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===Concept===
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= '''"HOW CAN A SITE SUSTAIN ACTIVITY 24/7 ?"''' =
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[[File:logo_247.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Activities 24/7]]
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=<span style="color:orange">THE SITE</span>=
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'''Problems:'''
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* The site is devoid of human activity.
  
''Our design exploration started with a question:''
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* There is no landscaping or landscaping attributes (e.g. lamps, benches).
  
'''How can a site sustain activity 24/7?'''
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* The lush green border around the site works like a fence during summer, it blocks the view inward and inhibits human presence.
  
A website works 24/7 and is continuously evolving; e.g. a wiki page where the user is free to add content and to make it public worldwide.<br />
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* The site is a vacuum in an area full of program.  
By taking the concept of hyperspace we propose a site which will permit a widespread and ever changing spectrum of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities activities] throughout the whole of the day.<br /> The site will be linked with an online website for booking activities, thus it will be continuously changing and allow the interweaving of human interaction (a lecture hall, next to a performance space next to individual study-rooms, etc). <br/> This functionality will create a trace of human activity; a new user will have the option of seeing the previous activity and form. Just as time leaves a trace into a building’s physicality and identity, so will continuous activity leave a trace on the site.
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See also:
 
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs Jane Jacobs]
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<youtube width="340" height="250" left >QihC34KnA4Y</youtube>
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===The Site===
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Image:siteplan_247.jpg|Site plan.
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=<span style="color:orange">CONCEPT  STATEMENT</span>=
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Image:site247.jpg|Panorama view, position 01-South.
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''"...On successful city streets, people must appear at different times...or else parks will be used only sporadically...and this simplification of use - meaning fewer users, with fewer different purposes and destinations at hand - feeds upon itself...a kind of unbuilding, or running-down process is set in motion...the infusion would obviously have to result in the presence of maximum numbers of persons at the times when the district needs them most for time balance..."''
  
Image:site247-2.jpg|Panorama view, position 02-North.
 
  
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This is a collage from Jacobs' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities The Death and Life of Great American Cities] . The book promotes an almost volatile, effervescent city life of streets lined with mixed-uses that create activity at different times in the day which leads to a constant presence of users / inhabitants. All this makes for a diverse and vital city life where  strangers step out of their individuality and participate in the public life.
  
</gallery>
 
  
Analysis:
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The concept - proposal builds upon this.
  
People don’t use the site, because there is no reason created to use it. Since people don’t use the site it is deserted, giving people passing by an ‘unsafe’ feeling (there is nobody there to control or watch over)Analysis gave us the following reasons why people hardly visit the site: - The site has no program - There is no landscaping or landscaping attributes (e.g. lamps, benches) - The lush green border around the site works like a fence during summer - Very diverse programming around site, site is leftover space.
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A website works 24/7 and is continuously evolving (e.g. a wiki page where the user is free to add content and to make it public worldwide). By taking the concept of hyperspace and linking it with real space the site will permit a widespread and ever-changing spectrum of activities throughout the whole of the day. Thus it will be continuously changing and allow the interweaving of human interaction (a lecture hall,  next to a performance space next to individual study-rooms, etc). This functionality will create a trace of human activity; a new user will have the option of seeing the previous activity and form. Just as time leaves a trace into a building’s physicality and identity, so will continuous activity leave a trace on the site. </div>
  
===The User===
 
 
The user is the client. He has the options of choosing his desired activity and size of the space required by a system of online booking. Therefore the site will continuously ''"pay for itself"'' and generate profit.
 
  
 
See also:
 
See also:
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Booking_%28UK_government_project%29 E-booking]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs Jane Jacobs]
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system Computer reservations system]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities The Death and Life of Great American Cities]
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===Design challenge===
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=<span style="color:orange">DESIGN CHALLENGE</span>=
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When there is no activity going on there is no building. In music [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence#In_music silence] is just as effective as sound; one might say that the absence of silence implies the absence of dynamics.
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To extend the notion of an online social community by providing a user-customizable space that will enhance that community (through joining and participating in activities public or private). Thus the concept of [[project_C:Home| '''Spacebook''']]: (where) everybody can see the activities on the site, the users can join activities that are or will be taking place, create their new activities and (physically) link them with other activities. A new activity hive is born.
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===01: ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE===
  
