Tuesday, October 27, 2009

talk with karl; what's next?

Below is a study of how different types of verbs occur in the same space. For example, the diagram on the left shows the relationship between art, music and science. Science is predominately a thinking space, art a making and music a performing - yet other activities occur in these areas. The center, Sensory and Discovery is a zone that becomes a dialogue between the three types of labs - collaborations on display for the students to interact and look at.















In taking the Jello-program analogy pretty literally, we cast Jello molds of program distributed throughout our building. Using clear, and flavorless :( gelatin, we added color dies to show how program begins spilling out and mixing throughout a building - most importantly how this random mixing can occur in the spaces between "rooms". The corridor, hallway or circulation becomes a mixing pot of program. The Jello is something we could come back to as we start forming more relationships between the given programs - and show how programs grow and shrink depending on what activity is going on in the building at a specific location and time. There is also the advantage of easily cutting the mold into sections.






















Below is an animation strategy that shows how children may use the art-science-music labs and discovery space (each child is represented by a dot). With Karl, we discussed possibly showing the shrinkage and expanding of a room in the animation, depending on the density of the crowd occupying it at a giving moment (reminds me of the cardiovascular system - the heart expanding and contracting as it pumps cells through the rest of the system).


























Above is a diagram of all the stills of the animation layered on top of each other and given a transparency. It begins to suggest where the student have been and where the most dense activity occurs. The charcoal animation posted on an earlier date seemed to be a better example of this "trace." Below, is Bleecker's videos in Manhattan that begin to show a similar strategy in figuring out how people move, group and disperse throughout a day.


5th & 15th Still Observation from Julian Bleecker on Vimeo.


The naked house allows the flexibilty of program enclosed in a space. The rooms literally move on wheels and have the benefit of being used for multiple types of activity:

http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/SBA_WORKS/SBA_HOUSES/SBA_HOUSES_24/SBA_Houses_24.html

Sliding screens or fabrics could be a way of thinking about how to allow growth and shrinkage of a space or program.





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