Ritual

There are 2 things I wish to diagram. One is the Lunar Tide as you suggested in class and Animal Migration. Both are quite interesting and I think it would be helpful for my project.

Considering water as a big element in my program, having to look into the periodic rise and falling of a body of water and creating a relationship and interaction with the structure of my program would be something I would love to explore.

Animal Migration as another thought deals with a periodic movement of an animal from the place where it has been living to a new area and its subsequent return journey to the original home. When animals migrate, it is usually to find abundant food and a good place to breed which we humans do as well. I still couldn’t make up my mind as to what type I would like to concentrate on—birds or mammals (which includes humans)…or do I just do both and see what relationship they have and hopefully come up with an interesting diagram?

Thought Process

In re-formulating my precis, I was thinking about the various components of my project: Program, Site, End User, etc. I am distilling the key elements of each of those into single words. I then assign each of those words a second word(s) (in quotes) that could influence how the architecture of the space will evolve. In doing this, I hope to find parallels and connections between the pieces of this project so that I can integrate them all into a concise solution.
Here's what I have so far:
Hotel
-regimented (large group of people) “dynamic”
-regimented (systematic order) “repetition”
-welcoming/service “responsive”
-staggered timelines “repetition” “overlap”
-modular “flexible” “economy”
-unfamiliar “instability”
-temporary “transformational” “dynamic”
Bar
-social/convivial “dynamic”
-escape “movement”
-welcoming/service “responsive”
Site/Highline
-Re-purposed “adaptive"
-Contrast to surroundings (speed, noise level, natural vs. artificial, etc.) “contrast” "movement=escape"
-Intersection “intersection” “void”
-"Elevated"
-"Layered" (vertically; voids and solids): Intersection of 10th Ave. & 14th St.=artificial, fast, loud:::::VOID:::::Highline=natural & artificial, slow, quiet:::::VOID:::::Building=artificial, static, quiet(?)
-"Layered" (horizontally; contrast to surroundings): Hudson River=nature, slow, quiet:::::W. Side Hwy.=artificial, fast, loud:::::Hudson River Park=nature, slow, quiet:::::10th Avenue=artificial, medium speed, loud::::::Highline=natural & artificial, slow, quiet
Transience
“individual”
“changeable”
“instability”
“movement”
Blind Date
-insecurity/unfamiliar “instability”
-meeting “intersection”
-individual "individual"
-social "dynamic"
Many of the words cross categories, which is a good thing...but I still want to continue to focus in on how exactly this is going to play out...will "individual" "changeable/flexible" rooms allow hotel guests to feel "movement" and control over their unfamiliar/regimented surroundings? Could hanging pods bring "dynamic" "instability" to the space and "intersect"or "overlap" with what's going on outside on the Highline? Could the bar "respond," "intersect," or"overlap" with systematic activities that are happening in the hotel lobby/hotel rooms and vice versa?
I have a lot of thoughts swirling in my head based on the recurrance and parallels of these words and situations...
Marc, if you have any thoughts or response to this as to whether I am moving in the right direction, any additional ideas, or help with how to bring some clarity to this, I'd appreciate it!!
Thanks,
Kate

Ellen's Animal Commercial

Here's the commercial I was talking about. Enjoy!

Storefront for Art & Architecture

Stephen Holl & Vito Acconci built the facade of this art gallery out of 12 pivoting panels that allow the visitor to experience the space in various formations, creates different lighting situations and blurs the boundary between indoors and outdoors. This objective is similar to what I am researching for my hotel and bar. I would like to take into account the interaction of indoors and outdoors and capitalize on the proximity of the Highline, as well as create a space that allows a multitude of light and space formations dependent upon the inhabitants.

Sailing as inspiration

One example I could think of that has to do with my idea of the movement and inhabitation of humans within the built environment having a direct effect on that environment is the idea of "heeling."

When the heeling force of wind is too strong on a sailboat, it will begin to tip sideways. The boat leaves a position of stability and must be balanced. This is done by the crew, who uses their body weight to "hike" or resist the force of the wind and bring the boat back to an upright position. Often this is done in conjunction with feathering the sails but can be effective on its own dep. on wind speed etc.

In my project, I will explore more about how live loads affect the building and how that relates to the qualities of instability, transcience, and movement that occur in a hotel setting.

