Week 5: Tutorial

Post your reflection on your take of Architectural possibilities in the future context that you imagined and discussed during the design-charette.

Good tutorial this week, although we have been working at developing and documenting our concept, until this tutorial we haven't had an appropriate structure or framework to unify all our ideas.

But Luke bought a really good idea to the table in the form of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Full account of the tutorial and discussions after the jump.
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So the concept of Maslow's heirarcy states that theire are different levels of human needs, starting out with the most basic physiological needs moving through safety, love, esteem and ending with what he calls self-actualisation.

When viewed diagramatically the needs tend to be arranged in the form of a pyramid, as shown above, to represent the requirement of basic needs before adressing the more complex higher levels.

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