Shifting Perceptions GSAPP 2011足-2014 Jonathan I. A. Requillo
Shifting Perceptions GSAPP 2011足-2014 Jonathan I. A. Requillo
Shifting Perceptions Portfolio by: Jonathan Ivan Adamos Requillo Contains projects from GSAPP M.Arch Graduate program. 2011-2014 Critics: Janette Kim Christoph Kumpusch Hillary Sample Michael Morris Marc Tsurumaki Ada Tolla Guiseppe Lignano Thomas DeMonchaux
My journey of change, growth, and discovery.
Table Of Contents Obscure 1 Janette Kim
Mneme 31
Christoph Kumpusch
Zion 95
Hilary Sample
Reverie 127
Michael Morris
Dissonance 161 Marc Tsurumaki
2½D 199 (Monograph Included) Ada Tolla Giuseppe Lignano Thomas DeMonchaux
The Obscure Lab
Manhattanville & Columbia Client: Monsanto 2 0 1 3 — 2 0 ? ? The purpose of this project is to revolutionize the experimentation of GMO as per request of Monsanto. It transforms explicit experimentation into implicit experimentation (FIG A). Under the guise of a cafe, the GM coffee with be tested on strangers. These oblivious patients will be monitored for allergic reactions while consuming GM coffee while also being esposed to pollen and air sprayed coffee oils. respiratory and skin reactions are closely monitored to see the effect of GMO on people (FIG B). Human Experimentation has been done in current history. Based on current social and economic climates it is a opportune time to do so.
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The History of Human Experimentation I 1 9 2 1 — ? ? ? ? The Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services also known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12 and “The Chamber”, was a covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies. The Soviets tested a number of deadly poisons on prisoners from the Gulag (“enemies of the people”), including mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and many others. The goal of the experiments was to find a tasteless, odorless chemical that could not be detected post mortem. Candidate poisons were given to the victims, with a meal or drink, as “medication”. A preparation with the desired properties called C-2 was developed. According to witness testimonies, the victim changed physically, became shorter, weakened quickly, became calm and silent and died within 15 minutes. Mairanovsky brought to the laboratory people of varied physical condition and ages in order to have a more complete picture about the action of each poison. In addition to human ex peri m entation, Mairanovsky personally executed people with poisons, under the supervision of Pavel Sudoplatov.
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II 1 9 3 2 — 1 9 7 2 The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis. This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had “bad blood” and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating. In 1932, when the study started, standard treatments for syphilis were toxic, dangerous, and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if patients were better off not being treated with these toxic remedies. For many participants, treatment was intentionally denied. Many patients were lied to and given placebo treatments— in order to observe the fatal progression
The Cafe Lab The goal of the the cafe lab is to establish a stronger relationship of knowledge to the consumer. While inhabiting the cafe consumers are able to relax in the ambience of scientific research. Hopefully this juxtaposition makes research more open to the public. These cafes will be built into current subway spaces. These nodes with display current research being conducted and exhibited for the public. One example of this is a lab at the 125th and Broadway subway station.
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of the disease. By the end of the study, only 74 of the test subjects were still alive. Twenty-eight of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis.
