RESPONSIVE ACTION to Human Coexistence

ARTIFACTS
The distribution of occupants within a space is unpredictable. The space shall facilitate that flexibly to an optimized level of comfort
and quantity.

What?

An unplanned pavilion is not presumed for number of people and activities. This is a big empty space with indoor and outdoor quality in a densely populated city. The human distance measurement and duration of motion will be various in related to local culture and model of living. To best suit the fluctuant change of human context, the reconfiguration action would not be restricted to certain grid or certain shape or certain architectural elements such as wall, floor, ceiling. The boundary could be flexibly reconfigure to facilitate various number of occupants in various grouping. It is a temporary medium to take an immediate action to create a space. The medium will act as a separation to potentially reduce the actual space for isolation between groups of people or activities. Traditionally, the movable partition or chair will be applied at the multi-function area. But this insertion shall be more illimitable than
these examples as a design proposition.

Why?

‘How many people are too many?’, the social life of small urban spaces by William H.Whyte.

Most of the architecture spaces are practically made an assumption for certain number of occupants. Besides, the multi-function space is fade specified by limited flexibility. From the social life of small urban spaces by William H.Whyte, the people in public space
will define their own individual space by self-consciousness due to the coexistence of people. Also, the accumulative effect of grouping will affect their distribution of occupation. The intimacy within the group will create a comfort mood and atmosphere. The distance towards each occupant is no longer determine individually. The grouping of people will affect distance between occupants. This will contradict the idealistic presumption of fully occupied from the architect at the beginning. In contrast of fully occupied space, the small numbers of occupants in a huge empty space. The emptiness will enhance uncomfortable feeling and drive people to go to the corner or leave. As these are unpredictable, a flexible action should be applied as an incidence to relax the effect of grouping as well as creating a private comfort atmosphere.

How?

Drawing In Space, Jeongmoon Choi, 2011

BMV Kinetic Sculpture, Joachim, 2008

The research will be in two parts. The first part will focus on the passive issues. Firstly, the pattern of people in current unplanned spaces will be observed and documented. Then, it will define the perimeter of local habituate space in term of distance or habit for

certain activities. The second part will focus on active issues. The research on the experimental medium for the separation of space will be execute at the designed pavilion as a prototype. The Human response to the medium by presumed conditions will be tested
out. The space will be defined by the medium in related to people coexistence. The potential variation will be identified for different possibility.

Bibliography

1. William H.Whyte, 1980, The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces,
The conservation Foundation
2. Mark Rakatansky, 2012, Tectonic Acts Of Desire And Doubt,
Architectural Association London
3. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2013, Antigravity,
Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc.