-incorporates his observations of the contemporary city within his design activities: calling such a condition the ‘culture of congestion’.
-shopping is examined for "intellectual comfort", whilst the unregulated taste and densification of Chinese cities is analysed according to "performance", a criterion involving variables with debatable credibility: density, newness, shape, size, money etc.
-in his design for the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing, did not opt for the stereotypical skyscraper, often used to symbolise and landmark such government enterprises, but instead designed a series of volumes which not only tie together the numerous departments onto the nebulous site, but also introduced routes (again, the concept of cross-programming) for the general public through the site, allowing them some degree of access to the production procedure
-extract the architect from the anxiety of a dead profession and resurrect a contemporary sublime, however fleeting it may be
http://www.oma.eu/
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Tim:
Not sure if this will help you or not, but I found a site online about a project called "Second Skin." Its about human perceptions of a space and interactions between habitations. It sounds like it might go along with some of your earlier presented stuff. Check it out at:
http://www.artbrain.org/gallery3/secondskin/index.htm
this is Zollverein by OMA, i visited it and its truly a surgically inserted museum
http://www.zollverein.de/
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/zollverein/zollverein.html
check out the "skyskraper on its side" a breifly sketched proposal in one of the Pamphlet Architectures....i think Drawing Building....
T-
good info last night, you need to visit this site more and more, different times, different light, different weather, weekend, workday.
get lost in the site, get caught up in some details some nooks and crannies (what's walking for?)
check out those surronding facilities (what's driving for?)
imagine yourself to be different users and what they might see, or what you observe them doing.
What corner do the drugs get sold on?
Where do people park their cars?
Where do the delivery truckers take thier naps?
Where is the best place to buy a burrito? spring roll?
Again I will say check it out by bike, the bike is a mid point between the car and walking and allows a connection between both and also a 'feel' for the ground plane that is different than either. Maybe you don't want to take your camera when you do the bike though.
How else can you map/document/describe this place?
text, photos of details, what about photos of what it 'feels like' and not just what it looks like, are there any scraps, or mementoes from the site that get across it's flavor? it's as much in the details of all the rut and falling apaprt as it is in the broad strokes of a larger map.
One will inform the other large map/small map site plan/site details.
Be diligent in mapping out routes and places of interest or note, it will pay off later.
I am confindent that the program will develop. Since everything else is moving forward (you need to keep it that way) the program will follow.
There is more than *just* the red cross in the area, ridge has a drug rehab facility, closer to broad there is a warehouse they keep the indepednace park carrages, chinatown, the german society, the club scene, music scene, northern liberties, the 'spring garden hipster thruway', edgar allen poe house, the list goes on...
You will be providing the carefully crafted stiches to tie all these pieces backtogether, and bring the frankenstien of the steam plant to life.
Talk to adam, both of your processes are site intensive to needs and potential users, surrounding community and what i wrote for him goes equal for you.
The two of you would do well to discuss philosophy, approach, lessons learned.
keep on truckin, walking, running, biking, car driving....
-A
T-
Check out this place, and the comments...believe it or not the freshman found these resources, they really did a good job finding maps of this place, and the maps and mapping are interesting and varied.
http://jellospace.blogspot.com/2007/09/different-angle-challenge.html
my initial link may not have worked,
check out one of the very first blog posts on JelloSpace the "different angle challenge"
it has maps about a transfer station called "the slussen"
the diagrams I found useful as a way of mapping various transport methods.
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