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III 1 9 3 7 — 1 9 4 5 Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Some of the numerous atrocities committed by the commander Shiro Ishii and others under his command in Unit 731 include: vivisection of living people (including pregnant women who were impregnated by the doctors), prisoners had limbs amputated and reattached to other parts of their body, some prisoners had parts of their bodies frozen and thawed to study the resulting untreated gangrene. Humans were also used as living test cases for grenades and flame throwers. Prisoners were injected with strains of diseases, disguised as vaccina-
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tions, to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape, then studied. A complete list of these horrors can be found here. Having been granted immunity by the American Occupation Authorities at the end of the war, Ishii never spent any time in jail for his crimes and died at the age of 67 of throat cancer. IV 1 9 3 9 — 1 9 4 5 Nazi human experimentation was medical experimentation on large numbers of people by the German Nazi regime in its concentration camps during World War II. At Auschwitz, under the direction of Dr. Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments which were supposedly designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, to aid in the recovery of military personnel that had been injured, and to advance the racial ideology backed by the Third Reich. Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulat-
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ed. The central leader of the experiments was Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed experiments on over 1,500 sets of imprisoned twins, of which fewer than 200 individuals survived the studies. Dr. Mengele organized the testing of genetics in twins. The twins were arranged by age and sex and kept in barracks in between the test, which ranged from the injection of different chemicals into the eyes of the twins to see if it would change their colors to literally sewing the twins together in hopes of creating conjoined twins. In 1942 the Luftwaffe conducted experiments to learn how to treat hypothermia. One study forced subjects to endure a tank of ice water for up to three hours (see image above). Another study placed prisoners naked in the open for several hours with temperatures below freezing. The experimenters assessed different ways of rewarming survivors. From about July 1942 to about September 1943, experiments to investigate the effectiveness of sulfonamide, a synthetic antimicrobial agent, were conducted at RavensbrĂźck. Wounds inflicted on the subjects were infected with bacteria such as Streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus. Circulation of blood was interrupted by tying off blood vessels at both ends of the wound to create a condition similar to that of a battle-
Manhanttanville & Columbia University The location of the research HUB is located in Manhattanville. The research HUB is a joint project to expand Columbia University’s campus as well as to develop a gentrified hot spot for activity. Cafe nodes from all over the city report their findings to this central HUB. In addition to functioning as a gathering point for information it is also functions to provide classrooms for Columbia University students. The current site is a barren wasteland with very little activity aside from Riverside park that looks onto the New Jersey Skyline. The new HUB will help revitalize the area and connect the city to the park. The HUB provides a connection to city life and education.
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field wound. Infection was aggravated by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. The infection was treated with sulfonamide and other drugs to determine their effectiveness. V 1 9 3 9 — 1 9 4 5 There have been many reports of North Korean human experimentation. These reports show human rights abuses similar to those of Nazi and Japanese human experimentation in World War II. These allegations of human rights abuses are denied by the North Korean government, who claim that all prisoners in North Korea are humanely treated. One former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would have meant reprisals against them and their families. Kwon Hyok, a former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, described laboratories equipped respectively for poison gas, suffocation gas and blood experiments, in which 3 or 4 people, normally a family, are the experimental subjects. After undergoing medical checks, the
Project MK-Alice Monsanto is a gigantic company that is constantly taking advantage of its consumers. from dangerous health risks and their treatment of farmers they still continue to grow under the radar of the public. How is it that such a large company can remain so hidden from the public eye? By looking at corporate trigger words we can start to see how large corporations can lull consumers into a sense of false security. Instead of engaging and providing for their consumers they are capturing and experimenting on them. Like trapped lab rats, people that consume and farmers that farm gm crops, are unknowingly experimented on. By getting into the mind of Monsanto we can see the dangers of the future. A future where people are explicitly being tested for allergic reactions to GM crops. Monsanto is redefining farming and because of that it requires redefining how they test their products. Why test on lab rats when human test subjects can more accurately gauge the effects of GM crops. Project MC-Alice attempts to visualize and manifest the dangers of a large corporation like Monsanto can cause. MC-Alice is the code name for the a future Monsanto testing tower. MC describes the Monsanto-Columbia University relationship and Alice refers to the “Alice in Wonderland� novels where an innocent girl is guided into a rabbit hole and experiences surreal adventures. MC-Alice strives to test on the human public while teaching future scientists from Columbia University techniques and reactions to GM foods. It turns Hydroponics into a novelty as mind-boggling experiences. The Hydroponic system stems from a waffle-lattice system that undulates through the building, gently coaxing you deeper and deeper 13
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chambers are sealed and poison is injected through a tube, while “scientists” observe from above through glass. Kwon Hyok claims to have watched one family of 2 parents, a son and a daughter die from suffocating gas, with the parents trying to save the children using mouth-tomouth resuscitation for as long as they had the strength. VI 1
9 3 9 The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment and he supervised her research. After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life. Dubbed “The Monster Study” by
into experimentation. This Lattice plays with the idea of landscape. Where the landscape amorphously transforms in each space as floor and overhead (Fig C). In each space different parts of the human body interact with the waffle hydroponic system giving scientist a view into any allergic reactions that occur. The exposure to the GM seeds and liquids in the Seed Nursery test for reactions in the skin, scientist look for lesions or boils. The Hydroponic Seed Library provides space to read and the cafe allows you to eat GM food products such as muffins and coffee, scientist look for any signs of sickness and urgency to use the restroom. The Pollen fields provide space for people to play, run, exercise all while breathing in GM Pollen, scientist look for reactions in the eyes, nose, and respiratory system. In the Rooting Lab mist is constantly being sprayed providing complete immersion into the skin, eyes, nose, mouth. Scientist look for any signs of reactions. One might think a reality like this is unbelievable, but it’s not the first time humans were unknowingly experimented on. In the 1960’s Project MK-ULTRA tested on Americans and Canadians on reactions to drugs in attempts to develop mind controlling agents.
