The Latent Spectrum by Marina Pickrel

A COLLABORATION BET WEEN MARINA PICKREL & ADA MITCHEV

A small-scale confrontation of runaway growth.

A COLLABORATION BET WEEN MARINA PICKREL & ADA MITCHEV

PROJECT DESCRIPTION THE LATENT SPECTRUM AIMS TO CREATE A NEW ONTOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE THAT OFFERS A WIDE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBILITIES BASED ON SPECIFIC ADDRESS OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LIVING AND WORKING SYSTEMS. FOCUSING ON TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN EXPANDING SHARING CULTURE, IT CALLS FOR A SHIFT IN GLOBAL CITIES BY PINPOINTING SPECIFIC PROBLEMATIC PATTERNS OF GROWTH. WE AIM TO INTERVENE THROUGH SMALL SCALE, ADDITIVE CHANGES THAT HELP REDEVELOP AND RE-CONTEXTUALIZE A CITY TO RESPOND TO NEW TIME FRAMES BROUGHT ABOUT BY A SHARING ECONOMY.

F O L L OW I N G PAG E : R I G I D I T Y T O S P E C T R U M BA S E D L I V I N G , S A N F R A N C I S C O

Forward p 11

Runaway Growth

Research p 25

History

Climate/Geography

Demographics

Manifesto: The Speed of a City p 15

A City in Motion

A City in Stillness

Visions for Future San Francisco

Interviews with Locals

Proposed Intervention Proposal p 40

R U N AWAY G R OW T H

FORWARD Current urban development is often unsustainable and spreading globally at an alarming rate. The ability to expand and grow is often beneficial in the short term, but at a certain rate cannot be sustained on ecological, financial, and infrastructural levels. San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runaway growth, in terms of population, building development, technological advancements and infrastructural demands is both constant and uncontrolled, choking residents as increasingly larger structures are developed exclusively for the wealthy. This growth is spreading not unlike a cancer would, operating in a similar manner as it spreads to infiltrate new areas of the city - a transition often described as gentrification. Cancer treatments, as many technologies have, have shifted from the mechanical to the biological, from total-body to the concentrated.1

As such, the confrontation of the runaway growth must follow a similar shift in strategy as targeted treatments in lieu of massive city-wide redevelopment to alleviate these conditions and allow for increased flexibility as the city transforms itself. Urban planning must evolve in the way that aids for biological cancer have. In the past, urban planning addresses issues in a similar manner chemotherapy would treat the body - a form that would be all encompassing, a complete re-setting of the system in hopes it will wipe out the damaging cells, even if it risks the health of the rest of the body. Examples of these past methodologies of urban planning include Haussmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cutting away and placing of objects without context in Paris,2 or Superstudioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visions of the future that would call for a takeover of a city through implementation of new systems, effectively erasing it from it its historical and cultural context.3

By means of creating a new type of precision based address for redevelopment, the historical, cultural, and communal aspects of the city that make San Francisco so distinctive can continue to thrive, while addressing more specific platforms such as the new ways we live and work in an expanding sharing economy. Based on conclusions drawn from the following research, this runaway growth has been accelerated by our sharing culture and unprecedented rapid technological innovations, and new architectural interventions must acknowledge and design for such changes. Urbanism is one to learn to adapt to rather than fear, as a coexistence does not exist without compromise. Starting with this perspective, the new localized, individualized treatment strategies has provided us with an overarching methodology for how to confront the many issues facing San Francisco today.

Through developing a similar approach behind the innovative strategies for the treatment of cancer as a guide for our own design intervention, this research-based project intends to identify past and current failures, successes, and advancements taking place in San Francisco, California to inform its crucial adaptive future. By using a similar shift in strategy of treating uncontrolled growth as well as through studying the rich dynamics of our chosen site city, the following research and stories aim understand the complexities of the technology-based future we head toward in an effort to best design for it.

OVERVIEW

M A N I F E S T O THE SPE E D OF A CIT Y Based on research of the history and background of San Francisco, the purpose of this manifesto serves to call for the parameters by which all cities should function in order to best argue for the specific changes needed to be implemented in our intervention. By focusing on the movement and speed of a city, this essay introduces the multifaceted scope of the project by arguing for a reconsideration of the importance of the streets and circulation systems of a city. Streets by default are meant to funnel crowds from one location to another limiting any diversions. Spaces are highly stagnant in their programming despite the appearance of bodies circulating through.

The concept of the “speed” of a city can refer to the literal speed by which an individual can navigate without physical obstructions, but is also intended to call to mind the ease with which progress, change, and modification can take place in an urban environment without unnecessarily disrupting other systems. The progression of cities points to a future in which change and interaction - physical, infrastructural, sociological, or otherwise can better take place. Questions considered Is growth inherently good or bad for a city? How can a city best adapt to change? How is progress measured?

Every element has its dedicated space within a tightly compact network shaping the communities such bodies occupy and thus remove any “randomness” or personal expression to appear.

T h e d e n s i t y a n d ove r l a p p i n g o f ve c t o r s s h ow t h e p o t e n t i a l o f m ov i n g t h r o u g h s p a c e u n o b s t r u c t e d .

T h e fo l l ow i n g d r aw i n g s s h ow t h e l o o s e n e s s o f t h e sys t e m .

S p e e d s m ay b e c o n t i n u o u s o r m ay h ave e n d p o i n t s .

MANIFESTO: THE SPEED OF THE CITY

A city constant in motion wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow for stagnation, and thus keep a city active despite some faltering points. A city in motion means it will redefine its border on macro and micro scale, stemming off of landmarks.

Reconstructing robots will build and demolish continuously what path of infrastructure is deemed inapplicable. Due to their constant rebuilding (picture a city as a living system) the border of a city if blurred in a non traditional sense.

