Friday, March 2, 2007

In my process to organize the various programs of our project, I've found it rather difficult to integrate the different users into one another's programs. I think this is largely due to the fact that it the users have been the organizational driver. This is where I take from OMA's proposal for the Parc de La Villette. OMA states, "The 'design' should be the proposition of a method that combines architectural specificity with programmatic indeterminacy." They describe the process of layering different general programmatic elements, such as circulation, connection, and planting. With this method they have achieved a certain degree of flexibility in their program which is capable of, "absorbing an infinite number of extensions of meaning."
Tschumi's proposal for the Parc de La Villette also resonated with me in it's description as, "combining a variety of activities that will encourage new attitudes and perspectives." This is exactly our objective with the program at Murano. Although I don't see a gridded system of follies as an effective model for our site, the way in which Tschumi organized program into point-like activities, linear activities, and surface activities, could be very useful in creating a more symbiotic relationship between the users of our program.

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