Project Introduction
The assignments we are considering today is a dense emergent surface, a matrix of 16, 18" by18" tiles. The far-left column represents the first week of the semester design assignment, a path linking central park’s two great museums, Natural History and Metropolitan, and a pavilion housing an artifact of interest to both: Olmstead’s Greensward competition entry drawing; two tiles at the lower right represent a recent design of that pavilion, re-programmed to house all 28 of the 72" by 72" matrices produced by the New York Paris students this semester.
Intervening between these two short-term design projects is the bulk of the students’ work to date. Each 18" by 18" panel represents one of twelve one-week analysis and design projects, developed in parallel at a two-a-week density. These analysis and design projects, a tactical survey of drawing and demonstrating, manufacturing and mapping, hopscotch back and forth between two cities—an actual New York and a virtual Paris—and ascend and descend along a scale of six different operational dimensions: clothes, chair, room, building, street, city. ("In Paris, there is a street.")