Landmarks are a reference and linkage to a cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and are important to maintaining social knowledge. Ignorance will only make extreme technology useless if not overpowering.

It is no longer a permanent edge merely suggesting the ability to expand through Superstudio claims of the grid. Streets no longer apply to rigidity of urban grids.

Landmarks become the space for the architect to educate a population in the midst of the daily autonomized interactions. They are a tie to the topography that once was there but has adapted through a periods of reconstruction/layering. When main circulatory corridors (highways) become irrelevant the commute no longer depends on large distances. The corporate space is in closer relation to the residential and leisure spaces. Paths of cars, people, and drones will find their way around each other or weaving through each other. Their path is somewhat random yet responsive to surrounding.

The smart network formed between the circulatory and the built will inform what locations are no longer needed to be accessed and what areas need to be and will destroy/rebuild accordingly. This communication and rebuilding will micro manage the cancerous culture/ systems that evolve. The city will never cease to adapt with the maintenance of an exchange in construction/demolition and the layers of circulation (projecting different layers/speeds of motion).

Moments of stillness inhibit positive growth in a city with higher concentrations in different areas.

Moments of stillness in cities inhibit positive change - the ease of circulation in a city is crucial to the development of a new era in urban cities around the world, one that emulates the changes that are already in motion.

These moments of stillness in cities are often the first to take on natural qualities, as seen when plants grow to cover abandoned buildings, indicating that change and movement are not only natural, but necessary for progression.

Apps like Airbnb and Uber have shown us that the future of cities are one with an increased flow - one that may seem too fast or disconnected from the rest of the city. The creation and implementation of the self driving car will usher in a new era of flow within a city, taking on qualities of the sharing culture to which are attempting to adjust.

Cities need to identify these moments of stillness and breathe new life into them in order to create new flow patterns. Companies such as Tesla talk about futures in which there is little or no private ownership of cars6.

Seemingly paradoxical, moments of stillness are easier to find in a city than they are in the natural world. An unoccupied room can remain vacant and unchanged for months, or an abandoned car can sit in a lot indefinitely. These moments of stillness simply do not occur in nature - there is a subtle but constant shift as the elements can expose new qualities of a plant or object, or be modified to become a creatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new home.

This is an exaggeration of the existing model of Uber in which cars are passed off to user after user as needed, never needing to be parked as they will always be in demand, a huge difference from the average American automobile that spends 95% of its time parked7. Were cars to always be in motion, inventions such as self driving cars point to a future in which parking spots become obsolete.

In San Francisco specifically, there are nearly 400,000 available parking spots8. This change alone holds staggering implications of newly available, usable space without changing anything in the urban fabric, doubling the size of most roads and alleviate areas of traffic congestion. The issues that have currently arisen from apps such as Airbnb could arguably all stem from the idea that cities need to adapt to allow for more flow.

The routine is arguably most problematic source of staticity within a city. The consistency that comes between a set commute to a specific office space daily not only creates rush hour conditions, but also creates a polarization between neighborhoods only active during the day or at night, exaggerating the issues that come with zoning regulations. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard infrastructure, such as power, water, streets, and public space must adapt to simulate the morphology of the social city.

The movement - in this particular example, the turnover of the tenants - is a huge detriment to a city that has for so long relied on a certain level of stillness of longtime building occupants with assigned parking spots to drive to their nearby offices. The new increased movement is difficult to accommodate for in societal and urban structure that remains mostly unchanged, and has effectively displaced a huge number of people from their homes or neighborhoods.

OVERVIEW

INITIAL RESEARCH From our initial research on our selected site, San Francisco, there were several key takeaways: GEOGRAPHY: San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse geography is prone to microclimate conditions that influence design and building considerations and needs.10 AUTOMOBILES: The introduction of the self driving car will alter the existing, primarily car dependent commuter culture that has moved from the city to Silicon Valley and the surrounding Bay Area SOCIAL ISSUES: Issues such as homelessness and gentrification have been amplified by services like AirBnb San Francisco now has the fasted growing income inequality of any city in the nation, despite its reputation as a countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s center for progressive thinking. As shown by the following short research-based essays on the past and present conditions of the city, it is a crucial time for intervention through a reconsideration of several infrastructural systems as well as innovative architecture.

Questions considered Will new technology help or hinder growth? What has influenced the development of the city? Is the progressive culture evident in its urban fabric? What impact will self driving cars have?

A BRIEF HISTORY The San Francisco Bay Area was home to many different Native American cultures, most predominantly the Miwok and Ohlone tribes, with over 15 languages spoken in the area.11 Upon the arrival of the Spaniards in the early 19th century, Missions were created along what is now known as El Camino Real, a trail stretching down the coast in an effort to forcibly convert native populations.12 With the influx in population following the Gold Rush in 1849, the completion of the Transcontinental railroad was built in part to respond to these demands.13 Built mostly by Chinese immigrants under extreme and dangerous conditions, Angel Island, located in the center of the bay, became a bleak checkpoint for Chinese immigrants entering the country.14 This Chinese population influenced the creation of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Chinatown, created on a false imagination of what Chinese architecture looked like from books and illustrations.15

By the turn of the 20th century, San Francisco had developed into a major urban city, only to face a major rebuild following the 1906 earthquake and resulting fire, including the modification of Fort Alcatraz into a maximum security prison, its geographic isolation an ideal location to place to many high escape risk inmates.16 After the 1933 creation of the Golden Gate Bridge to connect it to Marin County, building began to occur more rapidly in these areas and across the bay in Oakland and Berkeley, cities previously known for their shipping ports and the public university, respectively.17 Still home to a largest proportion of AsianAmericans in the US, the World War II Japanese Internment camps wrongfully evicted from their homes under national law to live in camps in the Central Valley in a misguided attempt to control spying post Pearl Harbor.18

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Collage of significant moments in San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history

In the 1950s, San Francisco established itself as a place of free thinking and liberal expression with the arrival of the beatnik poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, starting an era of jazz and political spoken word.

