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The theme of Japaneses artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi work is “the physical that permeates into the art piece.” Laser print mounted with plexiglass acrylic and layered in a way that it all come up as some intriguing sculpture installations. ” In a foggy landscape, we no longer see what we are usually able to see – the distance to the traffic light, the silhouette of the trees, the slope of the ground. Silhouettes, distance and horizontal sense all become vague. When we perceive this vagueness, the water inside the retina and skin dissolve outwardly toward the infinite space of the body surface.

The landscape continues to flow, withholding us from grasping anything solid. By capturing spatial change and the infinite flow of time, I strive to produce art that creates movement between the artwork itself and the viewer’s experience of the artwork.

Photographic Art by: Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Text by: Cyril Foiret

Modeling of vertical elements: Detailing to assign materiality.

Area for articulation of fragmented interactive skin layers, as inspired by Bill Viola’s The Veiling

LOCAL

NON-LOCAL

Axonometric, Plan, and Side View of massing model

Sketches of how the elements of the station are responsive to users’ prompts (proximity, movement) through the implementation of fragmented “screens”

And sketches of potential articulation of the base, in response to flood.

Today's agenda. Components of 4 scenarios.

To answer what is being transmitted, these drafts start to diagram the possibilities of what is being collected.

Influenced by the work at MIT Laboratory for Social Machines:

To answer these midterm questions:

Midterm feedback:

What is the value? What can the hubs, being non-mobile, provide? (relationship between personal mobile devices and non-mobile?)

Hubs could be thought of as reference points. “Network dimension created around the hubs before disaster. Hubs could reconnect those particular dimensions in moment of disorganization/disaster. Such as social clusters that previously existed, being tied back to reconstitute some level of normalcy” Important to define what is being transmitted by the hubs that can’t be transmitted any other way. Specific disaster scenario might help. Sandy example: new city “edges” formed by power outage, when some areas had some things and not others Which areas would the hub perform in? Important to define exact role & exact context (connected or disconnected). In which circumstances does the hub justify itself because of lacking of another type of infrastructure to do the same?

In reference to the San Francisco Activity Map - Possibly define other colors for activities specific to disaster, to create a second overlay that might show properties of resilience or rates of change. Also consider the temporal transformations, changes that the city goes through - could push project in direction of the very permanent/fixed OR temporary. Spatiotemporal context.

Illustrated physical & technological attributes, which are changeable. But certain physical attributes can become more prominent when considering the temporal

Don’t implement technology of kinetic energy from foot traffic

“prototype of a tree that harvests solar energy from its surroundings, stores it and turns it into electricity [...] The technology can also be used to harvest kinetic energy from the environment”

(source)

Areas at risk of inundation under projected future sea level rise (150 cm relative to mean sea level in the year 2000)

Overlay of data (accessed on QGIS, color coded in Illustrator) from following sources:

http://cascade.wr.usgs.gov/data/Task2b-SFBay/index.shtm

https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/Zoning-Districts/mici-sct2

Option for Pods' envelope

#Pod envelope

Pod Processing

#case studies #pod diagram

Drafting the ranges of Space for Social Connection

#pod

start to modeling process

(avg human dimension references)

#human proportions

Technology as APPENDAGE + Disaster as DETACHMENT

Under the premise that technology increasingly pervades our lives, and it will further develop as an appendage, a temporary detachment from technology will signify a diminishment of the capacity of the person.

Disaster resulting in power outage (due to city’s continued dependency on the vulnerable underground electricity grid in the future) will lead to the temporary displacement of the afflicted with loss of access to the internet-of-things at their home location.

#detachment #appendage #contextual awareness #anticipatory systems

still needs labels to components:

city dwellers transition from passive habitants to active/engaged agents

pods independent from electric grid (suggestive of hovering on the street plane?)

Pods in section: repositories of behavioral patterns of agents in proximity

Pods in aerial view: distributed, and site specific (”personality” of each hub on an additional diagram)

“voids” in network of pods in storm surge scenario (effects of that, and richness in pods destroyed on an additional diagram)

#social landscapes #geotagged data #the architect #the fashion designer #the marketer

BRAINCOAT - FOR THE BLUR BUILDING “A smart raincoat that, in combination with a proxi-communications network, creates a new form of “social radar.” [.....] acts as a prosthetic skin that receives and broadcasts signals. All visitors arrive at the Log-In station at the base of the Blur entrance ramp and fill in a questionnaire, conceived with writer Douglas Cooper. The transceiver embedded in each braincoat has an imprint of the visitor’s response profile that enables the coats to communicate in the fog. With the aid of a clustering program used for web profiling, visitors’ profiles are compared and evaluated by establishing correlations among the range of questions. As visitors pass one another, their coats compare character profiles and create an involuntary reaction. The chest panel of the braincoat displays a diffused colored light, the color indicating the degree of affinity or antipathy, much like blushing from embarrassment or blanching from shock. The color range is coded so that a shift toward cool blue-green represents antipathy and a shift toward warm red, affinity. A small vibrating pad is located in the rear pockets. When two perfectly matched visitors encounter one another in the fog, a vibration excites the buttocks.” -Diller Scofidio +Renfro

#active agents #diller scofidio + renfro #blur building #braincoat

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