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2007-04-28T08:07:00.000-05:00

Project Brief - In-betweenness....+....+..... Terminal 352

2007-04-22T14:34:00.000-05:00

The site of your project this semester is the Hartsfield International Airport of Atlanta - a site of in –between, a place between places, a trajectory of passing, a place between land and sky, between worlds and time zones.

Minutes drive from downtown Atlanta, the airport is situated between Interstate 85 and Interstate 75 and I-285. It is also accessible via the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority), bus, rail service, limousine, charter services, and shuttle. Comprised of 3750 acres it is situated between two counties, Fulton and Clayton. Also accessible by airplanes, cities, countries the airport is a place of transfer between places. It is a place between states, between lands. It is “…part of a system that is not only national but international”. While the airport is defined by its geography, its physical location, it is also and more importantly defined by time. Atlanta therefore is as closely adjacent to Miami by car as to Barcelona by airplane.

With an internal coordination of baggage and passenger transfer and departure and arrival of massive numbers of people from numerous locations, the airport is a complex living organism comprised of fluctuating patterns of activity. Concourse E at Hartsfield is the largest in the United States and can handle 8,000 arriving passengers per hour. These travelers are distributed through the airport from gate to gate, plane to plane, through security, to baggage claim, to other transportation systems. While this flow of complex movement is carefully coordinated, the uniqueness of this place could be exploited for the creation of a more dramatic experience for the traveler.

This semester you will develop proposals which intervene in an operational manner within this site of in-between, within this urban space of transfer, within this national/international passage. You will slice, splice, cut, remove, insert, rearrange as needed. The procedure will vary from student to student. Through careful analysis you will each develop an operational strategy in order to improve, fix, repair, alter, transform … the space of human flow through this system and the quality of the experience(s). Presently eating and shopping programs populate these passages within the airport. What else could occur here in this space of transfer, delay, pause? You will be expected to define programs for inclusion.

Your strategies (surgeries) will vary as the deficiencies and potentials discovered will vary. Time will be an organizational system at work here. Speed, transition, delay, pause, rhythm, pattern, repetition will play important roles in the development of strategies…

Video, a medium which allows you to map space in time and movement will be exploited throughout the semester as an investigative tool to read the site, in the generative process to develop strategies, in the surgical process to design, and in the representation process to convey the experience provided by your proposal. At the same time you will be expected and encouraged to work in various modes and to fluctuate between 2-d. 3-d, 4-d in order to fully explore and develop specific ways of seeing, understanding and conveying your work.

Airport Seating - Site Visit

2007-04-17T22:48:00.000-05:00

A few more Terminal 352 Field Trip photos

2007-04-17T22:37:00.000-05:00

Class Field Trip

2007-04-17T22:22:00.000-05:00

Without posting too many photos, I wanted to share some of my favorite photos of Terminal 352 Fieldtrip to Las Vegas. This needs to happen before the end of the semester.

ABSOLUT SKINNER

2007-04-15T14:03:00.000-05:00

To lift "spirits" in hard times.

will

"The Forerunners of Film"

2007-04-10T09:32:00.000-05:00

http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expo/explora/image/imag_22.htm

This background information on the development of film should be helpful to Whitlock or maybe even Jeff.

http://www.understandingduchamp.com/author/marey/index.html

"the experience"

2007-04-09T21:07:00.000-05:00

the experience of the project

from board (No labels)

2007-04-09T20:26:00.000-05:00

This is a diagram (no labels which will be present for Wednesday) showing the basics of how the cloud works in relationship to both the outside environment and the inside environment. Note the white fibres illuminating based on movement in the terminals.

Toucable maps for the blind.

2007-04-07T16:51:00.000-05:00

Researchers in Greece have developed a new system that converts video into virtual, touchable maps for the blind. The three-dimensional maps use force fields to represent walls and roads so the visually impaired can better understand the layout of buildings and cities.
"Imagine I'm blind and I want to come to New York," says Konstantinos Moustakas, lead researcher on the virtual mapping project and a graduate student at Aristotle University of Thessaloníki in Greece. "I should have a map.

The article continues:
"Two common-touch interfaces simulate the force fields by applying pressure to the user's hand: the CyberGrasp glove, which pulls on individual fingers, and the Phantom Desktop, which applies a single force to the hand via a wand. Moustakas said the process is somewhat like trying to identify an object by running a finger or wand along its surface.

Virtual, touchable maps, also known as haptic maps, have been created before, but they were made using stereoscopic movies, which require special cameras. Moustakas' system works with a standard video camera.

Moustakas also developed a system that converts pictures of traditional paper maps into a three-dimensional street map. Users run a finger or wand down the grooved roads of the virtual map, while street names are automatically read aloud."

FULL STORY

Charette - Harvest-House

2007-04-05T18:23:00.000-05:00

I wanted to share with you a small note and photos from the charette yesterday and to thank those who participated. It was fun, intense and productive! We generated two boards of a project we titled Harvest-House. These documents are being scanned at the moment for a small portfolio that is being put together by the school. Doug Hecker and I and the following group of students worked on this.

Katy Seaman
Mandi Young
Vincent Vumbaco
Trevor Jordan
Melissa Vandiver
Blane Hammerlund
Broderick Whitlock
William Smith
Chris Bradley
Toni Sena

Navigating through 3D interactive spaces with a Video Game Controller

2007-04-05T15:14:00.000-05:00

Link to project website with movies

This is something I've been looking into. Last fall, Nintendo introduced a new game controller dubbed the "Wiimote" which uses a combination of 3D IR position sensors and accelerometers to determine inputs. This making it one of the first mass-produced three-dimensional and six-axis control devices available to the public (as opposed to a traditional mouse which only works in two dimensions.)

