Site Typology

I began to analyze the geometry of the site context. The site is situated in an active urban fabric in which three grids collide and the grids have a fragmented quality that is knit back together resulting in a knot condition. What does this mean and why is is significant? It's not a question of what came first (the grid, the dynamic geometries of the site boundaries, or the boundary of land/water...) I'm analyzing it as a complex system of modular containment that is constantly balancing forces. For example one force is that every block wants to have to pairs of parallel edges, however in the process of knitting together the fragmented grid there are new trajectories that mediate between boundaries. The diagram in the top left shows gradients based on solid/void relationships. The streets are public and open, they bleed into the blocks through crevices, at times they are completely resisted resulting in a private void condition within the block, and other times the streets seem to flood the block resulting in an open/public space. The large tree diagram (bottom right) analyzes the cropped sample of urban fabric as block geometry types, in which the edge conditions are vectors.