FIELD OF MEMORY

To explore the city as an object it is necessary to first identify the objects within the city. Through a series of figure–ground plans this discourse will analyse and establish objects in space. Repeating the process of drawing the plan at different scales enables an approach that catalogues the geometric and spatial configurations created within the city. These series of shapes and spaces will identify the circulation of the city, the autonomous forms that exist, and the function of the specific object architecturally and why this is an important aspect that makes up the city. Arranging these objects will generate a speculative classification of objects of the city. In Stan Allen’s essay From object to Field it states that:

“elements in the modern city are linked together in open ended networks”

-Practice: Architecture Technique + Representation,

Stan Allen, 2009

These elements within the spatial forms are coherent, yet singularly they have their own identity. The identity of specific elements/objects is the focal point, questioning whether certain objects can hold memories and affect behaviours of human experience. Additionally, we can look at objects as a way of interference, obstructions, and rules. They set boundaries and limitations, causing crowds of people to react in a specific way to each individual space. Each environment is unique dependent on different variations, of the same principle, a field of objects.