SETTLEMENT STUDY
With the research of the Kond village's settlement, this module was initiated. In order to work on a site, we were initially separated into groups. My site was the whole village. As I, with my group was mapping out the whole village. By walking and counting our steps we first mapped out the road in the village. Then the houses and vegetation.
This was the first iteration of the map of Kond we made without using any gadgets or web mapping platform. We also measured the contours and marked them at a 1.2metres interval.
Following the settlement studies, we began a new module based on the research of the Kond village settlement. Next, we began by reading the text from Hopscotch by Cortozor.
PAPERS scattered on the table. A hand (Wong's). A voice reads slowly, making mistakes, the l's like hooks, the e's indefinable. Notes, cards with words on them, a line of poetry in some language, the writer's kitchen. Another hand (Ronald's). A resonant voice that knows how to read. Greetings in a low voice to Ossip and to Oliveira who arrive contritely (Babs has gone to let them in, has received them with a knife in each hand). Cognac, golden light, the legend of the profanation of the Eucharist, a small De Staël. The topcoats can be left in the bedroom. A piece of sculpture by (perhaps) Brancusi.
Cortazar, Julio. Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) (p. 421). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I had the impression that a lot was occurring at once when reading the text. The wording was pretty descriptive as well, and I got the impression that it was improving upon some preexisting ideas. I also made a spatial apparatus that gives sense to the same. As I continued to work on the text, I created different iterations. And finished it off by designing an intervention on the site. As I selected to work on the public space. I had to redesign the gym space. The design of the rebuilt gym space was developed with the help of the spatial apparatus. Further I created a model of the rebuilt gym space using the site's contours.
The spatial apparatus
Intervention on the site, rebuilt gym space
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