My Bedroom
My House
Map Of my Neighbourhood
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Project One, Introduction and Part One
Project One
Suburbia
Social Space in the Planametric City
OVERVIEW
In teams of four or five, you will investigate and interpret a large-scale suburban environment. Through a series of mapping studies, derived from personal observation and supplementary research, you will isolate and represent the historic, cultural, economic, ecological and spatial conditions that characterize your site. Subsequently, through the creative recombination of these variables into a synthetic analytical drawing, you will reveal insights into the challenges and potentials of your site.
The five sites in question will be the termini of each arm of the Toronto rapid transit system: Kipling Station, Downsview Station, Finch Station, Don Mills Station and McCowan Station.
Don Mills Station
Downsview Station
Finch Station
Kipling Station
McCowan Station
Your preliminary observations should cover a minimum area of approximately one kilometer square: 500m from the station exit in all directions.
PART ONE: DUE SEPTEMBER 25, 2008, 8:30AM
With your team, visit your site. Actively observe the forces at play. Record your observations through a combination of media: writing, sketching, photography, audio recording, video recording or any other technique you may be comfortable with.
On returning, review the results of your observations. Post five items to the blog - passages, images, clips or a combination - that you feel are representative of five different forces that affect the social space under investigation. In one or two sentences, describe the force that you are representing.
Possible forces include, but are not limited to: traces, decay, transformations, momentous occasions, groups, ethnicities, locals, festivals, boundaries, ownership, traffic, government, tags, formal exchanges, informal exchanges, illegal operations, scales, business type, business size, employment, employees, venues, variety, waste, production, human habitation, wild space, vegetation, forgotten places, water flow, toxicity, traffic, vehicles, corridors, forgotten places, vacancy, density, geometry, grids, axes, repetition, edges, hierarchy . . . to name but a few.
Lastly, please read James Corner's essay The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.
EVALUATION
Annotated Observations: /5
Suburbia
Social Space in the Planametric City
The map is open and conneciable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a political action or as a meditation.
Mapping is a fantastic cultural project, creating and building the world as much as measuring and describing it. Long affiliated with the planning and design of cities, landscapes and buildings, mapping is particularly instrumental in the construing and constructing of lived space. In this active sense, the function of mapping is less to mirror reality than to engender the re-shaping of worlds in which people live.
OVERVIEW
In teams of four or five, you will investigate and interpret a large-scale suburban environment. Through a series of mapping studies, derived from personal observation and supplementary research, you will isolate and represent the historic, cultural, economic, ecological and spatial conditions that characterize your site. Subsequently, through the creative recombination of these variables into a synthetic analytical drawing, you will reveal insights into the challenges and potentials of your site.
Don Mills Station
Downsview Station
Finch Station
Kipling Station
McCowan StationYour preliminary observations should cover a minimum area of approximately one kilometer square: 500m from the station exit in all directions.
PART ONE: DUE SEPTEMBER 25, 2008, 8:30AM
With your team, visit your site. Actively observe the forces at play. Record your observations through a combination of media: writing, sketching, photography, audio recording, video recording or any other technique you may be comfortable with.
On returning, review the results of your observations. Post five items to the blog - passages, images, clips or a combination - that you feel are representative of five different forces that affect the social space under investigation. In one or two sentences, describe the force that you are representing.
Possible forces include, but are not limited to: traces, decay, transformations, momentous occasions, groups, ethnicities, locals, festivals, boundaries, ownership, traffic, government, tags, formal exchanges, informal exchanges, illegal operations, scales, business type, business size, employment, employees, venues, variety, waste, production, human habitation, wild space, vegetation, forgotten places, water flow, toxicity, traffic, vehicles, corridors, forgotten places, vacancy, density, geometry, grids, axes, repetition, edges, hierarchy . . . to name but a few.
Lastly, please read James Corner's essay The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.
EVALUATION
Annotated Observations: /5
Exercise One: Amin Shahinbakhsh
Hotel poerta de America SPAIN
The world in DUBAI
Tallest building in the world in DUBAI
In 10 years from know I would like to be one of the worlds leading architect and interior designer. I am planning to have energy saving to be one of my leading priority and goal in my designs.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Exercise Two: Katie Felton
1.my apartment and surroundings-site plan
2.floor plan for the apartment
3.balcony/garden detailed plan
"Exercise One: Nancy Huang."
I AM the PRESENT and the FUTURE but most importantly I am NOW.
Where do I see myself in 10 years?
I can’t even see myself tomorrow let alone ten years because everyday is new with unavoidable new problems to solve and new gifts to cherish. The inevitable good and bad events that happens in life shapes life and how we live it.
Translation: I have no idea about what’s going to happen but it’s going to be a crazy ride.
BUT if I were to guess…I would be saving the world from destroying ourselves and the planet with my art as well as with the vast number of degrees and diploma that I have accumulated over the years about psychology, philosophy and world religions.
Or
DEAD! because we destroyed ourselves: with greed, hate, world hunger, and pollution, etc, etc, etc.
Where do I see myself in 10 years?
I can’t even see myself tomorrow let alone ten years because everyday is new with unavoidable new problems to solve and new gifts to cherish. The inevitable good and bad events that happens in life shapes life and how we live it.
Translation: I have no idea about what’s going to happen but it’s going to be a crazy ride.
BUT if I were to guess…I would be saving the world from destroying ourselves and the planet with my art as well as with the vast number of degrees and diploma that I have accumulated over the years about psychology, philosophy and world religions.
Or
DEAD! because we destroyed ourselves: with greed, hate, world hunger, and pollution, etc, etc, etc.
It’s true, humans are fundamentally flawed but together we have so much power in that we can change it all right now (except for humans being flawed part although we can try.)
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