the semester has started at su, and it begins with a rather dismal program: a convenience store + recreational area in an impoverished neighborhood. the diagram above (currently in progress) describes crime activity in the area of our site within the last year or so.
convenience stores are magnets for crime, so i'm working to prepare the little guy for a good ole fashioned drive-by (half kidding). i'm currently exploring the following issues:
1. surveillance (through achieving a type of self-policing)
-the panopticon
-actual surveillance systems (set up strictly to monitors, not to record activity)
2. transparency/light
-light transmitting concrete
-bright, sometimes ridiculously lit areas
3. respect for community
-keeping "patrician's snowflake bakery + limousine service" (though we are all sure that is a crack cover-up).
-using salvaged/re purposed materials from the site.
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