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...

Telephone Exchange Building

In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls. A central office is the physical building used to house inside plant equipment including telephone switches, which make telephone calls "work" in the sense of making connections and relaying the speech information.

The term exchange can also be used to refer to an area served by a particular switch (typically known as a wire center in the US telecommunications industry). It is sometimes confused with other concepts of telephone geography, such as NPA or area code. More narrowly, in some areas it can refer to the first three digits of the local number. In the three-digit sense of the word, other obsolete Bell System terms include office code and NXX. In the United States, the word exchange can also have the legal meaning of a local access and transport area under the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ).

Architectural Implication

I will propose a communication tower/building which will condense and concentrate the many lines of communication to be stretched across the pressures of movement.... allowing communication to return to primitive means of crossing over to become physical, visible to the traveling perceiver in that he will be able to see, associate, and enter into dialogue.

it is a means of participation place against the act of movement.

Invisible Communication

Product of modern travel have rendered communication invisible. Imagine two cities as people conversing to one another with phones connected by lines. We understand one person to be conversating with another because the line of communication is made visible, tangible to the eyes. If a third person was to transgress through unaware at first of the communication occuring between the initial parties, the third person may then enter into conversation upon awareness of communication which have taken physical form; the person may then participate and thus establish his presence within the larger scope of dialogue being exchanged. Participation is thus elicited with the physical embodiment of communication. If one were to replace the idea of modern travel with modern communication, such as the cell phone, the scenerio may then expose the idea of invisible communication. The communication that once vibrated back and forth between a physical line is now tranfsormed by the modern machine into frequencies carried through radio waves. If we return back to the scenario of two people conversating back and forth and replace there tool of communication with the cell phone, the physical form of communication is then made invisible to the eye. As such communication is made invisible to the eye, the third person which travels through is not made known of such conversation and is thus not allowed to be made aware of the opportunity to participate and enter into dialogue.

Now if we replace the scenerio of two people as cities and place seperated by the pressures of movement, onto which carries the third person, we can now understand why the third person does not enter into dialogue, as he is not aware of the present communication that is occuring.

New title?

Communicating Architecture or Communication Architecture. I don't know what the difference is...

I have realized that the problem I am speaking of is simply this lack of communication on the frequently traveled road.