Advanced Architecture: Complex Places, Multiple Spaces

ARS388

From the course catalog:

This course considers architecture as a socially constructed place. We will examine how to analyze and intervene within the built environment. A final project, involving the manipulation/examination/interpretation of place and space through modeling and graphic communication or a multi-media research project will be required. Prerequisites: ARS 283, 285, and two art history courses, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12. A required fee of $75 to cover group supplied materials and/or printing will be charged at the time of registration. Students will be responsible for directly purchasing any additional supplies that may be required.

Spring 2015: 5 students
Spring 2014: 10 students
Spring 2013: 9 students

Resources

updated February 2015

GIS @ Smith

ArcGIS Map Document (download and open with ArcGIS Desktop ver. 10.2)
Public Information App (includes Social Media)

ESRI

To get most benefit from the ESRI resources below, login with your Free universal account (or create one). Data from ESRI sites may be used online or in some cases, downloaded for use in ArcGIS.

ESRI Community Analyst
ESRI ArcGIS Online (aka ArcGIS.com)
Story Maps (along the High Line)
Solar Analyst (map and analyze the effects of the sun over a geographic area for specific time periods)

NYC GIS Data from various NY Sites

NYC Open Data
NYC Department of City Planning
CUGIR
NYC Library – Map Warper – Georeference Historic Maps
NYCMap (direct link to study area)
NYC Oasis Map (Community Maps)
Block by block demographic changes from Center for Urban Research

new as of Feb 26, 2013

Bicycle (and other data feeds) – http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml#Bikes
MTA data developer feeds (subway ridership, etc.)

EPA – Environmental Justice

EJView (direct link to study area)

Historical GIS Data

Data from NHGIS may be downloaded for use in ArcGIS

National Historic Geographic Information System : Data Finder User Guide (pdf)
Horse Stables (interesting bit of research…. maybe more for fun)

Social Explorer offers online visualization tools. Create, save, and download slideshows.

Social Explorer (contemporary and historic demographic data & visualization)
David Rumsey Map Collection

Crowd Sourced Data

City Sourced (zooms to Chelsea neighborhood)

Google Maps

Site

Metadata for data layers used in ArcMap document

Zoning

Spring 2014 Description & Resources

For the Spring 2014 semester, the Spatial Analysis Lab worked with the ARS-388 class for a day, providing an interactive demonstration of desktop and web GIS technologies, with the goal of encouraging students to use spatial data to both optimize and contextualize their final project building design plans. We illustrated the “layer-cake” concept of curating GIS data relevant to a project in order to visualize architectural problems and solutions using a map of Northampton spatial data in ArcGIS, then introduced two web-based mapping systems that allowed students to explore these ideas without needing any software or technical GIS knowledge: