when design and necessity collides

the ground floor office of our firm has a glass facade towards the outside. a layer of mutating circles spell out UNStudio on the outside. the office is unseen from the outside during the day, but mightily apparent during the night (maybe that's why we don't have this problem during the night).... the thing is. during the day, many bikers like to lean their bikes against our facade momentarily... the sound of the bikes or their bike locks banging agaist the glass is echoed and echoed in the interior of the office until we feel like banging back on the glass at them....



design that don't consider the necessity of life exists everywhere. but on the other hand, if i did not sit right next to this glass facade, i would not know what the necessities are. how many of these necessities are we, as designers, able to predict when we design?.... i guess it is merely from experience, and the opened eye that we attain these observations for future reference.

[picture later]