On Monday I had mentioned the possibility of interacting with surfaces in the airport using short-range wireless (such as Bluetooth or WiFi). The technology used in this demonstration is a simple combination of Bluetooth and Accelerometers, both of which are making inroads into consumer electronic devices.

The benefit to such an interaction is spatial- unlike a two dimensional surface, an individual is not "confined" to any particular area such as a kiosk or wall, or even a specific "zone" in the Airport.

target sound - great technology potential for airport sound

2007-04-02T22:04:00.000-05:00

Barcelona student Robert Cooney shared this information with me. It is about sound which can be projected within a focused area... great potential for airport announcements to be targeted only for the passengers that need to hear them. the company is called American Technologies Corporation. The technology is called Hypersonic Sound. Their website is http://www.atcsd.com/site/

Cocktail Concoction

2007-04-02T21:16:00.000-05:00

This is another multi-touch display, this time at a cocktail bar. I'd like to implement a similar technology in my wall. When people activate or "decorate" the wall, a ripple effect occurs that transitions into the ceiling apparatus and perhaps changes the colors of it as well.

Ziba

2007-04-02T21:03:00.000-05:00

Here is an example of multi-touch display. It is by a company named Ziba, through the research of Professor Jeff Han. It uses a technology called Frustrated Total Internal Reflection. This is similar to what I'm planning.

Experience Video A: The Wall

2007-04-02T15:53:00.000-05:00

I am finally able to get back on the blog now. I'll post a few things, but for now this is the video that I had for the March 28th review.

Work of a current Columbia University Grad Student

2007-04-02T00:05:00.000-05:00

I was looking at student work of various schools and I came across this rendering. I am really captivated by the organic flow as the two towers move up from the earth. The way they play with each other is gentle but not too delicate. And the main reason I posted this was how the student uses light in suble ways to define a shape.

2007-04-01T22:24:00.000-05:00

James Carpenter for Jeffrey Lowder Esquire

2007-04-01T21:47:00.000-05:00

Inter-active Holographic Lexus Display in Times Square

2007-03-31T17:27:00.000-05:00

EDIT: Warning, turn your volume off

UVA's Light Garden

2007-03-31T17:19:00.000-05:00

Since a lot of people are now working with light, here is a video of UVA's light garden:

The Body - constructing space for its various uses

2007-03-31T15:24:00.000-05:00

Blane and Toni must look at this book. Blane on Monday I want to see sections and plans of your project constructed out of the various positions of the body in your undulating resting structure. The body will also be drafted as part of the drawing as well as other objects like suitcases and any other portables. Working out the particularities of the security threshold is going to be really interesting - also according to the body as it moves through this space and as it de-clothes and re-clothes. Anyway, you should check this book out of the library and share it - The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design by Alvin Tilley and Henry Dreyfuss

A Still Life - a temporal document affected by activity

2007-03-31T15:08:00.000-05:00

Frank, this is the project that reminds me of what you were talking about yesterday - the interaction and movements of people adjust the quality of the table, in this case creating a layered document of the activity occuring "sur la table" a kind of "still life" as Osman Khan puts it.

"A camera is placed above the table, capturing events occurring on/over the table, which are sent to a computer, where customized software processes the image, so that non-white objects visually appear to stream their color down. This processed image is then projected back onto the table. Thus, a historic timeline of events over the table is visualized as a continuous flow of images down the table."

This might be of interest also to Whitlock and maybe to Matt and Ben. Check it out at http://www.osmankhan.com/surlatable/index.html There is a video too.

Portable Light - wonderful!

2007-03-31T13:47:00.000-05:00

While on this topic of light and material, you must look at the work of Sheila Kennedy

I mentioned her work developing luminous plywood. Most recently she is working on a delightful social project called “portable light” which brings light to communities without electrical power and which suggest many other applications in our future. The work uses traditional weaving techniques with new light materials. You can see this work at http://www.caup.umich.edu/portablelight/

I was amazed at the resemblance of the community power bag (if you change the scale) to Toni’s resting airport pods.

You must all look at other Kennedy & Violich Architecture projects at http://www.kvarch.net/

Luminous Fabric - material potential

2007-03-31T13:31:00.000-05:00

So many of you are dealing with light (and fiber optics in particular). I thought this would be of interest. Plastic fiber optics are woven with synthetic fibers to create luminous cloth for various products including wearables. Could Toni's jelly fish airport spaces take advantage of this technology? More information at http://www.lumigram.com/

"Project Runway" Increased amenities at Airports

2007-03-31T13:18:00.000-05:00

Other Layover options at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam

2007-03-31T12:24:00.000-05:00

At Schiphol Airport I also visited one of the Rijks Museum - one of the city's museums. A little space of it is in the airport with some of their collections for viewing during layovers.

I also saw touring spots where one could arrange for a quick visits of the city depending on the lenght of your layover.

On the website I just discovered a mobile guide of the airport which is activated via your cell phone and also a transparent speaking wall - which allows you to see and speak to your friends and/or relatives on the other side of the airport.

Airport Snoozing Space

2007-03-31T12:02:00.000-05:00

This are my two photos of recent nap at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. I also did a little observation and noted that within 5 minutes everyone would fall asleep. The areas are called airline lounges and are populated with a sparce grid of lounge soft chairs which face a large window towards the outside. Upon visiting the airport's website, I discovered something missed during my layover - lazy chairs. There are super soft red chair lounges to "sit into an relax". You can find them at their web site under airport facilities, Fun at Schiphol.

http://www.schiphol.nl/_entertainment/FunSchiphol.jsp?ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395729234&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302572275&GENERIC%3C%3Eclicked_folder_level_0=2534374302572262&GENERIC%3C%3Eclicked_folder_level_1=2534374302572275&VIRTUAL_TEMPLATE%3C%3Evt_id=10134198673766990&bmUID=1175361137623

What does it mean to travel through space?

