Liminal Space Mapping in Progress

Mapping a liminal space at UNAM in Mexico City with a drawdle and drawing begin to explore the relationships between spaces and their connecting elements. The below images show progress of two mappings of the same space.

Composing Liminal Spaces

Exploring the qualities of liminal and transitional spaces through drawings and drawdels (models that represent a drawing) has been challenging. Figuring out what to represent to show the qualities of the spaces and what defines a transitional zone was first attempted in the following models and sketches. Questions that I am exploring include "What is the thing that is particular about a transition?", "Where are transition zones bounded?", "What creates and edge?" and "What are the distinctions of transitional spaces and other zones?".

Discovering Liminal Space

Some diagram and sectional mapping of a liminal space at UNAM, Mexico City.

Shortening Time

Originally around 8 minutes long both "Forgetting Architecture" and "Remembering Technology" were reduced and edited to around 4 minutes in length while still maintaining the integrity of the overall films. It was a challenge to reduced the length of the films while still including key scenes and maintaining a similar progression of events so that the overall message of the films stays the same.

Forgetting Architecture

Remembering Technology

Mapping Films

The first two 8 minutes films. "Forgetting Architecture" and "Remembering Technology" were mapped using screenshots and organized in a way to illustrate the progression of the films.

First board illustrating the progression of events and location of where events take place throughout Bristol, RI from the self filmed movie "Forgetting Architecture"

Second board illustrating a timeline of various events throughout history comparing the effects of technology.

Detail of scene by the docks from "Forgetting Architecture".

Detail of collaged scene and space by the graveyard from "Forgetting Architecture".

Creating the First Two Films

Final results of two films discussing technology in relation to how an environment can be misperceived and the other comparing the effects of technology. Both films seek to take a look at how technology has influenced society and the effects that it may be causing.

"Forgetting Architecture" uses footage taken around Bristol, Rhode Island to illustrate society's urge to stay connected and consequently miss opportunities to explore, architecture, space, and landscape.

"Remembering Technology" incorporates found footage, photos and audio to compare and contrast the positive and negative effects of technology.

Architecture, Film, and Technology

"Forgetting Architecture" incorporates found footage around Bristol, RI to begin to illustrate how modern technology has caused people to ignore their surroundings and become unaware of the world around them. There are times where architecture, landscape, and spaces are missed due to the obsession with technology.

"Forgetting Architecture"

"Remembering Technology" uses found footage and audio clips to bring together the benefits that modern technology has provided us while contrasting them with an opposite and usually harmful reaction.

"Remembering Technology"

Forgetting Architecture and Remembering Technlogy

Time and the growth of technology appear to have created a new era in society where an obsession over gadgets and staying "plugged in" is forming a gap between the individual and his/her surroundings. The first short film, "Forgetting Architecture", seeks to explore the obsession over technology from a first person perspective. As the individual progress through the day multiple spaces and experiences are missed or not fully interpreted it is only once a turning point is reached that the individual is able to rewind and truly experience the spaces missed before.  The second film, "Remembering Technology", expands on the first film in providing commentary on the benefits of technology only to reveal that technology has also caused some catastrophic events throughout history.

Mapping out of "Forgetting Architecture"

Preview of opening scenes of "Remembering Technology"

Forming the Meshes

The final product of the analysis of the film "Meshes of the Afternoon" begins to reveal the complexity of the film's dialogue and spaces. A timeline is mapped out from which the prominent staircase scenes are expanded and further analyzed. As the film progresses the stairs take on a new form and feeling with each progressive approach and begin to illustrate how a space can develop with time.