http://archinect.com/blog/21448995/the-university-of-sheffield-uk-jordan
http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2010/04/city-of-future-by-cedric-price.html
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7986&page_number=1&template_id=10&sort_order=1&UC=
Automation is coming. More and more, machines do our work for us. There is going to be yet more time left over, yet more human energy unconsumed. The problem which faces us is far more than that of the ‘increased leisure’ to which our politicians and educators so innocently refer. This is to underestimate the future. The fact is that as machines take over more of the drudgery, work and leisure are increasingly irrelevant concepts. The distinction between them breaks down. We need, and we have a right, to enjoy the totality of our lives. We must start discovering now how to do so.
–Cedric Price (From Agit-prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price)
diagrams for different kinds of public information exchange in the OCH. the 'oxford corner house' was a proposed public 'information machine' in central london, giving the general public computerised access to all kinds of public information.
'OCH can be used as a citizens' inquiry service where teleconnections can be made to press news rooms, travel agencies, government ministries, to Parliament, industry, commerce etc, thus making information accessible which is at present underused or ignored because of access difficulties. [diagram A].
Or OCH can offer a skill-learning or research facility service through programmed machines [a Link drive-a-car trainer or a language teaching machine] or through teleconnections to other study centres. [diagram B]
Or OCH can be used as a centre equipped to provide facilities for information exchange, at a meeting level, at a conference level, or at an inter-city [concurrent exchange] conference level. [diagram C]
The basic user component in the centre would be the two-seater information carrel, but open floor space for observation, wandering, wondering, rest and refreshment by mobile preparation units is fundamental to the full use of the centre.'
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