From Spam to Maps City: MidTerm

Apart of what is already published in the blog under the tag From Spam to Maps city, here is the rest of the material I presented last Wednesday.

I've been thinking a while about the existing fabric as a new layer to introduce. This is what I arrived to. I see the next step is to introduce this in the grasshopper construct, probably a notation of branching lines (installations of the existent city) and a variety of points in space, or circles representing the vegetation. I really need to go ahead with spatial constructs making...

from relational constructs to space ideas

After having constructed an argument that links the grasshopper construct with its possible spatial repercussions (based on human density and volumes of opportunity), I am going to start inserting these ideas in grasshopper (to see what actual spaces can be generated) and rethinking the model, in order to intruduce precision into it and test different materials.

From Spam to Maps City: parasitic architectural muscle

Previous Reflections

Reinterpretation of existing structures. El Rastro reinterprets the existing city structure.

“To live is to leave traces”, Walter Benjamin.

El Rastro actually means THE TRACE, and refers to the trace that the dead animals left when they were carried around in the meat market which el Rastro originally was in the 16th century.

MODEL:

Selection of constructive and spatial systems: heterogeneous materials that have different behaviors under diverse forces.

Make a variety of material organizations and assemblies EXPLICIT, through change-of-state procedures.

Superimpose systems and subject them to explicitation devices (or Scanners) which analyse and deform matter.

Relations to be established between systems: Materia

l / Atmospheric / Spatial.

Levels of Transformation:

1. Start point (superimposed systems / material samples) >>>

- tape web: - transparent plastic, one side sticky = trace attractor

- balloon: high resilience and elasticity. Plastic rubber

- stockings: resilient, 100% Nylon

2. Subjection to the scanning devices – mutation through the EXPLICITATION of the material organization of the systems (and their mix) >>>>

- Sparkling candles (systems melt, combine and reconfigure)

- Thread (Tensions that alter volume, dimensions)

3. Resulting Residue

- Generated spam. Ready to be transformed into a new material entity, a Map.

4. Analysis of the spam (residue) and the map (reinterpretation): Draw conclusions on spatial discoveries and qualities.

AFTER TALK

5. Apply rigor to the experiment from my Grasshopper model. B

ehaviors are controlled by a number of operations that are placed in a geometric three dimensional space. Translate this to the physical model.

6. Construct a spatial muscle, capable of embodying the qualities of el Rastro and of the system of behaviors and relations already explored based on existing material.

Late night reflections:

IF:

El Rastro is an experimental and anthropological specimen. Operates through the fetichization of all potential homes. The interior spaces of people are exhibited but cannot be touched (unless you pay).

People’s interior spaces are remixed to compose scenarios prepared to disappear. Scenarios whose essential quality is their ability to disintegrate.

How could a spatial “muscle” embody these qualities? How would it affect the existing city? What capabilities would we demand from it? Is it a Parasitic system that attacks the actual interior spaces of people? Enabling the different houses to grow and intensify? Can we imagine these parasitic architectural muscles growing from buildings? Connecting them in some cases? Growing over the street? Connecting open areas? Amplifying peoples experiences?

Today I opened my drawer and this is what I found:

Could the Drawer be an existent City? And the tape structure, an architectural parasitic muscle?

SPAMCITYMAPS

> The city is the convergence of every individual's unfolded house
> The city is the space for precarious roots, cultural translation and open source remixing
> The city is a constant retroactive conversion of generalized SPAM (residue) into personal and collective MAPS (interpretation - processed residue)
> The city is a superimposition of secondhand times and traces
> The city programs human obsolescence