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| − | A | + | A 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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Revision as of 12:51, 19 September 2011
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"How can a site sustain activity 24/7?"
Concept
Our design exploration started with a question:
How can a site sustain activity 24/7?
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 we propose a site which will permit a widespread and ever changing spectrum of activities 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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The Site
Site plan.
Panorama view, position 01-South.
Panorama view, position 02-North.
Analysis:
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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Design challenge
When there is no activity going on there is no building. In music silence is just as effective as sound; one might say that the absence of silence implies the absence of dynamics.
* User scenarios
Possible user scenarios:
The artist:
The mother with son: A 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.
The business-man:
The biker:
The musical student: 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.
BK Beats:
The housewives:
* Interaction of activities - online questionnaire
The following charts show possible interaction-scenarios during weekdays and weekends.
For proofing this scenarios, it is planned to create an online questionnaire, which shows a scheduling demand of activities on the site.
A possible time schedule, during the week.
Interaction of activities, during the week.
A possible time schedule, during the weekend.
Interaction of activities, during the weekend.
Overlay of both weekdays and weekend.
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 what they want to do and when 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.
The first version of the online questionaire.
The code that comes with the questionaire.
* Traffic analysis
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 traffic intensity.
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* Site mechanism concept:
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.
Default state; the bubbles hold the roof & floor system.
One of the point-bubble inflates, the neighboring bubbles deflate; sum of air volume remains constant.
Roof system reaches desired height. Roof structure locks into place. Bubble air volumes equalize. Elastic floor becomes flat and is supported by the bubbles.
Possible section of created "site";various closed and open spaces for activities.
Axonometric result.
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Sponsor
The sponsor will be 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.
Sustainability
We suspect the traffic to be an untapped source for energy.
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