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some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001.
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berg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after WWII. Efforts to “recruit” subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, and the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors and the “sessions” were filmed for later viewing and study. In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKULTRA virtually impossible. VIII 1
9 5 4 Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an unexpectedly large yield. For the first decade after the test, the effects were ambiguous and statis-
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“Alice In Wonderland” The Public Entrance tries to lure unsuspecting people toward the building. The reflectivity of the bottom portion of the building is similar to the artwork of Amish Kapoor. Using the novelty of reflection and visual distortion it allows visitors to gather in this area and hopefully becomes the catalyst for them to enter the building. This is akin to Alice following the rabbit down the hole to Wonderland. Human curiosity makes these unsuspecting people go into the building. The seed nursery is one of the first experiential spaces. Water infused with additives and nutrients are flooded into the interior landscape forcing people to tredge through the puddles that form within the crevices. 19
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tically difficult to correlate to radiation exposure: miscarriages and stillbirths among exposed Rongelap women doubled in the first five years after the accident, but then returned to normal; some developmental difficulties and impaired growth appeared in children, but in no clear-cut pattern. In the decades that followed, though, the effects were undeniable. Children began to suffer disproportionately from thyroid cancer (due to exposure to radioiodines), and almost a third of those exposed developed neoplasms by 1974. As a Department of Energy Committee writing on the human radiation experiments wrote, “It appears to have been almost immediately apparent to the AEC and the Joint Task Force running the Castle series that research on radiation effects could be done in conjunction with the medical treatment of the exposed populations.” The DOE report also concluded that “The dual purpose of what is now a DOE medical program has led to a view by the Marshallese that they were being used as ‘guinea pigs’ in a ‘radiation experiment.’” IX 1 9 7 0 — 1 9 8 0 The Aversion. South Africa’s apartheid army forced white lesbian and gay soldiers to undergo ‘sex-change’
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Further Into The Rabbit’s Hole The next space to enter is the Seed Library/ Cafe. This space functions not only as a catalog for genetically modified seeds but also functions as a traditional book library with accompanying cafe. This area funcations as a place of pause. The upward condition that the seed library creates makes people want to stop, read a book, and perhaps grab a snack and some coffee. What they don’t realize is that both snacks and coffee are made with GM products and they are being monitored for any allergic reactions. The next space are the pollenation fields. This space serves as an area to pollen GM plants while exposing people to GM pollen. It provides space to do various activities. The goal for this space is to expose as many people as possible. 21
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operations in the 1970’s and the 1980’s, and submitted many to chemical castration, electric shock, and other unethical medical experiments. Although the exact number is not known, former apartheid army surgeons estimate that as many as 900 forced ‘sexual reassignment’ operations may have been performed between 1971 and 1989 at military hospitals, as part of a top-secret program to root out homosexuality from the service. Army psychiatrists aided by chaplains aggressively ferreted out suspected homosexuals from the armed forces, sending them discretely to military psychiatric units, chiefly ward 22 of 1 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria. Those who could not be ‘cured’ with drugs, aversion shock therapy, hormone treatment, and other radical ‘psychiatric’ means were chemically castrated or given sexchange operations. Although several cases of lesbian soldiers abused have been documented so far—including one botched sexchange operation—most of the victims appear to have been young, 16 to 24-year-old white males drafted into the apartheid army. Dr. Aubrey Levin (the head of the study) is now Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary’s Medical School. He is
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A Journey’s End? The last space people experience is the Rooting Room. This space provides a hydroponic area for the rooting for GM plants. People are given raincoats and are able to wake through the mist. What they don’t realize that the liquid used for this process also has multiple additives and completely emerses the person. The immediate effects are monitored clossly but the long term effects are still unkown. One of the hidden areas of the HUB is the lecture room. Because this is a joint project between Monsanto and Columbia University, this area functions as a lecture hall where Monsanto scientists educate students about the experimentation process and what allergic reactions to look for. They’re training future Monsanto scientists. 23
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9 7 1 The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo at StanSocial Climate and Human ford University. UnderExperimentation graduate volunteers played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited “genuine� sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized and two had to be removed from the experiment early. Finally, Zimbardo, alarmed at the increasingly abusive anti-social behavior from his subjects, terminated the entire experiment early.
