Monday, February 28, 2011

Klong Toei Studio Midreview Tuesday Morning

From Aj. Jessica and Aj. Saeed.  This would be a great chance to see how your classmates are handling site analysis for sites near yours. 


All,

If you are available next Tuesday morning, I'd like to invite you to sit in on the Klong Toei urban design midreview.  The students will be presenting their site analysis and master plans as well as looking ahead to their individual projects.  Fresh perspectives and critiques would be very helpful for them, and I hope you can all make it.

We will be starting at 10am in room 209

Saturday, February 26, 2011

group work meeting TCDC

Let's meet tomorrow (27feb) at TCDC around 1-2pm to discuss and get our group work out of the way. Please bring all your files and laptop if possible. (narut.. yes bring it)
- Ai files and svg. map of the city(ies) your projects are located in.
- any related file...

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Archollective PROCESS Competition 2011: A design-process competition for Architecture Students



The Archollective Process Competition is a global event sponsored by Archollective.com during the Spring season of 2011. Archollective.com was built for architecture students as an online studio culture taking the pin-up space to a new dimension.
Sharing a timeline with most of the world’s architecture schools, the Process Competition is more than simply submitting a proposal. It is an on-going event where students will be given a digital pin-up space to design, display, and discuss. The winners will not only display exceptional design and technical ability, but will clearly articulate a strong process of design.  15,000 baht first prize!!!
As you move into the design phase of the studio, you should seriously consider participating in this exhibit/competition to see how your colleagues around the world are working.  If you have doubts, take a look at the Archcollective Blog and see what other students have already been posting.  INDA students do great work and you should be proud to show it!

Monday, February 21, 2011

INDA Lecture Tuesday at 5pm from Michael Lazarin

Michael Lazarin, a professor from Ryukoku University in Kyoto, will give a talk on in-between space of Japanese domestic architecture. The lecture will be on this Tuesday (2/22) instead of Wednesday (2/23) as previously stated in the poster. The room is also changed to room 319.

Michael Lazarin was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1950. As an undergraduate, he was a double major in mechanical engineering and philosophy. He received a Ph.D. from Duquesne University in 1980, with a dissertation on Heidegger and Hölderlin, directed by Father Andre Schuwer. He taught literature and philosophy in China from 1982-84 and since then in Japan. Lazarin teaches Western literature and art history at the undergraduate level at Ryukoku University, a 370 year-old Buddhist university in Kyoto. His graduate seminar is a three-year rotation of Aristotle’s Poetics, Nietzches’s Birth of Tragedy, and Heidegger’s poetics.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Chao Phraya River Flooding Resources

Flood Mitigation Master Plan for Chao Phraya River by Suphat Vongvisessomjai  

Chao Phraya River: Paddy Field Irrigation Area in Tidal Deposit by Suphat Vongvisessomjai


Flood management in Chao Phraya River basin by Siripong Hungspreug, Wirat Khao-uppatum, Suwit Thanopanuwat



Irrigation Efficiency of the Greater Chao Phraya and the Greater Mae Klong Irrigation Projects by Varawoot Vudhivanich, Singha  Pajongkitkran, Adisak  Bunpian, and  Nimit  Cherdchanpipat

International Rice Research Institute


Tan,

The IRRI provides lots of statistics that should be useful in your research on the varieties of rice and farming methods.  Click the link above to learn more.

A written summary is also available here in a document on the fundamentals of rice production.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Narut have a look.

I found this project that resembles your skyscraper project but is also interesting in the sense that.... landscape is many times made from the leftover/residue spaces from architecture... but here landscape becomes the core program and that the infrastructure then becomes the support of it... its just this shift of roles that I find interesting. 

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Underpass Park, Toronto

 
Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, a leading landscape architecture firm, is working with The Planning Partnership to create a new underpass park, which will be located near the firm’s hybrid park / water treatment facility now under development. The degraded area beneath the highway overpass in Toronto’s West Don Lands will become a 2.5-acre park. The underpass park adds another piece to the ambitious Waterfront Toronto redevelopment.

IIT Student Center

Click here to learn more about the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) student center that is located beneath a public train infrastructure.

Urban Design Reviews TODAY, too!

