IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT

Architecture always influence and affected by vary considerations of the surrounding context that is happening around where normal people usually don't but architect must have this concerned and conscious enough to observe and research, neither today nor century ago.

However, nowadays some architect used to apply his personal judgement or opinion into his own design where this only reveal its visual asthetic value but inconsiderate on the context. It is important to incoporate the architecture with the useful context because architecture is one of the crucial thing that able to change human lifestyle, people are interacting with architecture intimately so context is such a thing that must be concerned into architecture design in order to create an inhabitants that suite human beings and the environment as well.

I had chosen Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre and to compare with Monticello, the only world heritage site in United States as a century ago case study. The cultural centre is a building that is much influence by the surrounding cultural and historical context, designed by Renzo Piano.

Its objective was to solicit ideas for a centre that would celebrate the Kanak culture

native to New Caledonia, and in the process, smooth over ethnic tensions that had been chronically deteriorating between the Kanak people and the island's other inhabitatns. This is a kind of social context that architecture plays an important role to deal with. Likewise to the Monticello where in designing the capitol in Richmond he took for his model what is called the maison quarree of Nismes, France, one of the most beautiful and precious morsel of architecture left them by antiquity. It is very simple but it is noble beyond expression, and would have done honor to their country, as presenting to travellers a specimen of taste in their infancy, promising much for their mature age. It is an enthusiasm for him to improve the taste of their countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world and procure them its praise, and that is why he prefer neoclassical buildings to those England, especially when constructing public structures.

In this case, showing that these two different architecture is design according to the context that is pursuing a sustainable relationship which consider to be looking futher forward on the context that able to endure a long lasting consideration on social or even cultural and historical context. In the fact that to provide a positivity to architecture which influence by the surrounding situation that able to gain recognition from the locals and visitors.

The Cultural Centre was sensitively using traditional Kanak chief's houses where they manipulated and deconstructed their form to create a monumental sequence of rounded, airy shells. He emphasize the influence of site and environment as determinants of design and performance. The form of the shells negotiates a blend of traditional construction methods and a tapered, dematerailizing profile that beautifully plays off the texture of the surrounding trees.

The incompleteness geometries of the shells reflect the sentiment that Kanak Culture is continuing to grow and evolve from ancient roots, even as new conditions require it to adapt its form. Similarly to Monticello which Thomas Jefferson apply the classical architecture is to reveal the simplicity of geometric forms that the inhabitants around the site is pursuing in no doubt unlike the georgian style which the decorative interior element were revealing kind of nobility but it doesn't give respect to the environment and people. Jefferson also used to include design elements popular in late 18th-century Europe which showing that he adapt to the situation context based on the trend in the moment, on the other hand he also integrating numerous of his own design solutions where the dome at Monticello is modeled after the Temple of Vesta in Rome. The major difference between the two is that the Temple of Vesta is round and Monticello's dome is an elongated ocatgon. In comparison to the Cultural Centre which had integrate his own thought on the air ventilation to the building when designing it, more influence by the environmental context because the dome has window that allows indirect sunlight to penetrate into the interior where the context is more to environmental thought.

In conclusion, I disagree that context is relationship between urban solids(building) and voids(public spaces) mentioned in philosophical text by Adrian Forty on the perception of those architects and theorists. Reason is that it is not only about building and public space but in the way that is more to solution on how architecture brings up the lively atmosphere and changing the perception to the particular site where it is the thing that I much concerned about.