Sunday, September 13, 2009

design a city

group exercise.

characteristics of moments from our everyday:









DOG

Free roaming





ROLLING CHAIR

Directed roaming





GUMBOOT

Protective roaming





TRAIN

Directed





CUP

Delivery





COMPUTER

Free roaming

Free roaming

Delivery



DISHES

Cleanliness

Place




AFTERNOONS

Chill time

Other time

Own time

Sunny

Relaxed


iPOD

Free roaming (not fixed)

Delivery

Transportation

identity


JUMPER

Warmth

Wind protection




TIN ROOF

Shelter

Phenomenological

Experiential

sound


Use these characteristics to design a city.

Afternoon: what are the material properties of an "afternoon" site?
Where would you put the afternoon?
If this is a plan of a street, then:


Put the afternoon on top of a hill so it gets lots of sunlight. Then the morning is down the bottom, so you don't have to walk so far, and the evening is on the south side, away from the sun, because there isn't any then. Move between the different times of day.
A localized delivery system at the bottom of the hill for internet access, might become a transfer station: cold water moving down hill might capture heat produced by an internet service provider hub, and use that warm water to...warm a green house: transfer of enegry from isp to growing plants. Localised energy production at these sites, related to needs for each part of the day.


Move between days of the week. A circle of hills is a city layout, so that you move gradually from one day to the next.
Hill Friday might have a longer profile to accomodate the larger number of people there, and the delevery systems needed to supply what constitutes Friday, like alcohol, comfy couches, dance music...


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