The planning department reviews are going on today, too.  It turns out that the projects are from the urban design thesis group.  The sites, designs, and analysis are directly related to your work and it would be smart to see the presentations/models/drawings.  Take advantage of being part of a larger faculty and come see what your future colleagues are doing!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Next Meeting Time?


Official class will not be held on Friday for Makha Bucha.  It is important that we meet soon to keep you on track for the midreview.  We can meet individually for our next session which means we can arrange a session that is most convenient for you.  I am available…


Thursday from 8am to 11am and 3pm to 5pm @Arch Library
Friday from 9am to 2pm @ TCDC
Saturday from 9am to 6pm @ TCDC

Please comment with your preferred 30 minute timeslot.  If it is impossible for you to meet at any of these times, please let me know.  Thanks!

Chula Planning/Urban Design Thesis Reviews Today


  

The Urban Planning department thesis students will have their final review in the main gallery all day today.  All of the presentation drawings and models are already in the gallery and I think it would be very good for all of you to hear the discussions as you get ready for your own midreview.  Many of the sites these students are dealing with include parts of Bangkok you might work within so maybe you’ll see some valuable data!  If you are available, this will be time well spent.

From what I understand, each project was created by individual students during a single semester, just like you…  

Phed presentation as of 15Feb11

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Presentations on Tuesday in room 405 at 9am

I will have a projector prepared in studio.  Aj Kerrie will be a guest critic. Please bring your slides, videos, models, and any prints by 9am. Presentation order to be announced at the start of class.

You will present your case studies projects (local and foreign) for no more than five minutes each.  After that, you will have at least ten slides to present your diagrams related to your research up to this point and thoughts on possible site selection or design project.  We will spend roughly 30 minutes on each person total.  As with anything else, cite your sources properly.

Comment with any comments or anything else.

Best,
Aj. Nilay

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Class today

Thank you all for bringing your research progress to class today. You all have signs of much more focused projects than last week and seem MUCH more confident with the direction of your projects. Continue working and I will contact you with comments on our meeting and details for your pinup on Tuesday. You have a solid week to work and I expect lots of great drawings, diagrams, and analysis of your research and case studies.

Best,
ajNM

Bangkok zoning

http://office.bangkok.go.th/iad/document/section4_1.pdf

Monday, February 7, 2011

tomorrow

We are not going to the expo tomorrow na ha.Instead desk crits in 405,instead.: )

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Case study : Conceptual model















First Basic Research Paper Outline

Intro…

The different ways that we now communicate using technology
  • · How we communicate before / meetings up / transportation / delay in communication
  • · Changes in the way we communicate / always accessible / pros and cons

o The concept of networking, expanding and making more connection and maintaining current network.

  • · How it affect us? / our tolerance in delays in time / punctuality
  • · Globalization > travel > distance in communication / overcoming disabilities
  • · Resources always available through mobiles GPRS and how that affects our behaviour in travelling

Different types of communication online

  • · Virtual space analysis / different interaction via different mediums
  • · Key ingredient in making them successful i.e. number of users, time, content, participation
  • · Increase in users as the web becomes more accessible / premade blogs and simple interfaces
  • · Good aspect of this
  • · Typology of the web / demographic of the users / ages / etc

How telecommunication technology changes how people use space

  • · Case studies of some related art installations
  • · Effects on public spaces
  • · Shift in urban functions (finance, commerce, admin) has been transfer to a digital one from face-to-face relationship (online banking, shopping, etc) to reduce manpower and create more profit.
  • · Online shopping has led to a change in different ways (daily events of the customers, change in the way items are stored and transported, etc)

Face-to-face function --> [Information via net, email sending with specific request, filling electronic forms via net, tele-service, interactive transactions] --> Virtual functions

From real functions to the virtual functions, steps of the metamorphosis process.1

  • · Changes in the way we use our city

o The loss of meaning and effectiveness in the current town planning as the number of urban move is decreasing. 1

  • · How people communicate & gather
Differences in physical interaction to telecommunication
  • · What can’t telecommunication offer them

o Technology may make long distance communication an easy process, it offers only the disembodied and de-materialized kind 2

o Family obligation and expectation to be presence.

