Another immersion exercise does as part of Art In Transit. As one of my first on-site interactions, I felt like just mapping it thoroughly would give me a good place to start.
Mapping a space is not just cartography in my mind; it's the way one experiences that space. As a person, I primarily rely on aural stimuli. So it was almost a natural next step for me to bring this to site.
These maps were made over a few consecutive days of observation at four different times of the day, in and around the site I was looking to enter.
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You can see, as per the key, that a large part of Peenya is very loud even in the mornings. This doesn't make the space immediately outside the station very inhabitable.
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As the day progresses, the sound doesn't die down, it almost just travels from one point to another.
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Again, you can see that it's only travelling - not really making much of a difference to any pedestrian that can only experience space as a whole.
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LEARNINGS - This mapping process brought me to some key conclusions.
1 - Any intervention outside the station would have to be something that gives the pedestrians a space to take a break from any and all of the effects that Urban Sprawl may have on them on a daily basis.
2 - Somehow, I would have to work around the loudness and the starkness of the space.
3 - Unforgiving as it may be, Peenya still serves as a centre for industrial work, hence seeing a lot of vehicular and foot traffic.