====*  User scenarios====
 
  
Possible user scenarios:
 
  
<u>The artist:</u>
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[[File:Questionnaire_results_v7_no_gradient.jpg|340px|thumb|left|Questionnaire results]]
A Delft artist, living in Piet Heinstraat is having his annual exhibition with works from the last year. He usually rents an old factory space to show his paintings and sculptures, but noticed last year this setting doesn't fit his concept of his paintings. This year he wants to try a new location, the site between Julianalaan and Mijnbouwstraat, around the corner of Piet Heinstraat. Via his Smartphone he books several spaces and an outside exposition area, as to create his ideal exhibition set up. Three hours before the exhibition start he places his art in the various spaces, which he decorates as theme spaces, and places his sculptures outside. Since the site is open and accessible for anybody passing by, the artist attracts many more visitor than the previous years in the old factories. Although the Build to Demand spaces receive a lot of attention of his visitors the artist feels like this might be a great space for him to run exhibitions more frequently.
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<u>The mother with son:</u>
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An 8 year old boy will turn 9 in a week and wants to give a birthday party for some of his school friends. He and his mother live in Prins Mauritsstraat, in a small house, where they don’t have enough space to organise a party. To not disappoint the boy, the mother goes to the website to book a space where her son can give his party. She books it for a Wednesday afternoon, so her son and his friends can go there directly after school. The website gives the mother a check-in code, which she will need to finalize the booking on the Wednesday. That Wednesday afternoon the mother, son and 7 of his friends arrive at the site and the mother has something spectacular planned! She walks over to the user interface and checks in with the check-in code. Then the ground starts to rise and in 10 minutes their playing space in finished. The little boy is hugely admired by his friends because of this 'magic trick' and together they have a nice party. The inside space is used for eating cake and playing games, the outside area (also booked by the mother and looks quite hilly) is used to play tag and hide and seek. At the end of the party the son and mother check-out via the same user interface and their party space disappears into the ground again.
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An online questionnaire has been created. Its goal is to establish if '''there is''' user-demand on the site, '''what''' the users want and '''when''' they want to do it.
  
