Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that we have uploaded resources about E14 on the E14 Info page, linked at the top. Current content includes floorplans, sections, and a 3d model. Feel free to use these in any way for your assignments throughout the semester.

If you would like something (anything) that isn't there, let us know and we'll see about getting it for you.

The offer also extends to things that aren't E14 -- if you would like something (anything) about space or information that isn't here (or anywhere), let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Enjoy!
-your fellow TA's

Consider a digital wayfinding system for E14 or the E14/E15 complex. The system should address the needs of the many different users of the building - staff, researchers, students, guests. Think about how each constituency makes use of the space and how that influences your design. The system should do all of the things that any good system does: clarify the arrangement of spaces within the building and guide people to the places they want to go. In addition, you can think about new functions - locating friends, encouraging collaboration, connecting the real and the virtual, providing greater openness and transparency, etc. Your design should also speak to the kind of place that the Media Lab is (or wants to be).

http://web.mit.edu/danielm/www/mas.960/1/slides.ppt

Click here to download the .3ds file. We will try to post this in a few other formats as well.

http://web.mit.edu/ikc/Public/ian%20information%20examples.pdf

New England Holocaust Memorial

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New York City Subway

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+ Txtual Healing
- FDR Memorial

http://class.posterous.com/mas960-assignment-1

Good - Pedestrian Wayfinding from Hiromura Masaaki for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Bad - Edward Burtynsky's photographs of factories in Cankun, Xiamen, China

Ugly - Failblog

My example of good spatial design is the Waterworks Project, a public art project staged in Bristol, England, where rising sea level marks are projects onto buildings in the city to illustrate the estimated impact of the Greenland ice cap melting.

For poor spatial design integration, I chose to critique Boston’s South Station, which is currently covered in excessive advertising and recently provided a troublesome experience for me in meeting a class group there – no one agreed on where the central meeting place was, which led to a lot of confusion and quality time spent among the Pepsi advertisements.

http://mit.edu/~samadden/www/1_samadden_MAS960.pdf

The Good:
The temple was created near 537AD. Nearly one thousand years later, it becomes a mosque. Byzantine art exhibited in the interior was destroyed or completely replaced by Muslim-Ottoman inspired drawings.Since then it served as a model for many other Muslim mosques.
Some of the old byzantine work has been restored, and enables us to witness the spatial information design, the ways the building was intended to be, and some of the design can now be justified.
Major example includes an icon on top of the Sanctuary space facing east The whole space was--designed to introduce extra Information on this icon.

The Bad:
A Mystery sharp pyramid-shaped building:
Ryugyong Hotel Pyongyang, North Korea‐
dominates the skyline of the city.
Construction started in 1987, and in 1992 it was abandoned.
Building is empty, until December 2008 where supposedly construction started again.