2007-03-25T21:31:00.000-05:00

These thoughts are not mine but from those blindfolded and asked about information. These recordings have become very popular, even becoming a part of the sub-pop culture.

"I picture like an illuminated manuscript, ya know... you'd have to have them hand done... each time" (stammering) like change depending on what mood your in... like the best...or depending on like when you listen from a different age... could mean somethin' different"

"I don't like it when they change "....it....frightens me"

"you want them to stay the same"

"It makes me feel like someones pushing me from below...tryin' to put me... turn me over and put me down" "that's what it makes me feel like when they change."

"it has to tell you how to live... it (stammering) has, is an instruction guide. Subtle. It doesn't push. It nudges. It entices..or suduces. It has to encompass the whole scenario. Everything that has been. That is. And will be."

"AND could take it into space. And that's why you build a space ship. Because ultimately that's what space travel is all about. Was sending up ships from earth into space. And not just in some space shuttle thats got all the foam comming off of it. You need your own, glowing, ya know multi-colored.... space ship. It would be inside the space ship and.. the space ship. You know what I'm saying?

Like an exoskeleton.

Information is an exoskeleton"

Thoughts from my not so spring "break!"

2007-03-25T20:57:00.000-05:00

While on my "break" I jotted down somethings that could help from the review that we had to better clarify possibly some of the context in which my project envelops.

Material and Form in a Temporal Intervention

2007-03-25T00:49:00.000-05:00

Recreation of Movement|Visions in Motion

2007-03-19T12:48:00.000-05:00

The recreation of movement is interpreted in Herbert Matter’s photographs as “virtual volumes,” they create a space that is not logically identified until there is a interaction between the onlooker and the object. Also insisted upon as a mobile sculpture, also the “ material is utilized not in its mass but as a carrier of movement. To the three dimensions of volume the forth, the time element, movement is added.” This is a great addition to the study that I am doing it has so much relativity now just implementing it.
Cite:
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. 1st ed. Chicago: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, 1947. 237-235.

primary vs. secondary

2007-03-17T20:50:00.000-05:00

particularly fascinating about colors is the effect two colors [a primary and secondary] have on eachother.

also related:
the meaning of color [link]

Making New Materials

2007-03-17T09:52:00.000-05:00

In efforts to please the architecture gods and will, i thought what else can concrete become? can it become a material that is soft? can concrete be fun? does it have to be heavy and static? does it have to smell like concrete?

12 samples. some instantly dryed, some are drying, some might not dry, some smell weird, one looks like it is swelling and will hopefully explode. lol

Changing Luminence

2007-03-17T09:36:00.000-05:00

Believe it or not, the other renders are still going 24+ hours later, but this one finished fairly quickly.

This past week I've been experimenting with the effects of layering materials to help create panels that change not only based on your position, but also change color based on the angle light hits them. (for example, see last post)

Full image (link)

i will be posting additional images as they complete- hopefully the ones with the atrium as the context. rendering these is difficult even for the new Macs. from here on i have been working on the actual connections to the floor- seating arrangements, and more. I plan on addressing the following problems:

-occupancy
-power
-and of course, information

2007-03-15T20:53:00.000-05:00

Modeling Muscle Tissue

2007-03-15T10:56:00.000-05:00

This is a progress blog of the stages and techniques I have been going through to find a way of expressing my ideas.

With each layer of appilcation I change directions. As the latex dries on the brush, it makes thicker strokes and begings to build like muscle tissue.

2007-03-15T02:43:00.000-05:00

left: image of interior of model, this model represents the effect of sensors on the runway tracking the approach or departure of a plane and sending a signal to a series of lights underneath the runway to create a better sense of speed for observers
right: still shot image of video, this video depicts the experience of viewing airplanes from underneath as they land or take off

Crossing Paths

2007-03-14T22:05:00.000-05:00

This image shows the different types of paths that people take. The green path shows the movement of a person that has plenty of time to get to their gate, as well as time to eat, meander and relax. The purple path on the other hand shows the path of a person who has little to no time to relax. The two paths start in approximately the same place and end in the same place, but they are completely different from each other.

2007-03-14T20:22:00.000-05:00

Heart Imposed on Body

2007-03-14T18:13:00.000-05:00

I am intervening where the concourse meets the train but as a master plan I could see the gates acting as blood vessels breaking off.

This image of an old study model presents the idea.

The heart is the central operating piece of a grander composition that is the body. I see my intervention taking on the same qualities.

I am beginning to make models based on the form and materiality of the lining of muscle walls.

The has the quality of changing with the climate as I have previously mentioned.

Form and Function Yield to Science in Cardiovascular/ Respiratory Architecture

2007-03-14T18:05:00.000-05:00

The following information was attained through online research, an interview with Dr. Tamara McNutt of Clemson University’s department of Biological Sciences, and a review session with a Genetics Pre-Med student and roommate, Brennan Shutt. I erred on the side of having too much scientific information in my research because it in never clear what will be useful and what will not be.

Basically:

The heart is a pump that shoots oxygenated blood through the body and into tissues and capillaries. The blood makes a full cycle through the body and returns to the heart “oxygen poor”.

Blood is a connective tissue meaning:

It carries tons of stuff important to our bodies such as:

White Blood Cells (Immune System)
Red Blood Cells (Oxygen)
Hormones
Water

The heart is also a muscle made up of one of the three types of Muscle Tissue called, Cardiac Muscle Tissue. The heart expands an contracts, forcing the blood through the valves and arteries.

