002: Representing the City media and analysis ALAR 8010 Research Studio | Street Life . Fall 2021
Schedule In the second phase of research you will work together to represent the streetscape of at / Copernicus Launch: Tuesday, September 14th Berlin focusing on 3 specific corridors. The corridors are situated in three neighbord- Review: Thursday, September 30th hoods that are facing a diverse range of issues in regards to gentrification. at / Copernicus
1. Schöneberg Nollendorfplatz to Hauptstraße via Maaßstraße - Goltzstraße - Akazienstraße
2. Kreuzberg / Friedrichschain Wranglerstraße from Mariannenplatz to Taborstraße
3. Friedrichschain Eldenaer Straße to Revaler Straße via Simon Dach Straße - Niederbarnimstraße - Proskauer Straße
GIS Base . CAD Base . Sections . Massing Model To complete the work in this stage of the research you will work as a full studio, in groups of four, and as individuals.
GIS Base Working together as a full studio you will create a GIS Base that contains building footprints, roadways, and waterways at a minimum. This GIS base will cover the Greater Berlin metropolitan area. Using this base you will export a .dwg file that will be used by each group to reference their CAD base and massing models.
Working together in groups of 4 you will create the following.
CAD Base The CAD base will be georeferenced to previous DWG that was exported from GIS. Each group will focus on the corridor assigned as the highest level of detail and will then determine the bounds of their base map. There may be multiple levels of detail moving away from the corridor itself. As a group you will choose which features to add to your CAD base ... street markings, light poles, signage, vegetation, paving patterns, overhangs, etc. Think critically about what is important and develop a strategy to distribute and complete the CAD drawing.
Sections Each group will complete a minimum of 4 sections that cut perpendicular across the assigned corridor. The section locations should represent specific moments of importance, highlighting a corridors character, a specific node, or a unique characteristic. The sections will augment the CAD base and illustrate in greater detail concepts such as material assemblies, soil/paving, and spatial relationships.
Massing Model Using the CAD base and/or GIS, each group will create a massing model that will represent the corridor and surrounding urban form. The massing model should use minimal color and focus on urban form, which goes beyond just building footprints and voids. Determine as a team the extents of the massing model. Then determine what features need to be the focus of the model, ie topography, building mass/stories, vegetation, etc.
Individual Media Experiments As you are working with your team to develop the base representations of your corridor you should also begin developing concepts for the creation of a representational experiment. Use this as a way to explore a topic that interests you, it may come from the previous research assignment or may be a completely new exploration.This experimentation should situate itself in one or more of the following concepts.
• Temporal - An exploration of time and how its effects play out in the streetscape, ie. program/use, construction/maintenance, history, etc... • Aesthetic - How might aesthetics play a role, where do they come from and how might a specific style of drawing be used to uncover or illustrate specific ideas. • Craft - Using a specific technique and the careful construction of the representation itself, how does the craft of creating the media form a heuristic that helps to further understand the site/streetscape.
The product should explore a view of the streetscape, ie plan, aerial, perspectival, section, etc. It can be drawings, realtime gaming environment, stop-motion animation, digital models, physical models, simulations, etc.
Use the base materials created (massing, gis, CAD, sections) as the basis for your representation. Using measured drawings as the basis for the work will ground it physically, allowing your experiment to develop a tension between the technical and ephemeral aspects of the site. What is critical at this stage is that you are experimenting with media to ask questions about the corridor and to use the media as a way to develop a conversation between the physical landscape/ streetscape and media.
Schedule 002 : Representing the City . Media and Analysis Week 4 9.14 Kick-off of media and representation module 9.16 Technical Q&A . Working Session
Week 5 9.21 Progress update Pin-up - CAD/SECTION/MASSING MODEL Representational Examples Presentation 9.23 Desk Crits - Individual Projects
Week 6 9.28 Media prototypes pin-up - Individual Projects 9.30 Desk Crits - Individual Projects
Week 7 10.5 Desk Crits - Individual Projects 10.7 Review and Discussion
Deliverables The description of each deliverable outlined below, the individual projects will be determined in consultation with the studio instructors. All deliverables are due on October 7th.
• GIS Base - File and associated data on /classes. Print of mapping at scale TBD. • CAD Base - File submitted to /classes and linked to master CAD base. Print of base plan at scale TBD. • Sections - minimum 4 sections per group/corridor. DWG files submitted to /classes. Print of section at scale TBD. • Massing Model - Model submitted to /classes. Print of each massing model with annotation, sheet size TBD. • Speculative drawings / Media experiment - specific deliverables to be determined in consultation with studio instructors
Readings + Resources
• Bélanger, Pierre. “The Multimedia Language of Models.” in Platform 6: A Year of Research through Studio Work, Theses, Lectures, Exhibitions and Events. Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Barcelona: Actar, 2013. p. v-xii • Rieder, Kurt. “Modeling, Physical and Virtual.” in Treib, Marc, ed. Representing Landscape Architecture. London: Taylor + Francis, 2008. p. 169-187 • Robinson, Alexander and Davis, Brian. “From Solution Space to Interface: Six Actions for Landscape Infrastructure Design.” in Cantrell, Bradley and Mekies, Adam, ed. Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture. Routledge, 2018. p. 155-168 • Kwinter, Sanford. “The Computational Fallacy.” in Menges, Achim and Ahlquist, Sean, ed. Computational Design Thinking. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. p. 211-213 • Robinson, Alexander. “An interface for instrumental reconciliation” in Anderson, Jonathon R. and Ortega, Daniel H., ed. Innovations in Landscape Architecture. Routledge, 2016. p. 28-42 • Harmon, Brendan, Anna Petrasova, Helena Mitasova, and Vaclav Petras. “Computational landscape architecture: Procedural, tangible, and open landscapes.” in Anderson, Jonathon R. and Ortega, Daniel H., ed. Innovations in Landscape Architecture. Routledge, 2016. p. 43-59
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