As-built drawings of the site

a. site context plan

b. elevation - facing magnet, facade facing street of several buildings

c. cross-sections - facing 4 directions - slow all elevations - window openings, bricks

Program on the Site - Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

The Edge of the Milieu

The milieu – anything in the air – spirit world part of milieu

“The milieu becomes a universal instrument of the dissolution of individualized organic synthesis in the anonymity of elements and universal movements.”

The Milieu The Courtyard - dissolution of the Public/Private Realm, obscuring of the domains of public and private – hidden and demand/require to be discovered

The Edge The Wall – cuts an edge – no man’s land, everyman’s land, Living on the edge, nothing is secure, nothing is constant – developed its own culture in the east end of West Berlin on the border of the Soviet controlled area

Counter-culture tradition challenging social behavior: the edge of norms and rules and borders - annual riots - formality/informality - attracted the marginalized - the edge of society - Jews, 70s & 80s squatters scene, artists, immigrants

Temporal Cycles: Intervention based on cycles/patterns of activity, situations/occurrences tucked behind buildings demanding/inviting discovery/exploration.

History of Change: Kruezberg’s population has completely changed twice in the last two decades. Society seems to live in a state of acceptance of constant change and upheaval, and they live in this state flux and change. (WWI, WWII, Quartered city 1945, Berlin Wall 1961, Collapse of Berlin Wall 1989) Each major event takes place around every twenty years. Twenty years are up when’s the next shoe going to fall?

Pressure Compression/Expansion of Space

Fragmentation searching for an identity: Watergate Electronic Club, Magnet Bar, Café Endlange, Berlin Yoga Raum

Relationship to the city/world in the center and at the edge: connection to the Spree, U1 Ubahn Schesisches Tor, Oberbaumstrasse Brueck, the former Wall, down the street from Siza’s ‘Bonjour Tristess,’ rock culture, US hip hop culture, Bollywood film German/Indian Production reach to India

perturbation

per.tur.ba.tion

-noun

1. the act of perturbing

2. the state of being perturbed.

3. mental disquiet, disturbance, or agitation.

4. astronomy. deviation of a celestial body from a regular orbit about its primary, cause by the presence of one or more other bodies that act upon the celestial body.

World English Dictionary

5. physics. a secondary influence on a system that modifies simple behavior, such as the effect of the other electrons on one electron in an atom.

6. astronomy. a small continuous deviation in the inclination and eccentricity of the orbit of a planet or comet, due to the attraction of neighboring planets.

Science Dictionary

7. a small change in a physical system, most often in a physical system at equilibrium that is disturbed from the outside.

8. variation in a designated orbit, as of a planet, that results from the influence one or more external bodies. Gravitational attraction between planets can cause perturbations and cause a planet to deviate from its expected orbit. Perturbations in the orbit of stars have led to the discovery of planetary systems outside our solar system.

http://dictionary.reference.com/

555 timer chip and sound generator

Here are three examples of circuits that have variable outputs. As the air pressure increases it forces the water in the tube up, completing an open circuit between two wires, acting like a switch, to then make a sound, beep, hum, signaling a change in pressure.

(source: http://home.cogeco.ca/~rpaisley4/LM555.html#4)

Collecting Materials & Supplies

Looking for materials (air/gases/liquids) that deflect easily to changes in air pressure.

Also looking at various liquids as to their various properties of:

Density

Viscosity

Conductivity

-because water is 13.6 x lighter than mercury it will climb that much faster and further than mercury as a barometer. As a result, it will reflect a more architectural scale.

-tubes ranging through several floors, was well as at several different levels and altitudes.

-the material needs to have a greater density than water, but is less viscous, and if is to become a switch, or pot then it needs to be conductive.

-need to determine if as the pressure along the tube changes does the relative capacitance along the tube change?

-water conductivity - electrolyte solution - can conduct electricity

(ion = wanderer in Greek)

-table salt NaCl electrolyte

Liquids Denser that Water Temp t (C) Density p (kg/m3)

water 4 1000

sulphuric acid (95% onc.) 20 1839

mercury 25 13590

iodine 25 4927

chloride 25 1560

bromine 25 3120

Conductivity

-iodine would make a great choice as a pressure sensitive material except that it is not conductive.

-the conductivity of water increase as the NaCl ratio increases.

(source www.horiba.com)

Salinity (density of salt in salt water) and conductivity. Liquid temperature 25 degrees C

NaCl density (w/v)% Conductivity (mS/cm)

0.1 2.0

0.5 9.2

1.0 17.6

1.5 25.6

2.0 33.0

The more Na+ and Cl- contained in water the more electricity is carried, and the higher the conductivity. Therefore if we know the conductivity of a sample of salt water, we can calculate just how salty the water is.