As the heart is a cardiac muscle, it is important to know about the three types of muscle tissue in the body.

Cardiac Tissue: Is Striated and contains 1 nucleus per cell
Skeletal Tissue: Striated and can have mulpiple nuclei per cell on the wall of the membrane
Smooth Tissue: Not Striated, and has only 1 nucleus per cell.

To be striated means there are cross striations formed by an alternation of thick and thin proteins.

A simple diagram shows how blood moves through the heart and out into the rest of the body. You can match the steps with the numbers on the concept drawing.

Basically:

There are 4 compartments, 2 ventricles and 2 atria

1.) START at the Vena Cava with blood returning to R atrium oxygen poor under its lowest pressure.
2.) The blood moves down into R ventricle through the Tricuspid Valve
3.) Blood moves down again into the lungs through the Pulmonary Artery where it is oxygenated
4.) Blood moves from the lungs to the Left Atrium through the pulmonary vein
5.) Blood moves from the Left atrium down into the left ventricle through the Mitral Valve
6.) Blood is now sent into the body out to the body oxygen rich and under its highest pressure.

COMING TO YOU 1000WPM

2007-03-14T18:03:00.000-05:00

It's all about materiality.

Edit:

2007-03-14T16:38:00.000-05:00

Blogger isn't uploading images at the moment for me. Will try again later.

Cementat....lol

2007-03-14T15:52:00.000-05:00

this image unlike the first, focuses on reflection. but reflection as an idea and an image. does anyone really read the stuff i write or am i again waiting my time reflecting here /%/

CementaturE

2007-03-14T12:00:00.000-05:00

I wanted to see what photoshop could do for this project. This high contrast black and white photo is for documentation of the model. Soon the shape of this model will change to fit the areas in the airport where these are to be installed. For example, areas near restuarants will look different from areas like near the tram. The reason for this is because the waiting is different. The tram runs back and forth through the airport all the time so the wait is shorter, their would not be time to whip out your laptop and work like in areas near food.

Stardust: 1958-2007

2007-03-13T20:17:00.001-05:00

Excellent video of the Stardust Imposion.

The Stardust has been Imploded

2007-03-13T20:17:00.000-05:00

Amazing the kind of character a casino can take.

"One rowdy group chanted song lyrics like "The Roof Is on Fire" and "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye." They also screamed out "Don't be a dust hole" a few minutes before the implosion which is in reference to a local ad campaign encouraging residents to be aware of the amount of dust they kick up.

A few minutes later, a dust cloud would send the crowd into a panic.

As the building came down and the crowd was cheering, the dust cloud began to form. There was no wind and Scott Doctor, who just celebrated his eighth implosion, said we should be fine. As the dust cloud crept closer and closer, blocking out the light, it was obvious there was a clear and present danger. As you can see in the video above, revelers scrambled to their cars, a few who wore masks chanted in victory and me, myself and my video camera made way to the Fletch Mobile."

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New Look of Terminal 352

2007-03-12T15:40:00.000-05:00

These concrete 'ribbons' would run through the airport, connecting to the walls. They are 4' off the wall and provide for seating and engagement. The idea is to see these 'ribbons' spread through out the airport and even through security, acting like vines.

"Smart" Respiratory Architecture

2007-03-12T12:59:00.000-05:00

My installation has taken recent inspiration from a the human cardiovascular system. Responding to the changing conditions in the airport such as passanger arrivals and departures, time of day, and external weather conditions, the membrane like concourse is alive and temporal. The aim of this intervention is to connect the passanger's act of walking and sensation of earth with the anticipated act of flying and sensation of sky.

Using multiple layers and differing ratios of permiability, the shell of the concourse will act to be sustainable and temporal.

To see the animation of muscle movement, see this link:

More to come today!!

New Furniture Gives Atlanta Airport New Feel

2007-03-12T11:30:00.000-05:00

The idea is to provide places to rest, wait or meet. The furniture allows for many body positions and has built in internet, phones, and storage for luggage of all sizes.

Interactive Surfaces

2007-03-03T21:54:00.000-05:00

For those of you working with interactive surfaces and information- this is a demonstration (working) of a Multi-touch display. Imagine a wall or large surface that interacts like this.

Here's how it works:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirsense/

Even more amazing is this is no longer a concept.

Air traffic mapping

2007-03-01T11:46:00.000-05:00

These are two videos that record flight patterns in the U.S. The first shows all of the hubs in the U.S. and uses different effects to show certain things (The size of cities and distance without geography, the time of day, etc) The second video shows the air traffic of one day out of the Atlanta airport. It differentiates planes by size and type.

Flight Patterns - Gridskipper

http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimatedFlightAtlas/ExampleAnimation.html

Julian Lwin

2007-02-25T15:03:00.000-05:00

For those interested in using lighting effects and lighting technologies, you have to take a look at the work of Julian Lwin. He is a British designer who wrote his thesis on lighting and its effects on the human psyche. I believe that this could be useful in an airport if he is correct that certain blues are soothing etc...

You can find an article and images in the February Record.

Yet Blue Apologizes

2007-02-22T01:18:00.000-05:00

The CEO of Yet Blue promises changes. I received a personal apology by email, maybe you did too. I found this video with it.

http://www.jetblue.com/about/ourcompany/promise/index.html?source=ap_2promise

Virtual Graffiti

2007-02-20T16:36:00.000-05:00

Going off of the Guerilla art theme I came across this article today. Watch the video, it's worth it.

Via Engadget

Can Jetblue Survive Passenger Outrage?

2007-02-20T15:11:00.000-05:00

"What JetBlue discovered is that its infrastructure is not yet strong enough to support bad-weather emergencies on a large scale. The communications system used to locate 11,000 pilots and flight attendants was not sophisticated enough to track down employees stranded by the storm and get them to the appropriate city."

