Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I have been talking about this folding and condensing of site context to be brought into our line of movement to bring an awareness of place. After spending some time with the film, I began to take notice of telephone lines as maybe a physical embodiment of communication that occasionally crosses over our line of movement. These telephone lines represented to me the physical form that communication must take in order to connect two parties. I began to think of cities and place constantly communicating and connecting by various means but to which modern travel have obscured by hiding these moments of communication from our line of sight. So the propose architectural implication will allow these lines of communication to solidify, become physical and visible to the perceiver in his/her mode of passing through. If the architecture may condense these lines of communication, allowing it to reach a hierarchical point before crossing our line of movement, the driver who must cross through, may be able to visually identify these points signifying communications of cities. So as an allegorical approach, I was considering designing a telephone exchange building (physical building used to house inside plant equipment which make telephone calls "work" in the sense of making connections) which can be used to concentrate, condense, and re-route various lines of communication in cities and carry these communication over and against the pressure of movement.

For example, consider a person passing through two other people speaking on a phone attach by telephone lines. The third person passing through is able to see this physical manifestation of communication and thus may enter into dialogue, participating with the conversation. Modern technology however have rendered these lines of communication invisible to the third person. Now consider two people with cell phones and a third person passing through, him not being able to physically see this line of communication attaching the two people causes him to pass through, never grasping and participating and thus not allowing him to attain this sense of place/moment. So for one to achieve a better sense of place, he must be able to visually see his cities and place communicate on a physical level, through his automobile. I plan to do this by designing two separate telephone exchange towers/offices on opposite sides of an interstate... each telephone exchange offices will be used to gather and concentrate lines of communication attained from its side of the city in order to be brought over the pressure of movement.

I don't know if any of that made any sense...

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