Timothy Hyde_How to Construct an Architecture Geneology

What Alison Smithson is saying that when we are designing a building base on mat information. We always need to take in consideration the context of the surrounding area; the building needs to become part of the city or the neighborhood. Actually to see what this new building is going to attribute to the neighborhood and how people will use this building. Smithson says that we need to take in consideration the urban site by following the grid of the city and his will create a better organizational structure. Yes I agree that we always should take in consideration the grid of the city because like that we could create a better environment in our site, plus the people who are going to use the building will feel more comfortable on site.
Also always when we are designing we should take in consideration the program and the infrastructural accommodation of the place and people. The activities of mat-building can intertwine dense horizontal surfaces of program, structure and circulation to create a better design.
In addition of designing base on mat-building we can develop that whole design of the building, programs and forms by just overlaying and overlapped the mat information. Also by using mat we can create movement and flow of the structure and the people passing by.
In my opinion I think the mat-building is very important because we really understand more about the site as a urban level not just local.