MAS960: Spatial Information Design - General

Media Flow

warren — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:50:17 +0000

Annoucement: E14 information posted

achang — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:37:35 +0000

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

Model of E14 for class assignment

warren — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:42:45 +0000

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

Figures

innakoy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:53:10 +0000

New England Holocaust Memorial

New York City Subway

The illuminating and the problematic

sarahmadden — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:50:55 +0000

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

good/bad (sorta)

plushfish — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:50:38 +0000

It is perhaps architectural blasphemy to call Aldo Rossi's Cemetery at Modena bad design, even if one is talking only about the design of spatial information, but in comparing it to Pere Lachaise in Paris, one can at least say it would not be as accommodating to such a plethora of circumstances..

http://mit.edu/mwatabe/www/watabe_01.pdf

Good and Bad Spatial Design

innakoy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:46:31 +0000

GOOD EXAMPLE: New England Holocaust Memorial

The memorial is six glass stacks. The number six represents the six million Jews killed and the six main concentration camps. The six glass towers have lower sections where six million numbers are etched into the glass in an orderly pattern, reminiscent of Nazi tattoos. Personal statements by Holocaust survivors are inscribed over the numbers at the base of the glass towers. People walk through the glass stacks as they visit the memorial. As they do so, they see their reflection in the glass as well as the city surroundings. The first and last word a memorial visitor encounters is "remember" written in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Notably, the memorial is on the Freedom Trail.

It's a good example because the typographic information enriches an already beautiful architectural element with meaning and symbolism.

BAD EXAMPLE: New York City Subway Stations

the good, the bad

haru — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:03:20 +0000

http://uraharu.tumblr.com/post/77195155/the-good-the-bad

Parking lots and spatial information design

susannes — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:40:30 +0000

Two examples:
(1) Playground in Berlin, Flaemingstrasse
(2) InSITE94 art installation CARPARK

http://www.mit.edu/~susannes/mas960/01-seitinger.pdf