Need of "Creative
demand" and false in-vogue benchmark of "what is good!"
In a time of century when you should be asking for interactive customizable
digital walls for your indoors as a client you are still busy choosing wall
colors and wallpaper patterns, in a time when you should be demanding multiple
mood lighting possibilities for your every room you are apparently happy and content with your stylish off-the-shelf chandelier and much propagated energy saving CFL lighting fixtures, when you should be asking your architect what
kind of living experience he or she is envisaging and designing for your home,
you are busy asking what would be the effective sqft area of your house, when
you should be deliberating about multi-tier security system for your hard
earned asset called home, you are busy choosing stylish looks of your
door knob, when you should be looking for indoor ambiance inspired by your sun-sign,
you leave this design choice to the idiosyncrasy of architect after little
deliberation, who will now design "your" house inspired by his or her
"own" sun sign traits - if you believe in such thing called sun sign! And there are ample other examples which demonstrate you are more or less content will "Less" when it comes to Architecture for your home.
You
do demand as an architectural client but mostly in a wrong direction. And you
know, you only get what you ask for. You
really need to channelize your demands towards design, ambiance, technology
integration, customization and personalization and to the little architectural
elements which is going to make your life better and effortless at home. All you
need to do is to be little more creative in your demand. Also you need to shed
this notion that “popular is good”, that’s not the case when it comes to
architecture because you as an individual or a group of family might have a
totally different needs and aesthetic perception than your friends, or neighbor
or that guy with million dollar Mansion, so your house need not necessarily be
exactly like others no matter how tempting those options are.
You see, if you are of this opinion that insisting your architect for your favorite pink or blue color for your living room wall makes you a good client, then you need to take a look way back to realise that those cave men were more creative for their homes, decorating their caves with such amazing cave paintings or drawings, even after thousands of years later you are still struggling to decorate your living room wall with pink or blue or some painting of great artist! Have you really evolved in this large span of time or are you repeating the same old story in some way or other. That full clad digital living room wall which you can color customize everyday or on which you can write your daily to-do-list or which can remind you of unpaid bills in a flash or where you can leave a message for your loved ones while leaving home is just an example to make your realise that there are no boundaries which defines and restricts architecture or interior design.
The best part is that architects like challenges, so if you demand "more" as a client in terms of stretching the possibilities of design and innovation, they would be more than happy to help you and probably will give you something many shades better than your expectations, all you have to do is to be little more creative in your demand.
