Interaction
New York City brings me something new and interesting to explore and to love with every time when I am here. Today’s trip brought me a new perspective of landscape designs, especially the relationship between the landscape and the architecture.
Besides the central park, every place else in Manhattan is almost stacked up by groups of the buildings, buildings, and buildings. With the limited size of land, a green space seems to be a little bit extravagant in this highly crowded island. On the other hand, some spaces in the architecture or of the land here were not well used, which became as the wasting of space. But in those landscape sites we visited today, the designer renovated the wasted or abandoned areas and the spaces within the architecture into the well-developed green spaces, which created this win-win situation. In this case, the architecture and the landscape are interacted with each other and affect each other in forms, circulations, and functional uses. For instance, the high line was a trail way for transporting the foods and products above of the “Death Ave”. It was a nasty meat fabrication factory for a long time, but now as the abandoned high line turns into an upper-level park, the whole community changed into a different atmosphere. The buildings surround it are making high line as part of the design element, so we can see in the pictures there are some buildings’ facades are curved out in order to make the architectural spaces have a broader view of the high line. Some buildings have the open space adjacent to the high line, some buildings’ roof level were built as the same as high line’s level. Those designs were all making high line as part of their green space and engaged with the circulation of high line. As I took some pictures of the window advertisements, I would consider the background decoration in the window is the landscape, and the logo and name of the brand is the architecture. One bouquet of flower cannot show the meaning, but a bunch of them could be organized into different schemes.
During today’s walk, another very interesting thing we discussed about is the “ground level”. The ground level of the High Line is above the street. The ground level of the midtown park is the ceiling level of the public library. The ground level of the water pools in the fifth Ave is the ceiling level of the apple store. The ground level of the artificial roof garden is the ceiling level of MOMA… etc. I really prefer this solution that using one element into different conditions and supporting different usage, which not only avoid the wasting of spaces but also created the relationship of the landscape. And also brings the feeling of changing situation.
New York City brings me something new and interesting to explore and to love with every time when I am here. Today’s trip brought me a new perspective of landscape designs, especially the relationship between the landscape and the architecture.
Besides the central park, every place else in Manhattan is almost stacked up by groups of the buildings, buildings, and buildings. With the limited size of land, a green space seems to be a little bit extravagant in this highly crowded island. On the other hand, some spaces in the architecture or of the land here were not well used, which became as the wasting of space. But in those landscape sites we visited today, the designer renovated the wasted or abandoned areas and the spaces within the architecture into the well-developed green spaces, which created this win-win situation. In this case, the architecture and the landscape are interacted with each other and affect each other in forms, circulations, and functional uses. For instance, the high line was a trail way for transporting the foods and products above of the “Death Ave”. It was a nasty meat fabrication factory for a long time, but now as the abandoned high line turns into an upper-level park, the whole community changed into a different atmosphere. The buildings surround it are making high line as part of the design element, so we can see in the pictures there are some buildings’ facades are curved out in order to make the architectural spaces have a broader view of the high line. Some buildings have the open space adjacent to the high line, some buildings’ roof level were built as the same as high line’s level. Those designs were all making high line as part of their green space and engaged with the circulation of high line. As I took some pictures of the window advertisements, I would consider the background decoration in the window is the landscape, and the logo and name of the brand is the architecture. One bouquet of flower cannot show the meaning, but a bunch of them could be organized into different schemes.
During today’s walk, another very interesting thing we discussed about is the “ground level”. The ground level of the High Line is above the street. The ground level of the midtown park is the ceiling level of the public library. The ground level of the water pools in the fifth Ave is the ceiling level of the apple store. The ground level of the artificial roof garden is the ceiling level of MOMA… etc. I really prefer this solution that using one element into different conditions and supporting different usage, which not only avoid the wasting of spaces but also created the relationship of the landscape. And also brings the feeling of changing situation.
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