By the turn of the 21st century, San Francisco was known as the center of technology as Silicon Valley became the tech center of the US, altering the dynamics of the Bay Area as housing prices spiked and a new influx of residents arrived.

The Summer of Love in 1967 defined San Francisco as the heart of the hippie culture and movement, attracting thousands of young people from across the country to the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in a rebellion against the restrictive popular culture and start of the Vietnam War.17

Due to this rich history of diaspora and cultural diversity, San Francisco is an engaging site for which to design in the coming decades. As a center of technological, political and social change, architectural interventions must both adapt and respond to such dynamism.

Across the bay, Oakland was home to the Black Panther movement, further solidifying it as a center of political activism and advocacy.18 Following the election of Harvey Milk as an openly gay mayor in the 1980s, San Francisco became known as the center of gay rights and AIDS activism in the country, with the Castro district at the heart of these movements.19

INITIAL RESEARCH

G E O G R A P H Y A N D C L I M AT E

Site shown with topography and microclimate conditions from cool to warm colors

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE San Francisco is unique in its complex and diverse geography, with the Pacific Ocean and bay, salty marshes, mountains, redwood forests, and dry wine country all within its small span.20 Its coastal location makes it prone to “microclimate” conditions, in which it is common to find 10 degree Fahrenheit differences within a square mile distance. This is also in part caused by its 40+ hills, some reaching over 1000’ in elevation.21 Considered to be a Mediterranean climate, with the year round temperature rarely reaching above 75 or below 45, kept cool by the year round morning and evening fog.22 Located on the San Andreas fault, it is extremely prone to earthquakes, facing severe damage in both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, making it a relatively new city due to its need to rebuild after a seismic event.23

Much of the city is built atop a soil like condition, creating a potential “slide zone” on hilly residential neighborhoods not properly secured. Although many of its skyscrapers are built into the bedrock almost 200 feet below the surface, some rely on concrete foundations atop landfill areas. Coupled with its earthquake risk, these types of soil conditions provide specific needs for building considerations.24 Largely ignored in the past, these microclimate conditions must now be better addressed in order to provide sustainable, integrative design. For example, the needs for a building in the Presidio are very different from those in the Financial district. Until now, these differences have been mostly made distinctive on a aesthetic and programmatic level, directed largely by historical preservation efforts. But the demands for successful design in San Francisco goes beyond those considerations - the amount of wind, sun exposure, salt exposure, fault lines below, among others, all could be integrated to provide a specificity to a building’s design considerations.

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In San Francisco, homelessness and gentrification are issues that are intrinsically connected. Homelessness levels have reached an all time high since the 1970s.25 Several myths have perpetrated this issue, most notably that homeless people move there to take advantages of resources. In reality, three-quarters of the current homeless population lost their homes while living in San Francisco.26 Laws are becoming more and more restrictive to their rights, such as those making it illegal to sit on a sidewalk, while encampments under freeway overpasses are an extremely common sight 27. To further aggravate the issue, tenant rights are some of the worst in all of the United States.28 Airbnb has infamously amplified these issues, with landlords evicting entire buildings of longtime year round residents in favor of leasing rooms out nightly at a higher income. In a city that welcomed 18 million tourists in 2014, there is only enough housing for 800,000 permanent residents, with a population of nearly 850,000.29

The center of these disputes, the historic neighborhood known as the Mission, is one the most evident of these rapid changes. Despite San Francisco’s reputation as the country’s center for progressive thinking, it now has the fastest growing income inequality of any city in the US.30 With 29% of potential rental units in the Mission listed on Airbnb,31 the short supply and high demand has made it unattainable even for those seemingly at the root of the issue – employees of tech companies. A recent New York Times article describes the extent to which San Francisco living has been unattainable and highly contested.32 One newly hired Google employee told the New York times that with her $100,000-a-year salary, “[couldn’t] afford to live in the Mission.” She asked that her name not be printed for fear of retribution. “People get very angry — they blame the tech companies,” she said.33

H O M E L E S S N E S S A N D G E N T R I F I CAT I O N

Map showing evictions by number per building in a five year span (2010-2015) Data from Anti Eviction Mapping Project

However, in a time where the focus is on the disparity between the techies and the homeless, the real issue is the dispute on development between the longtime resident wealthy population and the newly arrived wealthy population. With longtime residents fighting to stop any sort of new development in their neighborhoods to preserve the historic aesthetic of the city, the new building occurs in the lower income areas where citizens do not have the resources to fight back against developers. When new luxury condominium opens in a historically poorer neighborhood, it sends a signal to the market that area is now desirable, causing rental prices to spike and displaces residents unable to afford the new rent prices and forcing convenience stores to close. The main issue isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the lack of housing options in lower income neighborhoods, but the lack of new housing options in wealthier neighborhoods in the name of historic preservation.

Despite San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation as the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s center for progressive thinking, it now has the fastest growing income inequality of any city in the US.

