thesis ad

a test "ad" for my thesis

perceived boundaries of downtown core - a drawing

another drawing: i am trying to identify here the perceived spatial and narrative boundaries of the downtown core narrative: walking distance, live/work and visit/work (denoting commonly used buildings/urban space depending on whether one lives in or visits the downtown); spatial: elevational (hills), planar (large parking lots past which there is less density and busy/multiple-lane streets)

updated drawings

some drawings (area and site) identifying public uses (retail, transportation, civic, religious):

a working wall

i've spent the day working on a wall of images...sometimes posting what i am working on helps me get out of a funk...the act of placing images on the wall helps me to think and see patterns and gaps in my work. 12x12 is still offline, though some participation is still occurring. i will do some videoing by hand tomorrow and sunday. i don't think my thesis is about emergence...maybe it is about amplification, or tuning a social space. maybe it is about a parking lot/square. maybe it is about gentrification. maybe it is just about seeing...participating... it is about a question of spatial determinism...about the relationship between space and behavior...the affordance of architectural elements... it is about language, signs, meaning it is about the group and the role of space in the formation of the group and in the wisdom of the group

galt downtown

today i drew some more: (the drawing still needs a lot of work: the crop/layout needs more consideration, a highlight of some sort needs to be applied to my site, and something mysterious needs to happen to make this mean something to my proposal)

urban form through time

today i drew. (the diagram still needs a lot of work: i have layered a few sources which need editing/confirmation, more source material is needed, and the crop/layout needs more consideration)