Placing a building in a certain plot in a city should be as complex as transplanting an organ or replacing a skin in a body of a human. The organ should cohere, and the body should accept, and so is the urban context of any city. Each city has its socio-economical standards factors that should be taken into consideration but as well has its architectural culture and its social particularity.
Constructing a building in the urban context of a city like Turin or Rome, could never be separated from the architectural language of the two cities, as well as the skyline and the façade response to the public and the relation between the pedestrians, immobile, and the character of the building. In such an example any business or sustainable integration should take into consideration certain historical exclusiveness and base it not the vice versa. While on the other hand, designing a tower or a house in a city of Dubai, which extended beyond a previous existing old city, gives the architect more freedom to explore and interact with sustainable and advance materials and thoughts to push a project into more advanced levels. Such places gives both the architect and the consultant more freedom to find different way to invest money without harshen the current urban fabric .
What I wanted to deliver in this approach isn’t the idea of that places like Rome , Turin , Heliopolis , and other places of certain specificity are places that we should not mess up in terms of historical importance and neither through distorting surrounding facades and buildings para-siting its appearance , nor that some cities like Dubai gives a better ground for investors and architects to grow their ideas without any attached to a certain cultural specificity , but it’s the idea of that a building is a result of an architect until the day of delivery , which means even though the architect can preplan all technical and design issues related to the relation between the building itself and the city , cost and expenses , systems for using water , or getting benefits from solar energy and enhancing a better sustainable and economical outcome , but it is the respond of all people who lives in the building , people from the outside interacting with it , any integration that could occurs from the outside-urban fabrics . Many examples of buildings were successful both design , technological and economical wise in planning or even in few years after construction but certain changes in the street or the city could make this place lose its role and its success.
Whether it was the Italian example , or the Dubai one , the architect is still an important factor in any design yet the only factor , sometimes not the cost of the building decide its function or its success , neither the architectural analysis , it’s a combination of all , the architect , the design , the contractor , and the city awareness .