Tracing Memory

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Site

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CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREMISE


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GRID

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LINK

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CONNECT

NETWORKS The world is connected through a system of networks that bring people together, these are connections are both physical and abstract.

PREMISE

WOVEN

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VEHICLE

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MOVEMENT

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MAP

In the physical sense these networks are the roads, highways, rivers, rail lines that people move along. In the abstract, networks are the vehicle for the movement of information from one place to another. Both the physical and the abstract create a layered patchwork of vectors that intersect and allow for the change of direction, forming a framework to construct upon.

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INTERSECT

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SCENT

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TOUCH

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SOUND

MEMORY A memory is the link between past and present through an emotional connection generated by internal emotions of the occupant in a particular space. This memory is not a concrete historical fact but rather a molded, twisted, and rearranged past experience of this occupant.

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SIGHT

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BLURRY

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DISAPPEAR

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REAPPEAR

Memories can disappear, reappear, change, become blurry, and even change future decisions. They are a palimpsest, an idea that is scraped clean and written over but in the end a part of it still exists.

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RESIDUE

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ELASTIC

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STRUCTURE

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ZONES

MEMBRANE A membrane divides two zones of space, creating a protective film that allows for the movement of people between these two zones.

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PLIABLE

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MANIPULATE

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TRANSFORM

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FILTER

This membrane provides an elastic and pliable boundary of a structure. It can provide a zone of separation between the inside and out. There is also the correlation back to biology and the interconnected world of nature. The elastic quality of a membrane allows for the manipulation and transformation of space.

PREMISE

CHANGE

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NETWORKS

MAP

MEMORY

TRACE

MEMBRANE

FILTER

The human brain is a network that acts as a structural map that is stimulated by one of the four senses. There is a trace of a memory that hides inside this map, it is a memory that is incomplete and changed. This manipulation of the memory occurs through a membrane filter.


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FILTER

TRACE

PREMISE

MAP


Whole Memory

Manipulated Memory


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Fragmented Memory

PREMISE

Manipulated Memory


A trace is the mechanism of exploration into the memories of our perception, a key to a filtered point of view through our past senses.


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A network is a map that unlocks a trace which is manipulated by a filter.


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SITE


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Lafayette Square is an historic urban neighborhood that is activated by its cyclical pattern of decay and rebirth. These of which is tied directly to the traces of program and events that occupied the site in the past.


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SITE

LAFAYETTE SQUARE



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Lafayette Square


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SITE

Site boundaries


33,500 sq. ft

Ave

Dolman St

19,000 sq. ft

S 18th St

Vail P l

Park


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SITE

Total Area: 52,500 sq. ft


Site Dimensions

227’

45’

115’

90’

154’

285’

282’ 255’


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South Side of Park Ave

North Side of Park Ave


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Traces of the past

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SITE

In 1896, Lafayette Square was the site of a tornado that leveled large parts of the area. This event started a long period of decline for the square.


VOID

A trace of decline is marked by the voids left from the 1896 tornado.


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SITE

VOID


Site Changes over time

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1932


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2013

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Traces Over Time 1908

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decline

rebirth


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2013

decline

cleared

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Site boundaries Removed traces

The Site is a palimpsest, never static, always changing into a new form of what it is and with that comes an ever changing process of deconstruction, and rebirth.


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SITE

Residential occupation of Lafayette Square from 1908-2013


Retail Traces

Retail occupation of Lafayette Square from 1908-2013


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SITE

Industrial occupation of Lafayette Square from 1908-2013


Programs over Time

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open space open space

open space

parking

auto wrecking yard open space

auto wrecking yard

coal yard

open space

coal yard open space

SITE

Over time programmatic fabric of the site changed. Some programs lasted longer then others, etching their traces onto the site.


Memories are removed, replaced, and changed but a residue remains in the form of a trace. This trace leads the occupants to what was there before and what might come in the future.


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1908

Overtime the change in the interaction of people to the site was related directly to the edge condition presented by building and street.


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SITE

2013


1908 and 2013


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SITE

The occupying of Lafayette Square creates a map that excavates past memories through the traces left behind. It is through the process of removal and addition that these traces are manipulated creating an altered memory.


