Program Ideas:

It would work well to situate my building or buildings on a site where there is a significant boundary dividing two communities, two groups of people, or many groups for that matter. To test my theories it would work best to have this boundary be large in scale, unsightly, or cumbersome. It would help for this boundary to be located in an urban setting because this implies wider demographics. This would afford me the opportunity to create a series of intervening boundaries and thresholds that act together to bridge the gaps, be them physical, cultural, etc. These boundaries and threshold moments would create a transition zone, which would “encourage the choreography of dynamic relationships among persons moving within their domains.” It will link together people which otherwise would remain separate.

This transition zone could have any number of residential, retail, educational, or infrastructural components that will undoubtedly combine and interact in perhaps uncommon ways. This will allow for the creation of additional boundaries and thresholds between the users of the specific programmatic elements. In effect the entire intervention will function, through boundaries and thresholds, as a connector as will each individual component.

It may work to have a “kit of parts” consisting of various types of boundary and threshold elements that can be employed in various situations with some form of underlying logic. This way type a) can be used in a situation such as blank and type b) in a situation such as blank so that the user can read the composition.