Feb 22, 2023
Soo Sunny Park: Interstitial Space (2000)
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Soo Sunny Park: Interstitial Space (2000)
Visual Case Study week one was Interstitial space. I chose to study a space in between buildings in the downtown area of the city I work in. I appreciate that instead of letting it be a normal alley from one street to another, the adjoining building on the right used it as another opportunity for store frontage. There are certainly more things that can be done to make the space a bit more welcoming, but it's already bounds ahead of some other similar spaces I've seen.
I recognize a number of problems with the perspective and proportions of my sketch, which is ultimately why I wanted to do this challenge. I haven't sketched from real life in a while, and I know I need to rebuild that skill of portraying what's in front of me. I'm looking forward to improving over the next 11 weeks!
The Scientific Research Notes Of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).
2117-2118.
TSRNOSS, p 805.
The Science Folios of S. Sunkavally, p 783.
from the paper: Interstitial space and the transformation of retail building types, by Mattias Kärrholm
Thinking about: interstitial space as being both public and private, loose space allowing for questioning of norms or identity constructs
STUDIO PRIZE: Mid-density Housing, Austin - Scheme PATIOS AND PORCHES, by P. Hazelet and R. Gawron
The scheme alternates enclosed living areas and open-air patios in an offset grid; interstitial spaces hold circulation and services. Load-bearing masonry structure contrasts with lush vegetation in the gardens, and the dispersed outdoor spaces ensure views of greenery from each unit and a higher ratio of windows per unit than a standard mid-density complex would allow.
https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/studio-prize/studio-prize-a-home-is-not-a-house-arc695-advanced-architectural-design-integrative-studio_o
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“Although the individual’s radius of action continues to expand as a result of increasing mobility, space itself is being steadily reduced to a zone that is traversed, an interval in a continuous movement interrupted at most for a brief stopover. Scarcely anybody has clearly formulated opinion about this transit zone. Most seem indifferent to what this in-between space looks like, accepting it as inevitable, something about which it is pointless or unnecessary to have, say, an aesthetic opinion. Herein lies a paradox of the expanding world, for while the area designated as familiar territory is larger than ever before, people find the world less and less meaningful, precisely because a large portion of the known world is familiar only from a fleeting visit and is not a place, with which people feel some affinity, where they feel at home, where they actually meet other people rather than being simply thrown together by chance.”
-Hans Ibeling, “Supermodernism” (could draw some connections between this and points made in Bolton’s ‘Supermodern Wardrobe’)