Perfect Imperfection: Finding Beauty in the Broken
While societal messages can encourage an unhealthy strive for perfection, the notion of embracing individual flaws and openly displaying vulnerabilities can appear foreign and outlandish. However, when fallibility is acknowledged and imperfection embraced, intimate relationships built on foundations of trust and understanding can be established. In an architectural context, similar deep-rooted connections can be formed between a people and a place when a building is allowed to age with blemishes laid bare for all to see. An architectural work can exhibit a sense of ‘humanising vulnerability’ where its bruises and scars are able to visually communicate its historical and contextual narrative.