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The project is a work-exhibition-socializing space for an artist’s community.

Two essential parts of the project are the artists’ studios and the central shared space.

Artists’ preferences will play major role in the design of the space. They will input their medium, desired area and height of studio into a spreadsheet. Then the data is brought into grasshopper to generate each studio unit.

The studios will then be scattered randomly on each floor, loosely grouped together according to medium, and reoriented to fit the nature of the shared space, i.e. exhibition, collaboration, event, leisure, etc.

Corners are urban spaces. The bodega is on the corner. You talk to your neighbor on the corner. You chill on the corner.

This tool can create corners on a site and can test whether they are good corners. Good corners are less than 120 degrees and more than 30 degrees. The tool also gives you instant isovist feedback as you make your corners. This tool thinks that seeing more surface area (higher line density) from some vantage point is better than seeing less surface area.

The tool desires white spaces, not yellow spaces. Push and pull points around to make spaces. Try to make them white; those are the good corners.

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The drawing machine translates the ideas and principles found in the project of the quantified self and shifts its scale from the realm of the personal to that of the collective. The goal of the quantified community drawing machine is to understand how an easily digestible visualization of data about how people use a space influences their behavior in return. It is a feedback loop.

The community studied inhabits 500 North of Avery Hall. The machine will be located on the threshold of the studio's entrance door. As such, the qualities explored are entrance and exits of people over the course of a day which sum up to time, speed and frequency.

Valerie & Chad

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