After a Lapse
Hadn't posted lately because I had been preparing for the mid-final review (final for the term, mid-way through the project).
I'm currently having trouble uploading images so I can't post the work I did for mid-term. I'll try again later.
I realized just in time that it was ridiculous to try to do a tensile structure. However, I did get so far with the idea as to have detailed the connections.
Last week I found again the email I recieved from a fellow who had designed several of the trading floors in use today. The part that finally registered was these couple of lines: "... You should not feel constrained by the models that have been used for what I would now classify as 'traditional' commodities and stock exchange trading floors. The functions of trade execution and brokerage/market making really have driven the elements you will find on these floors- pits, posts and booths. With the advent of electronic order routing and online exchanges, we are now seeing a merge to hybrid enviornments where everyone is "connected" through wireless, video, and voice communication in an enviornment. ..."
I read this just after having talked with the instructor for the programming class I took in the fall regarding this building and the program I had written for it. She implored me to re-vision the trading floor space and make it more than just a copy of the way things are today. She was right in telling me that this whole project, the one I myself had written, is about taking the existing and giving it a fresh look; she was also right to wonder why I hadn't taken this approach regarding the design and function of the trading floor.
I think the reason I hadn't done it was that I was afraid. A temporary lapse in fear allowed me to change direction.
What I realized is this: if orders can be executed on handheld devices, but yet the place and interaction of the trading floor are still vital to trade execution, than the place needs to become more like an agora and less rigidly programmed. Maybe it is like an indoor park, a fancy club, a series of galleries and balconies... places to hide oneself and be out in the open, to congregate or to hide out; somewhere that depending on what is going on, you can find a place to do the business you need to do. Maybe it is just a beautiful that allows the ebb and flow of things to happen as they will.
What I have designed is not this place yet, but I know now what I want it to be, and that is truly important.
I'm currently having trouble uploading images so I can't post the work I did for mid-term. I'll try again later.
I realized just in time that it was ridiculous to try to do a tensile structure. However, I did get so far with the idea as to have detailed the connections.
Last week I found again the email I recieved from a fellow who had designed several of the trading floors in use today. The part that finally registered was these couple of lines: "... You should not feel constrained by the models that have been used for what I would now classify as 'traditional' commodities and stock exchange trading floors. The functions of trade execution and brokerage/market making really have driven the elements you will find on these floors- pits, posts and booths. With the advent of electronic order routing and online exchanges, we are now seeing a merge to hybrid enviornments where everyone is "connected" through wireless, video, and voice communication in an enviornment. ..."
I read this just after having talked with the instructor for the programming class I took in the fall regarding this building and the program I had written for it. She implored me to re-vision the trading floor space and make it more than just a copy of the way things are today. She was right in telling me that this whole project, the one I myself had written, is about taking the existing and giving it a fresh look; she was also right to wonder why I hadn't taken this approach regarding the design and function of the trading floor.
I think the reason I hadn't done it was that I was afraid. A temporary lapse in fear allowed me to change direction.
What I realized is this: if orders can be executed on handheld devices, but yet the place and interaction of the trading floor are still vital to trade execution, than the place needs to become more like an agora and less rigidly programmed. Maybe it is like an indoor park, a fancy club, a series of galleries and balconies... places to hide oneself and be out in the open, to congregate or to hide out; somewhere that depending on what is going on, you can find a place to do the business you need to do. Maybe it is just a beautiful that allows the ebb and flow of things to happen as they will.
What I have designed is not this place yet, but I know now what I want it to be, and that is truly important.
posted by MSR at 10:34 AM
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