Multiple Scales Of The Big-Box Corridor

A site is influenced by and operates at a multitude of scales, ranging from the metropolitan to the regional, to the local.

At the metropolitan scale, a site serves as a detail, often as a component that results from a larger planning scheme or ecological system. The reading and legibility of the site at the metropolitan scale is more diagrammatic than visible.

The site is directly engaged by its context at the regional scale. Hard and soft edges attempt to define limits and boundaries, while controlling access to the site. Overall organizational relationships to a site's context are apparent at this scale.

The local scale of a site describes a site's internal spatial and organizational relationships. Physical and material relationships are described relative to the programmatic organization of the site. At the local scale, the oppositional system of pairs is at it's strongest - pairs such as figure/ground, object/space, here/there, and stim/dross attempt to simplify both the reading and use of the site experience.

Previously [theboxtank]

Comments

[konagod]

Did you move that thing into the box yet

[konagod]

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There was supposed to be that.

[Marisa]

shouldn't you be quoting Henri Lefebvre in this post? He laid this out in Urban Revolutions.