Here is the
poster,
and the final Video *oooooh*
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Beginnings of experiment 1 explination
Experiment 1
Alive or dead (Cavernous, alluring, throbbing)
Exp 1 derives around the experience created in the hub itself. It is a test of the atmosphere and appealing nature of the seating in combination with the fire. There will be a series of configurations of the room tested with each measuring the approach that is taken toward the hearth, whether the hearth, the heart in that moment is alive or dead. Is it enough to draw people or will it find itself a dead space. The hypothesis is that in certain configurations people will gather toward the middle, around the communal moment, the space will then become alive, alive with conversation, alive with interaction, alive with the conjoining of people’s lives. Conversely in other configurations people will end up scattered, disconnected, and maybe confined to isolated groups. The benefit of this control becomes social monitoring and behavioural conditioning. When people need to be drawn in there is a configuration to draw people off the street, to connect people in the living organism of a society. On the other hand, there is a need to isolate each case, so to provide individual contact in individual need one can highlight the disconnectedness through spatial arrangements.
This hypothesis belongs within the body of architectural work discussed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and others who have focussed theory around the power of the hearth as the heart of the building. This experiment seeks to validate or otherwise add to this body of knowledge by providing an avenue to turn the hearth off and on through differing arrangements and measure the effectiveness of this method.
Experiment 2
Alluring/ brutal
The central theme to the middle section is the analogy to the muscle, the tension that arises from the connexion and relationship between two separate individual bones connected together. For the relationship between the two disparate sides of the building to work there must be a strong connexion that lives and moves. In this respect there must be movement from the ‘Hearth’ toward ‘The Organisation’, there must be an allurement from one toward the other. It must throb with the activity that it is used for as it is used, built upon, exercised. In this experiment the muscle will respond to the combinations of activity from the group from the hearth. The premise is that the floor of the ‘muscle’ is made of blocks that are all separate and yet stackable. It is through the arrangement and creation of rooms, stairs, and furniture from these basic forms that interface and force interaction between the two groups. The people involved in the experiment will be divided into two groups, with those from the office reliant on those from the hearth to activate the blocks in a way that will enable the two groups to mingle. The activity from then will be to form rooms from the blocks. The experiment will then be to see the divisions between the two groups. Whether they were maintained or whether the two groups then were inclined to mingle.
This experimental methodology can be positioned within the work done by Clive Wilkinson Architects with blocks, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Experiment 3
Throbbing
How will the office space work? Through high density planning, bureaucracy style with people living on top of people. Does this work for information transfer, communication, finding people, meetings and other relevant office activity? Through medium density, setting up the obvious hierarchy, combinations of open plan and individual office? Through complete open plan, the idea that everyone shares the one workspace, that all ideas and cases are transferable? How does this work for individual tasks, surveillance, office culture, identity, unity and other issues?
This work fits into the category of office space design as promoted by architects such as Foster, Piano, Koolhaas, Leibskind.
Alive or dead (Cavernous, alluring, throbbing)
Exp 1 derives around the experience created in the hub itself. It is a test of the atmosphere and appealing nature of the seating in combination with the fire. There will be a series of configurations of the room tested with each measuring the approach that is taken toward the hearth, whether the hearth, the heart in that moment is alive or dead. Is it enough to draw people or will it find itself a dead space. The hypothesis is that in certain configurations people will gather toward the middle, around the communal moment, the space will then become alive, alive with conversation, alive with interaction, alive with the conjoining of people’s lives. Conversely in other configurations people will end up scattered, disconnected, and maybe confined to isolated groups. The benefit of this control becomes social monitoring and behavioural conditioning. When people need to be drawn in there is a configuration to draw people off the street, to connect people in the living organism of a society. On the other hand, there is a need to isolate each case, so to provide individual contact in individual need one can highlight the disconnectedness through spatial arrangements.
This hypothesis belongs within the body of architectural work discussed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and others who have focussed theory around the power of the hearth as the heart of the building. This experiment seeks to validate or otherwise add to this body of knowledge by providing an avenue to turn the hearth off and on through differing arrangements and measure the effectiveness of this method.
Experiment 2
Alluring/ brutal
The central theme to the middle section is the analogy to the muscle, the tension that arises from the connexion and relationship between two separate individual bones connected together. For the relationship between the two disparate sides of the building to work there must be a strong connexion that lives and moves. In this respect there must be movement from the ‘Hearth’ toward ‘The Organisation’, there must be an allurement from one toward the other. It must throb with the activity that it is used for as it is used, built upon, exercised. In this experiment the muscle will respond to the combinations of activity from the group from the hearth. The premise is that the floor of the ‘muscle’ is made of blocks that are all separate and yet stackable. It is through the arrangement and creation of rooms, stairs, and furniture from these basic forms that interface and force interaction between the two groups. The people involved in the experiment will be divided into two groups, with those from the office reliant on those from the hearth to activate the blocks in a way that will enable the two groups to mingle. The activity from then will be to form rooms from the blocks. The experiment will then be to see the divisions between the two groups. Whether they were maintained or whether the two groups then were inclined to mingle.
This experimental methodology can be positioned within the work done by Clive Wilkinson Architects with blocks, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Experiment 3
Throbbing
How will the office space work? Through high density planning, bureaucracy style with people living on top of people. Does this work for information transfer, communication, finding people, meetings and other relevant office activity? Through medium density, setting up the obvious hierarchy, combinations of open plan and individual office? Through complete open plan, the idea that everyone shares the one workspace, that all ideas and cases are transferable? How does this work for individual tasks, surveillance, office culture, identity, unity and other issues?
This work fits into the category of office space design as promoted by architects such as Foster, Piano, Koolhaas, Leibskind.
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