The final portion of the project was to assemble the data on to one slide from mapping out Fulton Street located in lower Manhattan of NY. The data here shows our original concept, the main idea discovered form data, and a three dimensional graph of data that we gathered. The following slides show how we came to choose this final study of the mapping.
We started this study by first walking to South Street Seaport and then recording materiality, directional change, and movement of pedestrians through the street on the way back to the PATH station.
Continuing the study, we realized The flow of traffic began slowing and quickening throughout Fulton street. We began to start documenting the different types of compression that occoured. This lead into our selection on a more precise location of fulton street to study.
The section of Fulton that we started concentrating on was the intersection of Dutch street. Fulton has major construction on it moving at a very slow pace. This was the contributing factor of compression on Fulton street. We began to study how people would move through the space at this specific location due to the fact of it bieng the only blind corner barricade on fulton street.
The data represented is gathered from various people moving though the barricade. We documented there speed and velocity.These graphs led us to our final data chart represented on the bottem of the first slide.
Once the data was represented, our next study was to create a model/tool to plug data into and represent the information physically, In this model, the user would plug in information by adjusting the nuts on the tierods. The tierods represent points of directional change. The nuts, in turn, moved the location of the rubber. This represented the movement of people and their speed. A liner was then placed over it and the model was then covered with plaster. The plaster would sink into the gaps created form the data and a mold was extracted. The mold then showed the intensity of people in respect to the movement paths chosen by them.