Phase 1: Diagramming the site
Episode 1.1 VisualNYC
Start to get familiar with the city of New York. We will analyze the territory of Manhattan, one of the five neighborhoods in NYC.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/neighbor/neighbor.pdf
http://www.ny.com/sights/neighborhoods
http://www.mustseenewyork.com/neighborhoods.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/nyc.html

Choose and explore 3 (three) of the following:

• City grid, districts, circulation north-south-east-west, street-systems, subway-system, tall buildings, important public buildings, horizontal voids, vertical voids, hierarchy of infrastructural systems, vertical and horizontal connections, access-exit to the city, bridges, tunnels, boats, paths of specific destinations, existing green spaces, congestion, densification, rarefaction, events, programmatic bands-stripes, layering of activities or of traces, people flow, cars flow, movement, in different hours, during the day, at night, courtyards, open spaces, residual islands, images, brands, signs, advertising, water, waterfront conditions, views, night life, day life, entertainment, attractions,…etc.
• Feel free to add and discover other conditions in the city.

Compose and print your research on a total of 6 (six) color pages in 11”x17” format.
Represent your research using:

• Collage of images, pictures, detailed images, simple given diagrams, simple mapping drawings, or any visual technique that could be useful to represent a city condition.
• Add some explanatory captions, short text or titles if necessary.
• Pages Layout is at your choice.

Save your final 6 pages into a folder called : visualNYC
Start to built-up a digital folder called: virtualNYC.
Collect all information, images, texts, materials, videos, and more you will use for this assignment into this folder.

Due on Wed, Jan. 16
Class pin-up