  • · Importance of physical presence in family / physical travel to maintain long-term connections.

o When people meet face-to-face for work, for family life, or for friendship, this normally involves long distance travel for some or all of the participants.2

  • · The need for people to experience sufficient physical travel rather than fully replying on telecommunication technology.

1 The Virtualization of Urban Functions

2 Social Network and Mobile Lives


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sunday meeting sign up list

Timeslots are below.  Comment to this post to sign up.

100-130
130-200
215-245
245-315
330-400
430-500
515-545

Friday, February 4, 2011

LDN Flowprint from URBANGRAM


http://www.urbagram.net/v1/show/Flowprint

Living systems, from cells to human society, can be analysed in terms of interactions within and between complex networks of interconnected components. Likewise, cities can be considered “flows of people, vehicles and information” (Sheller, 2004) transported along diverse urban networks. In this Flowprint of London, the city’s extensive bus network is used to sketch an animated portrait of the living city.

Each dot is a bus adhering to one of the 744 routes that make up the transport network. Brighter flows are visible where buses overlap, allowing us to see areas of high flow intensity emerge. Structural aspects of the network come alive through the simulation process, as we incrementally introduce more buses into the model.

CLASS MEETING ON SUNDAY

Let's meet at TCDC at 1pm to discuss your research.  Comments from today's conversation to follow shortly!

Best.
-Aj. Nilay

research statement - expanded Phed.

The city of Bangkok was initially designed for water-based urbanism, in conjunction with the precedented conditions of the Chao Phraya river, taking references to the well-suited system of those in Ayuddhaya and Sukotai. The injection of European land-based urbanism, particularly the road system in 1857, has steered the urban growth of Bangkok in a self-contradicting, paradoxical, chaotic way. The un-premeditated introjection of the a foreign system without digestion and understanding of their precedents has mobilized Bangkok in ways where systems either work against each other, or one dominate while the other reside as urban voids — as ‘uncivilized, low-tech, un-modernized.
To take the above statement into consideration, one must first investigate the come-abouts of such occurrences and respect each specific state as just a part of a larger continuum and extract those factors that has affected them.
One can argue that the social life or lifestyles are results of precedented conditions that is beyond ancestral or cultural, but that is predominantly affected by the very physical conditions of there geographical region; an adapted typology. If that is the case, then one need to also understand that the condition of paradox that Bangkok is in, is possibly the result of such nature, where the old Siam culture was driven by the river basin and water-based ideology, but the sudden injection of foreign systems has led to the lack of understanding of the urban typologies that must be driven from regional contextual conditions; a water-based culture that has enforced land-based infrastructure.

Water-based urbanism:
“Amphibious and aquatic-tidal [urbanism] presupposes a high degree of efficient but minimal planning” Jumsai, S. : Naga: p97
Such understanding of the water-based urbanism with extensive observations of current canal conditions and the communities that interact with the waterfront should allow for the development of a more workable and well-suited typology of what ever it is that the city needs that could be adapted from these ‘urban voids’
— that is… to develop the right edge condition for maximum interaction and efficient use of the existing canal; artificial natural infrastructure.

Building a Park out of Waste


Building a Park Out of Waste from ASLA on Vimeo.


For your design interventions, you are more than welcome to demolish an existing building to create a landscape....

Class on Sunday?

Are you all free on Sunday to meet at TCDC?

Maty Bibliography (for now)

1.Thailand. Department of City Planing; Bangkok Metropolitan administrator . The Bangkok Comprehensive Plan (1st Revised Edition) in 1999. http://www.bma-cpd.go.th/cpd/eng-map2.html.

2.Bangkok Metropolitan administrator. Bangkok, : Thailand, 2011.

3. "Bangkok's zoning Guidelines"; The Bangkok Post 30 Jan.2006

4. "How new zoning Regulation will affect the Bangkok property market"; Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) June 20, 2006

5. Zoning map of Bangkok in 1999 and 2006
After read " from Topic to Questions" I have come up with basic outline for the paper and question that i could investigate on.
such as 1. what are the different from the Past and now ?
2. what cause the change ? by population or is it the influence from else where?
3. what are the consideration that create Zoning in Bangkok?
4. Comparing the past Zoning and today: the positive and the negative of it.

