‘Hyperreality’ in the shire: Bicester Village and the village of Bicester

Reeve, Alan; Simmonds, Roger

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“…A new dynamic architecture vision emerged, which emphasised the Promenade Architecturale, or the walk through the built environment, using all the senses to "perceive" the world by inhabiting it. Reeve and Simmonds (2000) describe this as the "public space as a movie set", and Kant calls it the "architecture of thought", where the act of walking through space and time is the first modality of experiencing a place. At a metropolitan scale, Shane (2005) argues that New Urban Morphotypes, such as Heterotopias, can be transformed into sites, which create a sense of belonging for all metropolitan citizens.…”

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“…This is essential to be able to order the space through the rhythm of images (Le Corbusier 2003;Bachelard 1975) and to understand the incremental metropolitan growth and the time scale speed (Venturi et al 1977). The interplay between original communication and information in today's interaction and flow space is shaped by the increasing complexity and recognisability of the local within the global context, which demands a return to simplicity and immediacy in design (Reeve and Simmonds 2000). For designers of Metropolitan Architecture Projects, the primary concern is no longer the image itself but how the figure of identity is imprinted on the mental map.…”

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“…Moreover, it is crucial to develop genetic systems in Metropolitan Architecture Projects, which define a recognisable image for a mental map, even at a metropolitan scale. The tall buildings dominating the metropolitan landscape are more than just functional structures; they are also genetic systems, which The interplay between original communication and information in today's interaction and flow space is shaped by the increasing complexity and recognisability of the local within the global context, which demands a return to simplicity and immediacy in design (Reeve and Simmonds 2000). For designers of Metropolitan Architecture Projects, the primary concern is no longer the image itself but how the figure of identity is imprinted on the mental map.…”

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The City of Muses Project: Creating a Vibrant and Sensual Metropolitan Landscape through Architecture

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2023

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The Metropolitan Architecture Project aims to create an artistic metropolitan landscape, which captivates visitors. It focuses on the relationship between the form’s image and the surrounding context, emphasising the structural image in architectural design. The project draws inspiration from the City of Muses Project, incorporating a symbolic mediator as a propeller, which represents the connection with the contemporary society’s cultural symbols and bridges the gap between the past, present and future. The methods employed in the Metropolitan Architecture Project involve integrating artistic elements into the metropolitan landscape. This includes incorporating the symbolic mediator and designing the structural image to interact harmoniously with the surrounding environment. The project has successfully introduced a new type of built form characterised by a relational figure and a vibrant and sensual image. By embracing this approach, the architectural design actively engages with the environment and enhances the overall architectural experience. The Metropolitan Architecture Project demonstrates the significance of incorporating an artistic dimension in creating a metropolitan landscape. The project achieves a captivating and interactive architectural design by considering the dynamic relationship between the form, context and structure. This understanding of architecture contributes to a deeper comprehension of the society which constructs it, resulting in a rich and engaging architectural experience.

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Section: Recognisable Image and Mental Map At The Metropolitan Scalementioning

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“…Fig. 4 The mall as a liminal and aestheticized space However, it can evidenced and argued that precisely the same strategies of guardianship, in which consumer identity is privileged over other identities, have found their way onto the street -and have been reinforced through such things as Town Centre Management, Business Improvement Districts (see Reeve, 2008), and a raft of legislation from ASBOs (Anti-social Behaviour Orders) to Public Space Protection Orders brought in under the UKs Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014,which effectively criminalise historically normal modes of conduct in public space (Fig 5) As an aside, these strategies also include the use of such designed elements as twenty-minute seating, seating so designed that it becomes uncomfortable to sit on after a short while, and impossible to lie down on (Fig 6). I would argue that the increasing monitoring of city streets, along with the license given under the 2014 Act in UK town and city centres, represents increasingly desperate efforts to maintain the aesthetic mythos of town centres as spaces of safe leisure in a context in which real poverty, homelessness and the other visible consequences of the failure of the state are becoming more and more evident and intrusive.…”

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Exercising Control at the Urban Scale: Towards a Theory of Spatial Organisation and Surveillance

Reeve

2019

Surveillance, Architecture and Control

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The purpose of this chapter is to explore how urban spaces are implicated in the control and surveillance of users in a culture saturated by the notion of the self as a consuming body or entity. Using the work of Foucault on disciplinary cultures, Lefebvre in relation to the production of space, and other seminal theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Rob Shields and Micahel Walzer, a model for analysing the three dimensions of social spatialisation is proposed and illustrated by reference to contemporary public spaces, and specifically spaces of mundane leisure such as shopping malls and high streets. The chapter examines space in terms of its moral, aesthetic and cognitive dimensions-both as produced and as consumed-and how control is exercised over the individual's sense of identity as well as over the social aspects of place through material, managerial and aesthetic strategies. The chapter also discusses the dialogue that exists between constructed technologies of surveillance-CCTV, architectural elements such as windows and their placing in relation to the street, and internalised expectations and the selfcensorship of identity and behaviour of consumers induced in a culture of highly aestheticized and depoliticised consumption. The chapter also thinks through the implications of contemporary approaches to the design of commodity dominated and privatized public space in relation to notions of the private and the public, and the idea of 'third' spaces, as they have been called. Finally, the chapter deals with how the public realm as a controlling space has been theorised in terms of opposition to such controlling tendencies-from the flaneur, through the self-constructed narratives of De Certeau's walker, to the digitally 'enhanced' individual today, appropriating space via technology and their own projects in tinder etc., and other potentially transgressive media. 2 | P a g e The city is, and always has been, constituted as a contest over space-over its production, representation and regulation; over who is authorised to be in it, and who is kept out; over what constitutes an unpolluted space and what constitutes a transgression of space.

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‘Hyperreality’ in the shire: Bicester Village and the village of Bicester

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The City of Muses Project: Creating a Vibrant and Sensual Metropolitan Landscape through Architecture

The City of Muses Project: Creating a Vibrant and Sensual Metropolitan Landscape through Architecture

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