QUICK FIRE – REDESIGN THE ORDINARY
One design charette, two hours, five perspectives
*SCAFFOLD
Every city experiences growth and renovation that alters how we experience and interact with it on a daily basis. Dense, urban cities like New York City, Rome, Boston, London and Washington DC deal with this seemingly on a regular basis. NYC in particular feels like a constant construction site. The result of all of this construction in a city physically and visually covered in scaffolding. This often becomes an annoying, negative experience that fills our life with visual clutter.
Standardized scaffolding is quickly making for a homogenized look in cities. As both a spatial condition and a surface condition, scaffolding has the potential to raise many issues in design today involving innovative materials, sustainability, modular structure, form, graphics, video, texture, light and elements of nature influencing our senses. At the pedestrian scale, it acts as a threshold condition between public street and the private building façade; at the scale of the city, as a screen, a billboard, a piece of public infrastructure.
Standardized Scaffolding is often a thoughtless, simple byproduct of construction. How can we unlock it’s potential through design? How can you create more of an experience for pedestrians, worker, and the surrounding community in an economical way? How can scaffolding create a temporary positive experience?
You have two hours to respond to this challenge with an innovative design proposal. You may choose to address any scale of the problem or aspect of the experience and are only limited by the time allowed.
The jury will consist of your fellow students and KEM STUDIO.