Tan- Revised Statement and Bibliography (for now)


I have below revised the statement for my thesis research by further specifying an event in history which I think could possibly play a major role in the paper: 




The Greater Chao Phraya Project (1953- 1981) is considered as Asia’s largest irrigation project. It is proof of Thai civilizations’ dependency on river systems for economic and social growth, with its initial purpose in exporting rice to alleviate world-wide food shortages after the Second World War. However, while the project resulted in sizeable productivity gain, it did not justify the expenditure to build the systems causing several negative aspects, the major being higher demand for water leading to water shortages.


To benefit from natural ecology requires great concern for consequences that arise naturally, out of human control that thus the Greater Chao Phraya project might have lacked. Could this be proof of an interaction between social and natural ecology that is deficient in linkage with one another? If the project had resulted or played a role similar to a new ecological system that “ties” the river systems and its major benefiters together, would the scheme have resulted more successfully?





Bibliography: 


  • Environmental Research Insutitute Chulalongkorn University. Canal. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, 1994


  • Molle, Francois, and Thippawal Srijantr. Thailand’s Rice Bowl: Perspective on Agricultural and Social Change in the Chao Phraya Delta. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2003.


  • Onsuwan Eyre, Chureekamol. Prehistoric and Proto-Historic Communities in the Eastern Upper Chao Phraya River Valley, Thailand: Analysis of Site Chronology, Settlement Patterns, and Land Use. Pennsylvania: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2006.


  • Sternstein, L. Plan of Bangkok B.E. 2479 (A.D. 1936). Bangkok: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, 1986.


  • Tomosugi, Takashi. Changing Features of a Rice-Growing Village in Central Thailand: A Fixed Point Study from 1967-1993. Tokyo: Center for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, 1995.


  • Van Beek, Steve. The Chao Phya River in Transition. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995.


Revise Research Statment: Mint

As a continuation from Tuesday I came up with a few ideas that I found interesting and worth investigating in further. The paragraphs below are more like ideas for the research statement rather than the statement itself.

The probability of effectively relocating the “virtual presence” of one party with physical presence, particularly from the form of teleconference, distance-learning, peer-to-peer communication and social networking to public spaces, which could lead to a change in relationship between users generating a closer bond for these with different geographical locations, age groups and/or interests.

In favour of John Urry’s conclusion in “Social Networks and Mobile Lives” paper stating that the state of co-presence (virtual presence) could never replace embodied conversations that “involves food, drink, music and a shared physical place, places temporarily full of life and affect.” Knowing this, we could increase the intimacy in communication by creating a hybrid between the two-presence state integrating teleconference technologies with a physical space.
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As Information and communication technologies (ITC) advances, dematerialisation start to take place within our work environment and our everyday life resulting in a new pattern of territorial use with the possibility to work from home. This could potentially increase physical interaction in the neighbourhood as people spend more time around home.

By using social interaction via cell phones, PCs and other digital multimedia devices we could attempt to shape group interaction within settlements towards public spaces such as entertainment spaces, leisure areas, parks to increase urban quality and transform community engagement.



I think these ideas could be linked and possibly refined into one research statement. I am also fascinated by the idea of dematerialisation and its future growth and limitations but have yet found a detailed source on it.

Bibliography

Fusero, P. (2008). E-City: Digital Networks and Cities of the Future. Spain: ListLab Internation Lab of Publishing Strategies

Farkas, M.G. (2007). Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. U.S.: Information Today, Inc.

Castalls, M. "The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" Geof. 2005
< http://www.geof.net/research/2005/castells-network-society >

Urry, J. "Social Networks and Mobile Lives" UK Transport Research Centre.
< http://www.uktrc.ac.uk/documents/se1/JohnUrry_presentation.pdf >

Fistola, R. and La Rocca, R.A. "The Virtualization of Urban Functions" La recherche, Université Paul-Valéry. 2001 < http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/netcom_labs/volumes/articlesV151/Netcom39-48.pdf >

Aurigi, A. and De Cindio, F. (2008) Augmented Urban Spaces (Design and the Built Environment). England:Ashgate Publishing Limited.