URBAN DESIGN STUDIO/ FALL - 95
PROBES
HARLEM
Marva Titley
Marva Titley Notes from Final Juries by Brian Mc Grath
Final Jurors; Irena Latek, Sharon Haar, Mark Robbins, Audrey Matlock, Lauretta Vinciarelli, Claus Herdeg, Scott Marble, Richard Plunz, Modjeh Baratloo.
Claus Herdeg:Interupting presentation...Problem of representation, coloring the open space black and buildings black.... a notation problem....hard to read drawings
Sharon Haar liked the weaving of the project and the spaces, she found it very interesting idea, reading the city like an old fabric, weaving space through streets...
Audrey Matlock; the unorthodox representation makes you look hard at the piece to try to figure it out/ the street is not clear/suspects the project is about rethinking the street in the city/ turning the street inside out in a way/ hidden agenda to eliminate the street? fascinating idea/ daring about rethinking the street in the city/ turning the street inside out in a way/ hidden agenda to eliminate the street? fascinating idea/ daring and scary.
Lauretta Vinciarelli; That an important point/ proposing a new type of connection in the city/ she doubted that it would be good in relation to the existing??the project provided an alternative discourse, hoping to provide a deepening of the esperience of nature in a new space/ in some ways it was like old fashioned zoning?needed to be more specific.
Mark Robbins; Street closing as proposed can be disastrous..like malls. Need to distinguish between vacant buildings and void space, both abandoned but different, the empty structure remains on one site but shown as same. Audrey Matlock; what is the nature of vacant space--pedestrian or vehicle? What is a street.? Seeing through the depth to the rear lot line versus frontality of street/facades which front street.Streets are frontal and need an eleemnt of continuity set against cuts through the block.
Irena Latek; The Density problem was very important. This was autonomous
public space. Normally public space in the city was contained by the
private space surrounding it. You can do that romantic public space in
public space.
Normally public space in the city was contained by the
private space surrounding it. You can do that romantic public space in
dense cities but you can't do it in low density situations-- cant do a
galleria in a void, not enough private space--same situation applied
here--not enough private space to support the public space.
Sharon Haar; new housing would add density/need new uses to make spaces vital.
Richard Plunz; The street should have been shown; suspected that Marva got carried away in artistic proceess of drawing, preoccupied with making patterns and no longer thought what patterns meant.