Permanent Presence

JOSEF MATTHIAS PRINTSCHLER

3/15/2012

 

 

 

 

(META) PERMANENT PRESENCE 1968-2012:

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"it looks like after a war - where are all the building´s - or rather where are the people...ideoeconomic

takes the upper hand and forms a permanent presence - a permanent, disabling society is

caught up in the so-called living area of economics governs...the spatial discussion

leads to the human past - to a degenerate imagination of physical and psychic space - the

return of bread and circuses - the rebirth of the gothic age twisted semiotics - and we ! -

and we ? - leave the room as it is - and dream of a networked world as we continue

to live in crates...disorientation and fear is the key - disorientation in the crowd - disorientation

in the fragmented space - as the helmsman on the high seas, we are at the mercy of

the wind when we think of our rooms - wind is money - time is infinite & in the face of eternity

there is no time - all now - and permanent...a deiconographic spontaneous event"

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permanent presence data analysis part 01:

approximately 2000 feet around the geometric center of the original pruitt igoe

construction site; called build up space (data-approximate); Note: data from

1968 by the analysis of a aerial photograph with a processing script; data

from 2012 from the map of mark specht made available by "pruitt igoe now"

 

 

 

 

built-up space (1968; covered area): 3.922946E+005 m2 = 1635 buildings

built-up space (2012; covered area): 2.808657E+005 m2 = 463 buildings

total difference covered area (1968 - 2012): 1.114290E+005 m2

property decrease (1968-2012): approx. 1172 buildings

app. floor area per building (1968): 239.93 m2

app. floor area per building (2012): 606.62 m2

 

 

 

 

org. pruitt igoe construction site: 3.085361E+005 m2

org. site minus build up space 1968: 83758.51 m2

org. site minus build up space 2012: 27670.45 m2

 

 

 

 

past years: 44 (1968-2012)

properties destroyed (cleaned) per year (44 years): 26.6

average increase in area per building: 8 m2/year

total increase per building (44 years): 366.68 m2

 

 

 

 

...approximately 26 buildings per year where destroyed - since 1968, 1172 buildings - in the same

time the floor area per remaining building increases 8 m2/year

 

 

 

 

permanent presence data analysis part 02: org. pruitt igoe site

org. pruitt igoe construction site: 3.085361E+005 m2

1968: 31361.98 m2 covered by app. 37 bulidings with an average area of 847.62 m2/building

2012: 19684.84 m2 covered by app. 09 buildings with an average area 0f 2187.20 m2/building

density decrease (covered area 1968 <> 2012 in %): 10% <> 6%

floor area increase per building (comparision 1968-2012): 158.0 %

floor area increase per building (comparision 1968-2012): 1339.58 m2

increase per building (1968-2012): 30.44 m2/year

cleaned buldings (decrease 1968-2012): 28.0 = 0.6 buldings/year

 

 

 

 

...the fragmentation of the area increased in the run-time; the density of the

bulding site decrease from 10% to 6%; the covered area increased by 158 % in 44 years

which corresponds to 30.44 m2 per year and remaining building...

 

Done