What if a place could communicate with you...how would it be done?
-would it talk to you through the things you own?
If you are a technological giant such as Apple, Inc. would I feel welcome
when I approach your store? Would I get gifts for being a loyal customer?
How can YOU make ME?
This is just the beginning...
in the pursuit of happiness.
3 comments:
Final Review comments from Intensive week
• Physical location vs. transience – how diff. is it from the internet
o Virtual web. vs. subterranean web
o More than a practical, functional answer
o The experience of travel can be changed.
• Is it subvereance enough?
o If you replace the word apple w/coke, how is it different?
o What is it that the brand is doing compared to a coke machine?
• Being @ Copley Sq. can network the group together more.
o Announcement made in ipod that the station is coming up.
o Reference – Blur
• Need to demonstrate the idea in the dwgs. – no architectural substance.
• Commercial manipulation
• You have a particular building to design
• Imagine a store with a train going through it. How do you deal with it?
• How does the building meet the ground? Important here to drawn you down into the store.
• Karen’s suggestion is challenging us to think diff.
o Apple is the most anti-community notion
o The idea that you can make this different and challenge that notion is intriguing.
• How do you make the Kiosk (your building) a community for everyone? Those who aren’t in the apple community must feel included as well.
o i.e. Times square
o Architectonic response to this?
• Think about what you think is normal, what you think is different
o Implement this in your architecture
o Multiple identities of the project from generate from the first underlay.
• Genius bar – not a public space, should it be in the building and not below ground?
• Farnsworth house – maybe there is a transition time where the “heads move up and down”
• References:
o Atlantic City of the Arts
• Ground plane is not engaged
• Start cutting sections
• Refine your description
Kara,
What does the subway station look like?
Kara,
Nice images, if I understand the purpose of the images correctly and your possible application I think you may have something here. The only thing I question is: Is this about revealing the "T" station or about revealing the Apple store to the "T"? Is there anything physical that happens inside the train when it passes or stops at this location? It will be interesting to find out the exact location where the train stops and see if there could be a bump that will force the people seating down to get up when passing this stop and the people standing to sit or dock their heads to see something. Even the homeless will know that this is the annoying stop that has that bump or the fun one for the kids and families. The dematerialization of the block could be cool as you go up to the store. If you want sustainable design, then I will think about scooping fresh air into the chamber as oppose to forcing air. CFM's will consume energy and unpleasant noise to the neighborhood. I don't know why, but I picture your store as an X-ray over the oldest underground train system. Your single sentence about women in design could be really interesting. I'll talk to you on the theory blog about Beatriz Colomina, but for this one perhaps a quick browse through "Privacy and Publicity" will assist.
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