december 13-18_
this time will be spent in NYC around the site collecting physical data as well as beginning photographing and mapping the site in the way described in the previous post. Gonna try to get on some roof tops.
december 18- january 22_
expanding narrative about NYSea
sketches, altered images, site merges
collecting maps
Update Thesis Document
quarter 1_
develop conceptual systems relation and spatial language
create presentation site diagrams (based on site sketches) and synthesis drawing
conceptual model including context and highline (scale 1"=64' (tentative)) for gestural, spatial and programmatic development
experiential / spatial perspectives with superimposed plan and sectional information
Update Thesis Document
mid point_
develop tectonic language
shell model at 1"=16' scale
mappings of integration phase 2 immediate scale of highline based on determined strategies
begin to sketch and find potential places for integration phase 3: manhattan e.i. times square, chinatown
Update Thesis Document
quarter 3_
refine
shell model 1"=8' scale
apply as strategy or DNA
mappings of integration phase 3: manhattan
merges and perspectives of chosen sites
Update + Design Final Thesis Document
final jury_
1/4" scale details + experience model
mappings of integrated NYSea
refine + develop previous drawings
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Thesis Statement: Systems Integration
Architecture in its current state is isolated because it does not recognize itself as an adaptive system within a larger constantly evolving network. Subtractive, analytical processes serve to isolate the subject from the very factors which define them, while systemic processes derive order from cooperative interaction with dynamic systems.
Systemic integration is a way of understanding and evolving the connections between systems which have previously been understood as singular elements. This thesis specifically explores the ocean as an environmental network and a mechanism to be experienced.
The existing structures of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico provide a framework to which an architectural system can be applied to initiate this investigation. The oil platform as it exists currently is exclusively industrial and does not relate to the oceanic context but draws only from the oil reserves beneath the sea floor. To the oil company; when the reserves are dry, so ends the life of the platform. Thinking about this structural system as a part of a network allows performative and experiential systems to be designed for and integrated into the existing network.
This thesis explores how architecture can be designed through a process of compositing informational systems, which then informs the design network, which becomes the architecture. The architecture as a realized project and a process becomes an integrative tool.
Systemic integration is a way of understanding and evolving the connections between systems which have previously been understood as singular elements. This thesis specifically explores the ocean as an environmental network and a mechanism to be experienced.
The existing structures of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico provide a framework to which an architectural system can be applied to initiate this investigation. The oil platform as it exists currently is exclusively industrial and does not relate to the oceanic context but draws only from the oil reserves beneath the sea floor. To the oil company; when the reserves are dry, so ends the life of the platform. Thinking about this structural system as a part of a network allows performative and experiential systems to be designed for and integrated into the existing network.
This thesis explores how architecture can be designed through a process of compositing informational systems, which then informs the design network, which becomes the architecture. The architecture as a realized project and a process becomes an integrative tool.
Quotes
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
_Sir Isaac Newton, from Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
A band pointing towards the ocean epitomizing what human endeavor can accomplish at one scale with geometric clarity but modest deliberation, to give the scaleless sweep of the ocean.
_Louis I. Kahn
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
_John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962
Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is a part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
_Paul Feyerabend
_Sir Isaac Newton, from Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
A band pointing towards the ocean epitomizing what human endeavor can accomplish at one scale with geometric clarity but modest deliberation, to give the scaleless sweep of the ocean.
_Louis I. Kahn
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
_John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962
Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is a part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
_Paul Feyerabend
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