a blurb about my project for a booklet given to the advisors before the final reviews. the intent is to give a little preview of the project along with an image:
Marketscape :: Dynamic Urban [re]Generation
Outdoor Market
New Orleans, LA
Erin Keith
Dynamic system studies in architecture are mainly used to generate a form, with program simply injected into the resultant non-linear geometric form. This proposal challenges the extents to which the dynamic system is used, making it produce fluid local zoning and programmatic interaction. The proposal is for an outdoor market that utilizes the area underneath the freeway at the intersection at N. Claiborne and Basin/Orleans Streets. The system is enabled simultaneously on 3 levels of operation: the Market Stall, the Site, and the Urban Landscape. A gaming strategy in the form of rules is designed at each level so that as one level of activity changes the other two must react to the change.
SIDENOTE[s]: i was walking around the thesis studio the other day.....and alot of students seemed to be doing projects slightly geared towards aspects of dynamic systems....and i made a joking comment to kile[girl in thesis with me] that it seemed that the professors were sending alot of the students in the same general direction....towards dynamics. Kile's response : "you DO realize that all the people that you just pointed out had KB last semester..."
So this one goes out to Karen Bullis[head of the KB squad]: i've heard alot about how difficult last semester was....from both the students AND professors who were at ASU....but when you are forced to move to Arizona[of all places] and not only successfully teach students who previously thought RHINO was nose surgery instead of a 3d program AAANNNNDDD get them interested enough in contemporary architectural theory enough to where it influences their way of thinking from that one introduction on.....you should KNOW that you ROCK!!! KNOW IT, LIVE IT, ROCK IT KB cause you do!!!!
posted by ekeith @ 12:54 PM
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anybody making any meat slabs or pizza faces?
from what i've seen other thesis projects look like:
_a butterfly bandage/breathe right nasal strip -- a bridge
_a flying magic carpet that bifrucates....but that one might have changed since the last time i saw it -- a skate park for people in wheelchairs[so not pc but he should call his project "X-treme[ly] handicapped"]
_[you know in the matrix where they shoot a bullet and you actually see the air move as fluid...her facade looks like she graphed the air without the bullet...VERY COOL!!
_OH, and another guy is doing a structure system off of the topography of some mts. in venezuela--fishnet pantyhose in plan.
alot of them are the boxes with cool facades or squirmy speghetti/hair [aka bars of program that are curved]....am i having a snotty attitude if i say that the speghetti/boxes are SOOOO 1992-1994....and lots of leibskin knockoff wanna-be's....
i'm just surprised that alot of the people at this school think that they are progressive in theory/design, but when it comes down to REALLY getting in there and ROCKING IT OUT they just don't or they say that the theory is bullshit and that architecture should not be as out there....
EVEN the guy doing the bifrucating magic carpet just looked up some sexy FOA and Zaha Hadid projects and has little understanding of WHY he is making it curvilinear or even a REAL IDEA of what a skate park is/should be/could be LET ALONE one that would cater to the wheelchair bound...his REASON for doing the skatepark: his brother is handicapped....as i do believe this is a valid reason to attempt it, THERE IS NO MEAT BEHIND HIS PROJECT...if he was a chef and i was a food critic, his soup is VERY VERY VERY watered down....and his reason for choosing soup as a signature dish: his brother has no teeth...
...maybe i was a little harsh...i just think if you are going to do a project you should really understand what you are doing--but at least his intentions are good ones, even if they do pave the path to hell....and maybe i'm comparing it to the skatepark chicago competition entries that i saw come from mazzy's studio....this guy's project is disappointing to say the very least in comparison with that studio....
and top chef was on tonight...so that's the soup comment...
i'm done with my rant now...so i'll get back to work.
=)
haha your critiques are hillarious. but seriously... skate park for the handicapped... what the fuck? how the hell do they get uphill?? is it a one way ride??? i just don't get it.
:)
oh p.s., tania and i have been published by roger connah.. along with a bunch of our theory class from last year. the book is amazing. i'll send you one if you like. they're $10. email me if you're interested.
I have had Karen Bullis as a professor in Texas.. and I agree she is awesome!!!!
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