In_Collision Buildings have speed. People have speed within buildings. People experience architecture at a speed. In the Phoenix Metropolitan Area our lives are largely spent traveling, always in transition from one place to another. Within our freeway system, observed absences reveal that the moment of a collision is where our mental-absence is interrupted. People are made aware, not only of themselves and their mortality, but also of the absence of the freeway and the absence that defines Phoenix’s urban environment. The freeway is the most existential space in our urban environment. Every time we drive on the freeway we risk death, but it is a necessary infrastructure for living.
1. Program (Left to Right): Living Freeway Maintenance Drive-In/Media Performance
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3. Combine with infrastructure + circulation
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A colliding architecture is designed to keep us alive, engaged, and living in Phoenix’s most scenographic and existential locations: the freeway.
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Through this collision,the new infrastructure informs connections between the urban environment, the identified characters, and their personal relationships between each other and the potential for a culture developing around “the colliders”.
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Speed is registered / felt in the change from one to the other. An acceleration . Architecture must begin to accelerate to match our culture , technology , and space.
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The project creates a new typology of architecture and urban engagement based on speed and the collision 1 of architectures:
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Programs intended for cars collide and create new uses. Users of the device are never to leave their vehicles, but certain characters and people will use the device differently according to their relative use of the freeway and place within the community.
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ADE 622: Spring 2017 Advanced Architectural Studio IV
Multi-Media Exhibition
360° Drive-In
Double Feature
Performance
Student: Nicholas Shekerjian Instructor: Elena Rocchi