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fab-ri-ca-tion(noun)
1. the action or processof manufacturing orinventing something: The assembly or fabrication of electronic products.
2. an invention; a lie: The story was a complete fabrication.
source: the Oxford English Dictionary
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REPRODUCTION + REPRESENTATION |DAVID HARVEY
PROCESS + MULTIPLICITY |DOREEN MASSEY
SPACE VERSUS PLACE |EDWARD CASEY
The social construction of place begets a fluidprocess of generating multivalent narratives.
Instead, then, of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around, they can be imagined
as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings, but where a largeproportion of those relations, experiences and understandings are constructed on a far largerscale than what we happen to define at the moment as the place itself.
(from Space, Place, and Gender)
Fluidity and multivalence of social reproduction become codifiedinto the fixed spatial constructs of image and representation.
Consider, as a starting point, de Certeaus contemporary critique of the map as a totalizingdevice. The application of mathematical principles produces a formal ensemble of abstractplaces and collates on the same plane heterogenous places, some received from tradition andothers produced by observation. The map is, in effect, a homogenization and reification of therich diversity of spatial itineraries and spatial stories.
(from The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change)
Place is socio-spatial.
And yet place, despite these auspicious directions in contemporary thought, is rarely namedas such - and even more rarely discussed seriously. Place is still concealed, still veiled, asHeidegger says specifically of space. To ponder the fate of place at this moment assumes a new
urgency and points to a new promise. The question is, can we bring place out of hiding andexpose it to new scrutiny?
(from The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History)
[CH.1] theories of place, process, and representation
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T H E F A B R I C A T I O N S O F A R C H I T E C T U R E
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1871 1900
1887 1938
Honolulu [ Oahu, Hawaii ]
1998
honoluluharbor
piers 19 - 21historic
Chinatown
Chinatowncultural district
downtownbusiness district
capitol andhistoric district
high-riseresidences
midre
publichousingprojects
redevelopedindustrial
zone
park
sector
sector
sector
sector
sector
sector
from the Hawaiian Government Survey / by W.A. Wall from the Hawaiian Territorial Survey from the
swampy lowland on the northern border of Nuuanu Stream
about Aala Park:
- located northwest of thefamous tourist district ofWaikiki and the business districtof downtown Honolulu.
- adjacent to historic Chinatown,which includes a thrivingmarketplace and growing artenclave that is an increasingdraw for tourists
- directly south of a low-income
housing area (both private andpublic housing projects)
- east of a redeveloped industrialzone with growing commercialinterests
- semi-permanent homelesspopulation recently evicted bystate authorities
the park is an urban nexus
deed passed onto (U.S.)Hawaii Minister of theInterior under KingKamehameha V
first beautification project to convertthe park from "a barren wastecomposed of harbor dredgings into aresort of beauty."
1969 1980
the Aala Triangle consistedmostly of slum dwellings, dancehalls, and pool rooms generallyoccupied by urban derelicts.
the entire four-acre areawas razed and rebuiltinto a new gateway toHonolulu.
the area was mostlyoccupied by transients,drug dealers, andprostitutes.
$2.3 million renovpark, including barecreation fields, wand playground e
baseball / site of public rallies skate park / crime hotspot / homeless encampment
eviction of the homeless with new plans to redevelop the park
family-friendly attraction to support local businesses and tour
privateaffordable
housing
Aala
Park
1936 1950 200
[CH.2] the place :AALA PARK [Honolulu, Hawai
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[map 0.1] : STREETS
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[map 0.2] : BUILDINGS
[CH.2]
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[map 0.3] : URBAN TEXTURE
[CH.2]
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IOLANI PALACE
AALA
TRIAGLE
HONOLULU
TOWER
MAUNAKEA
TOWER KUKUITOWER
QUEEN EMMA
GARDENS
HONOLULU
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
KAIULANI
ELEMENTARY
KAULUWELA
ELEMENTARY
OAHU
CEMETARY
LILIHA PUBLIC
LIBRARY
KUAKINI
HOSPITAL
SAM CHOYS
DOLE CANNERY
STADIUM
CENTRAL
MIDDLE
SCHOOL
KUKUI
GARDENS
APTS
MAYOR
WRIGHTS
ST. ANDREWS
PRIORY SCHOOL
BOARD OF
EDUCATIONWASHINGTON
PLACE
QUEENS
MEDICALCENTER
HAWAII
STATE
ART
MUSEUM
IZUMO
TAISHA
SHRINE
CHINATOWN
LOWER
KALIHI
KALIHI
SANDISLAND
(QUARANTINE
ISLAND)
NUUANU
PAUO
PUNCHB
CRATER
LILIHA
ALOHA TOWER
CENTRAL
BUSINESS
DISTRICT
[map 1.1] : PLACE NAMES / TOPONYMY
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[map 1.2] : RISK
[CH.2]
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[map 1.3] : URBAN IMPRESSIONS
[CH.2]
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VOLUMES
POINTS
LOGIC OF
THE FOLIES
DISTORTIONR EP ET IT IO N S UP ER IM PO S IT IO N I NT ER RU PT IO N F RA GM E NT AT IO N
LINES
SURFACES
Follies and Galleries Isometrics, AD Architectural Drawing (1986), source: the MoMA Collection Parc de la Villette masterplan drawing , source: Bernard Tschumi Architects photogra
[CH.3] parc de la villette :TSCHUMI
DECONSTRUCTIONthe park is an experiment inform, space, and how theseaect a persons ability torecognize and interactwithin such a space.
