{"id":3624,"date":"2015-12-21T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2015\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2015-12-21T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:59:27","slug":"3624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2015\/2015\/12\/21\/3624\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Discourse on these \u2018other\u2019 spaces covers a wide range of philosophical and political meanings, and usually under the assumption that there is a universal \u2018other\u2019. With the introduction of heterotopia, the more mundane areas of everyday life that can, too, be construed as heterotypic are largely ignored. What if there are \u2018other\u2019 architecture to explore\u2014ones that are less hermetic and more engaged with individuals\u2019 physical lives? Guy Debord introduced the idea of the \u2018derive\u2019 or\u00a0 \u2018drifting\u2019\u2014a mindless wandering around the city that could open up existing environment to new considerations that involves playful-constructive behaviour and awareness of psychogeographical effects. Thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll, these mappings offers new considerations in viewing the urban context, and seeing the city in a more fragmented pattern.<\/p>\n Artists and architects also look at methods of looking at space through fragmentation of what is unfamiliar. By studying the idea of the horizon and horizontality in landscape and architecture, or how the human eye captures and records its environments, the difference between the human gaze and the gaze of the photographic camera are then rebuilt into a fragmented collage. These images become something else \u2014 a new form that is neither representative nor derivative of the original landscape.<\/p>\n Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. This analysis extracts slices from the source image that retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.<\/p>\n These types of fragmentation can also be seen elsewhere, with the current mediation between architecture and digital mapping tools, especially in cases where architects have to rely on these to solely construct their projects(?). This thesis aims to explore the idea of \u2018other\u2019 spaces by looking at methods of looking at space through the fragmented information provided by digital mapping tools. The architecture shall mediate the hidden in-between spaces that are not perceivable through digital mapping, but visible in current context.<\/p>\n What?<\/strong><\/p>\n