“The ordinary practitioners of the city life are walkers whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an
urban “text” they write without being able to read it.”
M. De Certeau
The recent advances in technology and subsequent ever increasing notion of human separation from
reality (and from each other) call for a new type of architecture which aims to gently reintroduce a
basic experience of interaction.
Traditionally an urban public square was designed to intermix people and different activities thus
achieving coincidental behavior and blending of social landscape in the city. The programmatical
open- endedness of a space provoked speculation and fantasy.
Today the physicality of urban square competes with virtual public spaces where dematerialized
encounters with strangers make up for real contacts.
Situated in the heart of West Chelsea the proposed Pavilion claims to have no programmatic destination
challenging the users to compose their own experience throughout the site by co-sensing and co-
creating new reality.
The pavilion aims to serve as an instrument of discovering different patterns of interaction of emergent
behavior of different groups of urban players with statics of conventional use of public spaces.
The formal qualities of the pavilion elements aim to provoke formation of different nodes of activities
and interlacing of different activities, and stress the tension created by opposing open and closed
spaces.
1 comment:
beautiful de certeau quote!
the text sounds a little like grant application though. Maybe it a little more wild...speculate as to what the interactions and effects could be, what the unforeseen outcomes are, how the architecture will create it. Less responsible and civic minded please! And to what purpose do these interactions take place? What political agenda? What if the participants misbehave, if they destroy it or don't want to interact?
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