Sainte Marie de La Tourette - Le Corbusier

penguin pool london zoo

model.

floating memories and reflecting memories.

steven holl

museum of the city

steven holl

steven holl

D.E.Shaw&Co. Office- Steven Holl

D. E. Shaw & Co. Offices

New York, New York

program Office and Trading Area

client D. E. Shaw & Co.

size 10,000 sf cost $1.1 million

status Completed 1992

award 1992 AIA National Honor Award

"The top two floors of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper are the site of an experimental project exploring the phenomena of spatial color reflection or "projected color". D.E. Shaw & Co., a financial trading firm works with the miniscule drift of prices for financial instruments measured over short intervals of time. This curious and intangible business program has a parallel in the design concept of the interior. The metal framing and sheet - rock with skim - coat plaster was carved and notched at precise points around the central 31 - foot cube of space at the entry. Color has been applied to the back or bottom surfaces of these notches, invisible to the viewer within the space. Natural and artificial lights project this color back into the space around walls and fissures."

old and new model

before...










and after...

new site diagram

My diagram is about introducing something new in an old and historical neighborhood in Port Jefferson. In its existing state, the port just looks like it’s there for its main purpose which is to just have a docking place for transportation and nothing else. There’s a waiting shed but for people to get in to the ferry, they have to just walk outside in a line. I would like to introduce a port where there’d be a place for interaction with people both from the community and those that are coming from different states (which I have to still check the ferry schedules for) and a creating a link with the structure and ferry (sort of like a garage) and also a link with land and water. Who knows, maybe I could put my program in the middle of the sea… may I? :)

wind shape

While I was searching for sundial and architectures responce to nature changes, I found a structure which is respond to wind. It is done by nARCHITECT.

Windshape was conceived as an inhabitable outdoor environment, consisting of two eight metre high pavilions that dynamically changed with the Provençale wind. A structural vine-like network of white plastic pipes, joined together and stretched apart by aluminum collars, emerged from the limestone walls and terraces of Lacoste’s hillside. Fifty kilometers of white polypropylene string, threaded through the structural lattice, were woven to create swaying enclosures. The string was woven into dense regions and surfaces and pinched to define doorways, windows and spaces for seating.
By varying the degree of tension in the string, Windshape responded to the wind in several ways, from rhythmic oscillations to fast ripples across its surfaces. During heavy winds, Windshape moved dramatically, and made a hissing sound akin to dozens of jump-ropes. The pavilions took on a multitude of temporary forms over the course of the summer, as they billowed in and out with the wind, and momentarily came to rest. In this way, the local winds and the Mistral gave shape to constantly mutating structures. The pavilions were illuminated at night against the backdrop of the Marquis de Sade’s castle, and visible as a glowing building from as far as the neighboring village of Bonnieux, 5km away.
Windshape was a laboratory that allowed us to test the idea of a building that can respond to natural stimuli. Rather than sheltering us from the elements alone, buildings of the future could connect inhabitants to the wind, reminding them of its strength and beauty.

Suspended and Kinetic

It seems like you guys are beyond the brainstorming phase, but I thought this was an interesting suspended and kinetic structure.
http://www.beyond-gravity.com/rotpneu.html
(The series on the bottom titled spin doctor)

words

cir·cu·late
–verb (used without object)
1. to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
2. to pass from place to place, from person to person, etc.: She circulated among her guests.
3. to be distributed or sold, esp. over a wide area.
4. Library Science. (of books and other materials) to be available for borrowing by patrons of a library for a specified period of time.
–verb (used with object) 5. to cause to pass from place to place, person to person, etc.; disseminate; distribute: to circulate a rumor.
6. Library Science. to lend (books and other materials) to patrons of a library for a specified period of time.

shel·ter
–verb (used with object) 7. to be a shelter for; afford shelter to: The old barn sheltered him from the rain.
8. to provide with a shelter; place under cover.
9. to protect, as by shelter; take under one's protection: Parents should not try to shelter their children from normal childhood disappointments.
10. Finance. to invest (money) in a tax shelter.
–verb (used without object) 11. to take shelter; find a refuge: He sheltered in a barn.
12. Finance. to invest money in a tax shelter.

in·ter·act
-verb (used without object)
to act one upon another

model

in light

By changing my model in various ways and playing with light, I could find some additional effects. When the surfaces and light meet, they made different feelings according to its angles and directions. This kind of problems also will be an interesting aspect in my project.

