PROJECT 3.5

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Assignment

Students are asked to produce a mapping of FSC campus based on their readings.  As James Corners describes mapping an "open-ended forms of creativity" that reveals unseen potential, our assignment focuses on re-thinking conventional "tracing" and places greater emphasis on the unfolding of unimagined.  

 

Methodology

3-dimensional/multi-scalar mapping with multiple medium (e.g. including but not limited to: freehand sketch, diagrams, photograph, survey, found object, cardboard, chipboard, museum board, colored board, strings, dowels, pushpins, etc…) will be followed by research-based analysis in relationship of physical, social, functional, and programmatical agenda of the sites.  The location can be decided based on the area of one’s interest and the extent of the map can reach beyond the campus border.  The map needs to include a minimum of 3 buildings and the physical size of the model needs to be minimum 15” x 15”x 2”. 

Evaluating Criteria:

1. Clearly illustrated findings (Highly analytical data and information)

2. Understanding of order, space, sequence, and context in the built environment

3. Revealing unseen information through a mapping process

1. The identification of approach, entrance, path, path-space relationships, and the form  

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FINAL DESIGN:

My focus towards this project was circulation on Farmingdale State College. I picked an area that has unorganized circulation. The process was to research all moments in the area at the time when students got out of class. My mapping projects proves that the architectural design of the path ways on campus aren't followed and doesn't flow smooth. Each time a student cut across an area with no path I marked it down and showed it on the project. The students on the project represents the most common area where students decided to cut across. The red string represents the path in which they followed.

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