Included here are a series of map and datasets compiled and developed by Pratt students in our degree project seminar. These are three sample mapping projects that hint at possibilities for design innovation and intervention in a series of contexts that outline aspects of the crises that cities confront related to their growth and infrastructure. They also describe a set of scales of operation ranging from product and building component scales to larger scales of urbanism that might otherwise be considered to be beyond the domain of architecture. The seminar is assisted by Gil Akos and Ronnie Parsons who have been instrumental in supporting the development of computational techniques and methodologies.
Case Study: Los Angeles A study of mobility in Los Angeles as it pertains to the formation of self-similar patchwork organizations of neighborhoods and subdistricts within the downtown. Travel distance to freeway access points and public transportation was tabulated for each commercial or residential unit within the subject area and cross referenced against census data on automobile ownership. The mapping reveals patches and regions exhibiting ranges of high to low connectivity that correspond to data about socioeconomic status. These are understood to be regions that would support the introduction of secondary pedestrian-oriented circulation infrastructures that outline future regions of vertical development now that the horizontal growth of the city is approaching its limit. Work by: Jun Pak and Cole Reynolds |
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