ITDN389 CAROL HUANG
300085417
Thesis – Routes and guides
To explore a new way to guide inhibits, also to intro a better understanding of city structure.
The city is a deep structure; a dynamic structure. It is complex. This is the rub. This fact leaves the architect, with the intractable problem of how to produce working procedures which can model, more effectively and appropriately, the complex and transforming nature of the contemporary city.
Project Description
For this project, I have been investigating the level of physical interaction possible within a confined space that offers minimum affordances. I was also interested in how that level of physical interaction between the space, object and person can significantly transform the area/space, giving it an entirely new demeanor. For this assignment I have developed two main concepts that explore these ideas and areas of design that I am interested in.
My first concept originated from the idea of compass, which you have to follow some kind direction to find the way. Also to understand how architects try to setup and guide people to explore a confined space, to interact with the space. Using photographic to guide people to enter the mystery world, to exploring new senses and bringing in a this pieces into the confined space to transform it. With this installation I am looking at including that needed object into the space, so there is already some form of physical interaction that will transform the space, in this case it is done through photo. It is interesting to see the effect that simple interaction within a space creates.
For my second installation I am investigating the levels of interaction between two scales. Start a more big area and with the comparison with the whole city route and Looking at physical interaction but also social interaction in this piece.
The social communication between the physical model and the real architecture is what makes this installation interesting as it is a new mapping system that many people have ever think before. Ideally the design would be direct people to discover an unknowing direction, with tring to enter a new way by looking at the three dimensional guide. Again, as in the first installation, if the circumstances were different and that interaction within the space was not obvious, the space would be dim, lifeless but one specific director that can create interaction entirely transforms how we perceive that space. The new model is built in layers with different thickness and material, to show the over mapping of courtney place. It is a guide for people to follow as it directs the tourist and inhibits to exploring a new way. It is a three dimention map that clearly draws the route of busy central Wellington.
ITDN389 CAROL HUANG
300085417
Brief – camera & space between
Design brief
Specific design knowledge found through experimentation resulted in;
People are naturally reactive and effective. They respond to their interest and through discovery, which dramatically affects their direction, to explore a new way to walk and better understand the structure and city route.
These experiences, condition us individually and as a society. As designers, we can control the variables that affect people’s environments, physical objects that they engage with, or representations of our society. This design knowledge is applicable to any design consideration.
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