Urban Sports and Design

Urban Sports and Design

Meet theo jansen and his stange kinetic "pets"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY

I don't know if any of you know about Theo Jensen...
Kinetic sculptor watch the video and see his many projects... They 're amazing!

creating spaces and form with strands of paper

I should have posted this one before but I couldn't remember the name...
JUSSIEU - TWO LIBRARIES, FRANCE, PARIS, 1992
Im not sure if this project was built ..but it was the winner of a competition
the design process started with the same method folding and cutting paper
go to http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&Itemid=10&id=91
if you want to know more about it

So you want to be an architect?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLvi2q5M3w

Homeostatic Facade System

This is a facade system which can react to light and alters to these changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CThFRt95aI

some research stuff

This shows the cabs in motion in San Francisco the colours indicate the speed the day i think its really cool.

http://cabspotting.org/timelapse.html

Thanks to Kim for the following links:

http://21stcenturyurbansolutions.wordpress.com/tag/bayview-hunters-point/

http://scotthaefner.com/photos/place/Hunters+Point+Naval+Shipyard/2959/

Multiple Exposures

Images of Movement - a good starting place for your drawings. Remember, we are not tracing. The drawings should be abstract interpretations of movement, see the previous posts...

More Diagrams (Movement)

What Your Diagrams Should Look Like

Program Diagrams:

What Your Maps Should Look Like

Some maps examples in case you missed them the first time:

On the left are maps of speed and buffers around points of significance. These begin to merge together at their nearest points, creating the effect of a cloud, or atmosphere. On the right are more localized phenomenon over time - the volume and speed of traffic:


Color coding by address:


Average MUNI speeds:


Crime Map:

regarding the reading

Compared with traditional map, the mapping Corner wrote about seems more individual, perceptual and socialized.

It shuffles my mind that mapping can not only support you to know the world but also lead you to know it. It is based on what you want to contribute to people who did not realize the world in the way that you did. That is why we have the cylinder and iconsahedron diagram of the world in the early phase of mapping, as well as the psychogeographic in terms of social psychological development. Especially in contemporary times, people set about looking back to collect the data for mapping, and found that those maps showed some invisible problems, even though the problems are just indicated by geometric figures. However, the mappers tried to use these figures to work out the social problem, like the "Game-board" method which focuses on "share", that is a key point for setting up a community. But there are still some questions that confuse me, e.g. the"Layering" method example by Koolhaas for the Pare de In Villette. I don't understand why he slice the plane. Does the geometric analysis go before the status quo analysis. In other words, I don't understand the sequence of contemporary mapping, either the idea you want to give a place (like you want to give multiple living functions or you want to reduce the crime rates in a area) and then you will try a geometric means to reconstruct a new order, or you already have a subjective patterning and then put it on the current map and segment a site?

But through the project of the Brooklyn criminal justice network, I saw mapping as dynamically increasing or reducing with time. Then mapping can be used in consequence analysis and resolution. So in my opinion, mapping is still based on what you want to achieve in a certain area.

To be continued...

Hunter's Point

Check out this preservation information for Hunter's Point. My interest is highly focused on historical importance of site analysis and preservation with a modern design concept. I hope this information is of interest to all. The maps and images below are also quite interesting and/or will provide a nice laugh.

http://www.sfheritage.org/advocac/positions-testimony/hunters-point-shipyard/

Also, I found this very current article on Hunter's Point and the most recent redevelopment progress....

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-01-09/bayarea/27018637_1_lennar-urban-community-benefits-hunters-point-project

Hunters Point Info

Historic photos of Hunters Point / Artist Colony

http://www.thepointart.com/islaiscreek.html

Hunters Point Studios:

http://www.zpub.com/sf/thepoint/

http://www.shipyardartists.com/photos/index.htm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunters-Point-Shipyard-Artists/68754017245?v=info

Shipyard Trust:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunters-Point-Shipyard-Artists/68754017245?v=info

demographics

http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Hunters-Point-San-Francisco-CA.html

Here is the website Amy found for Hunters Point Demographics. She emailed it out to the class, I wanted to also post it here so everyone could be sure to get it.

Maps...and more

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/57316990/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9809992@N02/sets/72157607207915846/with/2845141066/

These are links to pictures from The Naval Shipyard.. including some maps from the 1960's that that I've attached here...

These are websites where you can get pdfs with maps and all the info about the future plans they have for hunters point Shipyard as well as for India Basin

http://www.hunterspointcommunity.com/

http://www.sfredevelopment.org/index.aspx?page=68

http://www.bvhp-pac.org/documents.htm