Read More

2007-02-19T13:15:00.000-05:00

airport security?

Spirit Air Airbus 319

2007-02-15T22:19:00.000-05:00

After being crammed in that plane I thought that some of you might want to print out this image and do what you want to it.

2007-02-15T15:39:00.000-05:00

I found this blog that had some art work from the Atlanta airport. I am guessing it's the same airport. I don't think we went to these areas so we missed out. I believe one was between T-terminal and concourse A and says the other was in the international terminal. I thought they were interesting, mostly the one on the right, its part of a collection. This should be the link... (but the one on the right is part of Atlanta airport 1)

blogs.bootsnall.com/moses/archives/010408.shtml

Learning from Las Vegas

2007-02-14T12:24:00.000-05:00

Here's just some thoughts.The criticisms earlier of Atlanta Hartsfield airport is that it is indistinguishable from others. I guess it's fortunate we went to Vegas, as we got an experience of how much (or little) the Casinos differentiate themselves. Like an airport, they both pay a good deal of attention to traffic flow- people have to come in and know what to do. On one hand, they tend to be rather indistinguishable once your inside of them.... I often forgot whether I was in Caesar's Palace or the Venetian. On the exterior, they all went to great lengths to distingiush themselves, yet the interior suffered from criticisms I'm sure we'd all find relevant to the airport.

Connecting Region to Airport

2007-02-14T12:00:00.000-05:00

Tank,

The part of your blog that I commented on got me thinking so I did some looking and here is one example of connecting the area w/the airport. It is a public art project by Seyed Alavi where he took an areal view of the Sacramento river and wove it into the carpet for the floor the the pedestrian bridge from the terminal to the parking area. There's 50 miles of river on this bridge and is in the Sacramento International Airport. It's a good way to remember a flight and also a good first impression when walking into this city. I think they need to go ahead and go Gehry with it and put one in every city. Here's the website: http://here2day.netwiz.net/seyedsite/publicart/flyingcarpet/flyingcarpetframe.html

Airport Statistics

2007-02-14T11:38:00.000-05:00

Here are some statistics about the airport that I found. It's is about it's size, contents, and some comments of my own, so here they are:

-Hartsfield-Jackson is the busiest passenger airport in the world by accommodating more than 83.6 million passengers in 2004.
(No wonder their carpets look dingy.)
-More than 11 Astrodome playing fields would fit into the North and South Terminal.
(But could Barry Bond's hit one out of it?)
-There are 83 retail stores throughout the Airport.
(Ladies love it, men's wallets don't.)
-There are 77 food and beverage outlets throughout the Atlanta Airport.
(Majority of these are below par on the health meter.)
-Hartsfield-Jackson has more than 30,000 parking spaces.
(Car pool, please.)
-Concourse E has the capacity to handle up to 8,000 arriving passengers per hour.
(That about a plane a minute [133 people, 1 dog])
-Atlanta is closer to Chicago than New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore.
(Ok)
-The Atlanta Airport's cargo handling space is 1.7 million square feet.
(That's a hell of a lot of luggage)
-More than 200 million people, 80% of U.S. consumers, are within two hours' flight time from the Atlanta Airport.
(We're above average, we're only two hours driving time. That is an interesting stat though. It really show's how close the cities of the world are getting.)
-The Atlanta Airport has more than 1296 toilets.
(I think they didn't make it 1300 just so it wouldn't be unlucky)
-The Airport’s passenger terminal area sits on 130 acres or 5.7 million square feet.
(That's 260 of my front and back yards combined)
-There are more than 25,000 chairs in the Atlanta Airport.
-There are more than 53,000 light bulbs in the Atlanta Airport.
-The Atlanta airport currently has two terminals and six concourses.
-The $5.4 billion expansion includes a fifth runway, an East International Terminal, improved transportation and additional parking.

2007-02-14T10:04:00.000-05:00

All of these images are part of my investigation of airports. I believe that the key to understanding these strange places is in understanding the threshold between ground and sky. The airport exists for airplanes and people. More to come...PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK or if you have seen other images of tracking takeoff and landing and people interacting with the plane from an unconventional perspective (ie not in plane)

the venus project

2007-02-14T05:23:00.000-05:00

i found this interesting
this group designs many futuristic things ranging from transportation to housing to energy

http://www.thevenusproject.com/

Learning From Las Vegas

2007-02-14T04:06:00.000-05:00

In the reading Learning from Las Vegas, it is addressed that some architects believe that a building should be clear and concise to eliminate the need of signs. I feel that this is obviously the correct path to take in design, with the exception of a few examples. A court house is one of the most confusing buildings I have ever been in and without signs, I would have never found my desired destination. Another example may be and airport. In Las Vegas, signs are necessary to discern what building you are looking for amongst the clutter. With this in mind, this makes the sign’s importance supersede the importance of the architecture.

I found the design of the casino level very interesting. First having no windows to make it impossible to distinguish what time it is. The walls are made to be very dark to make the room seem limitless and keep concentration on the gambling. The effect needed to be achieved by the casino level is to convey privacy, protection, and concentration. This is very different from the older thought on the design of the casino, which was well lit, windowed, open, and uncluttered with furniture. This method gathers large groups together to gamble.

