Looking at the interconnections of judo maxims: jita kyoei, mutual welfare and benefit, and seiryoku zenyo, maximum efficiency with minimum effort, to architecture; How does architecture react to forces? a push? a pull? In judo, if your opponent is pushing you, instead of pushing back, you pull to off balance your opponent. I found architecture to have 3 categories of forces: site, structural, and cultural. Understanding the site and structural forces is straight forward, but the cultural forces pose a different type of constraint. Every project has these forces, it is the architects job to balance them. The architect must come up with a way to determine which forces to focus on and how to respond to those forces. By balancing these forces, the architect designs meaningful, responsive architecture.
1. Identify all the forces
2. Diagram forces
a. Decide what forces are more prominent
3. Design based on prominent forces
