Week 5: Transition from Nodes to Buildings

Positive elements that should be investigated further from your development stages of project 1:

People of Pomona are happy with their close-nit town and are not necessarily in need of anything in particular, more so a place for them to interact with each other, explore the town’s history and continue to admire its growth. the people of pomona would appreciate a civic place that brings them closer together as a community, without losing the ‘Pomona life’ and easy accessibility of their regular places to visit. therefore, this community involvement should be investigated further, with extra thought on HOW it can be brought together with an architectural entity. 

This will be done grouping all recreational activities and areas together with thoughtful treatment of spaces in between them, to keep that community flow alive. Residents still admire the small, isolated town from the city, so I would like to keep it that way but also envision something new, something that can emphasise the town’s family by supporting their lifestyle, not only for the locals, but visitors too. this project is bringing together their town as a whole, but creating a new story for pomona. these investigations made throughout pomona would definitely work well in a civic architecture proposal - this small town can finally connect in a more cultural and familiar way, by networking small recreational areas together so they become one entity.

In the article, ‘Concept of folio,’ it explains how a sequence or a connection of the space can be moved through the walls - they can be combined by intersection, repetition, qualification, distortion and fragmentation. The transport through a space is guided by the way the architecture is designed. System of relations between objects, events and people, it allows the development of a charge, a point of intensity. By reading this, ideas come to mind about connecting the relationships between our desired buildings needed in the art platform. By using forms, the architecture can make the person want to travel in a particular direction, towards a certain event. Do a number of bubble diagrams to work out what buildings work well together and how much space is needed between each to make it comfortable.