Carl Lostritto, Instructor
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
GMarquez
Stamp-ede of the Starved
For this project, I plan to further analyze the horizontal activity that takes place within the Stamp’s main food court area. Contrary to the previous Processing exercise, I plan to concentrate on the horizontality of the space. How does it transform as time elapses? What about factors such as size and movement of the people that inhabit the space? Throughout the progression of the sequence, there is a noticeable dynamism that occurs not only in the middle of the space but also the side aisles. The fact that such movement is constant only at certain intervals in time was something that intrigued me. My proposal is to concentrate on such actions and translate them into separate 3D form(s) that would reflect this. What would happen when placed together? If overlapped? What spatial implications would they create?
… what’s love got to do with it?
The main goal for this exercise was to find the effect and influence the 2008 presidency candidates had on several toss-up states during their campaign. The analysis is based on the percentages each person had on a monthly basis right until election month.
Half Empty?
The intention of this exercise is to further explore the overall ambiguity of a shape, of a given form. What is positive? What is negative? Can a void be treated as space, vice versa? The idea of playing and adapting the human perception to these ideas in conjunction with other concepts such as cluster, rotation, and mobility will serve as the guiding principle for my exploration. As the Menilmontant project near Paris, France, a simple demolition dramatically changed not only the visual perception of the area but also the experience of the public within it. The remaining spaces morphed into others. Better explained by Nicholas Boyarsky and Nicola Murphy,
“… As these cast walls grow vertically they mutate from structure to programme enabling shells of inhabitation to cluster and be sustained. The interface between the historic city, the actualized landscape and interior experience is constantly negotiated and redefined by movement around, through and inside the walls.
The idea of space, empty or solid, is what drives design. Through the juxtaposition of both solids and voids, I plan to develop a space that not only resembles a deeper abstraction of the original image but a study of the many possibilities of spatial relationships that can be created.