Three words

o·ver·lap –verb (used with object)
1. to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
2. to cover and extend beyond (something else): The ends of cloth overlap the table.
3. to coincide in part with; have in common with: two lives that overlapped each other. –verb (used without object)
4. to lap over: two sales territories that overlap; fields of knowledge that overlap. –noun
5. an act or instance of overlapping.
6. the extent or amount of overlapping: The second story of the building has an overlap of ten feet.
7. an overlapping part.
8. the place of overlapping.
9. (in yacht racing) the position of two yachts side by side such that the overtaking boat, to pass the other on the opposite side, must fall back, or such that neither can turn toward the other without danger of collision.


pen·e·trate –verb (used with object)
1. to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
2. to enter the interior of: to penetrate a forest.
3. to enter and diffuse itself through; permeate.
4. to arrive at the truth or meaning of; understand; comprehend: to penetrate a mystery.
5. to obtain a share of (a market): to penetrate the Canadian coffee market.
6. to affect or impress (the mind or feelings) deeply.
7. to extend influence, usually peacefully, into the affairs of (another country). –verb (used without object)
8. to enter, reach, or pass through something, as by piercing: We penetrated to the interior of the Kasbah.
9. to be diffused through something.
10. to understand or read the meaning of something.
11. to have a deep effect or impact on someone.


blend –verb (used with object)
1. to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
2. to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
3. to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe.
4. to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds. –verb (used without object)
5. to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend.
6. to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall.
7. to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend. –noun
8. an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend.
9. a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
10. Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words, as motel, made from motor and hotel, brunch, from breakfast and lunch, or guesstimate, from guess and estimate.
11. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.

Model

I took a photo of a window in DUMBO. In this photo, there are some graphics on the surface of the glass and I can see inside through the glass. Moreover, I also can see the building which is located behind me. This photo contains three layers of space. I'm interested in the overlap of the spaces. It used to be concerned see through and reflection.

Another examples, I 'm going to somewhere by subway. This train is running fast. Suddenly, another train is running beside my train. At that time, I can see through overlaped layers. There are five layers between me and a person who is in the other train. Five layers mean the space between me and the window, the surface of the window, the window and the other window, the surface of the other window, and the space between the window and the other person. These are very interesting sequences because we can usually faced on one or two layers in our every day life. However, sometimes we meet several overlaped layers such as this phenomenon.

I am trying to make my model contains these things that I mentioned. Moreover, I want to add the combination of opposite characters such as straight line and curved line because cuban chinese is combined the same way.

Words

in·ter·sect [v. in-ter-sekt]

1.
to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
2.
to cross, as lines or wires.
3.
Geometry. to have one or more points in common: intersecting lines.

SCHROEDER HOUSE/GERRIT RIETVELD

slide [v. slahyd]

1.
to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface

2.
to slip or skid.
3.
to glide or pass smoothly.
4.
to slip easily, quietly, or unobtrusively on or as if on a track, channel, or guide rail (usually fol. by in, out, away, etc.).
5.
to pass or fall gradually into a specified state, character, practice, etc.
6.
to decline or decrease: Interest rates are beginning to slide.

SMART SPACE RESIDENCE/AVROKO

o·ver·lap [v. oh-ver-lap; n. oh-ver-lap]

1.
to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
2.
to cover and extend beyond (something else): The ends of cloth overlap the table.
3.
to coincide in part with; have in common with

JUBILEE CHURCH/RICHARD MEIER

Model

I am trying to make various components of this box move and create different spaces when I slide the small box along the strings. I am calling it 'transformational'

My model has a little bit of a stability issue to put it mildly...as we all saw in class. But I don't want to just add a brace the opposite direction...I need to come up w. something more inventive. I am also trying to get a lot of contrast with light through various openings/slits in the space...

In the next post I will post my words and some images that inspire me and complement each word.

3 Verbs and more on my mind

i'm still stuck in trying to find the right structural model i want to make. i've been trying to think of:

*supercontinent Pangea
*water and the pattern it creates when it interacts with a ships propellers.
*port of ferry's as my program, i want to have an interaction with both the ship and structure plus land with water.
*bird's wings specifically the hummingbird since they flap in a very unique way, and the movement they make creates the humming sound.

having this in mind, i came up with a couple of action words that i want my model to reflect.
spreading, overlapping, twisting, popping, sweeping, penetrating, layering...

To Kate

Here are some sculptural structures of the great Calatrava which reminded me so much of the model you brought in. The only difference is, his stays still ;p just kidding kate! When I look at these works of his, it makes me feel that these elements are out on a limb which maybe you could incorporate to your hanging concept.

tadashi kawamata.

The Doris Salcedo post reminded me of Tadashi Kawamata's work. He also constructs temporary landscapes within abandoned sites (often civic institutions) using scavenged lumber, chairs, and doors that are either found on site or have a relationship to the forgotten institution, although his work is more about the future possibility (or rebirth) of a site, than it is about memory (like Salcedo's pieces).

What I like about his pieces is that they are ambiguously part (con)struction/part (de)struction-- but perhaps there is no difference between the two.