<u>The business-man of Senz Umbrellas:</u>
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Having this information helps create an estimate on the spread of activities throughout the day.</div>
Senz Umbrellas is one of the more successful businesses started by TU Delft graduates, and located in the Science Centre building at Mijnbouwstraat, Delft. They have a wonderful meeting room in this old building that usually fits their demands. Now they are about to make a very important business deal, with a company specialised in non-standard user experiences, so together they can develop a new, ground breaking umbrella-concept. In this case their normal meeting room does not meet the requirements. They head of Senz umbrellas books a meeting space at the site across of their office to hold the meeting. The meeting space will provide both parties attending with an open minded attitude, that will give them a very inspiring meeting. Also, before the meeting starts the Senz Umbrella CEO will demonstrate the use of the site to the CEO of the non-standard company, as to show that Senz is open for new ideas and experiences.
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<u>The biker:</u>
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[http://www.savagetiger.org/hyperbody/ Online questionnaire] <br/>
For the children and people living in the neighbourhoods around the site there are some places to hang out and to play, but not really places to use a BMX or skateboard. They can only be found on the edge of Delft, and most parents don't like their kids going there. To stimulate kids and teenagers to spend more time inside the municipality of Delft started a new programm: they book the site between Julianalaan and Mijnbouwstraat for several times a month so BMX lovers and mountainbikers can use the ramps, hills and ditches created here.
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[[atom02:Questionnaire results| Questionnaire results]]  <br/>
The musical student:</u>
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A student applied mathematics is a classical singer in her spare time. She likes to practice a lot, but lives in a very noisy(?) student house. Her house mates do not share her taste in music. She used to practise at the cultural centre of TU Delft, but the building has become too small, and most of the times the study cells are occupied. Nowadays she practises at the site! With her Smartphone she can easily check when there are possibilities to use Project X and with the same easiness she can book a space at her preferred time. Being a regular user she has her own account which gives her the right to book spaces longer ahead (compared to one time users), the possibility to make more bookings at the same time and gives her some discount as well. When it is time to practice she can check in on the website via her Smartphone, while cycling from the faculty to the study cell.
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<u>BK Beats:</u>
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Once every two years a committee of Stylos (study association of the faculty of Architecture, TU Delft) organises BK Beats, a party for architecture (and other TU) students in the faculty of Architecture. All ground floor spaces (such as the Orange Room and the workshop room) are big dance floors, but BK beats is growing and the faculty is soon too small for the party. Just across the street of Architecture is an interactive space which would be an ideal additional party space. Since TU Delft is the main sponsor of this project, the BK Beats committee can book the entire site with first priority and for a reduced price. It is booked 2 days in advance and till 1 day after the event. During those extra days the site, which has now turned into a pavillion, is being made party-proof, with sound and light systems. On the night of the party the additional party space is easily accessed by following the outside light and just cross the street of the rest of the party activities. Part of the pavilion houses a stage for the DJ, there is a dancing area and certain parts of the site are shaped to be lounges under the night sky. After a thorough cleaning session the site is available again for any user and any activity.
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<u>The housewives:</u>
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===02: INTERFACE FLOW CHART===
A group of 40 year old friend have been having creative meetings for the past 15 years. During those meetings they all take turns in the subject of creativity, such as flower arranging, painting, sculpting, creating interior decorations, etc. But most of all the ladies have a nice evening together with lots of gossip and wine. Nowadays they all have children who demand a lot of attention and space in the living room, so there  are only a few houses of friends left that are suitable for their monthly creative meetings. Since the arrival of the Build to Demand system they meet every month at the site. They created an account which gives them the opportunity to make automatic bookings: every month at the same time, at the same day, with a maximum of 2 months ahead. Because of this system they can always meet at the same time and place every month, without the worry of children or making too much noise. Only in the occurrence of a special event from a 'higher priority user (eg TU Delft)' they have to reschedule their meeting. The user interface at the site (to check-in) is made in such a way that even the housewives that don't work with computers, can use it.
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====* Interaction of activities - online questionnaire====
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The are future plans of making Spacebook a part of [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] so to tap into the already gigantic user database.
  
The following charts show possible interaction-scenarios during weekdays and weekends. <br />
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====='Interface Diagram' =====
  
For proofing this scenarios, it is planned to create an online questionnaire, which shows a scheduling demand of activities on the site.  
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[[File:Spacebook diagram2.jpg|690px|thumb|left|Spacebook - Function - diagram]]
  
<gallery widths="200" heights="200" perrow="5" >
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Image:Workdays-chart.jpg|A possible time schedule, during the week.
 
  
Image:Workdays-diagram.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the week.
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====='User - Interface' =====
  
File:Weekend-chart.jpg|A possible time schedule, during the weekend.
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<gallery widths="130" heights="100" perrow="4">
  
File:Weekend.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the weekend.
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image:interface Dia copy.jpg|Spacebook - Interface, part of Facebook.
  
File:overlay.jpg|Overlay of both weekdays and weekend.
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image:Flow.gif|Spacebook - Interface, part of Facebook.
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Image:userscenario-part01.jpg|Scenario of user demands.
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Image:userscenario-part02.jpg|Spatial result of scenario.
  
 
</gallery>
 
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</div>
  
At this moment the questionaire is under construction, we hope to have it online before the end of the week. The goal of the questionaire is for people to tell us '''<u>what</u>''' they want to do and <u>'''when'''</u> they want to do it during the day. Having this information will help us to create a better concept and system. We will send the link to the online questionaire to as many people as possible (to get the best overview of the demands). When a person would like to do an acticity he will tick the box, at which point drop down menus will appear, so that he can tell us when he would like to do the acticity during the week and weekend. There is also a possibility to come up with other activities that are not in the list. The user generates the data, that we will later visualize in a time schedule like the ones above. <br />
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See also:
  
<gallery widths="200" heights="200" perrow="2" >
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Booking_%28UK_government_project%29 E-booking]
  
Image:Questionaire_v1.png|The first version of the online questionaire.
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system Computer reservations system]
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</div>
  
Image:Questionaire_v2.png|The code that comes with the questionaire.
 
