In the world of FAR, architecture and construction cannot be separated: FAR is concerned with the construction of efficient architecture, interpreted as a framework for social activities and a rival investment, as much as it is interested in the architecture of construction, i.e., the industrial system that enables spatial ideas to reach sound built fruition.
Within this world, there is no difference between basic and advanced technologies, or low-cost and high-end solutions: what counts is the understanding of the manufacturing and building process behind any program in all its dimensions – spatial to cultural, to economic.
As such, the act of design is not limited to architectural form or building engineering. It pervades the entire process of land transformation and delves into the social organization of production.
Technology is a means to this world, not an end in itself.
Accordingly, explicit principles guide FAR’s analyses or technological propositions:
- definition of intent;
- efficiency in the use of resources;
- their ethical allocation to the program;
- concern for the impact of design choices over users and workers;
- ability of the work to trigger or enable positive change in the environment of relevance.