Mid Jury Reactions

Human scale:
Obviously lacking in most of our presentations.
-Address it by combining the next reaction of:

Zooming In
-Where do the interventions work the best?
--Focus in on these to get the pint across and then move on from there, provide a few different examples for the much discussed variation and evolution in program.


Support Space
-What do the users do after they are done with the art?
--Mixed-use space and support facilities, i.e. hotels, shopping, restaurants, ampitheater (already in place and in schematic / hypothetical phases

Embrace the open space, lead the user to the art with the architecture and show it to them, don't force the art on them, they will not realize it is actually considered 'art.'
-Red Trevi Fountain (again)

Find a larger theme
-Hadrian's Villa
-Disney
--A palace of spatial experience

Link the art to the history and to the specific site
-What?

Create guidelines of interventions
-What, where, parameters, etc.
--Battery Park

Overlying theory
-Individual narratives and experiences
--Numbers of users
--Numbers of artists

Seeding into the city
-Already shown, but needs to be reinforced

Images/Brief Reactions

Image 1: Reading Yard facing south ca. 1945

Image 2: Reading Yard from the 'mountain'

Image 3: Aerial image of Reading Yard

All show dense city grid surrounding site... Have to get more organized on the presentation side of things, so I will be organizing a Ppt for the history of the site and surrounding neighborhoods/edge conditions to get that more across than I have up to this point.

Also, more art needs to be shown, the likes of Christo, Tacha, Jansen, Serra, DAIM, GRL, etc. to allow the jurors to see what scale of art is possible here and WHY it is so much more convenient and better than MoMA, D:B, GFS, SK etc.

Placement of parkway next to overall site plan for idea of immense scale.

Thesis statement!

Updated map with section lines and newer info.

Topo map @ same scale

Transportation lines notated.

Emphasize how the site meets the neighborhood, and how this will branch out into the community and how the community will reach in to the site.

More later.