This project was an excruciating one as anyone in the class will tell you. I still don't completely comprehend what the significance of the project was, but I think I'm starting to understand it more, and I think we were succesful. The best way for me to describe this project is to take an exerpt from the assignment hand-out:Our assigned street was rue Brébeuf, between Parc Lafontaine and Parc Laurier. It is located in the increasingly trendy Plateau Mt. Royal area of Montreal, and is lined with colourful Montreal row-houses. A busy city bike route runs along its length linking the two parks which anchor the ends of the street; Parc Lafontaine at the south and Parc Laurier at the north. The bike is what struck as as the most significant feature of the street, and that is what we focused on in our project--the feeling of motion and activeness that the bike creates along this narrow corridor.Working in groups of three, design and build a 3-D artefact, called a 'mood-box', based on your investigation and observations of a selected residential area in Montreal. The mood-box should be resolved as a subjective interpretation, as opposed to a scale model. It should express the experience and not just the image of the place. Consider, in (Kevin) Lynch's words, "districts...
structures with nodes, defined by edges, penetrated by paths, and sprinkled with landmarks."
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