  
</gallery>
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<div style="float: left; width: 1090px; margin-right:40px; text-align:left">
  
====* Traffic analysis====
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===03: PHYSICAL SITE SYSTEM:===
  
By using stop-motion animation gathered from the BK-city tower to capture the crucial moments of the week we will confirm our suspicion and analyze the level of usage in the site and [http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/harvesting-the-energy-of-traffic-flow-00002454.asp?sessionid=1| traffic] intensity.
 
  
See also:
 
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A New York time lapse video]
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====='Bubble System' =====
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCnWUzUw_E Traces of traveling]
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<gallery widths="130" heights="100" perrow="6" >
  
====* Site mechanism concept:====
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Image:b0.jpg| 1. A grid of points drive a network of inflatable "bubbles" linked together by a network of valves.
  
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Image:b1.jpg| 2. The bubbles hold the roof & floor system.
  
Image:b0.jpg|The site will be mapped as a grid of points which drive a network of inflatable "bubbles" linked together by a network of valves so as one bubble inflate its neighbors deflate.
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File:b2.jpg| 3. One of the point-bubble inflates. The local bubbles deflate.
  
Image:b1.jpg|Default state; the bubbles hold the roof & floor system.
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File:b3.jpg| 4. Roof has desired height. Roof structural nodes lock into place. Bubbles equalize and support the elastic floor.
  
File:b2.jpg|One of the point-bubble inflates, the neighboring bubbles deflate; sum of air volume remains constant.
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File:b4.jpg|5. Possible section of created "site". Various open / closed spaces for activities.
  
File:b3.jpg|Roof system reaches desired height. Roof structure locks into place. Bubble air volumes equalize. Elastic floor becomes flat and is supported by the bubbles.
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File:b5.jpg|6. Axonometric result.
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</gallery><br>
  
File:b4.jpg|Possible section of created "site";various closed and open spaces for activities.
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====='Interaction of activities' =====
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<gallery widths="220" heights="180" perrow="4" >
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File:sketch_activities.jpg| Site topography & interaction of activities.
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File:IMG_0257.jpg|Iteration 2.
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File:user_scenario_structure.JPG|The floor becomes the furniture.
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File:Capsule01.jpg|Interior space result.
  
File:b5.jpg|Axonometric result.
 
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
See also:
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See also the progression on creating the site mechanism:
  
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIPoH4599k Guayamas Dome 2010]
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIPoH4599k Guayamas Dome 2010]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4gyRrEhng&feature=related Shape-memory Flower]
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4gyRrEhng&feature=related Shape-memory Flower]
  
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[http://meweb.larc.nasa.gov/meweb/vgt.html Variable Geometry Truss]
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===04: ATOM SPECIALIZATION:===
  
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1. User Interfaces
  
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2. Flexible / Kinetic Structures
  
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3. Geometric Algorithm
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===Sponsor===
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The sponsor will be [http://home.tudelft.nl/| TU Delft]. We believe that with the expertise and general know-how provided by the various departments inside the Faculty (Mechanical Engineering, Materials, Computer Science, Structural Engineering) and its financial resources we can achieve a desired result. Moreover this project will cement the Faculty's position as a world-leading research institute.
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=== USERS ===
  
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The users are anyone who has an internet connection and can physically access the site.
  
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=== EXPERTS ===
  
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Interfaces: [[atom02:interfaces_walter_aprile| Walter Aprile]] & Aadjan van der Helm
  
===Sustainability===
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Structures: [[atom02:structures_michela_turrin| Michela Turrin]] & Andrew Borgart
  
We suspect the traffic to be an untapped source for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy energy].
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Algorithms: [[atom02:computer_science_a_stoiculescu | Andrei Stoiculescu]] & [[atom02:computer_science_S_Hagemann| Sven Hagemann]]
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=== SUSTAINABILITY ===
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We suspect the traffic around the site to be an untapped source for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy energy].
  
