mapping paths

diagramming density and flow of sound and people relative to path through barri gottic in barcelona [2006]

and separately coded to model of city. yours would be integrated into layers of a drawing…

space frontier

from ny times about a de monchaux studio at berkley that, coincidentally, used GIS in a similar way as we will in ARCH202 for project 2 [especially part 2.2] mapping and reappropriating neglected city space in charlottesville:

There’s a staggering glut of empty space around the country right now, unused space that’s not doing anyone much good. That in itself isn’t new; what is unprecedented is our ability to visualize that data in an entirely new ways.

live the skeletons

project archives from coloco, operating from paris.

The skeletons are structures without frontages. These buildings testify to very diverse anomalies in the good progress of the operations of construction.
Given up, unfinished or partially destroyed, their silhouettes point out the destruction as much as construction.

construction halting?

from november 13, 2008 report at dailyprogress.com:

Construction on the nine-story, 100-room luxury hotel on the Downtown Mall is about to grind to a halt — or is it?

hotel facade

from october 22, 2008 report at cvilletomorrow.com:

The developer of the new Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall has been granted conditional permission to tear down the black granite façade that is the last standing remnant of the former Boxer Learning Building.

hotel ideas

from a march 01, 2007 report in the hook:

Indeed, architects learned that the old Boxer/Central Fidelity building was originally two buildings before the bank renovation in 1965, and that the eastern half of the building was the original home of Woolworth’s, which opened in the early 1920s and operated there for nearly 40 years. They also learned that the building may have been the only bank in the United States to be opened at the height of the Great Depression in 1931.

The Downtown Mall before it was pedestrian, and the Central Fidelity Bank building before it took over the nearby Woolworth’s building and added the black granite facade in 1965. Now it’s poised to become the ritzy “Beacon.” [photo courtesy: Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society]