slow architecture

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About Slow


What is slow architecture?

Is it relevant?

Does it produce a better-built environment?

How might it be achieved?



‘Slow’ has been described as a process that optimises the advantages of technology and the pleasures of reflection.

The ’slow’ movement, which arguably originated with Italian cuisinse’s response to the fast food industry, has evolved to encompass a broad spectrum of society.

Architecture offers the potential to reap some of the most potent benefit of ’slow’ but, in our recent building climate, has largely been ignored as buildings are pushed by time and financial deadlines – we have been largely anaesthetised by the speed of construction.

Much of our recent architecture has tried to take the visual foreground at the expense of other senses and architecture has increasingly become a visual commercial commodity.

As a response to this, slow architecture (encompassing broad aspects of territorial definition) has, we believe, much to give in terms of enriching our response to the built environment.

To tease out what this means, selected architects and designers will be asked to respond to this notion of slow architecture and examine whether and how this might be achievable in a modern building climate.



Slow – architecture and place
an Irish perspective

In our recent building climate, the making of buildings has been influenced by time, speculation and financial deadlines – our appreciation of architecture and perhaps too our sense of place has been largely anaesthetised by this speed of construction. The notion of a Slow Architecture as a design approach for our built environment needs to be understood in relationship to our present context.

This critical context is made manifold in differing ways: physically it is a context of redundancy – of over-development, of supply unrelated to demand which has generated a legacy of a developer landscape – of ghost housing estates and empty office blocks, monuments to speculation and to wasted resources.

It is also a context of a lack of care in our built environment – a lack of care in how we make things and in their durability. A context characterised by a consumer-driven society, of disposability and in-built obsolescence.

Furthermore it is a context of our sterile surroundings, lacking in a broader sensoriality, our senses stimulated only by a brash commercial aesthetic– an aesthetic that seeks immediate impact rather than the growth of slow appreciation.

Finally but by no means least, it is a context of needless ecological destruction, eating into our natural capital with no idea of replenishment. An economy based on a cheap but unsustainable supply of crude oil which moves goods and services around the world with little awareness of the consequences.

In answer to this context, the notion of Slow Architecture is born out of the Slow Food movement, which too gave birth in Italy to Cittá-slow. The common ground of all these movements is the connection of ethical, social and environmental issues with a deep concern for quality.

The broad objective of Slow Architecture lies in working towards an enrichment of our built environment, creating a sustainable sensoriality which en-slows our senses, bringing us more deeply into the here-and-now, more deeply into the enjoyment of the present.

Slow Architecture should generate a sense of well-being – and this, it could be argued, comes from the value of doing things right – working within the opportunities afforded by an economy based on a sustainable use of both local physical and social resources.

Making space for craftsmanship in all its differing forms is integral to this – craft skills, which develop from and feed back into local traditions and resources. Craftsmanship endeavours to employ materials that age gracefully and detailing that leads to enrichment of the built fabric over time rather than to decay. It generates a sense of care for our built environment – in the same manner as we take care of ourselves and our loved ones through ritual and repetition over time.
The imperative of an engagement with ecology requires that we keep the sustainable use of our physical and social resources at the forefront of both the design process and the process of making. Part of this is an engagement with the site, an understanding based on time in terms of daily and seasonal rhythms and with place in terms of the patterns of habitation.

Slow Architecture engages with the process of inhabitation, a design process that allows for flexibility, the quirks of human nature, tailored to human need and our ecology. Through this, an enjoyment of the process of change that inhabitation necessitates, accepting impermanence, not static but rather imbued with a sense of fluidity.

Understanding human habitation means entering into a dialogue with the user, with the neighbour, with the client and coming to terms with the complexity of social networks whilst learning how to listen. Ultimately Slow Architecture feeds back into the wealth of a multi-local society – a distributed economy of local creativity and adaptation in a global network of connections and ideas.

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http://www.slow-architecture.com