《Urban Imprint A/D/O by MINI, NYCxDesign 2019》
“自我在其存在中被放大，当它重构我们城市建筑的肌理。”
我回忆，我的自我，
在意着缝隙以占据管道中的空间 —— 伦敦
仰望天空的方框来导航网格 —— 纽约
进入立方体以垂直轨迹旅行 —— 新加坡
躲避强烈平面墙反射的光线 —— 雅典
挤过被墙壁包围的人群 —— 日本
在我们的城市环境中，空间通过静态边界构建；通过确定的形式和不可移动的墙壁……供自我栖居；通过永久定义的网格和规划的轨迹……供自我穿行。
我们个体的自我被要求适应这个预先设定的规划，这个强加的设计，并被要求在它的界限内生活。
当我们适应这个静态的计划时，我们自我的存在被削弱，而不是在它的独特性中被放大和庆祝。
在‘混凝土和玻璃的丛林’中，空间大多对我们的存在无动于衷。多个自我在城市的容器中互动，沿着预设的运动轨迹流动。
这个被削弱的自我不可避免地寻求一种存在于数字化和脱离实体形式的感觉，这种形式虽然感觉无边无际，但仍然与它的物理本质脱节。
当我们主要生活在数字领域时，我们的自我失去了物理的语境。然而，通过与物理现实脱钩，我们也失去了在全方位感官体验世界的能力。
未来自我存在的自然环境是什么？
在自然界中，空间是所有生态系统中生物体功能和需求的综合结果。它是许多自我的结果，也是它们所有表达的体现。
在自然界中，人类的自我也是这个生态系统的一部分，是构建空间的建筑师。
人类的自我以其实体存在和运动重塑自然空间的形状和边界。
这样，在自然界中，我们自我的存在在每一步中都被放大，因为我们留下独特的印记，标记出自己的路径和小径。在自然界中，我们通过与嵌入其结构中的生命代理人的对话重建空间。
在自然界中，空间源于共生交互的社区，一个生态系统，其中包含人类的自我，激发归属感。
“如果要有一种新的都市主义……它将不再关注或多或少永久不变的……而是创造赋能场域……拒绝结晶成确定的形式；它将不再关注严谨的定义，强加限制，而是关于扩展的概念，否认边界，不是关于分离和识别实体，而是关于发现杂交体；它将不再痴迷于城市，而是关于操纵基础设施以实现无尽的强化和多样化，捷径和再分配——心理空间的再发明。” —— 荷兰建筑师+哈佛教授，库哈斯 (Koolhaas)，《疯狂的纽约》的作者。
URBAN IMPRINT是我们如何设计这块新都市主义的一部分，我们称之为增强的材质性。一个环境，作为‘空白画布’，由未来的自我重塑。
我们用城市中最静态的材料——混凝土和玻璃——构建这幅画布，却让它被人类的存在激活，并设计它以响应动作和行为。
正如包豪斯艺术家奥斯卡·施莱默揭示身体如何描绘抽象空间，我们邀请设计师和访客通过他们的运动，个别地或与其他人的互动，来描绘物理空间。
”The self amplified in its presence
as it reconstructs the fabric of our urban architecture”
I recall, my SELF
minding a gap to inhabit a space in a tube - London
looking up to a square of sky to navigate a grid - New York
entering a cube to travel in a vertical trajectory - Singapore
shielding from light reflected off a stark flat wall - Athens
squeezing through a crowd bounded by walls - Japan
In our urban environments, space is constructed through static boundaries; through definitive forms and unmoveable walls... for the self to inhabit;.though permanently defined grids and mapped trajectories... for the self to travel through.
Our individual self is asked to adapt to this predefined plan, this imposed design and is asked to live within its boundaries.
As we adapt to this static plan, the presence of our self is muted, instead of amplified and celebrated in its individuality.
In a ‘concrete and glass jungle‘ spaces remain mostly unresponsive to our presence. Multiple selves interact in a crowd poured in the vessel of the city to travel through predefined trajectories of motion.
This muted self inevitably seeks a sense of presence in a digital and disembodied form that feels boundless, but that is yet untethered from its physical nature.
When we live mostly in this digital realm, our self has no physical context. Yet, by decoupling from the physical reality we also lose our ability to be present and experience the world through the full pallet of our senses.
What constitutes a natural environment for the future self to be present in?
In nature space is constructed as the result of the combined function and needs of all living organisms in its ecosystem. It is the result of many selves and an expression of them all.
In nature the human self is also a part of this ecosystem and an architect of the constructed space.
The human self in its embodied presence and motion reforms the shape and boundaries of the natural space.
In this way, in nature the presence of our self is amplified as we leave a unique imprint in each step and mark our own paths and trails. In nature we reconstruct the space in dialogue with the living agents that are embedded in its fabric.
In nature, space results from mutualistic interactions within a community of living agents, an ecosystem, that includes the human selves and evokes a sense of belonging
“If there is to be a “new urbanism… it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent … but for the creation of enabling fields....that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definitions, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and identifying entities, but about discovering hybrids; it will no longer be obsessed with the city but with the manipulation of infrastructure for endless intensifications and diversifications, shortcuts and redistributions – the reinvention of psychological space.”, Dutch architect + Harvard Professor, Koolhaas 959, writer of Delirious New York .
URBAN IMPRINT is how we design a piece of this new urbanism, an augmented materiality , as we define it. An environment that is a ‘blank canvas’ to be reshaped by the future self.
We construct this canvas by the most static fabric of our urban environment - concrete and glass - yet allow it to be actuated by human presence and design it to respond to motion and action.
As Bauhaus Artist - Oskar Schlemmer reveals how body draws the abstract space, we invite designers and visitors to draw the physical space - through their movement individually and in interaction with other.
