Huai Kuan Chung

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Invisible Elements of Staten Island Ferry Road

The Ferry Road doesn’t present a lot of information. However, this becomes a good opportunity to explore the invisible data of this hustle and bustle body of water.  The selected data include the timetable of the ferry, other moving vehicles and their own route, New Jersey’s territory which has been crossed every day, tags for introducing different places, Hurricane Sandy’s flood area, the depth of water and the last and also the most important one, is the movement.

I use all different kinds of angle and perspective of views to describe the movement, which include the view from the ferry itself, the view from helicopters, the view from the top and side and the view from the Statue of Liberty.

The overall concept of this model is trying to elaborate all different kinds of information from this body of water as much as I can. After this, demonstrate this data-annotated urban fragment from all different kinds of angle.

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Invisible Elements of Staten Island Ferry Road

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In this film, I try to add two more commons on my site, which are the sounds and the movement. Not only adding the background sound, I use delaunay triangulation to visualized the sounds. When the ferry is arriving to the station, the sound of it will become louder to the people who are waiting for it, vice versa. And movement is something can only be represented relatively, so I use different point of view to describe the movement.

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Urban Apparatus

Since there’s nothing on the water, I’m trying to visualized the information which relate to the body of water. Including the depth of water, other ferry routes, flood area of Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey’s boundary line and Staten Island Ferry weekday schedule.

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Algorithm Process

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Staten Island Ferry & its terminals

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My interests of the Gowanus Canal is the intersects between different kind of infrastructure, including a canal, an expressway, a subway line and two bridges. 

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Although Gowanus Canal is recognized as one of the most polluted body of water, people still come to this place for various activities.

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Staten Island Ferry & its terminals 

Land Use /Building /Lot

I select the residential building on states island side, and the commercial building on Manhattan side to describe the relation in between two points.

Subway /People Flow

I choose this layer in order to show how public transportation system collect people to take the ferry.

Street

I use this layer to show a walkable area from the ferry terminals.

Underwater Contour

I use this layer to describe the unseen environment of the ferry route.

NYC Border

During the researching stage, I found that the ferry route is actually crossing part of the area of New Jersey. 

Ferry Route /Travel Time

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Staten Island Ferry & its terminals (PLUS Staten Island civic center) 

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(1) During the walking process, I can help but keep looking at the water tanks. I've noticed that although there are all different kinds of building, the styles of water tan is very limited.

(2) As a reaction of the very strait street system, there's a line up culture among different urban elements in different scale.

(3) Also, I've found that in order to show the best elevation to the street, it become quit common to found these collage style elevation.