Towards a Park-like Architecture
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I had such a profoundly memorable experience at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. From the bottom of the Rotunda, I could see people moving up and down in this springlike space. Without this definitive shape, I would only be able to picture the space through the traces of visitors’ movements. I tried to expand this idea to the context of a three-dimensional city like Manhattan. The movement of its many individuals generates architecture. I am interested in how people gather, divide, and intermingle within a building. Groups of buildings create boundaries within urban space. Typically, we stride freely through urban space but hesitate over entering an unfamiliar building. Contrary to the laws of physics, which lead to a mixed state, people living in the buildings of a use-oriented city tend to be innocent and so its boundaries become clearer.
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