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