Current Abstract

In today’s fast paced society moments of temporal awareness seem to escape us. However, programs contingent on timely operation exist in capacities far exceeding historical precedent. Advances in transportation have brought new levels of urgency as well as detention. It has expanded geographical and cultural boundaries, reducing the duration between points of interest. It is within the intersection of these pathways that my thesis is situated, the realm of the transitional space — a node on a network — intersecting everywhere and nowhere. Here time and its atmospheric intervention is of the utmost importance, bringing this phenomena to the foreground.

The public space is defined through interaction. The private space through withdrawing from the immediate spectacle. Both are flexible in plan, able to occur wherever the scenario presents itself. Interpreted this way built space in its present condition is failing to fully embrace time with the same importance as material objectification.

Time, part of the experiential “fourth-dimension”, provides measure for these interactions. The duration, and arguably the distance, between objects (viewers/users or material bodies), is responsible for this space-time perceptional distortion. The speed in which these objects move, or appear to move, directly influences our interpretation of the atmospheric conditions present within a space.