INITIAL RESEARCH

COMMUTER AND CAR CULTURE For nearly half a decade following the 1960s, San Francisco developed into a commuter city, with nearly 230,000 (an equivalent increase of 25% of the population) commuting from neighboring towns and cities across the Bay to work.34 In what common trend of Bay Area residents choosing to commute from suburban areas to the city, with San Francisco residents commuting to work locally, the dynamic has shifted in recent years due to the expansion of Silicon Valley.35 For first time, many San Francisco residents are not only living and working within the confines of the city. Today, one of the main traffic pattern is the commute from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, a normally 40 minute drive that can easily take two hours during rush hour.36 The Bay Area is also the highest proportion of â&#x20AC;&#x153;super commutersâ&#x20AC;?, or those who travel more than 50 miles one way to get to work.37

There are few transportation alternatives - a strong car culture coupled with a fairly incomplete subway system (BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit) that excludes entire counties, including those encompassing Silicon Valley leaves few options for commuters. In response to frustrated employees being unable to reasonably get to their own jobs, even when strategizing with carpools, companies such as Google started introducing their own bus systems from popular neighborhoods in San Francisco to aid in the commute to work.38 Even with the shift in commute patterns, San Francisco residents for the first time do not have to own a car, a previously uncommon trait due to the large gaps in public transportation. The unfixed gap in public transportation is surprising, given that of those that both live and work in San Francisco, over 30% rely on public transportation.39

COMMUTER AND CAR CULTURE

Other options, such as walking and biking are extremely popular, with 10% and 3% respectively. 40 This is due in part to the efforts San Francisco has made to create bike lanes and bike routes throughout the city, making the number of bike commuters much higher than the national average of just .6%.41 A direct correlation can be seen in efforts the city has made to improve bike systems since 2000, with commuters increasing by almost 2% and recreational or transportational cycling reaching all times highs. 42 Bay Area native companies such as Uber are also changing the way San Francisco and most major urban cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation operates on a fundamental level - in a contemporary sharing culture, it is no longer needed to own a car in a city where it verged on necessity. With Silicon Valley based Tesla trying out new technologies such as the Tesloop and new types of electricity powered, self-driven cars, 43 it is clear that the San

Francisco Bay Area is at the forefront for innovation in transportation both as a result of its inventive, technology-based ideology coupled with its extreme necessity. The consideration of the influence on public transportation and car culture has on the development of the urban fabric of San Francisco is crucial to understanding the city itself. Particularly in the case of public spaces, the accessibility of that area to public transportation methods are very can play an important role in the circulation of the city overall. In the case of special events such as music festivals in Golden Gate Park, an area otherwise partially disjointed from the public transportation system, the entire Muni bus system is reconfigured to meet the extremely high spike in demand, exemplifying that a demand for flexibility and quick alteration of public spaces are already in place and must be considered in future design interventions.

INITIAL RESEARCH

Daytime population density of San Francisco

Data sourced from citydata.com

Day Time Population Density

177,156 - 368, 372

87,499 - 177,155

49,816 - 87,498

23,053 - 49,815

0 - 23,052

Most Chosen Routes

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Night time population density

Data sourced from citydata.com

N ex t Pa g e : M a p o f b u s l i n e s , c o m m u t e b l o c k a g e h i g l i t e d i n p i n k ( d a t a s o u r c e d f r o m s p u r. o r g )

General Population Density

2,201-38,000

1,701 - 2,200

1,401 - 1,700

1,201 - 1, 400

801- 1,200

0 - 800

Bus Routes

Highway 1

Fog

Congested Radius

Caltrain

Highway 280

12,000 150,000

58,245

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Caltrain

Bart/Ferry

440,000

Private Buses

Bus

7,500

600,000 People

Car

Cupertino_Apple Menlo Park_Facebook Mountain View_Google Palo Alto_Startups

Highway 101

INTERVIEWS WITH LOCALS AA: NEO - NOMAD, FORMERLY HOMELESS A Bay Area native, AA moved to San Francisco at age 17 from Oakland. He worked as a struggling artist, but lost his part time job and his apartment and lived on the street for several years in an encampment in the SOMA district with his two dogs. Now, utilizing the flexibility of the spectrum based living in San Francisco to safely move as desired, he makes a small income and gets his meals from his co-op’s organic urban farm.

BB: FREELANCE “UNEMPLOYED” BB moved to San Francisco at age 27 after receiving a master’s degree in engineering from Stanford. After losing her job in the 2008 recession, she now works freelance for tech companies for greater diversity and flexibility of her schedule, accommodating her passion for traveling. As a result, she rents home on Air Bnb for almost 4 months of the year.

CC: EMPLOYED TECHIE CC is a recent New York transplant who works as a software engineer for a prominent Silicon Valley tech company and lives in the Mission district. His company assigns a new office daily or weekly in offices near his neighborhood on a project-based collaboration schedule, making a commute to the headquarters only once per month.

DD: R E T I RED, LON G T I ME C I T I Z EN DD has lived in her home in the Presidio for almost 40 years. Now retired, she spend most of her life working in finance in San Francisco. Now, she spends her time Involved in community organizations and outreach, with her main focus on supporting the growing neo-nomad community to cultivate safety and opportunity for all types of city members.

OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT PROPOSAL The following is intended to outline the analytical research completed in order to obtain the best understanding of the past and current states of San Francisco specifically, as well as tying in examples from other urban cities as points of comparative reference. This research has spanned many different topics, finding its origin in the study of inventions currently in development or projected to be devised. This type of research has allowed for making informed projections of what future life in San Francisco will be like after the integration of such new technologies, as well as the consequential future of the more divisive qualities of the city such as housing and employment.

IDENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AND CULTURE

This collection of short research-based essays on the past and present are inter dispersed with fictional accounts and interviews, aiming to bring to life the world in which the final design intervention will take place.

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT PROPOSAL

IDENTITY San Francisco is famous for its collective rejection of extremity, a celebration of a shift in viewpoint from a polarizing black and white in favor of the metaphorical grey. For all of humankind, the subscription to labels have been an important source of our identities. At best, they are used for self-identifying, self understanding as well as for forming similarly interested groups. At worst, labels are used to form a systematic method of ostracization - the root of sexism, racism, homophobia, and countless other social issues that face our time. San Francisco has long been a place of citizens proudly proclaiming that they want to shift the rigidity and precise definitions behind labels and instead move toward a spectrum.

