Rope and material practice Film Time is Stationary There is stillness to measure movement, but the stillness itself can have small movements that we do not perceive easily. The structure of the bridge shows stationary, but the rusting material of it connotes aging. There is a connection of shown and connotation or unshown with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope where the chest box is a stationary object with the dead body inside, but only known by the viewers and never shown, which is one of the most important strategies of the film to give intensity. Another similar idea occurs at the scene when the maid walks back and forth the linear setting as a conversation between the other characters goes on in the background; only the back of one man is to be seen in the scene during their conversation. Although the content of the conversation is intense, it is almost intended as a background to intensify the movement of the maid clearing the top of the chest; the conversation is somewhat a music of suspense or a beat that measures the movement or suspense. I call the movement of the maid, ‘forte movement’ and the conversation in the background ‘piano movement.’ This is not always distinguished by how loud it is, but how much impact it is giving to the perception. The rusting material is a piano movement with the forte movement of cars; but also, when looking straight of the bridge, the cars become piano movements which sounds are like the background conversation.
Program The purpose of my program is not necessarily trying to solve any problems but to maximize the quality of the behavioral experience through the architecture. The Department Store has the idea of a major circulation and moments that act as stationary to measure the movement. The visitor walks through a main path that is framed with different stores, different scale of spaces, different mood of spaces. The stillness are to be the piano movements; water would be used as stillness to measure the navigator’s movement, but will also have its own suttle movements. Furthermore, the water will be experienced by reflections or sound, and will differ in different times of the day. The idea of knowing but not seeing will strengthen the mood of being in a confined but pleasant space. The department store as an urban space serves as a safe, pleasant space to relax, be protected from weather, give joy of consuming as well as social networking. Walking through, one would look up seeing the reflections on the ceiling, and stop at stores of own interest, and may observe a difference in the reflections after making a pause at a store. From outside of the department store, before a visitor enters it, one would have a controlled view of the interior from a level above the stores. This is related from the drawing of the stacks in the Pratt Library; the observer is the controller of movement and perspective and the drawing that reminds a cityscape implies a controlled surveying over being in the confined space. In Rope, the scenery of the city outside the window is used to increase the suspense of being in the confined space. There is a behavioral experience of looking in the department store and walking through the space and remembering that at some moments they are exposed to the outside, but the shopper, would be glad to be exposed after their purchases. While the outside observer walks by and looks into the space, the building material would serve as a stationary object to measure the movement, but may be a rusting material, such as corten steel, connoting aging and piano movement.
Site and quantitative program. site : area adjacent to Queens Boulevard to Queens Plaza
The site has an idea of lines of rail roads, but the rail roads not being used, implied as stationary measure tools. The Queens Boulevard passes over these lines. The 7 train runs on the boulevard. The railroads were at once forte movements, but now serve as a rusted piano movement. The location is easily accessed from the city, through public transportation and being in a growing art and culture area with P.S 1, Noguchi Museum etc. nearby brings a sense of trend, or a higher quality of shopping. Roughly 100~200 stores, with cafes, restaurants; also I am thinking of having another program that is the piano movement, in a broad sense, while the department store is the forte movement.
you say 'foreground and background' what does this mean in a department store? forgrounded merchandise? objects of desire browsing backgrounded warehouse? infrastructure confined?
you say 'suspension and tension' you say... 'The department store as an urban space serves as a safe, pleasant space to relax, be protected from weather,' what about the people who work there that never see the sky...don't know if it raining until they go on break..? confined? may materials adress this boundary? (your (mention of) rusting (away?))
dont entirely follow the links...like the 'rusted piano movement' tho...
i noticed that you might be reading my post(by seeing the time you posted the previous comment) and waited. i am very glad to see a comment and will keep in mind what you are saying. thanks
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Rope and material practice Film Time is Stationary
There is stillness to measure movement, but the stillness itself can have small movements that we do not perceive easily. The structure of the bridge shows stationary, but the rusting material of it connotes aging. There is a connection of shown and connotation or unshown with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope where the chest box is a stationary object with the dead body inside, but only known by the viewers and never shown, which is one of the most important strategies of the film to give intensity. Another similar idea occurs at the scene when the maid walks back and forth the linear setting as a conversation between the other characters goes on in the background; only the back of one man is to be seen in the scene during their conversation. Although the content of the conversation is intense, it is almost intended as a background to intensify the movement of the maid clearing the top of the chest; the conversation is somewhat a music of suspense or a beat that measures the movement or suspense. I call the movement of the maid, ‘forte movement’ and the conversation in the background ‘piano movement.’ This is not always distinguished by how loud it is, but how much impact it is giving to the perception. The rusting material is a piano movement with the forte movement of cars; but also, when looking straight of the bridge, the cars become piano movements which sounds are like the background conversation.
Program
The purpose of my program is not necessarily trying to solve any problems but to maximize the quality of the behavioral experience through the architecture. The Department Store has the idea of a major circulation and moments that act as stationary to measure the movement. The visitor walks through a main path that is framed with different stores, different scale of spaces, different mood of spaces. The stillness are to be the piano movements; water would be used as stillness to measure the navigator’s movement, but will also have its own suttle movements. Furthermore, the water will be experienced by reflections or sound, and will differ in different times of the day. The idea of knowing but not seeing will strengthen the mood of being in a confined but pleasant space.
The department store as an urban space serves as a safe, pleasant space to relax, be protected from weather, give joy of consuming as well as social networking. Walking through, one would look up seeing the reflections on the ceiling, and stop at stores of own interest, and may observe a difference in the reflections after making a pause at a store.
From outside of the department store, before a visitor enters it, one would have a controlled view of the interior from a level above the stores. This is related from the drawing of the stacks in the Pratt Library; the observer is the controller of movement and perspective and the drawing that reminds a cityscape implies a controlled surveying over being in the confined space. In Rope, the scenery of the city outside the window is used to increase the suspense of being in the confined space. There is a behavioral experience of looking in the department store and walking through the space and remembering that at some moments they are exposed to the outside, but the shopper, would be glad to be exposed after their purchases.
While the outside observer walks by and looks into the space, the building material would serve as a stationary object to measure the movement, but may be a rusting material, such as corten steel, connoting aging and piano movement.
Site and quantitative program.
site : area adjacent to Queens Boulevard to Queens Plaza
The site has an idea of lines of rail roads, but the rail roads not being used, implied as stationary measure tools. The Queens Boulevard passes over these lines. The 7 train runs on the boulevard. The railroads were at once forte movements, but now serve as a rusted piano movement.
The location is easily accessed from the city, through public transportation and being in a growing art and culture area with P.S 1, Noguchi Museum etc. nearby brings a sense of trend, or a higher quality of shopping.
Roughly 100~200 stores, with cafes, restaurants; also I am thinking of having another program that is the piano movement, in a broad sense, while the department store is the forte movement.
you say
'foreground and background'
what does this mean in a department store?
forgrounded merchandise?
objects of desire
browsing
backgrounded warehouse? infrastructure
confined?
you say
'suspension and tension'
you say...
'The department store as an urban space serves as a safe, pleasant space to relax, be protected from weather,'
what about the people who work there that never see the sky...don't know if it raining until they go on break..?
confined?
may materials adress this boundary? (your (mention of) rusting (away?))
dont entirely follow the links...like the 'rusted piano movement' tho...
i noticed that you might be reading my post(by seeing the time you posted the previous comment) and waited. i am very glad to see a comment and will keep in mind what you are saying. thanks
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