Surgery Abstract

Perception creates experience. Time alters perception. Repetition and sequence of experience affects the way we perceive. An urban narrative of space is influenced by walking, running and driving. The street unfolds and comes alive at different speeds of encounter. But viewers want to visualize information simultaneously in a single display. This can be an urban narrative model.
A contextual condition is important to consider in any intervention for the urban context. In the contemporary urban condition this will alter the framework. ‘New’ will have to take into account the existing context. With this is mind, new development reacting to the older existing city fabric can have the affect of mediating separate individual actions, bringing them together too create a new whole.
Architecture has cultural and symbolic significance and is increasingly complex in the urban center. Architecture in the outskirts, you often have to make your own context, whereas in an urban center you have one to correspond to. Frequently modification of existing, historic buildings is called for. This is contextualism in the sense of an almost abstract response to the perceived character and proportions of surrounding buildings, coupled with the knowledge that the best contemporary architecture sits happily within its context if it is true to its own time (2).
Contextualism is an interesting way of approaching architecture work for its taking into account human act of inhabiting. That views demands from the interpreter to consider not only the incidentally and historic character of the architecture, but also its relationship to the environment in order to show how special this proposal employing visual and tactile typologies is (2)
Besides such vague general features, there are specific cultural conditions characteristic of each culture. However, certain cultural features are found back in the broader underlying general principles (2). The central question is: which visual stimuli lead to specific aesthetic preferences, and how do people motivate those preferences? There are formalistic and contextualistic visions of art and beauty: formalists see art as form in itself, while for the contextualists the meaning of art derives from the context in which it has a place and function (2).
"The best way to plan a urban context is to see how people use it today; to look for its strengths and to exploit and reinforce them. There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, as it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans (1)" Decision making tends to be incremental rather than set by a master plan. To such an extent as centralized planning is needed, its goal should be to "catalyze" and "nourish" rather than to direct: "The science of city planning and the art of city design, in real life for real cities, must become the science and art of catalyzing and nourishing close-grained working relationships (1)"