Saturday, June 7, 2008

kit of parts: an approach to DESIGN





The kit of parts has been an approach developed from the 1960s. The following are some of the rules which govern the kit of parts:
  • it is purely spatial, only use horizontal, vertical places and columns as space defining elements

  • it is about space-making, not form-making; think about composition

  • it is abstract; little attention is given on the real material and site context

  • there are different possibilities of defining space

  • it is indeed modenists in approach, think de stijl, think suprematism (meaning using 2D elements to give 3D effects).