Site- globalized local TV stations

new coffee house as globalized local TV stations

The site should be around the River Thames, because the English coffee house was introduced by the flourished world trade in the river. GM TV, which is one of the local TV stations, is located alongside the river. It could be in competition with my new coffee house as information place, such as the competitions between the present and the future, and between the digital tools and the analog tools for digital technology, so the site in the other side of the river is chosen. The two buildings, which are located opposite each other, will show the interesting comparison.

Site& GM TV

Main structure

main structure of the new coffee house

The main structure of the coffee house is the aggregator of information flows. From the newspaper to the TV station or internet news, the aggregator, information technology, has been complex and multi-layering, so its developing process contributes to compose the main structure. Information has been changed its media form from the letter in newspaper to image in machine ‘TV’, and it has been globalized through using internet.
To construct it in the real social landscape, it has to reflect a real situation. Currently, the local TV stations are in danger of becoming obsolete by the huge international broadcast companies, such as CNN and BBC. The local TV stations could reduce their expenses by simplifying the transmission system of broadcasting to connecting to the internet network. Therefore, it will be an effective solution for local TV stations to be in globalized new coffee house.

globalized coffee & information technology

the current situation of globalized coffee, internet network, and international TV stations.
The current coffee house is globalized, and the information technology is also globalized such as internet network, and international TV stations. Therefore, the new coffee house for information technology could exist in the relationship between internet network and TV stations.

Main system of coffee house

main system of the new coffee house
As mentioned above, the main system of new coffee house is made by information technology. The drawing is connected two situations from the early newspaper to the current internet, but it have to be developed by adding other information technology.

Time based coffee house

Form of time based coffee house
The form of time based coffee house is drawn by 3d-modeling. It is a basic form of the new coffee house, and it will be re-organized by main system, because it is just described coffee history. To re-interpret the coffee house, based on the original form in the early modern, it is necessary to build the main system.

Coffee history2

Figure 1. coffee history
It is time base drawing about coffee history. In the drawing, time flows from down to up, and coffee culture has been huge and diversify, as a result, place for coffee is not limited in a building, and go into everywhere in our life.
On the other hand, coffee house was developed and formed its structure, in the early modern period, and it later was disintegrated and simplified. As a result, the coffee house occupies in a part of the huge coffee culture, even though it produced the coffee culture in the past.

Figure 2. coffee house
It is drown the coffee house in detail. After boom in the early modern period, the coffee house has lost its form because the social events, which had been placed compactly in the coffee house, were grown up and broke their relationship loose from the space, and went into the developing system of the modern society.

Strategy

How… to make the interacting architecture
To make the interacting architecture, the old coffee house must be re-interpreted in the real social landscape. The current coffee house has been globalized by the incredible growing of coffee culture, and its relationship with society has been different from the early modern society. Since the original form of the coffee house could not be continuous, there are very few social events from the past. However it is still continued to the place for the news. People have used the coffee house for newspaper in the past, and for internet in the present. It means that the current coffee house could be re-interpreted as the place for information.
To do this, the main system, the aggregator of information, is necessary. The old coffee house was enough activated to be marked as ‘the place for news’ in the hundreds year-old map, in other worlds, coffee house was the place for publishing newspaper as the origin of newspaper office. Therefore the main system about information can be built by the developing process of information technology from newspaper, in the coffee house, to TV broadcast or internet network.
My project was going to be categorized into the three parts.

Invisible frame work
It is to embody the background of coffee and coffee house in architectural drawings.
- history of coffee and coffee house
- giving information system in the coffee house
- process of coffee spreads and coffee plantations
- current situations of globalized coffee house and information technology

Physical frame work
It is about how it could be re-constructed in the real social landscape.
- building the main structure of new coffee house.
- finding the site

Collage
It is also about how to be realized, and two frame works will be collaged in the site.

coffee history1

using of coffee house

spreads of coffee

Origin of coffee

revolution of the black water, coffee

The powerful, but transitory Revolution of the Black water, coffee
Today, coffee, which has similar name in countries all over the world, is the second largest products following oil. However it is a noticeable thing that coffee emitted the more powerful energy to the society in anther period, around the 17th and the 18th century.
‘Coffee and the culture of coffee’ was a religious idea of Islam and was introduced to the people through the house of coffee in the Middle East. It later traveled to the European continent. Finally, it was placed in the coffee house, which functioned as the foundation of the early modern society. It joined the banner of ‘Liberty’, Equality’, and ‘Fraternity’ at the translated form of Café in France, and it intervened in the policy of the imperialism of Europe, such as monoculture by the colonialism and slaver trade, moreover it yielded the Fascism in Germany.
Unfortunately the energetic relationship between coffee house and social landscape has declined and simplified. As a result, the current coffee house, like ‘Starbucks’, has very few remains for the old coffee house.

Organic coffee house to interact with social landscape
The coffee house in the early modern society was booming in England. The English coffee house was incredibly popular, and it provided a place for the modern society to grow, in other words, it had an organic relationship with social and cultural landscape of England. Although it has disappeared, the English coffee house still has value to show the way forward to interaction between architecture and the future landscape.
I want to represent the English coffee house to be the new organic building, which accept the new needs of the society; which interact with the changing social landscape.