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ― Virginia Woolf
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Memory
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The notion of memory is celebrated in our culture. From ancient greece to present day, memory continues to be an interesting and important subject inboth art and science. This narrative is an overview of how memory can be treated and provides a basic understanding of the physiology of memory.
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age system that moves with the passage of time. Starting at the lower level it ends at the top. The height of the tower is related to the average lifespan of a human. After depositing their childhood toy the child is not allowed to interact with the toy until they reach a certain age of seniority, for example age 80. It is only during this time that they are allowed to return to the bank to start the next phase and complete the banking process. This next phase is the retrieval stage. This transitory stage heightlights a certain time in an individual’s life as the intiation of “growing up�. Retrieval: When the individual, now old, is of the age, they undergo the ritual of retrieving their childhood toy at the top of the tower. Starting at the base of the tower as children, their pilgrimage to the top signifies their life; everything that happened from when they were children up to the very moment they journey to the top of the tower. This pilgrimage functions as a catalyst for remembrance. With everystep they remember their lives. All their hopes, dreams, sucesses, and failures. It is a time for self judgement and allows the individual to dertermine how to carry out their days until their time has expired. Once reaching the summit of tower they are able to pass down their toys as legacies for the next generation to undergo the journey of life.
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Memory & Mythos
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Mnemosyne (1881) A Pre-Raphaelite interpretation of the goddess by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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THE TOWER The program of the bank is almost ritualistic in the way it treats its customers and how it functions as a bank. The program consists of two phases. The first phase is the imprinting phase. During this time the child is first exposed to the bank. Imprinting: The first phase starts the process of remembering. In order to remember something you must first imprint it into your mind. This imprinting process consists of bring the child with his or her toy to the lower playground. Each time they play with their toys in this level they are making a memory. This memory is crucial for the next and final phase of the banking process. After the child “outgrows� their toy they deposit their toy into the storage gear. Storage: The storage gear is a dynamic stor-
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Mnemosyne
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Mnemosyne source of the word mnemonic, was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. The titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus: Calliope (Epic Poetry) Clio (History) Erato (Love Poetry) Euterpe (Music) Melpomene (Tragedy) Polyhymnia (Hymns) Terpsichore (Dance) Thalia (Comedy) Urania (Astronomy)
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In Hesiod’s Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses. Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses. Mnemosyne also presided over a pool in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with Orphic poetry. Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called “Lethe” and “Mnemosyne”. An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato’s Republic.
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THE BANK OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES NoHO, NY Mneme:noun \’ne-(?)me\ The persistent or recurrent effect of past experience of the individual or of the race The Purpose of this bank to reaffirm the worth and value of your childhood. All your hopes, wishes, and desires are put upon a childhood memento. This memento is a childhood toy that is stored within the bank. The personal memories associated with these mementos establishes the bank’s worth. In a world where digital reigns, this bank attempts to re-think the value of the physical object by creating spaces for the ritualistic act of remembering one’s memories. The memories of life. Are childhood memories worth preserving? How important are childhood mementos? Can architecture influence the act of remembering?
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Physiology
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In psychology, memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this ďŹ rst stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information. From an information processing perspective there are three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory: Encoding or registration: receiving, procesing and combining of received information Storage: creation of a permanent record of the encoded information Retrieval, recall or recognition: calling back the stored information in response to some cue for use in a process or activity.
