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= "How can a site sustain activity 24/7?" =
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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.
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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]
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throughout the whole of the day. 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). 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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<youtube width="340" height="250" left >QihC34KnA4Y</youtube>
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See also:
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs Jane Jacobs]
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=<span style="color:orange">CONCEPT  STATEMENT</span>=
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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..."''
  
  
===The Site===
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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.
  
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Image:siteplan_247.jpg|Site plan.
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The concept - proposal builds upon this.
  
Image:site247.jpg|Panorama view, position 01-South.
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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>
  
Image:site247-2.jpg|Panorama view, position 02-North.
 
  
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See also:
  
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs Jane Jacobs]
  
Analysis:
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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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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.
 
  
===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.
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=<span style="color:orange">DESIGN CHALLENGE</span>=
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See also:
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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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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Booking_%28UK_government_project%29 E-booking]
 
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system Computer reservations system]
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===01: ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE===
  
  
  
===Design challenge===
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[[File:Questionnaire_results_v7_no_gradient.jpg|340px|thumb|left|Questionnaire results]]
  
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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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.
  
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Having this information helps create an estimate on the spread of activities throughout the day.</div>
  
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[http://www.savagetiger.org/hyperbody/ Online questionnaire] <br/>
  
====* User scenarios====
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[[atom02:Questionnaire results| Questionnaire results]] <br/>
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===02: INTERFACE FLOW CHART===
  
[[atom02:Artist| The artist]]  
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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.
  
[[atom02:Mother_with_son| The mother with son]]
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====='Interface Diagram' =====
  
[[atom02:Business_man| The business-man of Senz Umbrellas]]
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[[File:Spacebook diagram2.jpg|690px|thumb|left|Spacebook - Function - diagram]]
  
[[atom02:Biker| The biker]]
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[[atom02:Music_student| The music student]]
 
  
[[atom02:BK_beats| BK Beats]]
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<div style="float: left; width: 700px; margin-right:40px; text-align:left">
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====='User - Interface' =====
  
[[atom02:Housewives| The housewives]]
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<gallery widths="130" heights="100" perrow="4">
  
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image:interface Dia copy.jpg|Spacebook - Interface, part of Facebook.
  
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image:Flow.gif|Spacebook - Interface, part of Facebook.
  
<gallery widths= "300" heights "500" perrow="3">
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Image:userscenario-part01.jpg|Scenario of user demands.
  
File:sketch_activities.jpg|Possible interaction of activities within the structure.
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Image:userscenario-part02.jpg|Spatial result of scenario.
  
File:IMG_0257.jpg|Possible interaction of activities within the structure.
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File:user_scenario_structure.JPG|Several elastic connected panels, which offer straight areas f. e. seating,...
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See also:
  
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Booking_%28UK_government_project%29 E-booking]
  
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system Computer reservations system]
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</div>
  
</gallery>
 
  
====* Interaction of activities - online questionnaire====
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The following charts show possible interaction-scenarios during weekdays and weekends. <br />
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===03: PHYSICAL SITE SYSTEM:===
  
For proofing this scenarios, it is planned to create an online questionnaire, which shows a scheduling demand of activities on the site.
 
  
<gallery widths="200" heights="200" perrow="5" >
 
  
Image:Workdays-chart.jpg|A possible time schedule, during the week.
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====='Bubble System' =====
  
Image:Workdays-diagram.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the week.
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File:Weekend-chart.jpg|A possible time schedule, during the weekend.
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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.
  
File:Weekend.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the weekend.
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Image:b1.jpg| 2. The bubbles hold the roof & floor system.
  
File:overlay.jpg|Overlay of both weekdays and weekend.
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File:b2.jpg| 3. One of the point-bubble inflates. The local bubbles deflate.
  
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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.
  
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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File:b4.jpg|5. Possible section of created "site". Various open / closed spaces for activities.
  
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File:b5.jpg|6. Axonometric result.
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</gallery><br>
  
Image:Questionaire_v1.png|The first version of the online questionaire.
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====='Interaction of activities' =====
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<gallery widths="220" heights="180" perrow="4" >
  
Image:Questionaire_v2.png|The code that comes with the questionaire.
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File:sketch_activities.jpg| Site topography & interaction of activities.
  
</gallery>
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File:IMG_0257.jpg|Iteration 2.
  
====* Traffic analysis====
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File:user_scenario_structure.JPG|The floor becomes the furniture.
  
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.
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File:Capsule01.jpg|Interior space result.
  
See also:
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A New York time lapse video]
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See also the progression on creating the site mechanism:
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCnWUzUw_E Traces of traveling]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIPoH4599k Guayamas Dome 2010]
  
====* Site mechanism concept:====
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6ZvBlcxJw&feature=related Industrial Dome]
  
<gallery widths="150" heights="100" perrow="6" >
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiSk8XyBu8 Memory Cloth (see min 6:00)]
  
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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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4gyRrEhng&feature=related Shape-memory Flower]
  
Image:b1.jpg|Default state; the bubbles hold the roof & floor system.
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[http://meweb.larc.nasa.gov/meweb/vgt.html Variable Geometry Truss]
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File:b2.jpg|One of the point-bubble inflates, the neighboring bubbles deflate; sum of air volume remains constant.
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===04: ATOM SPECIALIZATION:===
  
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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1. User Interfaces
  
File:b4.jpg|Possible section of created "site";various closed and open spaces for activities.
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2. Flexible / Kinetic Structures
  
File:b5.jpg|Axonometric result.
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3. Geometric Algorithm
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See also:
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<div style="float: left; width: 1090px; margin-right:40px; text-align:left">
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIPoH4599k Guayamas Dome 2010]
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=<span style="color:orange">STAKEHOLDERS</span>=
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6ZvBlcxJw&feature=related Industrial Dome]
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<div style="float: left; width: 350px; margin-right:40px; text-align:justify">
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiSk8XyBu8 Memory Cloth (see min 6:00)]
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=== USERS ===
  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4gyRrEhng&feature=related Shape-memory Flower]
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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
  
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Structures: [[atom02:structures_michela_turrin| Michela Turrin]] & Andrew Borgart
  
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Algorithms: [[atom02:computer_science_a_stoiculescu | Andrei Stoiculescu]] & [[atom02:computer_science_S_Hagemann| Sven Hagemann]]
  
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=== SUSTAINABILITY ===
  
  
===Sponsor===
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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].
  
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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See also:
  
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_energy Mechanical energy]
  
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[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 ===
  
===Sustainability===
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[[File:Spacebook_financial.jpg|280px|thumb|left|Spacebook Financial Plan]]
  
We suspect the traffic to be an untapped source for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy energy].
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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.
  
See also:
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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.
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_energy Mechanical energy]
 
  
[http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/harvesting-the-energy-of-traffic-flow-00002454.asp?sessionid=1 Energy of traffic flow]
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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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