The idea is to create a system that on many levels can be read as a pixelated system. Beginning with the large scale of Manhattan and surrounding Boroughs, then zooming to the neighborhood, into the site and into the program. 

The idea is to create a language that reads on many different scales and communicates the the same ideas. 

Grid compiled of Summer and Winter shadows at 3PM [last time for crops to capture light], the equinox at 10AM, as well as the 29° shifted grid of Manhattan. 

The hope is that this will create a system, a pixelation, of the site functions, program, and how the overall system works on various scales. 

This is an image of a homeless man who is sleeps outside in the winter. 

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He was innovative in creating a bag/system which attaches to an exhausted from a building, and sleeps inside of it to keep warm. 

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I think that I am drawn to this image because he is making something happen for himself. He isn’t bothering anyone besides the fact that he is sleeping in a bad on the sidewalk. He is utilizing his someone else’s waste to make his life a little more tolerable. He is also, in some way, hacking the system. He isn’t doing anything illegal [or at least that I know of] therefore, the police officer [pictured at bottom] shouldn’t have any reason to kick him out of anywhere. Lastly, the man has sparked a thought about how this can be used in an architectural sense.