This “weakening” of architecture, as Tschmi calls it, is an altered relationship between structure and image and structure and skin (Papadakis, 1988).
Therefore, the final form becomes merely a pathway for new forms
(bodies) to exist within them. The park was divided using a rectangular grid consisting
of lines placed at intervals of 120 meters. On top of this grid a series of points, lines and surfaces were superimposed to create the form that exists
today.
Central to the design were ideas about the allocation of space and form on the site. These were based on Tschumi’s use of what he
described as ‘programmatic deconstruction’ which involved the dismantling of the conventional ideas of architecture
(Papadakis,
1988).
Diagram 1 shows a simple representation of the distribution of space on the site showing a proportion of ‘building’ to a proportion of ‘covered area’ to a proportion of ‘open
space’.
Diagram 2 these three parts undergo a process that Tschumi calls ‘explosion’, ‘fragmentation’, and ‘deconstruction’
Diagram 3 is a ‘re-composition’ of the elements
The re-composition of the three elements takes place ultimately on the coordinate points of a grid in varying combinations of building, covered space and open space.