Quotes on Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

2007-02-13T15:42:00.000-05:00

Believe it or not, people actually write reviews on airports. I thought I had no life, but I guess it's something to do while waiting for your flight. I think many of you (especially Will with working on the ceilings) and those who saw the Freemont St. Experience will probably find this useful. I think this review sums up my impressions of the airport really well:

Some quotes:
"It’s the concourses, though, that most people see, and that are easily the worst thing about Hartsfield-Jackson. The concourses are all more-or-less identical, hugely long and narrow rooms that stretch to the left and right from the central spine of the railway like giant ribs. You want your gate to be either in the high teens or the low twenties. A gate number like A2 or C32 means that you have a long trudge out to the remote end of the concourse. And it’s a dangerous trudge, too; the people walking the other way are just getting off a long flight, usually hurrying to make their connection, and consequently are not watching where they’re going. You’ve got to keep moving; if you stop even for a second somebody’s likely to run you over, whether it’s the hard-charging Delta stewardess battling a gate change, the surly airport employee driving the oversize golf cart, or just the ordinary everyday business traveler chatting obliviously on his or her cell phone.

It also doesn’t help that the concourses are so ugly. The ceilings are oppressively low. The carpets are worn and tattered. There aren’t nearly enough seats at each gate. Worse yet, there’s a sense of sameness everywhere, as though the five concourses were purchased at the same factory outlet of Airports-For-Less. If you’re not familiar with the layout – and most of the people changing planes don’t seem to be – the overall effect must be like wandering through one of those psych-class rat mazes, over and over again, except with a Starbucks every few feet or so.

Worse – and I think most damning – is that while you’re in Hartsfield-Jackson, there’s almost no clue that you’re in Atlanta, or Georgia, or even in the South. The same sort of generic creeping homogeneity and sameness that you find elsewhere in America, here and there, is present everywhere in Hartsfield. Outside of the presence of the city’s three major industries – Delta flights, CNN Airport News, Coca-Cola for sale at every kiosk – you’d never know you were in Atlanta. This is true of a lot of airports, but even at sterile outposts like Dallas-Fort Worth, you can get decent Dickey's barbecue and buy every kind of Dallas Cowboys merchandise known to man. ..."

Full Review: http://www.epinions.com/content_140767497860

Airport Security

2007-02-12T13:24:00.000-05:00

I am sharing this photo that I received last semester. It made me smile as this is definitely the way one feels these days passing through security at the airports. I am also posting it in response to Frizzle’s posting on Feb. 8. You may also refer to an earlier posting of the photo of the human pupil - posted on January 28.

How is this different than the way we are presently scrutinized by the surveillance cameras which populate our environment? Which is more invasive?

Las Vegas Casino Death Watch

2007-02-12T11:46:00.000-05:00

Las Vegas's vendetta against history is so great there's now a website dedicated to it:

Casino Death Watch (Link)

I'm willing to guess there are not many other places that progress along the time axis more than a physical direction.

the invisible shape of things past

2007-02-12T11:45:00.000-05:00

The project enables users to transform film sequences into interactive, virtual objects. This transformation is based on the camera parameters relevant to a particular film sequence on screen: (movement, perspective, focal length). The individual frames of the film are lined up along the path of the camera. The angle of the individual frames relative to the virtual camera path depends on the view from the actual camera, whilst the size of the individual frames depends on the focal length used. The rows of pixels at the frames’ edges define the outer membrane of the film object.

Noriyuki Fujimura: Footprint Mapping

2007-02-12T11:23:00.000-05:00

"Footprint mapping“ was an attempt to create a digital map of streets and public spaces by gathering "footprints" of participants of the project.
The aim of the artwork was to figure out how they could implement the concept of a “Psychogeographical map" with modern technology.
He created a mapping system consisting of cheap pedometer, digital compass, micro processor, web cam, and laptop computer. All of which were put in one backpack for someone to carry around.
At the end of each day a digital collage was put together of every participants footprint map.

Seale summary

2007-02-12T11:20:00.000-05:00

Using a slit-scan camera, Seale captures motion in a new way. The moving objects come out clear and the still objects blur, which is opposite the way we usually see them. I feel that it is interesting because it allows you to see how and how fast the figure moves in front of the camera. It is easy to understand the photos when you understand how they are photographed, but on there own it is tough to realize the movement.

Did we ever have any plans or layouts of the airport?

2007-02-12T11:11:00.000-05:00

Will, lol, did we ever have any drawings of the airport, anything we can look at and draw on top of????

CAMERAS RECORD THROUGH SECURITY!!!

2007-02-09T17:06:00.000-05:00

video cameras roll through security; Terminal 352 exposed! more to come...

2007-02-09T16:31:00.000-05:00

The image of the Luxor and many other themes casinos is more powerful than the spaces that make it up. Most casiono floors are the same in their low ceiling, chaotic maze layout, falling short of referencing the theme presented so boldly upon arriving or driving by. They took my money too.

Still Learning from Las Vegas - interview of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi

2007-02-08T12:53:00.000-05:00

Here's a recent interview by Ten by Ten Magazine of Robert Venture and Denise Scott Brown regarding Las Vegas today. The Vegas that they mapped and wrote about more than 30 years is gone. Yesterday, during our drive we saw remnants. Read their thoughts on the Vegas of today and the influences of their research and writings.

http://www.tenbyten.net/vegas.html

On the Airport Terminal and Zoomscapes

2007-02-07T12:48:00.000-05:00

The Airport Passenger Terminal gave a very pragmatic look into how airports function. I appreciate the points that it brings up about basic operations of the track, the size of concourses, the relationship of the plane to the terminal, etc. It gives us some direction in thinking about size of spaces and the general layout of airport terminals. There was nothing particularly profound in the article, but it was informative nonetheless.
The Zoomscapes writing however, does give a very abstract view of the flying experience. It describes in a way that I have experienced before, but have not necessarily thought about. He describes how the viewpoint from an airplane disconnects oneself from the human experience. No longer are you immersed and apart of the planet. You see architecture and humanity as a series of lines, squares, and triangles. The oblique view strips your connection from what you were just in a few minutes before. The article helps us to think about what the airport does to our sense of reality and how we view it.
I think a good question in terms of design would be how can we make this terminal significant and cohesive not only from that ground, but from where all passengers will eventually see it: the clouds?

