Charts of Operations

The chart of operations describes the component parts of an urban operator and identifies what each of those parts do. The chart, as opposed to a plan, section or assembly axonometric allows you to describe those operations across multiple registers, such as:

• the public/programmatic operations of the urban design proposal
• the technical role that the elements play
• its urban effects (diagram its operation with larger systems).
• schedules of activation

In Marpillero & Pollak's presentation on Queens Plaza they described how MPA described the role of particular elements, in each of 3 scenarios. The location and role each element played was then mapped both to plan and to perspective , in order to distinguish tectonic decisions from programmatic intentions. Examples of how they did this may be seen in their presentation as well as in Sandro's essay in Constellations.