PROJECT 1 : re-thinking a promenade

The semester will begin with an analysis of the city of St. Augustine and the construction of two urban interventions. We will engage with the city of St. Augustine at a many scales and times to produce an analytical interpretation [from analysis to synthesis] that will serve as the armature for interventions. The first two weeks are reserved for the analysis part of the exercise which will be the mapping, re-thinking and re-construction of a promenade connecting two sites that you will choose for your interventions.

The programmatic charge of the interventions will be developed by you as a narrative constructed upon the specific place characters of the two sites. The re-constructed promenade between the two sites will be an imaginary / speculative / synthetic armature based on the memory of the two sites merging into the experiential qualities of the walk space between them.

Thus, your own experience of both the sites and the itinerary between them is the necessary starting point for the exercise. Understanding the notion of ‘analysis’ in terms of ‘probing’ questions specifically asked to ‘do’ something, to ‘intervene’ with the original object rather than ‘representing’ it will be a main pedagogical concern throughout the term.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

St. George Street looking South



Tracing delicately along an edge, diminishing into the distance. A blanket of shade dominates the space, shadows lurk in the distance, emphasizing the jagged horizon.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Flagler College looking Southwest at King Street


Enmeshing & Time is Duration
Structural apertures unveil an ornamental light field defining a perpetual space and capturing a limited span of time. The time-colored dimension is found by a finite fragment in time intertwining with a gleaming expanse.


Inside the Basilica at Cathedral Place

Perspectival Space/Fluid Space
Parallax appears when a narrowing perspective leads through a directive space, guided by encompassing overhead and ground conditions, to a halting moment.

Order, Geometry, Proportion
Modular spaces bound a pulsating rhythm to force time and space to merge in a slanting pilgrimage.

Flagler College Courtyard

This is a section perspective, exploring the spatial boundaries created by the outer edges of Flagler College. The space is limited, yet open to the skies. There are different yet similar pockets of space that extend towards the center. A symmetrical pattern is established by the two buildings opposite each other. Overhangs provide another type of enclosure on a smaller scale.

Lightner Museum

Stretching columns lead vertically to a distinguished boundary to form a repeating threshold. An illuminated void is peaking through behind the repetition and order. Slightly tapered columns give a rhythmic overlay parallel to a spacious promenade.

Cathedral Basilica

A mixture of polished and refined materials surround a central pathway with perpendicular rows of seating. Slanted ceilings led to rhythmic thresholds set in pattern to illuminate the polished space created by proportional boundaries. Strategic carvings bring common geometric properties into focus atop rhythmic sequences of texture and material.

Monday, January 18, 2010

St. Augustine Gate


A threshold created by sharp shadows along the surfaces of an aging mass. The shadows create a new edge which blends rigid rough materials with that of a softer more forgiving terrain, giving birth to a new mass, carving sharp edges around the initial threshold.

St. Augustine City Gate

Twin guardians stood tall and sturdy at the threshold of the city. Their geometrical and symmetrical forms had suffered much aging and weathering. Sharp edge shadows defined their rough and broken skin.

Tripp Harrison Gallery


Isolate and aloof. Age and weather engraved their marks on the heavy stones. Constructed with geometry and order, rhythm flowed through their slender gaps. As time progressed through the sky, crisp shadow enmeshed the wrinkles of the aged surface.

St.George Street



Looking south. The enmeshing of materiality and shadow create a new edge on the ground plane. A datum is created defined by linked rectangular facades and shadows. Line of sight extends to the horizon accelerating the experience to the edge of the field.

Lightner Museum


Across a thin street. Repeating arches create rhythm and serve as portals to a promenade enclosed by another row of arches facing the interior, hinting at a centralized space. A large cubic mass punctured by small linear apertures, rises from behind the promenade creating a hierarchy of geometries on the façade of the structure