Thesis

Investigation and Development of Architectural Process through the Adaptive Reuse of "Big Box" Architecture.

Abstract
Through the exploration of adaptive reuse of residual, no longer viable, commercial buildings in economically challenged urban zones develop an over arching guide and process upon which to base future architectural practice, solidifying design principles that have the potential to define specific approaches to architectural strategies and form making. The adaptive reuse of architecture, specifically "big box" architecture, in a form that captures and utilizes natural daylight, artificial light, and inspires the human spirit addresses many key issues prevalent in today’s practice and design discourses. The notions that the proper lighting of space effects its occupants is not new, but one that is very seldom maximized in the built environment that we occupy. In addition, the importance of recycling building products and materials is at a peak in the world today. The building industry is one of the largest contributors to the degradation of our planet. Adaptive reuse of buildings is quite simply the recycling of architecture.


fracture of rigid form
thin outlines of light
natural and artificial
of worlds on a journey
who grin at the day
to the evening breeze

Saturday, June 14, 2008

motion mapping

Ai - Harmony, the principle of harmony and integration.
Ki - Spirit, centralized , coordinated energy considered the energu of life itself.
Do - Way, the method a discipline and philosophy with both moral and spiritual connotations.

Motion mapping of technique or teachings to analyze and document the harmony, spirit, and way that embody the philosophy of aikido. Through analysis of the movements of the uke and nage (the person being thrown and the thrower) we start to glimpse at the energy being expended between the two along with the tension, compression, mergence, and resolution of the "space" that lies between the two. The video below is one of three that were studied and mapped, shomenuchi ikkyo or first teaching.

Motion mapping can be extruded from the two figures by following key points of the body through the key still frames in a sequencial order, producing the motion map.

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