INTERCONNECTIONS OF SYSTEM DENSITIES

Stephen Hawk­ing has hypoth­e­sized that before the big bang, galax­ies where essen­tially over­lap­ping. Another the­o­ret­i­cal physi­cist, Neil Turok, has shown that it is pos­si­ble that the big bang was not the start of the uni­verse itself, but an event within a pre-existing uni­verse. For Hawk­ing and Turok’s the­o­ries to be pos­si­ble, space and time must be collapsible.

Col­lapsi­ble time could be thought of as a com­pres­sion of the 3 scales of time. By def­i­n­i­tion a com­pres­sion is accom­pa­nied by a rar­efac­tion. Den­sity of the net­work over­laps can then be read. In this way, the dis­tant past becomes acces­si­ble and the present becomes less fleeting.

Col­lapsi­ble space could sim­ply be defined as a shift away from a sin­gu­lar vision of a space. The adapt­abil­ity of the space becomes impor­tant. How­ever, it is the col­laps­ing of expe­ri­en­tial fac­tors that is the most impor­tant. For exam­ple space that is capa­ble of com­mu­ni­cat­ing the sea­sonal pres­ence of rice on the site, or water flows, or ide­ally the com­bi­na­tion of the two col­lapses form, func­tion and expe­ri­ence to an under­stand­able point.

In terms of the build­ing pro­to­type, this can be seen in the place­ment of water and rice. Water is held at the top of the site, col­lected in a reser­voir. Adja­cent to this is the gra­nary for the vil­lage, the place where the most val­ued resource on the site is held. Here, fac­ing each other sit the two key resources that are drawn from the land­scape. The occu­pant enters the build­ing between these two and imme­di­ately fol­low­ing this expe­ri­ence is shown a view out to the ter­races them­selves. Fol­low­ing the cen­tral axis of the build­ing, the occu­pant is guided to the base of the site by a water trough, fed from the reser­voir above. At the end of this access the occu­pant finds the exist­ing rice nurs­ery. The begin­ning of the rice cycle comes at the con­clu­sion of the build­ing. The cycle is col­lapsed in time and space through the building.

This micro time inter­ven­tion into the site will act as an attempt to attain bal­ance between the inter­con­nected sys­tems at work by col­laps­ing the expe­ri­en­tial nature of space and time.