The following are conclusions and questions I made in the briefing document, perhaps they'll jog my memory for future proposals.
• Exploration of a new mode of orientation within the contemporary historical city that transcends the digital and analogue. Th e new architecture should attempt to encourage the healing of a schizophrenic urban environment that orientates the digitally literate and the analogue city user.
• Can the proposed architecture create a physical interface between our physical and virtual orientation devices?
• Can a new architecture re-engage the digital city (the virtual space disassociated with the physical realm) with the historical city of memory?
• Exploration of the evolution of the cultural image in a historic city (the city of memory), and the role that historical fragments can play in contemporary orientation. A new physical orientation device should attempt to re-engage historical fragments with new layers of urban identity and the virtual city. It should encourage the interaction between the digital and existing physical communities.
• Exploration of an analogue/digital hybrid architecture that can uncover new identities related to our inherent connection to a means of orientating oneself in time and space.
• Through the design vehicle of a contemporary clock tower, examine how the epistemology of this typology can be redefi ned in the contemporary city. As a new orientational typology, how can the territory of this architecture embrace or reconstitute existing urban territories.
• How can a new clock tower architecture transcend the schism between the disoriented and oriented city dweller. Th e architecture must engage with the community in a manner than encourages a reconceptualization of an individual’s personal layers of orientation. This may engage the disoriented person (a marginalised individual through loss of personal identity, or negative bandwidth) with means for finding one’s identity, or engaging the digital user with the analogue city as a means of giving meaning and substance to their exploits in the physical world.
• Question the notion of orientation by proposing an architecture that does not orient through the imposing of a particular ideology or way of seeing the world. Rather, it enables the pursuit of many different ways of seeing our position in space and time.
• The architecture must question the origins of our cultural images and how these encourage a particular approach to orientation. Can many diff erent cultural images coexist and enable the pursuit of one’s own means of living amongst the diversity of others. Can the new architecture enable diversity and personal identity while promoting the notion of community?
