22@ CITY MAPPING
By Nacho López and Ferran Grau
The aim
of the Barcelona City Mapping seminar is to introduce the student into the
complexity and the mixture of the Europe-Mediterranean Cities’ urban fabric.
The city
is vectorized and tensed by the dynamic and the changes of private and public
uses, and fluxes. On the other hand, we can also detect the resilience of
sediments in terms of materiality, property and social behaviours. In this in
between lies the essence of the City.
This
extensive understanding of the context could also give a double reading in
different scales, from the joints and contacts of different urban fabrics, or from
its gaps to the understanding of time-dependent urban landscapes. Under these
principles, the work in different scales should pass through the urban fabric
interface, including intermediate elements as doors and floor rooms or block
chamfers as a space and use generators. Being contemporary architects nowadays
means being confronted to a built world where we wonder how we can think new
cities where already exist other ones.
Students will analyze an urban city fragment full of complexity.
This piece of the city, which is a portion of Pallars street in the 22@
district, is the result of a historical overlap: the old industrial district from the end of the XIX Century
and the new “Catalan Silicon Valley” (22@). The superposition is architectonic,
programmatic and socio-economic and happens in all directions demanding a
three-dimensional approach to information.
From West to East (o vice versa) (1)
we propose to catch urban biopsies regarding four gazes: urban landscapes,
chamfers, ground floors and architectonic joints. Simultaneously we suggest to
cross the first four approaches with a transversal look (North to South o vice
versa) (2) organized in four issues: public
spaces, activities, fluxes and sediments.
We will re-visit the same places during four different moments
during the day (morning, midday, afternoon and night)
Exercise:
The
exercise consists in the production of a personal and collective booklet as a
result of three different tasks:
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Recollection of information
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Management of information
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Representation of information.
The
recollection of data will take place in four moments during one day by groups
of two people.
The book
will have two sides:
(1) In the first one a
scanner made with pictures taken by the students will show the mapping of the
street during the different scheduled moments organized in four rows:
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Urban landscapes.
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Chamfers.
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Ground floors.
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Architectonic joints.
(2) The reverse side will
contain four maps drawn from the public spaces, activities, fluxes and
sediments linked with some pictures coming from the other side.
The booklet is going to be a blend of some A3, which will be folded in A5 format.
MARCH 20th: Introduction
MARCH 23rd: Data registration. Exploring the city.
MARCH 27th: Information management and representation
APRIL 3rd: Booklet production
Guest Jury: Ivan Blasi and Irma Arribas
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Sergio Duran |
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Jacob LeMieux and Maria Trevino |
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Tristan Magnuson and Leticia Esponda |
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Shan Jin and Alicia Baihui Li |
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Mission Accomplished. Congratulations to all participants! |