Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Info-graphic Diagram

Diagramming progression based upon user types and destination within a light-rail transit hub. The first step in my design process. I will post an updated version later that I'll use for mid-review .

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  2. t looks complex and thoughtfully organized, but it feels so closed. I mean it seems like there is no way out the system or no room for spontaneity. This is probably because of reading Iian Borden's "Skateboarding, Space and the City" where he talks about unplanned and unexpected events that happen in spaces, like skateboarders using culverts and drainage ditches, and other infrastructure in ways they were never intended or even imagined.

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  3. I love the graphic, but I would agree a little bit with Jon on it feeling a little bit closed. It reminds me a little bit of those quizzes in a girl magazine where you only have a few endings, and then you are forced into two extreme scenarios.("Are you a black or red nail polish kind of girl") I like how you bring the time scale into account, but I wonder if there were a few other variables that appeared. For instance, I speak from first hand experience, haha, with all of the strikes that are going on in France. Depending on which unions are striking affects whether you should take the metro or the bus, and then there is the factor if you take the bus if someone three stops before you has parked in front of the bus pathway.(It has happened) I couldn't tell you how you would "open" things up though...it may become more abstract, or maybe complexify things too much.

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  4. I liked the idea of a transport hub as a machine-like public infrastructure that seamlessly filters people through as fast and as efficient as possible, hence the diagram. But I absolutely agree, there needs to be open space to balance the closed spaces and paths so I'm experimenting with curiosity and reflection to play a game between the constriction of going from checkpoint to checkpoint and improvisation in routine within section and plan, mostly section though... More diagrams to follow... Thanks for the comments, the Metropolis was recently added on Netflix, so that might have had too much of a influence, haha.

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