Alex Spautz Thesis Presentation 110906

interstitialAlex Spautz Thesis Presentation - Summer 2011Advisor: Nataly Gattegno

interstitial Alex Spautz - Thesis Manual - Summer 2011

in·ter·sti·tial adj \ˌin-tər-ˈsti-shəl\ \

1 : relating to or situated in the interstices

2 : a : situated within but not restricted to or characteristic of a particular organ or tissue —used especially of fibrous tissue b : affecting the interstitial tissues of an organ or part

3 : being or relating to a crystalline compound in which usually small atoms or ions of a nonmetal occupy holes between the larger metal atoms or ions in the crystal lattice

in·ter·stice noun \in-ˈtər-stəs\

1 : a : a space that intervenes between things; especially : one between closely spaced things <interstices of a wall> b : a gap or break in something generally continuous <the interstices of society> <passages of genuine literary merit in the interstices of the ludicrous … plots — Joyce Carol Oates>

2 : a short space of time between events


intersitial is...

an in between spacenow, in the present (between past and future)does not exist on its own has an environment (there are things around it)part of a larger systemhybridizedmarginalon an edgepart of a connectioncontaining overlapa barrieraccidentalleft overignoreduglybanal


InfrastructureGran Via de Les Corts Catalanes Sector Llevant

Arriola & Fiol ArquitectesBarcelona, Spain


BIG - Bjark Ingels GroupInfrastructure

Modern Loop City Copenhagen Light Rail Copenhagen, Denmark


Master PlanMadrid Rio

West 8 + MRIO arquitectos Madrid, Spain


Master PlanBorneo-Sporenburg

West 8Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Proposals for Relieving Traffic Congestion By Separating Vehicles and Pedestrian TrafficHistory / Theory

New York, NY 1910


Proposals for Relieving Traffic Congestion By Separating Vehicles and Pedestrian TrafficHistory / Theory

Harvey Wiley Corbett, New York, NY 1931In Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas


New Administrative Capital, South KoreaTheory

KGDVSInternational Competition, 1st Prize, with Dogma 2005


Extreme EnvironmentsDistributed Ecologies

Robert ShepherdSan Francisco, CA


Extreme EnvironmentsKeret House

CentralaWarsaw, Poland, 2011


Bibiliography


Bibiliography

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Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York. The Monacelli Press. 1997.

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Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge: Harvard Univer-sity Press. 2009.

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Sharpsteen, William Crittenden. SFMuseum.org. Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco: Notes on Mission Bay and the Marshes and Creeks of the Potreros and the Bernal Rancho. <http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/vanish.html> Accessed May 2011.

Von Humboldt, Alexander. Essay on the Geography of Plants. University Of Chicago Press; Har/Pstr edition. 2010

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Woodbridge, Sally B., and Rumsey David. San Francisco in Maps & Views. New York: Rizzoli International Publi-cations, Inc, 2006.


intersticesfinding + understanding


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Mission Bay


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Alex Spautz Thesis Presentation 110906