Binckpark-Music factory

Abstract

While other disciplines take the concept of chance as crucial to understand the world and integrate it into their practice, which took their practice to another level bringing freedom and triggering creativity, architecture is still concerned about solidity, rationality, structure, firmness, and hierarchy. As we develop a better understanding of the indeterminacy of the future, tools and methods have been developed to control it so far. Today computational practices in architecture are being used to control indeterminacy and achieve the optimal instead of embodying it into practice. That results in the mass-production of repetitive and over-determined spaces and programs which limits movement and creativity. In addition to that, most of those spaces will have the same destiny, being replaced with a new one.

The research focuses on an approach for the architect who is confronted with an increasingly indeterminate environment and cityscape with unexpected dynamics. For that, it investigates how architecture can embody processes of indeterminacy and chance by studying its appearance in music, architecture, arts, and philosophy. This creates a foundation but is later expanded and implemented according to the conditions and by making use of the existing qualities of Binkhorst related to the studio theme Music Marvel.

The result of the study is a place that strategically embodies chance/indeterminacy within its operation, a public space that gathers the diverse population of The Hague by generating various events around music and performance.