This will be the stage on and in which the generative experience will take place

After studying the imagined proposals for Manhattan and analysing there “development strategy” I created a series of game prototypes. In the games I’m experimenting with the transition between the development strategies.

In the diagram a few post down I illustrate how the imagined proposals exist on Manhattan as development strategies. How architectural proposals could be seen as objects and then how they could exist as a spatial configuration on a restricted stage like the island of Manhattan in this case. Some of them respect the existing grid and street pattern as well as the existing built environment while others ignore these altogether like the Superstudio; Continues Monument. In order to find a development strategy for my own imagined proposal I am in the process of creating a game environment which logic is based on the transformation between different development strategies.

This diagram is an attempt to map and categorize the different placements of objects on the island of Manhattan on a level of the imagined. Free of restrictions like; Social, legal, physical and moral laws. All of the projects shown above are still grounded in some kind of  physicality, gravity for once. Although most of them where never meant to be built  they still have  some kind of bodyness to them.

 The building will be huge and it should in it’s style, colour and geometry reflect the much more larger program inside the building. The most dynamic thing about architecture is always the people occupying it. Architecture should always make every effort to encourage its occupier to on every scale be more like they are in there full being, and the other way around. The manifesto for this building will on the bases of my dream research be more like a dream than the conventional way of which architecture is prepared and perceived, a structure of such complexity and diversity that there is impossible to perceive it as a whole from any point of view possible, like the dream. The building will have as little repetition as possible and in moving trough its spaces impossible to predict or maybe even imagine, a multidimensional labyrinth. This should also be the case of the out side where the building will be non monumental and faceless. There will be no way of telling the up from the down, back to front or in from out.  The spaces will also have a fine indefinable line between what power the architecture has over you, and what power you have over the architecture, how much the architecture can be changed by you and how much the architecture can change you, like in a dream. Due to the diverse and open sets of programs the architecture will be more like a city than a building. More like a set of ideas floating around. In order to strengthen this I will try to get the building as indefinable as possible when it comes to style by applying every style there is, colours and geometry will have no logical order or place.      

Everything in blue is directly related to the project

The game-engined used at this stage is the Farcry engine, SANDBOX.

The interactive environment created from the 3D-model, powered by dream logic. Here I imagined it being a multiplayer game where all players/dreamers percieves everything differently.