Immuna Nanotourism

Spaces of Immuna
Jon Krizan

One of the facets of Immuna is that it offers a good deal of variation when it comes to site conditions. This particular work utilizes a combination of photography and collage as a technique for manifesting and archiving the various spatial milieus of the area. Its goal is to provide the architect with a phenomenological mapping of those differences. 

Conventional techniques of site analysis involve surveying the dimensions of barriers, surrounding building heights, variations in scale and density, etc. What is often limiting about these methods is that they only survey quantitative space, resulting in a Cartesian approach to design, which insufficiently renders spatial variation.    

This work diverges from more traditional techniques of site analysis by using the operations of photography (via camera and drone) and collage. Using selected photographs, a composition of the phenomena of Immuna is composed into a collage which depicts the various qualities and attributes of each given area. This results in an account of the phenomenology of Immuna rather than a Cartesian map of space.  

The viewer is provided with elements of light, materiality, activities, tectonics, organisms, and technologies which results in a pallet of spatial experiences. This phenomenological mapping articulates the various spatial milieus of Immuna and provides a foundation for architectural intervention.