matrix of geometries: interpreting Tschumis Points, Lines, and Surfaces mapping and understanding the parks use of geometric ma
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sosource: S M L XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau
[CH.3] parc de la villette :KOOLHAAS
initial hypothesis 1. strips of program 2. point grids, or confetti 3. access + circulation 4 . final layer
PROGRAMBy organizing programmatic needs, O.M.A.s proposal
attempts to orchestrate on a metropolitan eld the mostdynamic coexistence of activities x, y, and z and to generatethrough their mutual interference a chain reaction of new,unprecedented events; or, how to design a social condenser,based on horizontal congestion, the size of the park.
(from S M L XL)
programmatic indeterminacy via superimposition and layers of a mathematical logic :
1 2 3 4
BOULEVARD
PROMENADE
ORDER LOGIC SEQUENCE IRREGULARIT
A - a
X
A = the available areaa = area of the facility required
X = # of points to be distributed
DESIRED DISTRIBUTION
K I O S K
P I C N I C
p a r a l l e l b a n d s
r u n n i n g e a s t t o w e s t
t o a v o i d c l u s t e r i n g o f p r o g r a m
a n d t o m a x i m i z e t h e b o r d e r s b e t w e e n t h e b a n d s o f p r o g r a m
h e n c e , m a x i m i z i n g e a c h b a n d sp e r m e a b i l i t y
p r o g r a m m a t i c i n t e r f e r e n c eo r m u t a t i o n s
a n d e n c o u r a g i ng p e r p e n d i c u la r
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[CH.3] strategies :REGULARITY/IRREGULARITYLINEARITY (regularity)
TSCHUM
I
KOOLHAAS
grid base embedding : follies reinscrib
strips of program stitching : connecting
SUPERIMPOSITION (irregularity)
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[CH.4] examining narrative structures :LINEARITY
A B C D Enarratives can be viewed and traced separately
links between events are clear
(e.g. clear and logical sequence)
narratives can be broken down into chains thatare linked by a series of events
LINEAR STRUCTURE NON - LINEAR STRUCTURE
narratives can be overlapping and read simulta
the links between events are less clear (e.g. jumps between tim
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SHELTER(protected spac
BEAT(surveilled spac
LANDMARK(prominent spa
PARK(autonomous sp
TRANSIENT
USER IMAGE ASSOCIATION : POSTURE SPATIAL DEFINITION : PLACE
ENFORCEMENT
VISITOR
RECREATOR
RECUMBENT
ERECT
POSED
BRACED
[CH.4] translating narratives :FRAMING
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[CH.4] fusing narrative chains :CONFLATIONspecic chains can be foregrounded
and/or obscured to conate moments
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[CH.4] reinforcing narratives :SINGULARITY
the narratives and its structures are legible.
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[CH.4] superimposing narratives :MULTIPLICITY
a dominant narrative is foregrounded/reinforced;others recede or are obfuscated; the single reading is still clear
[1] static state [2] dynam
multiple narratives are the reading is changing, but becomes m
the narratives and its structures are illegible and difficult to trace.
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[CH.5] synthesizing narratives
by establishing ahierarchy of overlaps
while tying knots into
the articulation ofmultiple narratives ina single space, we can
define specific momentsas opportunities of
intervention.
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[CH.5] codifying narratives
examining the overlaps
and intersections of thenarratives as spaces
to conflate.
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[CH.5] visualizing narratives