The model making day was held at the Deok Chun Market area. We visited the 7th district neighbourhood association and we invited them to take part in the construction of the model. They suggested and discussed with us the spots that should be represented in the model. They also discussed their ideas related how to develop the area following other patterns of density. After that they invited us to a small field trip in the area where they told us how the announcement of redevelopment are affecting small business in the area. We visited some shops and a recycling center, to know who and how is done the circuit of urban recycling in the area. We visited some courtyards and they referred to us the way urban farming makes ties between the tenants of mansions. We shared lunch together and they made suggestions about how the model should express the positives ways of the area to cope with cities problems, that could be replicated in a future neighbourhood.
The “Model making day” is a collaborative mapping platform that tries to give “rights” of existence to those spots or places or we would called them “nodes”, of a neighbourhood targeted by the redevelopment plan of the city of Anyang. It comprises a slow transport system that easily make their way trough “kolmoks”, (the korean system of narrow streets), parking lots and even “terrain vagues” of difficult access. The event starts when a caravan of customized bikes, makes its way to a “un” represented spot. It arrives to the place and starts to display mobile furniture to set up a temporary workshop. A display of satellite images, maps and modeling materials is provided to the neighbours and occasional passers by. While taking pictures on the area, the documentation process on the node is started. The pictures are uploaded to a website , geo- referenced and tagged. This is the first representation of the node at the web. Then, some carefully chosen pictures are printed in order to provide material to build up the model of the node. We’ll concentrate on register those life support systems that exists beyond the cadastral line. This means to make visible by the modeling, all of the encroachment and easement that have no existence at a survey map of the city hall or the land corporation. By turning pictures easily into 3D models, we finally “represent” the node and its issues. This model activity on real time, will spark stories, memories and debates on the role of theses spots to create new spaces at the city.We hope!