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“La Jetee” (1962) La Jetee is a 1962 French science fiction featurette by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and is in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by, and takes several concepts directly from, La Jetée. A man (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of the Third World War, in a destroyed, post-apocalyptic Paris where survivors live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods “to call past and future to the rescue of the present”. They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel, but eventually settle upon the prisoner, whose key to the past is a vague but obsessive memory, from his pre-war childhood, of a woman (Hélène Chatelain) he had seen on the observation platform (‘the jetty’) at Orly Airport shortly before witnessing a
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Mneme - Memory startling incident there. He had not understood exactly what happened, but knew he had seen a man die. After several attempts, he reaches the pre-war period. He meets the woman from his memory, and they develop a romantic relationship. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the far future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. Upon his return, with his mission accomplished, he discerns that he is to be executed by his jailers. He is contacted by the people of the future, who offer to help him escape to their time permanently, but he asks instead to be returned to the pre-war time of his childhood, hoping to find the woman again. He is returned and does find her, on the jetty at the airport. However, as he rushes to her, he notices an agent of his jailers who has followed him and realises the agent is about to kill him. In his final moments, he comes to understand that the incident which he witnessed as a child, which has haunted him for his entire life, was his own death.
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MODEL EXPLORATIONS Using what was learned in the previous excersizes make models that try to manifest ideas of memory. The explorative nature of model making with intuition allows for the subconscious mind to embue the models with meaning. These models explore how spatial conditions can be created and speculates on the ability of spatial experience as a catalyst for human thought.
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ENCODING: THE FOUND OBJECT The process of encoding starts with finding random objects that you will disect and reassemble into something new. For this step three objects were used. A broken bicycle handle bar, a broken bicycle gear with pedal, and an ipod shuffle with earphones. How can these objects come together? Can we make something significant from something insignificant through the process we impose on it?
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Memory & Creativity “For Itten, creativity was a metaphysical experience and could be properly achieved only through purging and transcendental meditation. The objects of such meditation were highly sculptural constructions in mixed media that could be appropriated as architectural models (or designs for furniture, stage sets, the whole plastic output of the Bauhaus). The meditative fit that conjured such objects (which Itten would then judge as being “vibrationally balanced”) was most easily enacted with the uninitiated, the new students of the Vorkurs. To tease out the students’ innate genius, which Itten truly believed in, he set up a number of what he called “guided chance” assignments, encouraging students to remember (that is, remember things that had not been taught, but things locked inside their subconscious) through the acts of drawing, painting and modeling.”
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Mneme - Memory “We believe that architecture can be seen as a container of consciouness as the reading of an architectural space occurs primarily in the subconscious in the space of a dream. In experiencing architecture, a rich web of associations, connotations, and abstractions are created within the mind of the observer. While many of these thoughts and memories are anticipated by the makers, many are not, but are the result of images, words, and ideas transcending their literal and logical meanings.”
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MNEME BANK The notion of memory is celebrated in our culture. From ancient greece to present day, memory continues to be an interesting and important subject in both art and science. This narrative documents the process of the creation of a memory bank that physicalizes the act of remembrance of a person’s life from childhood to old age.
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Zion Housing
A Safe Haven Location: E. Harlem In collaboration with Martin Lodman III Zion: Noun \ṣiyôn\ An idealized, harmonious community; utopia. The goal of this project was to establish a safe haven for the demographic of East Harlem. East Harlem’s african american and hispanic tenants were pushed to its location due to socio-economic instigators. By creating spaces for communities and creating better living conditions we strived to help ease the stresses that the tenants experience in everyday life. Zion Housing is a place where you can destresss after a long day at work.
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O Urban Structuring Alice and Peter Smithson “Buildings should be thought of from the beginning as fragments; contaiing within themselves a capacity to act with other buildings; be themselves links in systems of access and servicing. This is the only viable mode of city-structuring: for all to develop a sense of structure.�
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Dreaming in the Stars Location: Low Earth Orbit (300 miles) from Earth.
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tance of space exploration. By speculating on the idea of a health sanitorium in space provides meaning in the investing of space research. This particular project tries to rectify the negative relationship space has with mental illness and tries to setup spatial programatic conditions that make space exploration a worthwhile experience. After visiting NASA and listening to the stories of astronauts and their experience on space walks it is apparent that there is something both terrifying and awesome about flying above and seeing the earth. Can this awesome experience be activated through architecture and program?
ISS Research Research of the ISS and routine revealed a very monotonous experience. Is there a way to expand an astronauts experience while inside of the station?
