REICONISATION; PRUITT IGOE – IDEO.ECO.NOMICS – MACHINERY

REICONISATION

PRUITT IGOE – IDEO.ECO.NOMICS – MACHINERY
part.01 of the pruitt igoe development process

„it looks like after a war – where are all the building´s – or rather where are the people…ideoeconomic takes the upper hand and forms a permanent presence – a permanent, disabling society is caught up in the so-called living area of economics governs…the spatial discussion leads to the human past – to a degenerate imagination of physical and psychic space – the return of bread and circuses – the rebirth of the gothic age twisted semiotics – and we ! – and we ? – leave the room as it is – and dream of a networked world as we continue to live in crates…disorientation and fear is the key – disorientation in the crowd – disorientation in the fragmented space – as the helmsman on the high seas, we are at the mercy of the wind when we think of our rooms – wind is money – time is infinite & in the face of eternity there is no time – all now – and permanent…a deiconographic spontaneous event…“

DataAnalysis:

approximately 2000 feet around the geometric center of the original pruitt igoe construction site; called build up space (data-approximate); Note: data from 1968 by the analysis of a aerial photograph with a processing script; data from 2012 from the map of mark specht made available by „pruitt igoe now“

built-up space (1968; covered area): 3.922946E+005 m2 = 1635 buildings
built-up space (2012; covered area): 2.808657E+005 m2 = 463 buildings
total difference covered area (1968 – 2012): 1.114290E+005 m2
property decrease (1968-2012): approx. 1172 buildings
app. floor area per building (1968): 239.93 m2
app. floor area per building (2012): 606.62 m2

org. pruitt igoe construction site: 3.085361E+005 m2
org. site minus build up space 1968: 83758.51 m2
org. site minus build up space 2012: 27670.45 m2
past years: 44 (1968-2012)

properties destroyed (cleaned) per year (44 years): 26.6
average increase in area per building: 8 m2/year
total increase per building (44 years): 366.68 m2

„…approximately 26 buildings per year where destroyed – since 1968, 1172 buildings – in the same time the floor area per remaining building increases 8 m2/year…“

org. pruitt igoe construction site: 3.085361E+005 m2
1968: 31361.98 m2 app. 37 bulidings with an average area of 847.62 m2/building
2012: 19684.84 m2 app. 09 buildings with an average area 0f 2187.20 m2/building
density decrease (covered area 1968 <> 2012 in %): 10% <> 6%
floor area increase per building (comparision 1968-2012): 158.0 %
floor area increase per building (comparision 1968-2012): 1339.58 m2
increase per building (1968-2012): 30.44 m2/year
cleaned buldings (decrease 1968-2012): 28.0 = 0.6 buldings/year

„…the fragmentation of the area increased in the run-time; the density of the bulding site decrease from 10% to 6%; the covered area increased by 158 % in 44 years which corresponds to 30.44 m2 per year and remaining building…“

part two is part of the pruitt-igoe-now competition and will be released here as soon as possible…

(c)&(p) Printschler.J.M 2012