Originating first in fluid or non binary sexual identities as well as bi- and multiracial communities, it is natural that this rejection of labeling will continue to thrive and be a part of San Francisco’s future culture. It has already manifested itself into the tech culture of Silicon Valley, stemming from the 2008 economic recession, in which many highly educated and specialty trained employees were laid off from larger companies and turned to freelancing as a source of income.44 The line between employed and unemployed began to blur as selfemployment grew, and terms such as consultant, freelancer, solopreneur and even “super temp” began to increase in popularity, as well as success rates.45 As the line between employed and unemployed grows thinner, it is possible to imagine a world in which homeowner and homelessness does too.

IDENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AND CULTURE

IDENTITY

Airbnb has created a new typology of homeownership (or lack thereof) in which the constant rotation of occupants creates a new social dynamism in keeping with a push toward new forms of self expression that go beyond the proven limitations of divisive labeling. In the future, labels will be used as tools of precise clarification and specificity, rather than a major role in the initial forming of the personal or external identity. The more a term becomes a part of a gradient or a spectrum, the more it loses its power to polarize. In hoping to confront two of the largest issues facing San Francisco, this project aims to relieve weight from terms such as “unemployed” and “homeless” by means of reclaiming and including them in a future spectrum-based ontology for San Francisco.

As the line between employed and unemployed grows thinner, it is possible to imagine a world in which homeowner and homelessness does too. 43

INTERVIEW RESPONSES: IDENTITY

A.A.

C.C.

“When I was living on the streets as a teenager, people were afraid of me. San Francisco was very polarized then - I felt really alienated from the rest of the city. That part of my identity was all people saw. I’d say it’s different now that I can be much more flexible in defining where I live. Everyone seems to be moving around a lot so I don’t seem so left behind.”

“I’ve never been a huge fan of labels. I’m more about doing my own thing and being myself. I think a lot of people here feel the same way. I’m not super affected by other people’s choices for how they want to live so to me it doesn’t matter as much. . It’s more about being myself, and I think it’s cool that my job allows me to do that by giving me choices and flexibility.”

B.B.

D.D.

“Losing my job during the recession in 2008 completely affected how I saw myself. I felt like a failure, even though I knew it wasn’t my fault. Graduating from one of the top programs in the country, I had worked so hard that I never thought I’d be unemployed. Today, being successfully self employed, I realize that I can be proud of my own accomplishments without the need for a top-name employer. My identity is not defined by my job title.”

“For me, moving to San Francisco forty years ago was all about identity. Finally I had a home I could feel comfortable being myself in as an openly gay woman. I wasn’t the only one - for my generation it was a type of diaspora. All of m y friends had moved here for the same reason - we could finally be ourselves. I think it’s changed a lot here, but that still remains true. I hope that never changes.”

Existing infrastructure can be seen as the regular typology that, through time and layering, becomes further abstracted.

LAYERED INFRASTRUCTURE As Mattern states, hard media infrastructure is influential to future infrastructures.46 We argue that new technologies form a complex constellation of soft media infrastructure that layers on top of the existing systems. As we look into advancing smart technology into cities we can use the flow of past media (hard) infrastructure to guide the implementation process. In considering the key component rate and speed plays into the equation of integration of smart technology, we can turn to existing examples that have framed this argument for the four types of infrastructure the project will confront - Power, water, transportation, and data collection.

Examples such as the nuclear power system in Fukushima, Japan teach us how technology and innovations could have been extremely effective had they been implemented at a slower rate - a supplement rather than a replacement.47 Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reliance on nuclear technology as a more renewable energy source that cuts back on carbon emissions and therefore the effects of global warming has provided a weighted precedent for both the value and extreme risks of technology. In small amounts, nuclear energy has the potential to power cities all over the world at safe levels, a potential solution to global climate change. Japan and Scandinavian countries, among others, had planned to commit to using nuclear power almost exclusively as a way to break their relationships with fossil fuels.48

IDENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AND CULTURE

After the Fukushima disaster of Southern Japan in 2011, Japan was forced to reevaluate the risk versus reward of turning to such a powerful technology without a natural disaster proof way of ensuring the public safety from radiation and contamination.49 As learned by Fukushima, the integration of technology, particularly that of the modification of the power grid, is extremely reliant on our ability to harness both the speed and scope with which it is implemented. MICRO CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multi faceted urban qualities allow for micro-climates to be used as a leeway to gather tailored information for a specific radius to determine the best power source and routes needed for that area.

Data such as real time traffic patterns, existing bike paths, population densities can begin to inform the spatial implications of the commuter occupation of the city. Using small-scale changes, bike paths can begin to respond to such data and determine the safest routes for bikers depending on a varying set of conditions including foggy or rainy areas. Recognizing and utilizing San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinctive climate conditions as a part of the design process points to an efficiency that has previously been left untapped. Incorporating real time data about specific microclimate weather patterns has the potential to create an interactive system that furthers our understanding and interaction with not only the demands we place on our buildings, but of our surrounding environment as well.

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT PROPOSAL

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Progression of a city border - fitting into a designated frame and progressively morphing outward

THE CITY AS A BORDER

As humanity domesticated and formed civilizations the definition of a territory was imposed through structural markings. Fortresses, walled delineation, building facades, and street typologies defined a city. The border is obsolete.

require driver control during difficult conditions (like encountering highway maintenance) and ‘full self-driving”’ cars, which can drive alone in all situations... Full autonomy is possible within five years, at least in contained areas like corporate headquarters and university campuses.” Henry Grabar, Slate.50

Borders are influenced by the motion of the adjacent. They are fed by gravitating towards a depicted location or area and leaving others to deteriorate. Reconstructive robots take structural material away from depleted areas to rebuild in those that are populated.

