Program Images

Program Idea Precedents

In Dan Graham's work, the architecture becomes the medium in which the individual becomes part of the public audience, by viewing the direct reflection of their self expression. 

Second Round of Site Selection

Traffic

Urban Void Creates Disruption

High volume of pedestrian and vehicular traffic along a "consistent" urban wall. The urban void will interrupt this wall paper facade system and displace the individual's preconceived notions of their procession, allowing for the possibility for public interaction to take place. 

Paley Park As a Precedent To Explore Notions of Site

Site Context of Paley Park

Plan and Section

Axon

Diagrams of Interaction

Diagram of Urban Void

The sound of a "water fall" is a foreign noise along an urban wall condition. Therefore, this noise displaces the individual's private perception of space and time and reveals a public space of interaction. 

Abstract Studies of Site Ideas

The medium obstructs the vision of movement and interaction and only vague shadows are left for the viewer to understand. Medium that displaces the internalized private perception of "Being"

Installation attempts to create space that will displace the individual's private sense of "Being" and reveal the public nature of both the subspace of the installation and the space as a whole. 

Site analysis that tries to depict the idea that the site is a focal point that reaches out to its surrounding context and gathers elements of interaction a movement pulling them inward towards the site. 

A void within an urban wall that plays with the use of sensory perceptions to displace the individual's conception of the urban context. 

Initial Site Selection Diagrams

Landmark Center

Newburyport Boardwalk

Christian Science Center

Points of arrival and non-arrival
Locations that are adjacent to intersection points of highly trafficked paths of different typologies. 

Site Criteria

Point of intersection within public activity

o   Space in which different typologies of people interact

§  Residential

·      Family

·      The Individual

§  Institutional

·      Education

·      Museums

·      Hospitals

§  Commercial

·      Shoppers

·      Employees

·      Tourists

o   Different scale of movement around site

§  Pedestrian

§  Bicyclists

§  Vehicular

§  Public Transportation

o   Transitional space between “private” typology and “public” typology

Visual Abstracts

Initial Abstract Idea

Abstract

(The individual's internalized private perception begins to peel away to reveal the public nature of the space. ) 
The objective medium displaces the individual's notion of "Being" increasing the individual's awareness of the interaction taking place within the space. 

Idea Map

Idea Map

Collages of User Activated Space Iteration 2 (Continued)

Process of Mapping Interaction

Continuing my investigation on user activated space, I discovered an additional layer of interest in not only how a user activated with a space, but also how a space leaves its imprint upon a user. Having an individual walk through the rope with wet paint on them, I was able to map both how a user moves and interacts within a space, but also how the space leaves its imprint upon the user.

Collages of User Activated Space Iteration 2

Perception of User Activated Space

Continuing my investigation on user activated space, I added a layer of perception into the mix by walking across plexi-glass. In doing this, I was able to map how I interacted with the pieces of canvas, thus representing my interaction with the space. In addition, flipping the plexi-glass around to the other side, I was able to see the pure interaction between my foot and the space, ultimately giving a different perception on the same experience. 

Collages of User Activated Space

User Moving Through Space

Map of User Activity

Mapping how a user interacts within a space or moves through a space to further an understanding of how an individual exists within a space. 

Collages of Perception

Perception of an Experience

  Perception of Space 

In these collages I was trying to depict how every individual perceives their external reality differently then another, based upon their own internal self-understanding. While there may be some similarities within each individual's perception of an object or an experience, each perception is fundamentally unique to the individual's internal understanding of their external reality. 

Advertisement and the "Veil of Culture"

Contemporary Advertisement

Despite the many benefits that the high speed exchange of information has brought to the American culture, media and advertisement is becoming a self-perceptional overload. An individual is continuously subjected to a never ending stream of advertisement that suggests that they would be happier or more socially exceptable if they acted in a certain manner or perceived their external reality in the manner the advertisement depicts. This overload of false cultural perception is beginning to dictate how an individual perceives themselves within American culture, ultimately causing them to repress their internal desires of self-expression for fear of their external perception of reality. 

American Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock

Mark Rothko

The term "Beauty Lies Within The Eye Of The Beholder" holds true to these paintings.

The wonder and beauty of these paintings does not exist within their metaphysical depictions, rather, the wonder exists within an individual's perception of these paintings. Therefore, the meaning of this artwork changes based on each individual's perception of their own reality, which is why, these paintings can move certain individuals to the point that it brings tears to their eyes, while others can only superficially admire the paint strokes.