TIMES IN TRANSITIONS: INDUSTRIAL PARK, LONG ISLAND
Group members:
Binh Wong
Aimee Messina
Ta-Chiun Chou
Shiang-Ying Chen
The site construction presents experiential moments found at the interconnections between infrastructure, daily residential and commercial activities, adjacencies between public and private spaces, residential boundaries, and Grumman's history. Scalar relationships are connected by an emphasis on the railway system and highway infrastructure, as the main organizing mechanisms of the site at multiple scales. Through the re-mapping of these networks, layers of activities become intensified by the slippage between scales that occurs in the duration of experiential movements. This study defines the site through Times in Transitions. It looks at many interlocking experiences: everyday practices such as the time it takes residents to travel to and from work or acquire the necessities of every day life; the transitional development of suburban Long Island in fragments; the momentary and periodic combinations and culminations of vehicular, locomotive, and pedestrian movements through activities; and through transitions of adjacent districts and neighborhoods with their reaction and interaction to existing forces and frictions.