In my trip to the Grand Central Terminal to document how people move and look at the main hall space, I began to think about how the architectural layout and spatial qualities begin to influence these behaviors. How people coming out of a narrow hall into the grand meeting space would almost slow down and visually take in a place before continuing to move at a regular pace. How people walking down a slight slope tend to look up a little more than if it was a flat plane. These little moments begin to inform how they view the spaces they walk through and how these views inform the overall experience that is fragmented and biased to that particular trajectory.
I also documented the movement patterns within the terminal and where people would stop and wait for others and/or remain stationary to observe. The planar diagram below is a combination of people that moved through the terminal space and their trajectory within it.
I think it would be interesting to also think about how not just the movement and flux of people through a space influence our perception, but also how movement of other people and our relationship to them also influences it. In other words, a crowded space vs an empty space vs a space that filters people consistently.
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