The Warehouse Project

The Warehouse Project
Projects
- Warehouse
- Local Farm
- Living Quarters
- Performances
- Art
- School
- Space To Create
- Site Strategy
- Notes
- Concept
- Media
- Experience
- Process
- Circulation
- Materiality
- Precedents
About

The Warehouse Project
Projects
- Warehouse
- Local Farm
- Living Quarters
- Performances
- Art
- School
- Space To Create
- Site Strategy
- Notes
- Concept
- Media
- Experience
- Process
- Circulation
- Materiality
- Precedents
About

A b o u t

These precedents were chosen when conceptualizing a future warehouse conceived by Jayson Aaron.

Each project was personally hand selected by Omar Preciado.

Yeezus Tour

Glow In The Dark Tour
'Ye begins to play with the idea of kinetic stages.

Watch The Throne
I particularly like this image because it captures the relationship in elevation between Kanye and the crowd. Imagine if the audience can populate the street and we turn the dead end into a block party during performances.

Synthesizing Ideas "Performance"
These next series of images are related ideas that emerged during the research portion. What if all these ideas can be synthesized into one?

Eric Owen Moss: "The Waffle/Vespertine"
We were both blown away by the acoustics of this building. We must have been about 25 feet away when you detected the reflections of sounds as we approached it. This is was I mean when imagining a floating component, wrapped in this material, and create a never before seen performance space.

Tom Wiscombe: "PS1 MoMa/Urban Beach Project"
This was Tom Wiscombe's first major project. It's a yearly competition that takes place once a year at PS1 MoMa's Contemporary Art Center Courtyard in NY for young designers/architects to build a temporary installation. He was first place in 2003 and was commissioned to build it. The luminance reminded me of the conceptual images you uploaded on color, and the experience we had when we drove into the "Bestia" alley that had colored lighting from the neighboring Art Galleries.

The way the diamond masses hover over the crowd is similar to Kanye's Saint Pablo Tour stage.

Notes/Ideas:

"Country Side" vs "City Life"

People are getting forced further and further out of the city into the suburbs. I wanted to dive a bit deeper into why and what are the pros and cons of each lifestyle:

- Affordable - Expensive

-Peaceful - Busy

- Natural Aesthetic - Concrete Jungle

- Alive - Adverse to Life

- Reflection - Execution (intending on doing something)

- Family - Single + Couples

- Receive - Give

- Real You - Mask

- Space/Room - Cramped

- Boring - Entertainment

- Filling - Draining

- Old - Young

- Drab - Sexy

What is luxury?

- High ceilings

- Ample space

- Plush seating

- Exclusivity

- Rare materials

- Full control over elements: hot, cold, fire, water

- Polished floor or nice carpet

- Amount of personal human touch i.e. "hand crafted"

5 stages leading to self-actualization

1. Biological and physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep.

2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom from fear.

3. Love and belongingness needs - friendship, intimacy, trust and acceptance, receiving and giving affection and love. Affiliating, being part of a group (family, friends, work).

4. Esteem needs - which Maslow classified into two categories: (i) esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence) and (ii) the desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige). Maslow indicated that the need for respect or reputation is most important for children and adolescents and precedes real self-esteem or dignity.

5. Self-actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. A desire “to become everything one is capable of becoming”

further description

Maslow initially stated that individuals must satisfy lower level deficit needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs. However, he later clarified that satisfaction of a needs is not an “all-or-none” phenomenon, admitting that his earlier statements may have given “the false impression that a need must be satisfied 100 percent before the next need emerge."

When a deficit need has been 'more or less' satisfied it will go away, and our activities become habitually directed towards meeting the next set of needs that we have yet to satisfy. These then become our salient needs. However, growth needs continue to be felt and may even become stronger once they have been engaged.

Growth needs do not stem from a lack of something, but rather from a desire to grow as a person. Once these growth needs have been reasonably satisfied, one may be able to reach the highest level called self-actualization.

Every person is capable and has the desire to move up the hierarchy toward a level of self-actualization. Unfortunately, progress is often disrupted by a failure to meet lower level needs. Life experiences may cause an individual to fluctuate between levels of the hierarchy. Therefore, not everyone will move through the hierarchy in a uni-directional manner but may move back and forth between the different types of needs.

Theory of culture

If the first 4 needs within the hierarchy are met and/or there is an immediate opportunity for someone to fulfill each need, the environment/culture/society that is created will by nature operate in the highest state of consciousness.