 
See also:
 
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[http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/harvesting-the-energy-of-traffic-flow-00002454.asp?sessionid=1 Energy of traffic flow]
 
[http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/harvesting-the-energy-of-traffic-flow-00002454.asp?sessionid=1 Energy of traffic flow]
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=== FINANCIAL PLAN ===
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[[File:Spacebook_financial.jpg|280px|thumb|left|Spacebook Financial Plan]]
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Contacts have been made with [http://tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/executive-board/kcamluyben/rector-magnificus-karel-cham-luyben Karel Luyben],
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[http://tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/executive-board/djvandenberg/drs-dj-van-den-berg Dick van den Berg] and [https://intranet.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=d0859537-6cd3-4162-bec4-f8fcdec72913&lang=en Anja Stokkers] to discuss the proposal and form a partnership with TU Delft.
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Upon the discussion with Karel Luyben [http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=ae335e22-2591-4147-9a34-6cbcaa7c151e&lang=en Wytze Patijin] has been contacted.
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Latest revision as of 11:22, 17 October 2011

Contents

"HOW CAN A SITE SUSTAIN ACTIVITY 24/7 ?"


THE SITE


Problems:

  • The site is devoid of human activity.
  • There is no landscaping or landscaping attributes (e.g. lamps, benches).
  • The lush green border around the site works like a fence during summer, it blocks the view inward and inhibits human presence.
  • The site is a vacuum in an area full of program.



CONCEPT STATEMENT


"...On successful city streets, people must appear at different times...or else parks will be used only sporadically...and this simplification of use - meaning fewer users, with fewer different purposes and destinations at hand - feeds upon itself...a kind of unbuilding, or running-down process is set in motion...the infusion would obviously have to result in the presence of maximum numbers of persons at the times when the district needs them most for time balance..."


This is a collage from Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities . The book promotes an almost volatile, effervescent city life of streets lined with mixed-uses that create activity at different times in the day which leads to a constant presence of users / inhabitants. All this makes for a diverse and vital city life where strangers step out of their individuality and participate in the public life.


The concept - proposal builds upon this.

A website works 24/7 and is continuously evolving (e.g. a wiki page where the user is free to add content and to make it public worldwide). By taking the concept of hyperspace and linking it with real space the site will permit a widespread and ever-changing spectrum of activities throughout the whole of the day. Thus it will be continuously changing and allow the interweaving of human interaction (a lecture hall, next to a performance space next to individual study-rooms, etc). This functionality will create a trace of human activity; a new user will have the option of seeing the previous activity and form. Just as time leaves a trace into a building’s physicality and identity, so will continuous activity leave a trace on the site.


See also:

Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities



DESIGN CHALLENGE


To extend the notion of an online social community by providing a user-customizable space that will enhance that community (through joining and participating in activities public or private). Thus the concept of Spacebook: (where) everybody can see the activities on the site, the users can join activities that are or will be taking place, create their new activities and (physically) link them with other activities. A new activity hive is born.



01: ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire results

An online questionnaire has been created. Its goal is to establish if there is user-demand on the site, what the users want and when they want to do it.

Having this information helps create an estimate on the spread of activities throughout the day.

Online questionnaire

Questionnaire results


02: INTERFACE FLOW CHART

The are future plans of making Spacebook a part of Facebook so to tap into the already gigantic user database.

'Interface Diagram'
Spacebook - Function - diagram



'User - Interface'

See also:

E-booking

Computer reservations system


03: PHYSICAL SITE SYSTEM:

'Bubble System'

'Interaction of activities'

See also the progression on creating the site mechanism:

Guayamas Dome 2010

Industrial Dome

Memory Cloth (see min 6:00)

Shape-memory Flower

Variable Geometry Truss

04: ATOM SPECIALIZATION:

1. User Interfaces

2. Flexible / Kinetic Structures

3. Geometric Algorithm

STAKEHOLDERS

USERS

The users are anyone who has an internet connection and can physically access the site.

EXPERTS

Interfaces: Walter Aprile & Aadjan van der Helm

Structures: Michela Turrin & Andrew Borgart

Algorithms: Andrei Stoiculescu & Sven Hagemann

SUSTAINABILITY

We suspect the traffic around the site to be an untapped source for energy.

See also:

Mechanical energy

Energy of traffic flow

FINANCIAL PLAN

Spacebook Financial Plan

Contacts have been made with Karel Luyben, Dick van den Berg and Anja Stokkers to discuss the proposal and form a partnership with TU Delft.

Upon the discussion with Karel Luyben Wytze Patijin has been contacted.




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