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 ARCHITECTURE AS INTERFACEAccess to a range of internet-based digital media, services, and devices for the individual means:

These causes eliminate the inconvenience of a commute or formal/designated space and allow for greater

productivity or efficiency and more articulate organization through the expediency of information.

HEALTH CENTER 

SPA AMENITY

RESTAURANT / CAFE / ACCOMODATION

2. Community can be delivered to you: Amenities

are nested within a grid-based spatial dispersion

of above and below-ground spaces. People should be

encouraged to mix  through a buckshot-model of

programmatic distribution that collides and

overlaps.

1. Work and play become location-independent:

Events can occur anywhere and simultaneously.

People should be encouraged to congregate through

a carpet-model of grid-based spatial

distribution.

2. Instantaneous accessibility to social and

economic resources in relative isolation (through

an individual’s device).

1. A collapse in distance between people and

services.

The architectural interface orders yet stages social and physical spontaneity

through a layered collapse of spatial and programmatic relationships in the

Community Center. Consequently, health and wellness become social activities as

 much as personal or private routines.

If virtual communities are the new venues of communication, interaction and

exchange, then:

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 WHAT IF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ARE THE NEW VENUES OF COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE? ADDEN

Causes

The availability of a range of digital media, services,

and devices for the individual means:

1. A collapse in distance between people and services.

2. Instantaneous accessibility to social and economic

resources in relative isolation (through an individual’s

device).

In sum, these causes eliminate the inconvenience of a

commute or formal/designated space and allow for greater

productivity or efficiency and more articulate

organization through the expediency of information.

Effects

1. Work and play are location-independent

2. Community can be delivered to the individual

3. Publicity bleeds into privacy

Publicity bleeds into privacy

1. Unnaturally through security loopholes or hacki

2. Naturally, through the share economy and the

fostering of sharing/collective action which gener

natural tendencies to publicize or broadcast that

would otherwise remain private (location check-ins

relationship status, etc.)

This effect would allow me to further explore:

1. The inside-outside gradient whereas earlier it

limited to something emerging  from the

formal/typological strategy.

2. Above and below tension through the ground

“interface” which could address publicity or priva

needs through the weave (carpet) model.

3. Lighting as a material extension of this effect

allowing or preventing/limiting behavior or experi

in certain areas.

DESIGNATING PUBLIC V. PRIVATE SPACE LIGHT AS HEAT (PHYSICAL COMENABLING THE FLANEUR