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Color Theory in Motion:
Artists and architects have long studied the effects color have on human perception. Cool colors tend to appear farther...
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ALTERNATIVES FOR A MOBILE WORKSHOP
The students of the bucky lab started with a little research about mobile workshops, we already mentioned F1...
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blanket sky over meadow, pencil + colored pencil on paper, 17”x14”
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Turn your Foursquare check-ins into jewelry.
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Motion Patterns in Nature
(Photos from Bernhard Edmaier)
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textile designer SUKI CHEEMA
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It’s not always easy to come up with a new idea and execute it in a way that seems effortless, but artist...
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Art Going Through the Motion: Robin Rhode
Rhode’s art combines performance and drawing to simulate motion on the streets of his native...
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Untitled, (1958)
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Tribeca gets tons of green space and tons of building with this mega-block-master-plan by shuning zhao:
(via archafterthestreet)
By far New York has the highest ridership of public transportation among US cities. A significant percentage of people take the subway, bus, or commuter rail daily. Combined with the options of traveling by foot, bike, or taxi, New York stands as the country’s premier model of urban multi-modal transit. Given the great number of people who travel by these means it would seem that the private automobile is not entirely needed. But be that as it may, the automobile is the main means of transportation.
[“Commissioner’s Plan for Development of Manhattan,” 1811]
Though we often don’t consider it to be the case, the car is king in NYC. Accepting our four-wheel friend as a prerequisite, the studio will develop new architectural typologies by imagining a different presence for the car.
[“Hochhausstadt,” Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1924]
If the contemporary city up until now has been designed to the car’s specifications of movement, then we will develop new concepts of urban motion that influence the design of the car.
As part of Experiments in Motion Benjamin Berichta looks at unused space in the NYC subway system and asks “How do you wait?”
His way to wait for a train is on the deck of his yacht in the underground yacht club he proposes for the Delancey Street subway stop. I guess the rest of us will take the ferry.
Directions for retrofitting a bus stop by ehsaanmesghali:
installation! haha. my first gif.
From experimentsinmotion:
As part of the Under Over Out studio (taught by Marc Kushner and Jurgen Mayer H.) Parker Seybold created a gif that animates Paul Rudolph’s Lower Manhattan Expressway “LoMex” from 1970 and layers it onto a Google Maps perspective of the neighborhood today. In comparison to Rudolph’s proposal, Vernon Roether’s “Collage section mash-up of the Highline, the street and the Delancey Underground” explores the possibility of underground spaces to be reactivated following the model of the High Line.
Roether asks, “What does it look and feel like to be underground in NYC?” in order to reframe the potential of underground spaces. (photos from nytimes article)
Connecting the unused underground space to the rest of the city is a focus of many of the students. Seybold’s research of the site around the unused trolley terminal underneath Delancey Street studied the traffic patterns of coming on and off the Williamsburg Bridge.
The diagram above visualizes the 24 hour traffic volume (data from NY DOT)
blue = westbound traffic
red = eastbound traffic
24 hours of Manhattan traffice from the Williamsburg Bridge on January 27, 2012.
The site is connected to transportation infrastructure in multiple ways and plays an important role in helping people move throughout the city and neighborhood. Historically, the Williamsburg Bridge has been a significant node between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1906 Williamsburg Bridge Plaza - GIF by Jodie Zhang
Given the incredible complexity of the site, the studio will be working with the MTA and the Delancey Underground as well as well as the Center for Urban Realestate (CURE) to envision the future potential of the site and the surrounding neighborhood.
From experimentsinmotion:
A project from the City of Mobile Services studio, Mitch Bush’s mobile water-ski fleet hits the Hudson River.
The initial sketches walk the fine line between diagram and architecture.
His first renderings could be read as merely diagrams for a future project, but are actually a radical vision for bombing the Hudson river with leisure platforms.
Once the fallen arrow has gathered enough energy, air is purged from the arrowhead causing an inversion… and the bomb becomes and island!
By far New York has the highest ridership of public transportation among US cities. A significant percentage of people take the subway, bus, or commuter rail daily. Combined with the options of traveling by foot, bike, or taxi, New York stands as the country’s premier model of urban multi-modal transit. Given the great number of people who travel by these means it would seem that the private automobile is not entirely needed. But be that as it may, the automobile is the main means of transportation.
[“Commissioner’s Plan for Development of Manhattan,” 1811]
Though we often don’t consider it to be the case, the car is king in NYC. Accepting our four-wheel friend as a prerequisite, the studio will develop new architectural typologies by imagining a different presence for the car.
[“Hochhausstadt,” Ludwig Hilberseimer, 1924]
If the contemporary city up until now has been designed to the car’s specifications of movement, then we will develop new concepts of urban motion that influence the design of the car.
from: experimentsinmotion
In case you haven’t guessed, I’m curating experimentsinmotion here’s a little bit of the background:
This past summer’s Audi Urban Future Initiative: PROJECT NEW YORK took five of the city’s most innovative young architects and asking them to work together in one massive model to envision the future of New York City.
Experiments in Motion continues to explore the future of mobility with students from Columbia University GSAPP. This spring, 32 graduate students will design new proposals for NYC which will be unveiled this summer. You can follow the studios’ progress on their individual blogs.
Radical proposal for arrow shaped water skiing islands in the Hudson river by mitchbush:
delivery of a mobile water skiing park
great GIF from jzhang518:
Ceci n’est pas une streetcar
1906 Williamsburg Bridge Plaza
(via underoverout)
As part of Experiments in Motion, Graduate Architecture students from Columbia got a private tour of the the Delancey Underground.
Under Over Out Studio - Site visit to the Delancey Underground
The Delancey Underground is an unused trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge; this site is speculated to become a subterranean public park nicknamed the “Low Line”. The current proposal includes the use of innovative fiber optics to reflect light underground as a means of activating the space and generating the capacity for plants, trees, and grasses to thrive indoors. This space has the potential to be the next phase in urban design, in which the increased scarcity of resources forces us to imagine smarter, more creative uses of public spaces. This semester the students will design their own strategies for reanimating The Delancey Underground as an inter-modal transportation/mobility/transfer/communication hub.
(via experimentsinmotion)
