Considering the motorway as a divisive element, these maps show development on either side of each of the bridges linking the CBD to Auckland (in red - typology and topography derived from view cones) as well as the pervasive or intrusive nature of the motorway corridor on its immediately surrounding field (black dashed lines show the intended boundaries of the motorway's nature or condition, black hatching shows the perceived boundary from my site surveying).
By better understanding the dichotomy between "inside" and "outside" the motorway, as well as the relationship/conflict between the expansiveness nature of the city and the pervasive nature of the motorway, I am hoping to develop a design project that ameliorates the conflict of natures and creates a dialogue between the typologies of "inside" and "outside".
2 comments:
Hi John
was about to leave you some comments from class today but became distracted by your link to The Bartlett, to the Phd programme and then to sources of funding!
Thanks for the useful link! Will leave you some comments later today!
Cheers
kathy
Hi John
I have been thinking about your mapping proposal. One of the aspects that could be interesting, but that I can't quite picture, is your intention to draw the elevations of buildings surrounding the "bearing" or view cone, as though lying flat on the topography.
This may potentially present some interesting scale "shifts" or juxtapositions, when the scale of the motorway is suddenly related to the face of a building. Also, your map may then hover in some pictorial plane between perspective (bearing) and projection (plan/elevation). There is something about the scale of the motorway that we find difficult I think to approach as designers and this disturbance of its scale by the elevation/projection drawing may help bring this to light.
Can you make some draft drawings of this?
Cheers
kathy
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