Post 2/25 Meeting

Looking at new case studies of retractable roof systems and their components/structures due to their similarities with trains and movable floors and platforms. If an artist requires larger platforms, screens, etc., tracks that are laying around the site unused can easily be relocated and connected to the existing network of rails to provide easy configuration of installation space. As these platforms (probably of boxcar proportion, 5:1) are manipulated and shifted, they may block certain vistas and pathways, forcing users around them and revealing other works of art.


Above: Images from site of unused tracks being 'stored' adjacent to the active rails.
Possibility for more interaction between the surrounding community and the site and its artwork. This adjacent structure lies on the east side of the site and can serve as a blank canvas or projection screen for various art forms. The works projected or placed on this building can be continually altered to provide a variation in the program and layout. Due to its large size, the structure is visible from all around the site itself as well as from various areas outside of the street, which can form nodes with its artwork and draw further interest to the site.
Sketchup model of site as is... In place are all of the remaining buildings and most of the tracks.