From the Ted Talk by Ole Scheeren: Why great architecture should tell a story
Unscramble the Blue Letters
With 473,000 square meters, it is one of the largest buildings ever built in the world. It has a potlpuaoin of over 10,000 people, and of course, this is a scale that exceeds the cnrispoomehen of many things and the scale of typical architecture. So we stopped work for a while and sat down and cut 10,000 little sticks and glued them onto a model, just simply to confront ourselves with what that qaitnuty actually meant.
But of course, it's not a number, it is the peolpe, it is a community that inhabits the bdnuliig, and in order to both comprehend this, but also script this architecture, we identified five characters, hypothetical characters, and we followed them throughout their day in a life in this building, thought of where they would meet, what they would experience. So it was a way to script and design the building, but of course, also to cactmmnuioe its erpenexiecs. This was part of an exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art in both New York and Beijing.
Open Cloze
With 473,000 square meters, it is one of the largest buildings ever built in the world. It has a __________ of over 10,000 people, and of course, this is a scale that exceeds the _____________ of many things and the scale of typical architecture. So we stopped work for a while and sat down and cut 10,000 little sticks and glued them onto a model, just simply to confront ourselves with what that ________ actually meant.
But of course, it's not a number, it is the ______, it is a community that inhabits the ________, and in order to both comprehend this, but also script this architecture, we identified five characters, hypothetical characters, and we followed them throughout their day in a life in this building, thought of where they would meet, what they would experience. So it was a way to script and design the building, but of course, also to ___________ its ___________. This was part of an exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art in both New York and Beijing.
Solution
people
building
quantity
communicate
population
experiences
comprehension
Original Text
With 473,000 square meters, it is one of the largest buildings ever built in the world. It has a population of over 10,000 people, and of course, this is a scale that exceeds the comprehension of many things and the scale of typical architecture. So we stopped work for a while and sat down and cut 10,000 little sticks and glued them onto a model, just simply to confront ourselves with what that quantity actually meant.
But of course, it's not a number, it is the people, it is a community that inhabits the building, and in order to both comprehend this, but also script this architecture, we identified five characters, hypothetical characters, and we followed them throughout their day in a life in this building, thought of where they would meet, what they would experience. So it was a way to script and design the building, but of course, also to communicate its experiences. This was part of an exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art in both New York and Beijing.