A4005 Advanced Studio V
INSTRUCTORS: Holl, SafranURBAN INSERTIONS: EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING CENTERS
Inserted into decaying urban areas of New York City, these centers are proposed as educational catalysts towards employment. teleconference classes, public computer terminals, and related programs are offered in destitute neighborhoods.
Two initial pilot centers are the focus of the studio. The sites should be in the Columbia University vicinity on 25ft. X 100ft. lots (vacant lots or abandoned buildings). The generic lot size offers a prototype for development of further centers in the New York City area.
Created in the absence of a welfare program, the centers are to be staffed by a permanent craetaker and graduate students who received credit for community service. The day care area is to be staffed with members of the community.
Questions to be considered:
- As alien objects acting as activators, these small centers begin outside of political or intimate community knowledge. What is the nature of an architectural infiltration?
- What are the global/Local consequences of new communication technologies?
- What are the spatial architectural equivalents in terms of extremely economic construction materials and details?
EACH CENTER INCLUDES:
Two meeting rooms with 30 seats for teleconference teaching - 2000 sq. ft.
Public computer area with 15 terminals and conference tables - 2500 sq. ft.
Day care center area - 1000 sq. ft.
Entry vestibule and info desk with view to terminal area - 500 sq. ft.
Caretaker's apartment - 650 sq. ft.
Public lockers and restrooms - 600 sq. ft.
Each participant is encouraged to modify the program outlined above, as well as to develop their individual use of material and form.
This studio will offer an introduction and discussion of time in the phenomenological sense with its implications in the field of education, art and design. It will offer an analysis of emerging modalities of lived-time experience, of memory and style (individual and collective), traces, histories, private and public spaces.
Preliminary seminar and ongoing tutorial will offer points of departure for each participant's project. This studio will develop a method of inquiry and a critical perspective to enable each participant to embark on his/her own investigation, connecting language and temporality in essential dimensions of the design process.