"After observing the first twenty minutes of the hour at 3am, 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm, and 11pm we created graphs of the northbound and southbound pedestrian activity. These became core samples in a larger surface which represents our map. Although defined by the specific core samples (black lines) the surface that resulted from our investigation started to have spatial implications ... Next we were asked to consider how this abstract graph or map could be worked back into the site as a step towards something architectural. The graph itself forms a canopy and begins to respond to the actual site by flowing around the corner and across the street ... As a final phase of this one week project we were asked to consider how the map could become an intervention into the site."
And what 'happened' next is quite astonishing - a proposed canopy based around this graph of traffic flows, which collects water, droops, and deposits it on the sidewalk, cleaning the urban detritus off the streets. There's something a little Travis Bickle [.wav] about the whole thing - albeit in a good way(!) - but it's a really interesting theoretical intervention none the less - the structure is implicitly composed from the activity in the area; therefore the process of cleaning is visibly integrated into the fabric of the street.
[Thanks to allaboutgeorge for the tip]
