yael c. agmon
Architecture/Experience Design/Strategy
Objects & Clouds: Towards Urbanism of E-Commerce
#Architecture #Urbanism #Critical Design #Speculative Futures #Architecture Theory
Graduate Thesis | The Cooper Union, New York
The project explores the constant tension between the Physical and the Virtual domains. Through a comparison of different systems of order which each domain is embedded and operates within, complex relationships of unexpected, hybrid and even paradoxical conditions are revealed. The question thus posed is whether and how do these conditions liberate or constrain each other and how do they guide and inform our lived environments.
Within this conceptual framework the project examines the phenomenon of E-Commerce through a case study of Amazon.com –the world’s largest online retailer – which reveals the interrelationships between the Virtual and the Physical through three central entities: Subjects, Objects, and Data. Amazon.com exposes a distinct virtual system of organization that challenges and redefines what we understand as physical order and how it figures in our thinking of the concept of order at large.
The thesis offers a radical and surreal glance to, or interpretation of the E-commerce vision of an ideal urban environment that questions and hypothesize the impact of virtual orders on physical space and the physical borders of the Virtual.
The horizontal bottom line represents the physical relationships among objects I purchased on Amazon, whereas the vertical lines represent the virtual relationships of each object in the contexts of its consumption circle
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