Autonomous intersections will diminish the need to traditional signaling infrastructure and lead way to more surface area for self-expression. Historically streets have developed to funnel people from one location to another limiting concerns of public expression.

The border can be blurred by the speed at which it changes, striking a moment where change increments are so rapid the border appears stagnant. The speed of a city is a constant motion.

As enough roads become de-congested and rerouted (AI based coordination system placed at intersections will feed from landmark data hubs) that leaves space for other programmatic functions to implemented into what we term as a “temporary landmark”, one that responds to the changes of transport to modify the city’s circulatory articulation. The landmark can be the point of self-expression by the use of lost art spaces or vacant lots formed by adjacencies of temporarily freed space.

AUTONOMOUS INTERSECTIONS “Goldman Sachs predicts North American auto sales could be almost 60 percent autonomous by 2030, divided between “limited self-driving” cars, which may

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Standard urban vehicular navigation

Suburban vehicular navigation - less organization of flow traditional navigation

traditional navigation

As the beginning stages of these data networks begin to strengthen, adaptable bike lanes and traffic routes can emerge. Their tectonic properties will have to accommodate for larger mobility and flexibility to respond to incoming data flow. The networks, formed by modifiable design for increased circulation, open up certain areas, giving access to those who don’t usually come into contact with that neighborhood. CIRCULATION WITHOUT NAVIGATION Map applications such as Waze have allowed for user input in creating routes to avoid certain obstacles such as traffic accidents or construction to maximize the efficiency of a trip. The future of these apps, as well as other organizational tools such as calendars and clocks, points to an population era of user traditionally input based around specifications or for how to interact with the city. Instead of being solely used population traditionally as a tool of avoidance, these apps could be used as a tool for seeking and discovering.

In a celebration of the process of the journey itself, user input can be customized to create a route to interact with certain parameters, such as the most scenic or social spaces. In a world where self-navigation is taken out of the equation, a deeper understanding of the city could be found in the use of these applications to maximize positive or creative interactions with a city environment. As stated by theorist Aaron Betsky, these user based input points to a future in which we have the potential to “Make use of and energize public services and gatherings, then lift them into a realm where they make us aware of where and who we are in relation to one another and our surroundings.”51 Questions consideredHow do circulation systems influence urban planning? How can we better utilize public space?

T h e b o r d e r i s a n i n f i n i t e l o o p t h a t s h i f t s a n d r e s p o n d s t o i t s n e i g h b o r s , l e av i n g a t e m p o r a r y t r a c e b e h i n d

SWARM CULTURE In a recent New York Times article on the behavioral and group dynamics of animals and insects, the scientists ran experiments and observational studies to try to understand the distinction between animals being able to move collectively and the inability humans have to do the same.52 As the article cites, Americans collectively spend 3.7 billion hours a year in congested traffic, while ants travel in much higher equivalent density packs unhindered.53 In observing the patterns of locusts, an insect that often travels in large packs, the scientists observed that this ability was something that could be switched off and on - they had the ability to think and move individually until they reached a certain density, in which their behaviors would switch.54

The New York Times writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The scientists found that when the density of locusts rose beyond a threshold, the insects suddenly began to move together. Each locust always tried to align its own movements with any neighbor. When the locusts were widely spaced, however, this rule did not have much effect on them. Only when they had enough neighbors did they spontaneously form huge bands.â&#x20AC;?55 As cities increase density, they will become able to think with a collective brain instead of individually, a certain type of biomimicry first seen in the insect world. At first, these changes will not be biological, but rather fueled by rapid real time data collection that interconnects and links us to navigate the city in times of high density, such as in traffic, or even in crowded public events such as music festivals.

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Groupings (organic and non-organic) form clusters to inform future moments of occupation and movement.

Social media as tool for unification has the potential to cause occupants of a city to think and navigate collectively in moments of high density. Evolving to shift thoughts and movements from the individual to the collective is a crucial skill to develop for the future of cities as they become increasingly high density, even if such evolution is aided by technology and devices. This type of swarm can also be seen in building methods and construction. As architectural tectonic shifts from the macro to the micro scale, the smaller components will work collaboratively together to create a more powerful and customizable whole. Swarm type construction can be seen in both its form as well as its means and its methods. Micro drones operating collaboratively have already been created to their testing phase - developing a small scale construction clouds in lieu of larger machines., anticipating and maneuvering to meet the needs of their counterparts.56

Swarm style architecture can allow for small scale changes and adaptation, a crucial key in developing a modifiable space. The need for these types of spaces have become increasingly apparent in time based architecture, in which programmatic shifts occur based on new schedules. This type of potential for modification in a space must occur in future building programs as well as its construction methodologies. Created to best suit the needs of a dynamic city based in the flexibility of a schedule that technology has allowed to take place, it allows for a new ontological opportunities and points to a future in micro scale architectural systems.

INTERVIEW RESPONSES: INFRASTRUCTURE

A.A.

C.C.

“When I was living on the street, I was pushed to the border of the city constantly to areas no one else wanted to go. The ability for the city to fluctuate and neighborhoods to be able to be less polarized from each other has been the biggest change for me. I can navigate the city freely and experience it fully for the first time now that I’m included in the way the city plans and develops itself.“

“The type of new flexibility in our workspaces has been so beneficial to our company. These changes to our office space make it so much easier to host business meetings or have special events - the space can expand and modify to meet our needs. We can go from being a 20 person workspace to a 100 person event and back again within the span of a workday.”

