Use you previos experience of Threshold and the required reading to change a space in the Owen G Glenn (OGG) Building through occupation by designing an intervention that challenges someone's spatial ideas of the body and signal or bodily needs and heady idea.
For this brief 'Inhabit' I should consider changing a place or area through habitation where one could change the feeling of that place, contradict the architecture and create events that shift the normal social path and possibly change your movement. A place influences how you behave, they do not control your emotions but they do control one's activity and I should be considering how thresholds might undermine or change these activites and behaviour.
From the reading I have gathered many interesing ideas about inhabiting a space and how people and routine cause space to evolve qualitatively over time, considering how space can change over time and be depicted through experience. It went on to emphasise that spcae has both dynamic and static components, however it is the dynamic components, which involve people, acitivties and routines, that also influence space by changing over time as well as their attitude to amenities and commerce.
For this brief I believe that randomness could play a large part of the design where Hyde sugggests "imperfections and uncertainly within a relationship offers the potential for creative play".It is the imperfection of chance encounters and interaction that aloow for creative opportunites which can be exploited. The reading also suggests that "using digital technology for capturing emotive as well as physical aspects of space challenges existing organisational paradigms that isolate computing for drawing, management or monitoring applications", which I should take into consideration when it comes to inhabiting my chosen space and the method or technology I use to provoke or show it.
From my previos design brief 'Thrashold', I wish to bring in my idea of breaking heirarchies between people. This included between the different year levels, between students and lecturors/tutors, and between the different fields of study (i.e. architects and engineers'. In my Thrashold design I created a space that could be occupied by anyone. It wasnt for any sort of person and brought people from both sides of the threshold (the courtyard and studio) together to establish new interactions and opportunites.
After documenting the building with my threshold in mind, I believe I would like to create an intervention in one of the following three places.
1. In the downstairs corridors, where students are quickly rushed through an orderly maze of corridors that allows for no freedom or wandering. An intervention here would create an opening in these corridors and allow them to wander more freely in a relaxed manner.
2. In the space downstairs by the one entry/exit. This empty space needs an intervention that forces people to move towards it with excitement, not pass through it unnoticed or walk around it access other paths. This space needs some people to inhabit it.
3. Lastly the main staircase provides a wonderful view looking up at the various levels, bringing fascination and wonder at this great atrium. However not only are you not meant to stop on the stairs, you cannot access those levels. The stairs can teasingly be seen starting on the floor above, and the elevators are not accessible to most people. Once again the space by elevators in narrow and confined and encourages a fast flow of people in order to avoid blockages, apart from the people catching the lifts. An intervention could be built here so people can seize the space on the upper levels which may offer a slower environment, away from the hustle and bustle of the atrium.
