Program

The proposed program consists of spaces which range from digital overload to deprivation. There will be spaces for learning and spaces for solitary contemplation. There will also be collective learning spaces, which become a combination of individual research modules. Circulation between these modules and spaces will be integral to the design, as well as interaction between interior modules and the street.

This is a collective of individualized modules designed for the independent user and complete immersion within the digital environment. Each space will become augmented in relation to the individual inhabiting the module. This space for research can change as the user's needs change.

Revised Position Statement

The relationship of humans to architectural space has been affected by the intervention of digital technologies and digital space.

Architecture of the 21^st Century must react to a new complex set of relationships between humans and physical architecture. The interface to people to digital devices and the digital realm has changed the reeds of architecture. Our cities and buildings must respond to digital technology which defies geographical boundaries, personal privacy, and physical capacity.

Taking notes from innovations and trends within the digital technology industry, architecture should make the same shift towards user accessibility, flexibility, personalization, efficiency, simplicity, quality, compactness, and performance. We must recognize the out datedness of historical architectural typologies when responding to a new media. Education and the workplace have the most opportunities to change because physical conditions can change when public buildings are no longer designed for groups of people but for the individual. Digital space is architecture without the body. In the digital realm the user has free agency to arrange information and to control their own experience. Architecture has the responsibility to be responsive to users, allow for user controls, to begin responding to the needs of a database culture.

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Revised Methodology

Revision of Images

surveillance velocity and building

sensory deprivation isolation and digital overload

Hyperbolic Space Model

A hyperbolic crochet is said to be the most useful model of the theory of hyperbolic space set forth in the 1970s by William Thurston. As one moves away from a point, the space between the 2 objects is multiplied exponentially. A straight line drawn on the model becomes curved when flattened and vice versa.

EVOLUTION OF A THESIS

Methodology Revision

Once meeting with my advisors, we have arrived at a new Methodology.

This new process will utilize creating and making within the research process.

While I am reading literature on the field of study, integrating the making process investigates both spatial and intellectual discourses.

Methodology

Compare digital space and architectural space (Research)

Ask the Questions.

The research component of this project has to do with the relationship between humans to computers and humans to architecture.

What Does This Mean to the future of Architecture? (Thesis)

Draw conclusions from research.

From arguments researched, draw new relationships. Which arguments make most sense to me? What do i think makes the most sense for future architecture?

Site Selection/Programatic Research (Building)

Which program makes the most sense for this argument? What site that I am familiar with is appropriate?

Project Execution

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The relationship of humans to architectural space has been affected by the intervention of digital technologies and digital space.

Architecture of the 21^st Century must react to a new complex set of relationships between humans and physical architecture. The interface of people and digital technologies, i.e. video games, PCs, streaming video, projection, physically responsive technologies, and spectacle, has changed the needs of architecture particularly in the realm of education and the workplace. Our culture is constantly shifting towards an increasingly interconnected database of information, which can be accessed in any location, defying geographical boundaries, personal privacy, and physical capacity.

Taking notes from innovations and trends within the digital technology industry, architecture should make the same shift towards user accessibility, flexibility, personalization, efficiency, simplicity, quality, compactness, as well as overall awesomeness. We need to recognize the out-datedness of historical architectural typologies. In some respects this is occurring, school districts throughout the US have begun to remove their libraries in preference for better and more accessible computer clusters, or even giving computers for students to use. A library of books cannot compete with a database of information that can be housed through the Internet. Young individuals are more comfortable with digital interfaces anyway. Information can be gathered faster and is presented in a more interactive environment. Digital space is architecture without the body. In the digital realm there are boundaries and structures, but overall the user has free agency to arrange information, and control over their own experience. Architecture has the responsibility to be responsive to its users, allow for user controls, to begin responding to the needs of a database culture.

Moderna Museet Display Trays

Designed by Pontus Hulten and Renzo Piano, this self-curated art experience allows visitors to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm to choose which art they would like to view at any point. There is a computer interface which allows the visitor to chose which artist, or type of painting. A robotic lift system chooses the appropriate tray and pulls it down from the stacks to the level of the viewer. When the visitor is finished they can chose another tray and continue their museum experience. This way of exhibiting art allowed a larger collection of works to be exhibited in a smaller space and directly responds to the idea that we are now living in a database society, where information can be streamed to us on demand. And in fact, we expect information to be presented to us as we please and are frustrated by inaccessibility.

Architecture Is...

Architecture is the set of relationships between space and perception in the realm of human occupation. Architecture has intentionality to function appropriately to the needs of the user. Use and function determine its organization, present and future conditions are considered in its orientation and materiality. Architecture is constantly intended to improve the human condition. It is defined physically and intentionally, although architecture has meaning and influence beyond its physical boundaries.

THESIS

From this post on, this blog will officially document my Thesis Project, and will fulfill the requirements for Thesis I 48-497 at Carnegie Mellon University.