SCHEDULE FOR FINAL JURY

NOW - april 18th - finalize design
19th - 25th - plans/sections
26th - 27th - collage/elevation - materials
28th - may 3rd - site model
4th - 12 - final building model and detailed models

REACTIONS

im not using metaphor correctly when i speak - need to kep it going but make sure if i say cancer that it still is cancer in the next process

need to say what surgery means to me - I decide - jurers knew where i was coming from but i didnt say it

urban surgery-appears better in willow street model-

get inside building - have detailed shots

less time spent presenting research and more time on architecture

stopped using language when i talked about the artchitecture - wheres the blood cells and platlets - how the red blood cells flow through the building

dictionary- dumb it down or get rid of it

users - are not toally seperate - ukrainians and hipsters use electric factory -

how do the users jump into the architecture

Modules along path going inot building

more tenacles-more of an 'ideal'-too emorphous-keep with small interventions

more levels on willow street

3 words - URBAN _ ARCHITECTURE _ LANDSCAPE

higher level of detail in next models

more about connecting to building- maybe all this program isnt supposed to be in the building but it is about the connection it makes to the setting and surroundings that makes it work

vertical iconic building

im kind of not sure where to go from here - i got alot of things from the jury on tuesday. i think i got mixed up about where i was supposed to go. my thought was i should study the connection it has to the setting from the building and the program doesnt need to be high in program anymore that it can be just a few things. i woulkd liek get this clearified right away.

every piece of program

reactions from mid jury

language
-metaphor - seems the juries keep getting lost in the translation between the surgery and the architecture
-need to keep constructing it to identify key elements-its more then just stitching

users
-how the identity of the users match the actions of the program
-users activate the site - turn it off and on
-what will happen when they are brought together - will they be able to exist within each other with programs beside each other

why this building on site? - question kept being asked
-activating the space
-program triggers it
-putting user diagram in the building - changing lifestyle

program around site
-connections between them
-networks around city
-ex. newstands - how they overlap and correspond to each other

PROGRAM PROGRAM PROGRAM
-need to identify what each program is

infrastructure
-built forms built in building
-how does user aquire them
-use it/reject it
-same user using it

SURGERY DICTIONARY

ABSTRACT

The design process of altering a framework in an urban context, can be enhanced by new development reacting to an older existing fabric. The old and new can have the affect of mediating separate individual actions, bringing them together to create a new whole. Contextualism creates an abstract response to the perceived character and proportions of the surrounding buildings, taking into account the human act of inhabiting. Mixing ‘new’ and old alters the perception of the urban center.

Old cities have existing layers and overlaid patterns of spatial and conceptual order. There exists within these layers an urban fabric, a more intimate scale of complexity that’s serves as a point of origin for a new urban fabric.

At 9th and Callowhill Streets, it has disintegrating structures which creates a scar for this area. This area is unique with its history from building upon the remembrance of past forces, injuries and adaptations. These structures within the fabric bring about new ways of thinking and inventing. They create a new condition of inhabitation because cities are places of density, potential, and movement. It moves at a fast pace and by catalyzing and nourishing it, the inhabitants are able to keep up with it.

Surgery is a technique that can provide a better understanding for the solution of this site. It identifies the actions of cutting and slicing away decaying elements and stitching together a new layer overtop of it connecting different networks that intertwine amongst the users in the site. (i.e. living, movement, travel, and potential) It adheres to the site and melds with the history of it and provides a sense of stability of the site showing how to unclog blocked routes and areas in the site that have been damaged or driven down.

This thesis will show the process of creating a new framework through the needs and concerns of the users. It will develop a set of networks that will create a treatment for the clogged and decaying areas. The need of physical therapy will be proceeded through the amount of elements in the networks being intertwined in this intervention.

CONTINUOUS PROCESS

Scars
Following tissue damage and/or loss from any cause, including damage due to the inflammatory process, there may be a number of different sequelae:

1. Resolution: Dead cellular material and debris are removed by phagocytosis and the tissue is left with its original architecture intact.
2. Regeneration. Lost tissue is replaced by proliferation of cells of the same type, which reconstruct the normal architecture.
3. Repair. Lost tissue is replaced by a fibrous scar which is produced from granulation tissue.

All of these processes may occur in the same tissue, and begin as soon as there is significant tissue damage; healing reactions do not wait for inflammation or other damaging mechanisms to subside, but take place at the same time. The outcome in any particular situation depends on which of the three processes of resolution, regeneration and repair predominates, and this in turn depends on a number of factors:

Resolution.
This tends to occur when there is little tissue destruction. A good example is lobar pneumonia: In the earlier stages of lobar pneumonia the alveolar spaces fill with pus but the alveolar walls remain intact. If the infecting organism is successfully destroyed at this stage (either naturally or with theraputic help) then the purulent material may be completely scavenged from the air spaces by macrophages, leaving the original lung structure intact.

Regeneration

Cell type: Cells are usually classified into three groups depending on their capacity for regeneration. Labile cells are those which normally have a high rate of loss and replacement (e.g. squamous and glandular epithelia, haemopoeitic cells in bone marrow) and therefore have a high capacity for regeneration. Stable cells do not normally proliferate to a significant extent but can be stimulated to do so after damage. Examples include renal tubular cells, hepatocytes, osteoblasts, endothelial cells, fibroblasts. Permanent cells are unable to divide after initial development and therefore cannot regenerate when some are lost. The best example here is neurons.

Tissue architecture: Simple structures are easier to reconstruct following damage than complex ones. For example a flat surface such as epidermis regenerates very successfully, but dermal sweat glands do not. An imperfect attempt at regeneration of tissue architecture may have important clinical consequences: for example, in some chronic inflammatory liver diseases regenerative proliferation of hepatocytes is very vigorous, but damage to the connective tissue framework of the liver tissue means that the regenerated tissue has an abnormal nodular architecture - cirrhosis. The abnormal architecture leads to haemodynamic abnormalities in the hepatic portal venous system - portal hypertension - which may culminate in death due to uncontrollable haemorrhage.

Amount of tissue loss: The idea of regeneration implies that there are cells left to regenerate. For example, if there is loss of a large area of epidermis then its central regions will heal by scar formation rather than regeneration, since the rate of migration of new epidermal cells from the eges of the wound is limited and scarring will proceed before they are able to cover the damaged area.

Repair
The process of repair results in formation of a fibrous scar from granulation tissue. The steps in this process (also termed organisation)are as follows:

1. Phagocytosis of necrotic debris and other foreign material by macrophages.
2. Proliferation of blood vessel endothelial cells and fibroblasts at the edges of the damaged area.
3. Endothelial cells grow into the damaged area, initially as solid buds from these adjacent blood vessels. The solid buds then canalise to form an abundant network of delicate, thin-walled capillaries.
4. Fibroblasts migrate into the damaged area along with the capillaries to form a loose connective tissue framework. This delicate fibrovascular tissue is granulation tissue.
5. The new capillary vessels anastomose to establish a blood circulation in the healing area and differentiate towards arterial and venous types as necessary. Fibroblasts produce collagen , giving the healing tissue mechanical strength.
6. Eventually a mature scar consisting almost entirely of dense collagen is produced. It is a general rule that the volume of scar tissue produced is always less than the bulk of the tissue it is replacing. This can have important clinical consequences where such scar contraction distorts the tissue enough to interfere with function. For example, scarring of tubular structures such as the intestines can produce stenosis of the lumen and obstruction; scarring of the skin around a joint can produce contractures and immobility.