Diagramming the new order of pauses, flows, interaction and disinterest, will establish an organization for the site. This will include layers of interaction to decide the placement and appropriate relation of program in terms of public and private. This diagramming exercise is not only to take place on one level but must consider the three dimensional matrix, underwater, dynamic water surface, highline and skyline. Sectional diagrams also consider the interrelation of the layers.
The system must acknowledge the program that was, the current uses and the program which can be implemented to affect the experience and function of the place in the future. This three dimensional mapping creates the spatial and structural framework for the intervention which is interpreted and synthesized into the site. The integration is both additive and subtractive to the existing matrix and also must consider its future position.
Erosion is an example of a three dimensional space making process which relates form to hydrodynamics or more generally, forces, as well as material obsolescence. Allowing erosion to become an active participant in organization and post occupancy re-organization of form and space allows architecture to become integrated with the underlying order of information, energy and matter. The system then must be tested by the Post-Industrial concepts to keep from falling into symptomatic default reactions.
The highline shell project establishes a process and a strategy from which the architectural network can grow as a biological system. The highline rail system is utilized as a vein for expansion while other affected and activated veins of the city will be identified or created. The physical language of the architecture is determined by the immediate context of the site and the inherent voice of the program. Consequently, the resultant tectonic systems may differ drastically from one another even though they stem from the same process and architectural strategies.
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