A Flowing Cross-Section

2007-02-07T12:29:00.000-05:00

This collection of panoramic views is a typical one of the Danube AV project. Each strip is a descriptive element of the cross-section. One could say it is simply tracing the landscape, but this goes further in that it maps the human development along, and in relation to the river. This mode of thinking is useful when designing. In order to fully understand the site, the architect should have a deep understanding of the people that have been/will be inhabiting the area. This project was a tool in which the this was carried out.

Undergarment Mapping

2007-02-07T12:22:00.000-05:00

There is a new type of security scanner that is much more... descriptive than current ones. This device clearly maps all items on any person passing through it. There is the potential to greatly speed up security procedure in airports. Passengers would simply walk through the scanner and keep going. Of course, many are reluctant about the idea of their Victoria Secrets being so... not secret.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007040610,00.html

Scaling Time: The Video Streamer

2007-02-07T12:04:00.000-05:00

Essentially the Video Streamer acts like an advanced flip book. The idea is to change the way we perceive the image and stack rapidly captured frames on one another to show movements that would have gone unnoticed.
It is important to capture the subject at the right time scale. By this I mean that some events happen in micro seconds, other events happen over the course of hours. Both are equally interesting and need to be examined differently.

Atta Kim's Long Exposure

2007-02-07T12:03:00.000-05:00

Atta Kim a Korean photographer who looks at things in a different light. He uses lloonnnngggggg exposure times to show things that would not ordinarily be seen. He current exhibit is called"On Air" and is at the International Center of Photography. The website is, http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.1706759/k.9A54/Atta_Kim_OnAir.htm . Check it out.

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!! /%/

2007-02-07T11:00:00.000-05:00

That is right!!! The Surveillance Camera Players fight for your rights; this group of individuals are exposing the governments video surveillance cameras all over New York and other major cities in the United States. They map video cameras in cities and neighborhoods to help fight for your rights to privacy go to SCP@notbored.org

Picture

2007-02-07T09:47:00.000-05:00

GPS Drawing pictures

2007-02-07T01:34:00.001-05:00

GPS drawing can be a very useful tool if used correctly. Instead of simply drawing pictures, we can use to GPS to track the flow of people or luggage through an airport for example. By attaching a GPS device to an individual, we can track that person’s course trough the airport seeing how they maneuver obstacles such as trash cans, other people, luggage, or chairs. We can also see the route taken when someone is trying to get food or go to the bathroom. With this information, controlling the flow can be made easier by creating paths that doing traverse long distances or become too confusing. Luggage can be tracked by GPS to see the most efficient and easiest way to transport the luggage to its desire destination. Given the x, y, and z coordinates of the luggage we can create a path that best fits to prevent mass confusion. The smaller amount of luggage that gets misplaced or lost, the better. By tracking these things through the airport we can easily find any problems with the flow of foot traffic or the operation of moving luggage.

Good Photo

2007-02-06T12:13:00.000-05:00

Great news and possibilities

2007-02-06T10:59:00.000-05:00

I recieved an email back from martin and he seems interested and hopefully we can get the software. So i will keep you all posted on the progress.
hi,

unfortunataly the software doesn`t work completely-
that means I have to simulate some features/ functions
as they don`t work in realtime.
I don`t know if you are still interested -but if you could
give me some more facts about your project maybe I
can help you.

very best,
martin

Threshold of Emotion/Sensory Overload

2007-02-06T06:42:00.000-05:00

Blane you are my hero! We could map sensory overload...the threshold of when IT ALL just gets to be too much and we cross over into being some crazy person...everybody has a snapping point in airports. I bet it has happened to all of us. I doubt it is mappable though.

recording the inbetween

2007-02-05T19:09:00.000-05:00

i was thinking maybe our cell phones can come into use as a recording device?

Das Flugzeug

2007-02-05T11:52:00.000-05:00

The Airport Passenger Terminal was very informative, stating some rules and regulations of airports, while addressing when and where design can be utilized. Within the reading, I found the issue of manipulating flow was very important. The problem is how to combine primary and secondary flow without losing efficiency or creating a chaotic intermingling of the two distinct types of flow. I also found that the way the planes dock was a very interesting system, with multiple regulations, tightening the choke-hold on design. This compelled me because it made me curious as to how can you create art with these very specific restrictions. My question, what specific types of aircraft are going to be found at our terminals? I ask this because things like wingspan will have a drastic effect on our designs. Also, the larger the planes, the larger the lounge areas are going to be and number of concessions.

2007-02-04T23:15:00.001-05:00

i guess ill take the GPS drawing

Project Selection

2007-02-03T16:46:00.000-05:00

I'll do the Atta Kim

On Airports

2007-02-02T16:21:00.000-05:00

I don't fly often, usually if the drive can be made in less than two days I simply prefer to drive or take a train. For me, flying is a an incredible novelty- I'm so withdrawn from the routine that each time it is fascinating to me. I rather enjoy the 'rush' from the entire experience- it's much like an amusement park ride, especially as mentioned in Zoomscape for the five-second period on land where you reach close to 150MPH. However, if I flew every time I went back to Cincinnati or took a trip, I would find it far more grating than enjoyable.

But as someone who doesn't fly often, it's almost exciting- there's the maze to find out just exactly where you are, getting through ticketing, getting your baggage checked, going through security, wondering if there's time to grab a quick snack, and preparing your baggage for the flight, and trying to find my terminal.

