Week 5

Week 5:

 Lecture: Strategic New York.

There was an illustration in today’s lecture that resonated with me; I may take some of it to assignment 2. It read;

“A city block with a collective deck and a plinth for parking and amenities is an ideal urban typology that allows for different levels of social interaction” then goes on to ask; “what if building groups build up this city block around a collective interest or theme and fill its plinth with functions and amenities in relation to this theme? Would this block be a common ground that could stimulate social cohesion on different levels?”

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The first quote has sound intentions regarding social interaction, however, the last part of the quote talks about social cohesion but also segregation. What I’m suggesting is that if you were to group certain collective interests – won’t we create groups that may segregate themselves from other groups through interests? The intermingling of groups may be more successful if we create mixed-groups across city blocks.

 

Tutorial: Design Development:

The following paragraphs are factors that we have identified for our assignment 1 panels; they form the driving mechanisms that will influence our architectural fiction.
 

 

These are the drivers that will set the stage for our architectural fiction. During the tutorial the group also discussed some proposals as to how the panels will work as a flowing story, we now have good direction to complete the project. I have offered to illustrate the storyboard montages of our fictional characters (we have decided on 3 characters) so I have my work cut out for me!

 

 

 Photo by Andrew Brown

 

PANEL 1:       
Start with our drivers: Global and Local, Social and Political actors.These are the catalysts for change that inform the direction of Paddington’s future

PANEL 2:               
Outline of sustainability issues.

PANEL 3:               
Storyboards illustrating characters interacting with an architectural possibility.

PANEL 4:               
Speculate on architectural manifestation.