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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.<br />

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 /> Thus the site will be continuously changing and allowing 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. 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:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs Jane Jacobs]

===Why===

The site is hardly visited by people. This is our thesis. 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 ===sustainability===|traffic intensity.

See also:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A New York time lapse video]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCnWUzUw_E Traces of traveling]

===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:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Booking_%28UK_government_project%29 E-booking]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_reservations_system Computer reservations system]


===Interaction of activities===

The following charts show possible interaction-scenarios during weekdays and weekends. <br />

For proofing this scenarios, it is planned to create a questionary, 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.

Image:Workdays-diagram.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the week.

File:Weekend-chart.jpg|A possible time schedule, during the weekend.

File:Weekend.jpg|Interaction of activities, during the weekend.

File:overlay.jpg|Overlay of both weekdays and weekend.

</gallery>

An online questionnaire is being developed. This will allow continuous feedback on the various activities and their spread throughout the day.

===User scenarios===

Possible user scenarios:

The artist:

The mother:

The business-man:

The biker:


===Design challenge===

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.

See also:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIPoH4599k Guayamas Dome 2010]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6ZvBlcxJw&feature=related Industrial Dome]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiSk8XyBu8 Memory Cloth (see min 6:00)]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4gyRrEhng&feature=related Shape-memory Flower]

===Sponsor===

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.

===Sustainability===

We suspect the traffic to be an untapped source for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy energy].

See also:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_energy Mechanical energy]