Interaction and voids of occupation


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SITE

residue of occupational voids



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SITE

Linked together, the process of Deconstruction and Rebirth creates a dynamic map of ocupation of the site through an absence, this absence contains a memory of what was once there.



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DECAY

R EB IR T H

SITE

Lafayette Square contains a rhythmic cycle of decay of rebirth


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PROGRAM

PROGRAM

A center for the teaching of marginalized young people through the fabrication of useful products using recovered materials that is no longer wanted by society.


Deconstruction

Scrap yard

Recycle


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Fabrication shop

Studio

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Rebirth



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Scrap yard Deconstruction

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Recycle



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Fabrication Shop Rebirth

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Studio


MATERIALS

Unwated by society Creating Something Beneficial to Society

YOUTH

(10 - 16 years old)

Ignored by society


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PROGRAM

The center brings together two elements that are ignored and unwanted by society, troubled youth and materials. These youth are under the instruction of teachers that are brought in to pass on their techniques on how to use the unwanted materials. In doing so the center creates something beneficial to society completing the cycle of decay and rebirth prevalent on the site.


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EDUCATION

GALLERY

RECYCLING

HOUSING

STUDIO

OTHER


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PROGRAM

To provide for an active learning experence for the trubled youth, the program of the center is broken down into core support roles.



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2 5% Studios serve as a center of learning and expressing ideas for young individuals. desks, work areas, storage, restrooms

STUDIO

PROGRAM

8,400 square feet



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% Rooms serve as a place of shelter, and home for the youth that take part in the program. beds, desks, storage, showers, restrooms, kitchen, communal areas

HOUSING

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7,250 square feet



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9% Offices serve as a workplace and meeting zone for the staff that engage the young individuals in the program. desks, meeting rooms, storage, restrooms

OFFICE

PROGRAM

2,800 square feet



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7% Serves as an area where the unwanted materials are deconstructed into core elements. loading dock, work areas, storage

RECYCLING

PROGRAM

2,400 square feet



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7% Serves as a place of display and community interaction for the young individuals. display space, store, storage

GALLERY

PROGRAM

2,200 square feet



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4% Serves as the location of instructional learning of skills not on display in the studios areas. desks, computer labs, storage, restrooms

EDUCATION

PROGRAM

1,150 square feet



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% Informal zones located in the programmatic space of the building that allows it to function. parking, loading dock, mechanical, storage

OTHER

PROGRAM

9,000 square feet


Level Above

Open Space

Level Below


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PROGRAM

Total Square Footage: 33,000


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Alejandro Sarmiento Transforms materials such as plastic bottles into beautiful works of art. It is a process of deconstruction and rebirth of the materials. Prison inmates are taught these processes so when they leave prison they take with them technical skills.


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Landfill Harmonic A slum in Paraguay is the intersection between poverty and waste. It is a place where the materials that is no longer wanted by society is recycled into something that it does need. Musical instruments are the outcome of this process and it is with these instruments that children learn how to make music.


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Higgins Hall Extension Steven Holl


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SOURCES


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SITE [A Laayette Square Transformation] Dante Araujo, http://stldotage.blogspot.com/2010/06/lafayette-square-transformation.html, 2010 [Digital Sanborn Maps]http://sanborn.umi.com/ [Lafayette Square Restoration Committee]http://lafayettesquare.org/, 2013 [New Life on Dolman Street] Dante Araujo, http://stldotage.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-life-on-dolman-street.html, 2009 [Urban Living: Suburban and Urban Nimbyism in St. Louis] Alex Ihnen, http://nextstl.com/urban-living/on-suburban-and-urban-nimbyism-inst-louis-next-up-lafayette-square, 2013

PROGRAM [Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors] Peter Eisenman, 1986

PRECEDENTS [Alejandro Sarmiento: The Designer who Transforms Junk into Art]http://ambiental.unab.cl/2011/05/alejandro-sarmiento-el-disenador-quetransforma-la-basura-en-arte/, 2011 [Alejandro Sarmiento: The Water Bottle Wizard]http://cocolico.info/design/alejandro-sarmiento-pet, 2007 [Landfill Harmonic]http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com/


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