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AND TODAY WE COLLECT CITIES.

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INSTALLMENT

SETUP

Architecture has found its ultimate repository of vocabulary in the city.

Architects turn to the city, using it as a fountain of eternal novelties.

As the city eludes any comprehensive understanding,

new techniques of observation unveil ever new conditions.

This project positions itself in the trajectory of mapping a city:

dissecting the urban body from a curatorial perspective.

[Constructing an Ontology of the Normative]

Many times we hold the things against the light to find out something new about them.

One shifts the perspective, turns things to see what it, the unknown, actually is, or could become.

Here this method of naïve curiosity is recruited to find something out about a place we live in.

Manhattan. Let’s hold the city against the light.

[Questions to the Grid – Glimpses of the Sun]

The 1811 Grid of Manhattan is 28.9 degrees off the North-South orientation.

Due to this the city annually enters a cosmic phase, comparable to prehistoric Druid or Inca civilizations, where cities were laid out to follow cosmic events.

From the middle of June until the 4th of July, the sun is rising on the continued axes of 161 cross town streets. 161 sunrises, the trajectory of the earth around the sun, the city of skyscrapers now scrapes the cosmos, the streets brush and comb silently the space between sun and earth.

a) Juxtaposition ::: Aim of this project is to create a document of the city, in which life in the city is dissected complacent to the urban grid by the cosmic scalpel: the sun. 161 sunrises record, depict the myriad of events, proposes a method site specific to the geographic reality of Manhattan. Through the introduction of the solar movement’s concordance with the city grid a precision in dissecting the city is achieved. The record then collapses the distances into a single observable spatial unit: that of the exhibition space allowing for the juxtaposition of a site beyond the boundaries of perception.

b) Simultaneity ::: In Glimpses of the USA by Ray and Charles Eames similarity and difference in the lifestyles of the USA is revealed, constructed by a simultaneous recording of a daily cycle. This project takes the technique to explore parallel moments organized by the datum of the city: the grid. 161 sunrises organize the spontaneity, repetition and routine in the quotidian life of the metropolis. In the course of a 120 minutes event overlaps, sequences unfold: the time space of the city is documented on 200 feet interval.

c) Incision – Dissection ::: This anomaly or event is taken as a point of departure to investigate life in the city: explore the similarities through the differences and vice versa. The tool of the architect is the section: the anatomic cut through an object of investigation.

d) Spine: Broadway ::: The 161 recording units are deployed along Broadway. Broadway becomes the recording spine. Cameras are all facing East-South-East along the axes of the cross town streets.

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Phase I

Dissection

recording of a moment in the city. It comprises the preparation, scripting and coordination of the recording.

161 recording units are brought to a single standard, equipped with equal recording devices and settings.

Checklists, communication means and backup units are developed and deployed, recording teams are trained and briefed.

Synchronized on site recordings beginning 5:05am are conducted by the situated teams.

The emphasis of the project lies in the organization of the material necessary to conduct the simultaneous recording and in the orchestration and coordination of the capturing.

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Phase II

Recollection

Editing of recorded footage

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Phase III

Juxtaposition

Construction a space of a meta-sunrise of 161 suns framed by 161 street flights.

An installation space is adapted to host the display of the 161 recordings.

The installation shall be housed in a gallery space affiliated to the van Alen institute, the organization of the exhibition is to be conducted in coordination with the institute.

The space is to be furnished with projection surfaces as outlined in fig. 5.

Juxtaposition of the urban moments in real-time implies the synchronized emission of the 161 captured sunrise sequences.

The exhibition then is planned to be reconstructed at an exhibition venue in Vienna.

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Numbers

161 recording units + 3 Backup units

120 minutes continuous recording time, synchronized. June 21 2008, 5.05 – 7.05am

322 hours of footage

110 feet long wall surface in a gallery space with 161 projection units

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Further levels in the project – expanding the document.

21st of June is the longest day in the year and the climax of the period in which the city aligns to the sun. The exploration faces the direction of the rising sun, an array of parallel gazes towards ESE. In a further stage this will be doubled up by reversing all variables in the project to create a further juxtaposition. On December 21st, the longest night all 161 cameras will face WNW, a never to exist setting of the sun, exploring the other side of the city, creating a mirror condition. This recording then will be mounted on an opposite wall surface to the first recording, the observer able to reflect back and forth between 161 real summer sunrises and 161 concordant dreamed winter sunsets.

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sunriseblvd/p02img1.jpg urban context: the geography of crosstown view corridors originating on broadway

der urbane kontext: die geographie der crosstown sichtachsen mit broadway as grundlinie.

sunriseblvd/p03img1.jpg urban context: the geography of crosstown view corridors originating on broadway

der urbane kontext: die geographie der crosstown sichtachsen mit broadway as grundlinie.

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sunriseblvd/p06img1.jpg elevation of recording setup at crosstown street and broadway junctions.

planansicht des standardisierten aufnahme-setups, das an jeder kreuzung am broadway zwischen 161th St. und Bleecker St. installiert wird.

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sunriseblvd/p08img1.jpg plan of projection setup of the urban section document. 161 projectors are mounted and aligned to collapse the simultaneous 161 recordings in a projection sequence.

Plandarstellung der Aufführung des urbanen schnittdokumentes. 161 projektoren sind angeordnet, um die 161 Aufnahmen in einem Raum kollabieren zu lassen, und so die räumliche Gleichzeitigkeit und Vielfalt auf das Maß des Erfahrbaren zu skalieren.

sunriseblvd/p09img0.jpg geometry of the view corridor: the path of the sun as a backdrop for urban life unfolding

geometrie der sichtkorridore: der weg der sonne als hintergrund und messinstrument für das entfalten einer städtischen narrative.

sunriseblvd/p09img1.jpg sequence of recordings: similarity and contraposition of the parallel recordings, narratives folding of the frames are folded into each other.

sequenz der aufnahmen: vergleichbarkeit und gegenüberstellung der aufnahmen einem nomativen drehbuch folgend. Narrative der diskreten aufnahmen falten sich ineninander, grenzen der bilder beginnen sich aufzulösen.

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