Material Modeling Workshop: Aspect the City Text

The aspects of city I have chosen are the steps of Hyde Park. The steps serve as boundaries yet extensions of the Hyde Park, as it is an elevated space resting next to the busy CBD area.The height of the steps approximately reaches your hip, with two slopes on the top of them. It can be estimated that the width of the steps is almost the length of an A2 paper. There are blocks as high as your arm, which divide the steps into sections. Also such blocks serve as stops of the linear steps, creating a sense of rest. With the scale described above, the steps form a continuous shape which separate streets and grass. It bounds the sitting area of the park, and builds the park as an ‘outside’ place in contrast with the busy transportation of the City. However, as the scale is relative to people’s, it can be seen a place to engage human activities. The pictures shown in the collage, includes the possible activities such as sitting, leaning-on (both hip and arm), squat, walking on it, or just simply jumping onto/from it. Determined by the location, it naturally provides places to rest for people waiting buses near Hyde Park, which enhances the relationship between the urban context and people’s daily activities. Furthermore, various activities it engages, make the steps not just physical presence, but a ‘stage’ that contains tiny pieces of urban life, with the basic adaptation to human body.