Hello readers,

I have several different projects and published works to share.

1. ACADIA Conference Proceedings

   The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference proceedings containing my work which I presented last year are now available online. The organizers have shared a PDF of the publication at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qFpa5_da1CwXFMgoT2lbkODuOo4FW4Sf/view

   My paper, “Elevators, Hard Drives and Teleportation,” is on page 69-70. The paper, which was developed as an extension of my Summer of Protocols research last year, examines parallels between the montage-like experiential procession of an elevator ride and the “teleportation” mechanisms used for traversing virtual space within a VR experience or a video game. A few people at the in-person conference told me that they thought about their elevator rides a little bit differently after seeing my presentation.

2. Addressable Space Appendices

   A five-part series of analytical illustrations created to accompany my Addressable Space article is now being published online by the Summer of Protocols program. The illustrations build on my ideas about interpreting physical space as a digitally-indexable form of information by exploring how those concepts manifest through examples involving specific buildings and urban patterns.

   Part One (PDF link, previously published in March) examines practices where skyscrapers are designed with large areas of unoccupied vertical interior space and hotel rooms are designed to be cleaned using repeated standardized procedures. Keep an eye out for more installments (like the upcoming Part Two) which are scheduled to be released in the future.

3. Summer of Protocols 2024: FutureRack

   This summer I am also glad to be working more with the Summer of Protocols program again, as a participant in this year’s short-form Protocol Pill Incepting Lore and Literacy (PILL) Challenge. My project, FutureRack, builds upon some existing background curiosity I have had about data centers as a building type to imagine possibilities for how the rack format they use for mounting servers could also be introduced into new (and hopefully slightly absurd-seeming) settings like your everyday household kitchen cabinets, consumer-facing retail store shelves and/or a garden. I have started sharing my progress with the project in a thread on the SoP forums.

Until next time,

Chenoe