My preference for driving involves two things transition, and convenience. When flying, there practically is no sense of transition (hence jet-lag), and the novelty of this new view wears off, where by driving or by taking a train the surroundings are constantly changing. In fact, it's the only form of mass-transit where there is no transition- you aruptly enter different spaces (origin airport, airplane, destination airport) , instead of going through them (aka going from Clemson to Asheville to Knoxville, etc.) Even a train stops in various towns (some of which you'd never know existed) along the way.

If transition can't really be forced into flying, is there a way to at least make the experience more exciting and unique for those who rely on it without annoying those simply "putting up with it all?" I suppose hardcore flyers want the exact opposite: to make the airport as transparent as possible.

Readings

2007-02-02T14:32:00.000-05:00

The world can be traveled through these wonders of modern society called airports. The particular realm of an airport and the enclosed world that it creates is something unique and quite interesting. The way I see it the airport is much like a watch but on a larger scale. By that I mean that there are all of these separate parts all different sizes completing different tasks, at different times, and at different speeds, but all working in unison to complete one purpose, count off seconds at a uniform rate. The airport does the same thing except it has a different purpose, connect the world through aviation. There are all particular variables needed to complete the task of the airport and the one main thing that makes this particular “machine” tick, is the clock, which tells time.

Reading Response and Question

2007-02-02T13:38:00.000-05:00

The Flow and Function reading introduces us to the world of the airport, that up until now, I, like all other civilians, knew very little of. The details and distances from stage to stage, and from space to space are specific and necessary to the sucess of moving people. And that is where the fun began in the reading; when people are arriving and leaving and transfering. The Flow and Function piece layed the specifics for what Zoomscape: Airports, described. Between worlds in what I thought of as a time machine. It descibed a world in which time stops and the senses are put on hold, until you land in another city, in another airport. The word should be broken down AIR-PORT. The first part dives into a world that used to be magical and mystical. People would look forward to flying because of the different view from above, because they wanted to experience the sensations of new experience. The word PORT is a gate, a place that opens and is the threshold between the regular, everyday world and this mystical journey into the sky. It really is cool that we can fly, move through the sky, and defy gravity for hours at a time.

The problem now is that the the magical nature of flying has been stripped, instead replaced with the chaos and hastle of today's commercial airline experience. I want to use these articles to lay out a systematic, practical continum of spaces that is ALSO a PORT to the mystical world that was existed, and I believe we can return to. There is a kid in everybody, even the most seasoned, salted business traveler. If architecture is truth, than a design that incorporates both of the aforementioned will be able to make people think in a different way and feel comofortable in the AIRPORT.

Is this Possible? or am I just dreaming?

readings - toni

2007-02-02T13:19:00.000-05:00

The view from an airplane is amazing because you can see so much. The odd thing is that it’s faster then traveling by car or train but its view is less skewed from the movement. Because your view is so omniscient the skewing takes place in a different way. It’s more of a vertical and spatial disfigurement. You don’t get the feeling of the heights of the buildings as you would looking up from the streets, instead you get a view of the top of buildings separated by little squiggly lines. The view does allow for a greater understanding of layouts and encourages new ideas to fix planning issues. Thought the view from the sky is interesting, flights begin and end in a complex structure that relies greatly on time.
Airports are multifaceted buildings where the survival of order depends greatly on everything being on time and in proper order. Every time something happens to delay or interrupt the expected flow, it takes awhile to get things back in order. The amount of people going through an airport at one time is more then you would even notice on a trip there. There are many separate areas that you never even see while following the path to your own destination. The introduction of things to occupy passengers’ time is compliant.
The amount of new things that pop up in and around airports is not that surprising. There are many people that pass through them so it is natural for businesses to be interested in getting as many customers as possible. When flights get delayed or when you’re waiting between flights, it’s nice to have stores to go to, places to eat, and hotels. I believe that adding too much could be a bad thing. I don’t know if so much of this should be open to the public as well as passengers. Too many people could make it harder to keep things organized and simple enough to perform the original job of an airport.

What effects does the increased amount of people by allowing public and passenger use have on the workings of the airport? Does it make security or timing issues worse?

2007-02-02T13:13:00.000-05:00

it was mindblowing to think of all the programs an airport has. i would like to see a plan of the entire airport and ones trajectory from parking lot to his/her flight. i think these readings prove the advantages of the airplane over trains and boat ect. i now agree with will on the thing in class when he said 'airports have only broke even since their exsistence. think about all the employees and equipment an airport has to consider, then think about the average ticket price and spread the money around the airport, it doesn't go very far. my questions, i guess after reading all this would be, does the inside of an airport function like the outside of an airport? how important to a home owner is a bird's eye view, since they will never see it, and what is the difference between the ways airplanes, car, boats and trains use space? /%/

Reading Summary

2007-02-02T11:52:00.000-05:00

Reading the articles, I found it interesting that people are so fascinated with airports and airplanes, but only for a short while. For most people, it is an unknown, until they need to fly somewhere, then they realize the hassle that comes with flying. Interestingly enough, movies rarely show these hassles, usually only showing people running through the airport or sitting around waiting, but rarely the irritation that comes with the other aspects of airports. People are enthralled with the view out the windows during take off and landing, but in between they lose interest, they cannot make sense of the ground below them, they are not part of it so they don't want to acknowledge it. So why else do people stop thinking that airports and airplanes are amazing? How can we keep this fascination alive long into the experience of flying?

Research

2007-02-02T10:33:00.000-05:00

I'll take Footprint Mapping.

!

2007-02-01T16:47:00.000-05:00

I think I will go with the Danube Panorama Project--------- .

mine

2007-02-01T15:35:00.000-05:00

Ansen Seale - Temporal Forms