to
come and celebrate them and the park to
stand up so the government also said we
need to provide housing for for 40,000
people on this mile-long piece of land
so we said well we have to put it all
against one edge and we started working
with our incredible collaborators Shubin
and Donaldson and this would be a
mile-long building 40 stories high it'd
have parks running through it trains
running through it trains on top parks
on top of it and that would create a
void between this very simple solid
building in this collection of buildings
over here
okay so then when returned to our
principles water I'm gonna grab the
water and we're gonna reuse it and we
started working with Arab engineering
and they figured out how to get all that
water out of a pipe irrigate anything
we'd want to put in that Park and have
it a water feature run through it so we
abstracted the way that water would run
through a desert rather than trying to
pretend like we were a Wadi then we took
the simple urban grid from the
surrounding neighborhoods 300 by 500
feet and we said let's just pull it
right into the park that'll be our
circulation system and so the park will
be part of the city and the city will be
part of the park we knew we needed life
and we knew we needed to protect from
the Sun so we started playing around
with these star-shaped sand dunes as a
form that would potentially be a canopy
that would cover everyone then we
proposed the first Botanical Garden in
Saudi Arabia for a mile long on half of
the park and import desert on the other
half so you'd have desert Wadi Botanical
Garden and these giant stars floating
over the top of them it's an idea born
out of context my favorite thing in life
besides love is when it ideas born when
you when you come up with a simple idea
and you know it's a powerful idea
because everybody around you wants to
work on it so we said let's start making
let's start studying these canopies how
big should they be the architecture team
Schubert and Donaldson started working
on him the world's greatest structural
engineer started working on them every
meeting had more energy than the last
everyone was excited I was actually
barely sleeping at the thought of
creating these kind of mammoth
structures they start to get very real
when they take form and we decided
they'd be made out of bronze and they
would be made out of an Islamic pattern
that we all selected and they would cast
shadows on to the ground and that you
would see them from a distance and you
would wonder what they were and you'd
move towards them
you'd walk through the Botanical Garden
or you would walk along the wadi and
along the desert they were in the end
twelve hundred feet tall twelve hundred
feet wide six hundred feet up and six
hundred feet down without a single
column and we started to be able to
imagine that as people move towards
these things they would feel a sense of
calm they would feel inspired and they
would hopefully look at each other and
the landscape in a new way thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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