Friday the 9th we got our site for our studio project. Yay! It’s located between Broadway/6th and Jefferson/Madison. And we got to see YGH’s offices, nice views for sure.

Surely there are lots of issues and ideas that could be diagramed in regards to the site. This exercise is intended to be short, and to be about something that relates to our first exercise. Well, while this relationship might be a stretch it’s what I found most relevant and personally intriguing.

Within the city grid there is composed another grid. I like to think of this grid as interstitial space, the space leftover from buildings. It is in within this fabric a more personal relationship and/or experiences are formed with the surrounding area. I call them rooms in a city. How they are used doesn’t matter right now, or whether they are public or private. However most of them are private, since that’s all I really have access too. What becomes important is that they are isolated spaces. Not necessarily hard to find, but not well known. I think this last point becomes important because that is the idea behind my place for reading. At least in a contextual sense. My diagrams from exercise one were more about an individual experience and being able to filter out distraction. So in a sense, they kind of relate.

I got some feedback and ideas moving forward. Overall, my main diagram went over well. I clearly showed what is going on, and how one might interact with the interstitial fabric.

Moving forward, it will be important to combine the idea of the isolated place for reading, in another wise not so isolated site. Thus, what might prove effective is the layers of separation, and creating “pods” within the building itself. We shall see in a week, when our initial sketches are due. Until then, I will be refining my ideas and trying to create a stronger relationship/overlay between the two exercises.

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