Angelica Faye L.

Layug
PLANNING 2: FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN AND COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE-Section B71

Designing Responsive Environments

In this video, I realized that allowing people to interact with the space or the

structure itself creates a positive space within the community. Architecture is not just

about creating and designing, we must always consider how to create a positive space

for everyone who is residing in the community.

Cameron McNall said that “When people come to this space when there is no

expectation of anything out of the normal, we have to catch their attention” I agree with

his statement because we must allow people to respond to the space, for us to be able

to achieve that we must create Responsive Environment which will become the positive

space of the community.

When you say Responsive Environments, it means Reacting quickly and

positively. We can then know that a responsive environment must be always changing

and working towards positive results. When looking at responsive environments I think

of the recent example I had of the children in my room being presented with random

large and small cardboard boxes and a variety of drawing and cutting and gluing items.

Those large and small cardboard boxes give me a positive vibe to me as a child

because it helps me nurture my disposition to learn. This positive space/ Responsive

environment affects me as a person like how those lights and projects affect the people

in the video.

A responsive environment can nurture these dispositions in many ways. For

example, the disposition of participating is greatly impacted by the environment.

Angelica Faye L. Layug
PLANNING 2: FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN AND COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE-Section B71

Participating is defined as engaging with others, listening, sharing ideas, thoughts, and

feelings, negotiating, turn-taking, and observing.

Therefore, in the planning stage, we must always consider how can we create a

Responsive Environments that can help the community even the people around the

area to have a positive space by just getting their attention in a very small kind of

movement or what Cameron McNall calls the “tickle”.