NOTABLE CONDITIONS AND SPACES ALONG OTHER STREETS

5th street
arch - race
-Independence hall - people everywhere
W - national constitution center
E - dept of treasure
race - s.g.
blocked - where you get to NJ brigde - underground tunnel
6th street
arch - race
Independence hall
race - callow
W - large commercial
E - nothing
callow - s.g.
W - philly ball then union bldg. then transit
E - storage
s.g. - fairmount
W - Jewish church then apartments
E - Lease space
7th street
race - vine
W - govt bldg
E - Large Park
vine - callowhill
nothing
callow - s.g.
W - red cross
E - electric factory
s.g. - fairmount
residential
8th street
arch - race
large parrking underpass
race - arch
W - constitution center
E - nothing
vine - callow
W - residential - nice quiet res by vine- why?
E - nothiing
callow - s.g.
W - steel workers then medical group (ambulances everywhere in park lot) then traffic court
E - red cross
s.g. - fairmount
W - communications group then liberty station
E - noithing - empty lots by tracks
9th street
arch - race
W - galery behind
E -
race - vine
chinatown - you can see bldg whole way
vine blocks 9th
vine - callow
traffic goes south at this point
callow - s.g.
traffic goes north now
W - electric bldg (my bldg)
E - car care next to brewery with res
s.g. - fairmount
gets blocked - behind it is residential and display center - then church - big gold dome
10th street
south of vine - chinatown and residential
vine - s.g.
W - parking lot market
s.g. - fairmount
W - residential
E - residential then large construction area
11th street
south of vine - chinatown and residential
vine - callow
E - residential
callow - hamilton
W - electrical units - electric company
s.g. - mt. vernon
W - african church
E - independence press
my vernon - fairmount
W - school
12th street
race - woods
W - large warehouse
E - large warehouse - grafitti
callow - s.g.
E - electrical units - electric company then large construction
s.g. - fairmount
W - educational bldg then residential
E - church then school

NOTIBLE CONDITIONS AND SPACES ALONG SPRING GARDEN

SPRING GARDEN - from 12th to 5th
12th - 11th
N - pass chruch and carwash/auto repair - people alwasy gathered around it
S - commercial - not used highly
11th - 10th
N - res and commercial
S - carwash then spaghetti warehouse restaurant - always people coming and going when opened
10th - 9th
N - large commercial on both sides of bridge - abandon area under bridge - drugs
S - large commecial before bridge
9th - 8th
N - durran then communications group
S - fed ex then traffic court bldg - traffic build up outside bldg - high noise
8th - 7th
N - guild house - whole block - people gathered outside and sides of building
S - red cross - whole block - people always coming and going
7th - 6th
N - church then residential - quiet
S - commercial then bank
6th - 5th
N - dollar store/stoage unit
S - mothers inc

BIKING

so i road through the site multiple times over the last week and it was very interesting apposed to driving. Being able to manuver through the site at any speed and through traffic and not following the rules of the road. The one thing i did notice though while i was biking was that the only thing i was able to focus on was what was in front of me and the sides if i was moving between somehting or turning. What i did notice was cutting through the area i want to devlope was easy noting in my head. If traffic was accumilating, then i would cut through and it was a nice short cut until i got to callowhill, then it was stop mode. so i actually wanted some sort of connection across callowhill. i kinda got pissed that i had to stop and wait so long just to cross the street. Spring garden is where i saw the most bike riding through out the site at different times. There is a bike path and the music/hipster scene is right there, and they travel by bike all the time. it would be interesting connecting the music area (electric factpry and warehouse right there) through the site. Over lapping all these connections through my site.
the next time i go out im going to bring my camera and document it that way or possibly by using a video camera but i need someone to watch my back to see if cars are coming

comments about spring garden biking
- people talking about getting from 9th and filbert to 34th and walnut

I would think that spring garden would be your ticket to bike nirvana. take 11th north to SG and SG over the bridge to west philly. from there, you're on yer own. don't venture much to them parts. wild nincompoops and Dave roaming the streets not to mention haggard Drexel students and the occasional Pennie.

Spring Garden is a great biking street...but from a practical standpoint, I think that it might add a little too much time to the journey.

If you were going to the higher #'s streets, I used to ride straight down Spring Garden, go over the SG bridge - SG is nice bc it has a bike lane almost everywhere, the lights are timed to 25mph and you can generally zip down it, hang a left around the museum, the SG bridge is usually pretty quiet in terms of traffic.

Spring Garden's a great cycling St and doesn't look so bad going West as it does going east, but I would definitely beat you up and steal your bike if I saw your snooty CC butt

WHAT I GOT OUT OF LAST MEETING AND WHAT I NEED TO DO

LARGER MAPPING ANALYSIS
-DISTRICTS OF PEOPLE
-HISTORIC ASPECTS OF SITE
- MOVEMENTS
- BUILDINGS
-FIGURE OUT WHAT EACH FUNCTION OF BUILDINGS ARE
-WHERE PEOPLE ACCUMALATE (THROUGHOUT DAY)

BIKE PICS - TO SEE HOW THE SITE IS MAINLY USED TODAY

PICS FROM 95

GETTING INSIDE???

REVIEW RADICAL RECON.

WHAT DRIVING, RUNNING, WALKING, BIKING ARE DOING - WHY THEY ARE????

SYNCRANIZE SITE WITH PEOPLE USING IT

IDENTIFY USER

CONDUCTING MORE INFO ON THE HOSTORY OF THE SITE

koolhaas thoughts

-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/

INVESTIGATING

site/building
-used to control needs of the people in the area
-gave them oppurtunity to function
-circulation:
-willow street lines - traveled through site and to building
- way of moving function through site

programatic needs
-open space
- bringing them to site and usin it
-historic communication
- building
- layers of the site

currently there
- red cross - main program used there
- adandonment
- parking - takes up most the space there

people
- small residents scattered
- industrial workers
- small commercial workers
- vehicular movement ( mainly the only movement through the site)

investgations
- how people move through the site
- how to change the site into user friendly
- using historic aspects into creating new generized site

PLAYING WITH HISTORIC CIRCULATION

in my paper i state:
What matters is what the new and the old in their differing expressions say together about their evolving subject matter, the way the new and the old are brought to collaborate across their difference to exist with each other. The old is not for veneration but the historic context to link the new reusing one to specifications of the urban center (2)

so bringing this into the surgery aspect i think about the old fabric of your body that the new 'skin' adhears to and rebuilds itself of it. so this first take into thinking about program for kates class i looked at the willow street line. using that historic circulation the site had. it crosses over the site area leading right into the electrical building. i found this very interesting in that it could be what i adhere too. this sense of place and passage through it to link it to the outer layer of the site. so to bring that into perception - it could lead to different ways of accessing the interior through the different scenarios i was talking about-walk,run,car

i just wanted to see if this was where i should be going or if i needed to be thinking of somethng else also
i have been doing things in university city which will be wrapped up tomarrow and put on here ( i had to leave the one site becasue someone got pissed that i took a picture wIth them in it, so i need to go back there)