Three concepts for projections on E14.

Playing with the idea of projected shadows to make vertical travel in the stairwell more interesting + interactive.

Building off of my first sketch concepts, I focused on developing the graphical representation of the various screens.

My process was to play with some of the graphical 2-D layouts to begin to understand the schema of the space and the context of the building, and then begin to layer on digital information to make fine-grain detail available about navigation and activities.

Right now this sketch relies on a main display, a web-based system that visitors can access, and individual dynamic door signage to highlight individual research -- the overall idea is to link visuals of the Media Lab research with particular spaces to make navigation easy and interesting for visitors, and to provide an integrated forum for building inhabitants to share information and collaborate across research groups.

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