Ad mobilis

project 1b. Ad mobilis

My line in blurbing poetry has usually been the take it or leave it attitude - with the implication - this is F&F (fact & fiction) poetry… [yet] that is not the best advertising method, T. S. Eliot

You continue expressing, here, not in the form of monologue but incipient dialogue, that is, to bring up an intimate relationship between yourself and another person (e.g. your classmate). For the task, you transform the prosthetic mechanism (1a) into a lab which not merely accommodates you but allows you to exchange the means and contents of identification with the other. Half-enclosed, or more or less, it shall be capable of moving within the range of the site. It shall be spatially interactive, perhaps even transformable, yet in a rather two-dimensional way, as corresponding to the almost horizontal topography of the site. Operating the lab, you go deeper than perceptual interpretation. You encode and decode identities together with a particular historical layer embedded in the site to provide a preliminary infrastructure sharable for further blurbing.


term: 4 weeks
design:a lab whereby you blurb about yourself (your site, your prosthetic device) in relation to another
tasks: see below
options:intensity of use - from pastime/chatting to working and living
range of movement, speed, cycle
level of autonomy in relation to urban infrastructure
- e.g. solar panel surfacing - electricity, water purification

refs:
Georges Perec, 1998, Species of spaces and other pieces
Anthony Vidler, 1994, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1999, Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews
(http://atelier7othersworks.blogspot.com/)
Aaron Betsky, 2003, Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

Archigram, Capsule Homes


Archigram,Cushicle


tasks:
Week 4 (26 Oct) - Lab mechanism
Transform the mechanism of your prosthetic device into a lab
- Lab:
a spatial unit that allows you to work (blurb about your site and activity) inside and interact/converse with another person either inside or outside
- should be mobile

Process:
-Define a spatial boundary, surfaces for an enclosure, openings for interactions
with the physical site contexts, and circulation of yourself and your guest.
-semi-indoor & outdoor
- Research the historical layers of your site to incorporate them into your blurb.
‘The street/place was used for….lived by…. well known for….’

Outcome:
- Site plan collage of your lab and historical layer
- Your BLURB
- Description of lab (100 words) – what is it/what does it do/what do I do there
- Plan diagrams (of boundaries, surfaces, circulations)
- Section

Week 5 (2 Nov) - 3d rhino model
Outcome: site plan, plans, sections, elevations, perspectives exported from rhino model

Week 6. (9 Nov) - Study of Integrated Surface, Space and Structure
Process:
-Use the drawings exported from the 3d model as a base
-Develop the spatial arrangement, surface and structural mechanism, materials.

Week 7. (16 Nov) - Complete Ad-Mobilis

Earlier Outcomes:
- Site plan collage of your lab and historical layer
- Description of lab(100 words) – what is it/what does it do/what do I do there
- Plan diagrams (of boundaries, surfaces, circulations)
- Section Perspective

Final Outcomes:
-‘ Your BLURB’
- Site plan (show how the lab responds to the context)
- Plans (show how the lab is used, enclosed and open, how you and your guest circulates around)

see also- http://atelier7previousworks.blogspot.com/