Luna-tic “Lunatic” is an informal term referring to people who are considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable; conditions once called lunacy. The term may be considered insulting in serious contexts, though is sometimes used in friendly jest. The word derives from lunaticus meaning “of the moon” or “moonstruck”. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full Moon induced insane individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light during nights which would otherwise have
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ISS Length: 238.845 ft Width: 355.97 ft Height: c. 65.61 ft Speed: 17,239.2 mph Days in Orbit: 5193 Days Occupied: 4480 Number of Orbits: 81512 The ISS (International Space Station) is a habitable artificial satellite flying in low Earth orbit. The first part of the station was launched in 1998. It had been in orbit for 14yrs and will continue to be added to. The ISS has a 3 main labs where experiments are conducted, Destiny, Columbus, and Kibo Destiny is the North American experimental lab, Columbus is the Europrean Lab, and Kibo is the Japanese lab. Numerous experiments are conducted to find implications of space travel on the human body and also to find uses of space findings for health on Earth. During astronauts’ stay on the ISS their bodies underago many changes to adapt
Precedent Studies of Mental Hospitals There theories of spatial organization that can benefit the mental health of the patient. The kirkbride plan and the cottage plan were derived for this purpose. Space can have an impact on Mental illness. Paul Rudolph’s mental hospital is an example of the relationship the human mind has with space; it intensified and worsened mental illness. This building was the cause of many suicides. Precedent Studies
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The institution strives to explore the connections between space and the act of creating. Partnered with MoMA, the institution provides live-work residencies for artist within the institution. Researchers observe what happens within the social creative process and document the appropriation of artwork into distorted spaces. Meanwhile, the public can meander through the institution and view the artists in their dosmetic lives as well as the researchers while they work. The institution explores the physicallity of dissonance through programatic juxtapositions, through obscuring contextual relationships, and through manipulations of itinerary. The ultimate goal being to instigate the questioning of the part-takers/inhabitants their relationships with one another. The researchers document the lives of 28 artists as they live and create within the live work residencies of the institution for 12 months. Four communal studios are provided for the artist and the artists are free to work in each studio they desire. The four studios are each different and are spatially distorted. Some examples of these distortions are material distortions playing with reflectivity, transparency and color. However, more instrusive distortions such as forced perspectives can also be constructed in the interiors. The goal of the researcher is to document and link spatial distortion with activity and art.
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The voyeuristic quality of the Institution stems from current controversies with the NSA juxtaposed with the influx of social media. Society is angered by the surveillance and intrusion of the government into the private domain, yet millions of people post “private” information online in order to “connect” with their friends. Reflection
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One such case is the phenonmenon of the YouTube Vlogger in which reuglar people document their domestic lives for viewers to watch online. This form of entertainment is an evolution of Reality TV and opens the possibilties of who can be a “star”. This idea of the “YouTuber” has become so successful that “YouTubers” are now being recognized as minor celebrities being recognized by mainstream media. The Institution physicalizes this relationship to see how artist react to being viewed by the public, but also how the public responds to the viewing of such private affairs of not only the artist but also the researcher while they document the artist.
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The discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel “disequilibrium”: frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc.
THE DUTCH BREAKFAST EXPERIMENT Experiments have shown that altering the sequences of a well known dutch breakfast sandwich increased cognitive flexible in research subjects.
The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements. Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state that people feel when they “find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know, or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold.” Applications: Education, Therapy, Healthy Pro-social Behavior, Marketing, Architecture?
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There is a historic connection with SoHO and artist. After buildings were abandoned, artist started to move into the space for their large windows and cheaper rent. Artist like Donald Judd were the reason for the amendment to the Zoning Resolution in 1971 to Permit Live-in studios. SoHO is also is the Cast Iron Architecture Historic District the Donald Judd Estate is an example of the restoration and preservation of cast iron architecture. Conceptually the instituion funcstion simlarly to tours to see Donald Judd’s estate and how he lived. The Italian Philosophy of “La Bella Figura” is intrisic to the area due to it’s commercial appeal to tourists. People go to SoHO to buy the latest and best fashion in order to “look good”. This idea of social decorum and being observed, as well as observing others is part of the “hip” atmosphere of SoHO.
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Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red-blue or red-green colors, but can also be perceived with red-grey or blue-grey images.Such illusions have been reported for over a century and have generally been attributed to some form of chromatic aberration. Chromostereopsis is usually observed using a target with red and blue bars and an achromatic background. Positive chromostereopsis is exhibited when the red bars are perceived in front of the blue and negative chromostereopsis is exhibited when the red bars are perceived behind the blue.
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