INTENT

Intent

What is intent? Intent is when you are intending on doing something, is someone’s intending to finish that project, and they intend to show that this is a floral theme or in a different example someone’s intent of this painting was to be an abstract piece... There is so many ways in explaining what intent is although it always has the same intent!

What is intent? The intension is “we intent to create a classical auditorium”[1]
“The intent is to make a certain building relate…the intent to have a new facility”[2]. The intent must be clear, what is the intent of making this building? “We want to make it enjoyable, to preserve the old building and unite with the new”[3]. Intent is what is your intension what do you want to communicate to your audience or with your client? “The design has to talk to you, what is it trying to communicate? We want it to fulfill your intent! We have to communicate to clients, lawyers, consultants, men on site who will build this building. The intent to communicate with a universal language that speaks to all” [4]. Architects can build a model to display what they intend to build.

The guest speaker we had in week seven explained about intent and he also made examples using a project that has been built on campus ground called ‘Project X’ which was a giant serpent which was traveling through the stairs and towards the Scienta at the engineering faculty. The people involved in this project has an intent to design it and build by the deadline, they built a model to show their intent, they worked out a work flow, they also realized theory were not going to make a deadline, so their intension was to focus as their intention was to finish it in real life and they did. The peoples intention was to work together, communicate with one another to find the best way on how it could be built and how they could show their intent in the best possible way, the guest speaker said “they also had an intension to be disrespectful using the serpent that was traveling to the Scienta which was designed by an Architect who they believed his designs were too restrictive” [5].
The serpent was completed in July 2007. One thing that was brought to my attention was what the guest speaker said “ when a person has an intension to do something, it doesn’t matter what your intention is, if people are not collaborating and working equally and doing their job properly and they stuff up then the intend you wanted doesn’t happen”[6]. Therefore it is very important to have an intension on what has to be done, its important that you communicate your intent and that you communicate it to the workers and everyone that is involved, to have communication and then collaboration sets in so then the intension can be fulfilled.

Reference:
[1] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April
[2] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April
[3] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April
[4] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April
[5] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April
[6] Guest speaker on week 7 talk on “Intent” Wednesday the 30th of April