atom06:Work overview
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work overview
here you will find our latest work overview (week 3)
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Mapping users activities
- Map the users
- Map their current & possible activities
- Identify
- How to connect users
- Find matching activities
- Match the users by their activities / mix functions
- Connecting activities form the interaction and program
- The program (list of activities) is organised / mapped
Questions
- How does it change by the effect of users?
- How to map the users? Diagrammatically, with sensors etc.
Possible usergroups
- Students
- activity 11
- activity 2
- Residents
- Science center (workers, visitors, ...)
- Architecture department (tutors, personnel)
- Botanical garden
- Duwo
user groups and their activities and needs - table
The theory of the user groups and their needs / activities lies in a greater context of space.
This space has still to be identified. As the initial assignment regards only the Vries van Heystplantsoen, earlier plans from the city of Delft (see for example option #4) show intention of re-routing traffic.
option 1 is to leave the boundaries as they are and work within the existing site. This means that the roads are there as a barrier...
option 2 is to get rid of the Mijnbouwstraat and extend the park to the Botanical gardens and the Science Center. This will allow for functions that relate to the Science center to be effectively connected and creates the possibility for us to connect to the Botanical gardens, for which they already have a path leading to the Plantsoen.
option 3 is to make the Julianalaan in front of the faculty of Architecture all park so the school connects better with the park and can really explore it's potential and connect with it for a new extension for it's need for space. The Botanical gardens and the Science Center will get even more traffic because of the 2-way traffic.
option 4 is to only close off part of the Julianalaan, creating only part of the Mijnbouwstraat 2-way traffic, as per plans from the city council and creating a park that partly extends to the faculty of architecture.
development plan TU north, 2004
option 5 is the 'radial' one where we close off both the Mijnbouwstraat and Julianalaan, redirecting traffic via the Zuidplantsoen behind the faculty of Architecture. This will create a space where the Science Center, the Botanical gardens, the faculty of Architecture and the roads beside the student housing at Michiel de Ruyterweg are bonded as one to create a large green space that (along with the botanical gardens) stretches all the way to the river de Schie. This would create a large usable park all involved parties, getting rid of the busy traffic and bond. Plus creating a green route for land traveling animals to get from the Schie to the cemetery and further.
PROJECT STRATEGY
Current situation
The analysis reveals that our site is an in-between space among two systems that don’t cooperate and interact: CITY SYSTEM – RESEARCH SYSTEM
Our challenge
Allow two system to interact actively
Strategy
Making our site the center of the potential network → mapping in the two system the potential sites → Connect these potential sites with channels → enable the network
potential network : set of potential relationship between the different users of the city and their environment
potential sites : set of places from which could start an interaction process between the users and the environment
channels : set of paths for the transmission of the signals; there are two types of channels: physical and “wireless”. The physical channels could be in practice the green layer, that is a real attractors space.
The channel is the surface that merge the two systems and provides the platform for interactions
network : set of effective relationship between different users and their environment. The center of the network processes and redirects all the stimuli from every potential sites. Into the network are privileged the interconnections and the activities; there’s a sort of “broadcast” transmissions between the two systems.
Artist & Technology
- biologist Francesco Varela (The Embodied Mind)
- Concept: Embodied cognition
- economist and nobel laureate Amartya Sen (Identity and Violence)
- artist researcher Olafur Eliasson (Projects The Weather Project)
- Neurobiologist Semir Zeki (Artistic Creativity and the Human Brain)
- Concept: Neuroesthetics
- FoAM Amsterdam
- is developing a foraging application for Android smartphone called Boskoi. To look in a wider context at ecology and new media, the Institute for Augmented Ecology, has been launched in 2011.
- M.A.R.I.N.
- Environmental sensors
