801760 : Graduate Studio Design : 1/2010Spatial Mapping, Recording, Analyzing

Positing yourself to the city and architecture first: - what is the city? - Generic or constructed or both? - Accidentally happen? Or there is a duration and process? - Have you seen the city as multi-layers or meaning? - Have you seen the city as a still object or flexible entity?

how many layers you have perceived?

- physicality, boundary, route, edge, height….-People who live in? do you think they are part of condition how we perceive the city? If so, what do we need to think of….

-Or a part of abstraction, mentality, activities, class system, prejudice, gender, social life, career… ?

How we can capture all of these aspects?

01 : Focusing on Physicality

Urban Form : Solid and Void of the City

Urban Form : Positive and Negative Space

Urban Form : Context and Environment

City Block : Land Use

Land Use

City Block : Property Line

Computer Simulation

Computer Simulation

Computer Simulation

Contour Line : Geographical Property

Photograph : Caption

Satellite Image : Google Earth

Mixed Media : Satellite Image and Computer Simulation

Mixed Media : Computer Graphic : Specific Program like Space Syntax

02 : Focusing on Abstraction

People : Ancestor : Everyday Life

People : Vernacular : ways of living

People : Vernacular : ways of living

People : ways of living : Clan : Social Structure

People : how to observe them : Staler : Non-Participated Observer

From Observing to Recording : 2D and 3D

From Observing to Recording : Movement : Gathering Place

From Observing to Recording : Route : Connection in the space

From Observing to Recording : Routine : Activities

03 : Focusing on Part of Analysis

What do we have after we map a physicality and we record data of abstraction? - Prediction, Assumption, Speculation

Preparation, Classification, Design, Preparation, ….

Different Data tell us different story : Closed Space and Open Space : Route and Road : some related conditions

Different Data tell us different story : Closed Space and Open Space : Route and Road : some related conditions

Different Data tell us different story : Closed Space and Open Space : Route and Road : some related conditions

Different Data tell us different story : Geometrical Data (Physicality), Topological Data (Movement and Connection in Space), Social Data (Abstraction), Semantic Data (Analysis)