B.B. “Shifting shared office spaces often has given me a stronger sense of appreciation and familiarity with my city. Just today I found myself enjoying the light coming through one particular window of a new office. When I leave and walk on my customized route home, every step I take is further deeper into tranquility. It is a form of forced meditation, an outer body experience as I leave my eyes to wander around my urban surroundings .”

D.D. “I’m not resistant to technology as some of my friends are. It’s an incredible tool. As an activist it’s important way to be able to unify and gather to occupy public space and have our voices be heard. The new type of energy in these revitalized public spaces is contagious - I’ve never felt more connected to my community.”

The ability for spaces to expand and contract opens up opportunities for new networks to emerge

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FLEXIBLE OFFICE SPACES

With the development of self driving cars implies a significant shift in the way we circulate the city, particularly that of the commute. With apps such as Waze and Uber creating customized routes and ride sharing opportunities, the self driving car will extend this type of circulation to the nth degree, creating an ever moving cycle of movement and making the parking lot obsolete as cars are passed on from rider to rider.

Ownership of private cars will decrease as the economic initiative is decreased: “Self-driving cars will make automated taxi service in cities as cheap, per mile, as personal vehicle ownership... Autonomous vehicles’ superior use of road space— optimal acceleration and spacing, for example—will unleash a wave of urban transformation. Even if the number of cars on the road doubled...Traffic would still move faster.” Henry Graber, Slate.57 The self driving car therefore has the potential to be the single biggest change in urban life in the coming decades, altering how we navigate and experience the city.

With an increasing number of people working from home, whether freelance or employed by a company, the popularity of live-work spaces has spiked. This points to a future in which the office space is no longer set. Since most offices coordinate their computers on a cloud-based sharing system, files and data are easily accessible from any remote location, no longer requiring an employee to be present a headquarter location daily. Synched calendars with deadlines and projects can send employees to work spaces at the same time as their co workers, making collaborative projects or meetings possible, while breaking the existing mold of the static and repetitive workday.

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WORK AND CULTURE

HOME OWNER VS. HOMELESS Currently, the homeless population of San Francisco are forcibly moved or huddled in shelters within the city. Their window of shelter is restricted my daily curfews, mobility, and weather as they seek a place to remain undisturbed and call their own. The desire for permanence stems from the staticity of their surroundings. Conversely, the neo-nomad, will not be restricted by such permanence. Residing in between the existing infrastructural texture, the neo nomad is an exaggeration of the model already seen from Air Bnb - an ever moving temporary occupant. While non homeowning citizens were once alienated from their city, the neo-nomad now inhabits the city fully. They are a crucial part to the life cycle of urban consumption, vital to the biodegrading and revitalization of things lost. The neo nomad is not necessarily associated with any particular level of income or wealth, but is simply a way of living made available by a newly dynamic city.

Calling a space a â&#x20AC;&#x153;homeâ&#x20AC;? no longer refers to a secure space within a distinct location. Controlled displacement it therefore very much a part of the neo-nomad as it is of the homeowner, as the world becomes increasingly global and the ability to travel becomes easier, pointing to a future of dual citizenship between cities. By recontextualizing the Air Bnb model in a city that rejects the stagnant, it has the potential to benefit those on either end of the spectrum - the line between homeowner and homeless will continue to blur as the city becomes more global and dynamic as assisted by new methods of transportation and technology. EATING: If the city is a flexible commodity overall, meal times will no longer be constricted by the parameters of work h ours, fluctuating as the daily schedule shifts and modulates. In keeping with current trends of urban farming, food can be sourced locally at farms that move with the shifting border.

INTERVIEW RESPONSES

A.A.

C.C.

“I see impermanence as the key to happiness. All I seek is the day to day, moment to moment experiences in order to provide my best to give back to my city. I am magnanimous by nature and I am seen as such by my communities. I make sure that open spaces remain clean and enjoy doing so as they are also my home. I do not experience life differently than others as everyone is able to move around. Maybe one day when I’m older I’ll seek a more stable living and working condition but for now this suits me.”

“For me, the morning commute has become an extension of my morning routine - a time for drinking coffee, listening to music and reading the news. Now that I don’t have to focus on the road, my commute has become a valuable source of free time for me to relax before stress of the workday begins and a time to decompress after it ends. I’ve started to think of it as my transition between my personal and work life.”

B.B. “Working freelance, I find myself on the go constantly. San Francisco will always be my home, but recently I find myself traveling almost half the time. It’s great to be able to open my home up to others and have others do the same for me when I travel. Through this sharing I can support myself and my business.”

D.D. “It is great to see the automobile’s evolution to such superior navigational intelligence, yet primitive in its observed actions. But I am skeptical with this new found freedom, I find myself losing instinctual capabilities. Am I completely dependant on technology?”

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CONCLUSION The Latent Spectrum aims to create a new ontology of architecture that offers a wide spectrum of possibilities based on specific address of political and social change in living and working systems. Focusing on technological development in an expanding sharing culture, it calls for a shift in global cities by pinpointing specific problematic patterns of growth. We aim to intervene through small scale, additive changes that help redevelop and re-contextualize a city to respond to the new time frames brought about by a sharing economy. The proposed intervention is made up of collaborative, small scale solid elements that all cater to specific events or programs, forming structural members that build up or destroy delineated areas. Its form, a plasma made up of layers, may choose to reveal a solid complexity in certain areas, while other moments introduce additive materials to respond to its environment.

Dependent on site parameters, such as light, exposure to the elements, and other microclimate conditions of San Francisco, it responds and reacts flexibly based on its program, prioritizing circulation spaces as its most modifiable forms. These interventions are dependent on variant time frames. From changes occurring daily, seasonally or for one time events, these spaces embody an adaptability to surrounding demands. Public events such as the Olympics can cause an influx of people, especially in surrounding sites. In a city that faces housing shortages without additional visitors, malleable architecture can be used to house the extra. And when no longer needed, dissolve. On a daily adaptation, an office event may require, as an example, a 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; addition to its regular working space. This addition may choose to pass through several floors or hang off the building facade.

