Project 2
Introduction and description of Project 2.
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This proposal was developed as a studio project in 2022.
This paper developes a model to predict the demand for public bikes in Seoul.
What is the effect of daily average temperature on the number of rented public bikes after accounting for the effects of daily daylight hours and holidays?
The research is about the relationship between the number of rented public bikes in Seoul, South Korea, and meteorological factors such as daily average temperature and daylight hours. The study is based on a dataset of 365 observations, which includes the number of rented bikes, average daily temperature, daily daylight hours, and whether the day is a holiday or not. The methods used in the study are Pearson's Correlation test and linear regression. The results show that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between the number of rented public bikes and the average daily temperature, while there is a positive relationship between the number of rented bikes and the daily daylight hours. The type of day (whether it is a holiday or not) also has an impact on the number of rented bikes.
This thesis was written in 2022 for Master of Architecture degree at Hongik University.
This paper ultimately seeks to answer the following question: What are the political implications of architecture based on vitalistic thinking? In the second half of the 20th century, an architecture based on vitalism, or vitalistic architecture, was suggested as an alternative to conventional, reductionist, and deterministic modern architecture. Many leading figures in architectural practice and discourse, including Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, FOA, and Zaha Hadid, have actively referred to the vitalistic ideas that emerged in philosophy and natural science to invent new methodologies for a spatial organization. In addition, vitalistic architecture has been imagined to liberate individuals from oppressive and restrictive modern spaces.
However, does vitalistic architecture really contribute to the freedom and liberation of individuals? The philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who has been the greatest inspiration for vitalistic thoughts, suggests the other way. Deleuze declares that “societies of control” have arrived and warns that concepts such as continuous variation, folding, and differentiation can rather become spatial organizational tools that reinforce the control and surveillance by power. Based on this, the author attempts to read vitalistic architecture as a strategy of power working in “societies of control.”
First, the research compares Deleuze's “societies of control” and Foucault's “disciplinary society” and analyzes the general characteristics of the former. The analysis then expands to Foucault's neoliberal governmentality, which is considered by Deleuze to be describing the same concept as a control society. The study derives the main characteristics that define a neoliberal society of control: the analogical paradigm of complexity theory, mobility, production of a homo-oeconomicus, and environmental intervention. These elements constitute the framework for case analysis in Chapter 4. In short, the main purpose of the first half of the paper is to argue that the power mechanism of a control society is not different from neoliberal governmentality and to review the mechanism of “societies of control” where neoliberalism is generalized.
The author then traces how the architectural discourse incorporates the neoliberal market order. Specifically, the study reviews the architectural discourse that refers to modern corporate organizational theory to investigate the process of which the market order becomes established as an organizational principle of architectural space. In addition, the author examines how modern neoliberal market principles affect urban space organizations through the examples of urban design processes that actively employ market processes.
Finally, this paper investigates specific examples of architecture and urban planning to explore how space, capital, and subject work in the macroscopic field of power. The study analyzes vitalistic thinking implied in each case, how it encourages users' mobility, transforms the subject into human capital, and can be interpreted as an environmental intervention of power mechanism.
Introduction and description of Project 2.