PUBLIC SPACES

COMMUNITY vs COLLECTIVE

CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC SPACE TYPOLOGIES

STREETS
EXAMPLES: WINTERFELDPLATZ, SANTANA ROW, & EMERYVILLE BAY STREET

PARKS
EXAMPLES: GOLDEN GATE PARK & PARIS PARC DE LA VILLETTE

SQUARES
EXAMPLES: UNION SQUARE, NASHVILLE COURT HOUSE SQURE, & CLEVELAND PUBLIC SQUARE

WATERFRONTS
EXAMPLES: WEST 8 TORRONTO WATERFRONT & SF PIER 39

PLAZAS
EXAMPLES: SEAGRAM PLAZA & SF FEDERAL BUILDING PLAZA

COMMUNITY:
e term community is fraught with nostalgia and has been associated with residential societies concerns, values, behaviors, and ideologies particularly concerning family. It also deals with a dependence on geographic proximity, history, and civic engagement. Similarly, public spaces refer to past structures and usage of space for democratic purposes.

COLLECTIVE:
e term collective deals with networks, communal discourse, and sharing of information. It focuses on space as the embodiment of social relationships and the ability to globally network for the creation of integrated collective identities

Isovist & Relationship Analysis

ISOVIST DATA
area perimeter open edge closed edge vertices observation point

eory Reference: Gerald Franz

VOID

CIRCULATION

ACCESS POINTS

POMPEII ROMAN FORUM

3RD STREET PROMANADE, SANTA MONICA

SEAGRAM PLAZA

SF FEDERAL BUILDING PLAZA

Isovist Data & Tendential Emotional Inuence

BASIC SPATIAL QUALITY SPATIAL QUALITY COMPONENTS ISOVIST AND VISIBILITY GRAPHY BASED DESCRIPTOR VARIABLES
ISOVIST AREA

TENDENTIAL EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE

PLEASURE . AROUSAL . DOMINANCE

SPATIOUSNESS

OPENNESS ENFLOSURE

FREE NEAR (MEDIUM) SPACE JAGGEDNESS ISOVIST OPENNESS

POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE NON-LINEAR CORRELATION TO DOMINANCE POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL

STIMULATION

DIRECT DEMAND

# OF STIMULATION

POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL NON-LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE NON-LINEAR CORRELATION TO DOMINANCE POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL

MYSTERY

GLIMPSES

# OF VISTAS TO ADJACENT ROOMS # OF VERTICES # OF VISTAS TO ADJACENT ROOMS

PARTICIPATION

INTERACTIVITY INTEGRATION # OF VERTICES DIVERSITY VERTEX DENSITY CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT JAGGEDNESS ROUNDNESS LEGIBILITY # OF VISTAS TO ADJACENT ROOMS RATE OF PHYSICAL ENCLOSURE OPENNESS RATIO OF ISOVIST BOUNDARY

NON-LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE

COMPLEXITY

ENTROPY RICHNESS

POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL

POSITIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO PLEASURE NEGATIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO DOMINANCE NEGATIVE LINEAR CORRELATION TO AROUSAL

ORDER

CLARITY COHERENCE

eory Reference: Gerald Franz

Environmental-Behavioral Reactions to Experiential Qualities

PROJECTS
DIGITAL SECOND LIFE MOVABLE WALLS MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SPACES TRANSFER FROM ONE SYSTEM TO ANOTHER (BMZ) MICRO ZOO INCREASE OF DATA TRANSFORMS STRUCTURE FLEXIBILITY CHANGES IN SCALE EFFICIENCY BLUR BUILDING FLOW & SEQUENCE OPEN EDGE PERIMETER CLOSED EDGE PERIMETER MIXED ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REPETITION VISUAL CONNECTIVITY SEAGRAM PLAZA PATHS OF TRAVEL ORDER CORRIDORS COMPLEXITY STAMMERINGS HIGH LINE BARRIERS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS TORONTO WATERFRONT PHYSICAL INTERACTIVE MOBILE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION CUSTOMIZATION COHERENCE & LEGIBILITY PRODUCTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PARTICIPATION PEOPLE WATCHING INTERACTIVITY WITH PEOPLE INFORMATION TRANSFER WORKS ON DIFF. SCALES STRESS CHANCE ENCOUNTERS NON-PASSIVE MYSTERY AWARENESS OF BODY ACCESSIBLITY MODIFIED USES COGNITIVE MAPS AWARENESS OF ACTIVITIES INTERPERSONAL ISOLATION PERCEPTION AWARENESS OF SPACE LACK OF CONTROL PASSIVE OPENNESS SENSORY INTERACTIVE DEMAND ATTENTION USER AGENCY DIRECT ATTENTION EMOTIONAL CONTROL

STRATEGIES

QUALITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL - BEHAVIOR ELEMENTS

PRODUCTION OF USER EXPERIENCE

USER ENGAGEMENT

EXPERIENCE

PHENOMENOLOGICAL

COMMON INTERESTS / GOAL

PROJECT

METHOD OF CONTROL

SPATIAL PRACTICE USED FOR CONTROL

RESULTANT BEHAVIOR

PHYSICALLY DEFINED BOUNDARIES

PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL ORDER PERCEPTION OF SECURITY DISTINCTION BETWEEN PUBLIC & PRIVATE EXPERIENCE

ROMAN FORUM

HOMOGENEOUS HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS LONG-TERM TRANSFORMATIONS REPITION FUCTION MAXIMIZATION PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL ORDER HIERARCHIES IMPLIED BOUNDARIES DISTINCTION BETWEEN PUBLIC & PRIVATE EXPERIENCE INCREASED DENSITY USER AGENCY PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL ORDER

3RD STREET PROMANADE SANTA MONICA

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SITE BUILT FOR CONSUMPTION

INTERPERSONAL PANOPTICON CHANCE ENCOUNTERS

SEAGRAM PLAZA

DESIRE FOR ATTAINING WEALTH COMMODIFICATION OF EXPERIENCE SEGREGATION OPENNESS ACCESSIBILITY POTENTIAL FOR CIVIC CONGREGATION ENCLOSURE PERCIEVED PRIVATIZATION OF SPACE PERCEPTION OF SECURITY SEMI-ENCLOSURE

SF FEDERAL BUILDING

eory Reference: Lisa Findley & Guy Debord & Simon Sandler

ISOVISTS

ISOVIST ANALYSIS OF PRECEDENTS WHAT TYPE / QUALITIES OF COMMUNITY DOES ARCHITECTURE PRODUCE INFORM DEFINITION WHAT TYPE / QUALITIES OF COLLECTIVITY DOES TECH & MEDIA PRODUCE

PRECEDENTS

ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

USER EXPERIENCE

USER EXPERIENCE ANALYSIS OF PRECEDENTS

SITUATIONIST

SITUATIONIST ANALYSIS OF PRECEDENTS

METHOD FOR NEW TYPOLOGY

COLLECTIVE VS. COMMUNITY

PHYSICAL COLLECTIVE VS. DIGITAL COLLECTIVE

THESIS GOAL:
Using this analysis as the initial foundation, I will form a counter-project to the conventional forms of public space that re ect ideas and values of community. e project will lead to the possibility for an architecture that responds to changing culture and the new concept of collectivity.