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In another scenario, during a cargo delivery, the office may contract by 12’ for the trucks to stall without blocking other traffic, making it such that circulatory routes may occupy the interior vacancies of the lobby. Conventional programmatic locations no longer hold true - lobbies may no longer be solely situated at the ground level, potentially appearing at different levels such that the public street level may be brought into and up structures; this project aims to intervene on both the horizontal and the vertical plane. The question of interior space becomes larger. It is no longer a decoration or light scrape of the architectural discipline. If most of the existing is to remain as a ghost like shell vulnerable to any impact or cultural influence then why can’t the exterior be the interior as well. Thus architecture which mainly deals with large scale concepts must deal with the micro scale adaptations to existing buildings and infrastructure. Of course, micro-scale does not necessarily mean repetitive, so the scale may shift at times so it is in proportion with and responds to the demands of a site.

Therefore we are dealing with spaces as a bridge between the time-based polar opposites of the dichotomies of daily urban living - live/work, interior/exterior, public/private - using civil infrastructure as an aid of evolving technology. This project aims to turn the conceptualization and perception of an occupiable space inside-out based on newly emerging time frames. However, the city itself shall not change drastically - rather, it is a reconceptualization of the human interaction with its tectonic parts. The city’s boundary will not shift simply by means of vehicular or pedestrian infrastructure for that would be a broad brush stroke of innovation. As stated by Jane Jacobs, the city is a living organism that sheds and rejuvenates its core and extremities.58 Street level patterns will not be governed by a top down, overarching, dictative pioneer. We shall walk through a parallel intervention. To consider a full intervention of a grand scale with such a utopian lens will only cast a falsity upon social expectations. 61

Shedding of the old and entering the spectrum

How do these factors of identity, infrastructure, and culture play into the act of confronting social norms through architectural intervention? Much as in Reyner Banhamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Los Angeles - The Architecture of Four Ecologies - a book arguing for the influences of physical surroundings on the development of a city, our project aims to maintain similar assertions for the influences on modern urban development.59 While Banham argues that the planning of Los Angeles is intrinsically linked to its various physical settings, such as its freeways or ocean setting, our project aims to introduce a new ecology of architecture based around the newly emergent time frames from an increasing sharing culture and diverse, spectrum based lifestyles already emerging in San Francisco and other global cities.

This figurative Fifth Ecology will be one with a spectrum confronting the issues San Francisco faces of severe homogeneity as a result of a small success margin. By being a proponent for these existing spectrums, the question of race, gender, and economical status are not blindly ignored by the fascination of a smart city. By all means this is an asset that needs to be embraced delicately, as choosing to turn a blind eye and strive for evenly dispersed equality will not serve the proper distribution of a the city as an evolving organism - differences we can call positive or controlled mutations. Our polarized identities have trapped us into experiencing isolated views of spaces. In a city as polarized as San Francisco, acknowledging and designing for diversity in all forms is crucial in the development of future ontologies.

Basing our assertions and developments on future technologies currently in development, such as self driving cars, drone technology, construction robots, and a new wave of bio, smart and nano technology, we can argue that a future lies in an unprecedented sharing culture that has already begun to take form. Coupled with our research on swarm patterning as derived from biological means, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;emergenceâ&#x20AC;?, we can design for a new ontology that aids the transition from static to a more mobile city., as both a physical structure and as a network and revolution in communication.

By introducing an acupuncture-like architectural intervention for San Francisco, we aim to confront the current polarization of the city through a flexible, dynamic form and methodology of occupiable space. Through the study and conceptual integration of new technologies as well as an emerging sharing culture, our project proposes a new ecology of architecture that is derived from the specificity of time frames, environmental context, and cultural integration.

As stated by Steve Johnson, organized complexity routing from disorganized complexity makes intelligent decisions on a microscale to a larger network.60 If the question of interior and exterior are brought forth to the existing conditions, our intervention will serve as a plasmic barrier able to both accommodate and confront current technological progressions of a smart city.

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D R AW I N G S A N D S K E TC H E S

N ex t Pa g e s - S a n F r a n c i s c o z o n i n g r e c o n s i d e r e d t h r o u g h a m o t i o n l e n s a n d m e r g e n t t i m e f r a m e s - M i s s i o n D i s t r i c t a n d c i t y w i d e

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Debate on what “Research Studio” has become. Historically architectural Design Thesis (late 19th Cent) it was conceived as a combination of fine arts, building sciences, and art history. Design was considered of importance but did not fit into the fine arts category. Because it is a form of unconventional thinking it was unclear how it may develop into a scholarly thesis and how it was a form of research (not able to be placed into 1 category). Shifting from “thesis” to “research project” releases the burden of conforming to a thesis/concrete conclusion. Research studio became a process of analysis (precedent, site, etc.) to a final project that responds to those conditions. During the modernist movement, 60’s, it was easier to choose a side to argue against/for; now there is much more ambiguity. The research project is to provoke a conversation on architecture, not on its aesthetic qualities within itself. Research and various forms of experimentation should drive the design process, thus the results are not what is always expected. Research should test out risky propositions.

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Keeping the truth in what you produce, considers other after effects to be harmful to the final image of the film. I disagree with this, the director is not the sole composer of a film, and should not be an egoistic representation of one person. Film is a collaboration, and so is architecture.

Pick a “table”, whether it’s program, form, and surface, then research those historical figures to have a background with then you may expand your focus beyond the “table” and set your own rules. It could pose a question/theory/idea/ concept that can be explored past graduation (as an architect).

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