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Sao Paulo | final research book

 

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Jakarta Final Submission

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Within Jakarta the extreme commuter exists in transit for the major part of the day. Within this scope we can introduce opportunities of weaving moments of exchange and transfer that allow for commuters to tap into moments of formal as well as informal markets, information kiosks, as well as job opportunities. Essentially there are two main characters and everyone in between. One is that of the official user who, as it is now, does not inform the infrastrucuture but can. And the other is the person who arrives when densities at intersections occur. Their interaction is the premises for a new architectural space where the initiated corespondents can define the space for that use at that time. Within a rigid framework there are situations that can flow in and out with flexibility that responds to user capacity and need.

In the image the commute is unrolled through a series of images and the time/speed is shown vertically (the longer the commute the lower the dip), as well as time the main two user types are compared by the black and the red lines. The goal is that they each catalyze each other because there is a response to one another. The main commuter triggers the spread of formal organizational programs.

NYC_december submission

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Mexico City | Final

Organizational Diagram

Mexico City Final

Los Angeles | Final Book

losangeles12192008This problem of the human site or living space is not simply that of knowing whether there will be enough space for men in the world -a problem that is certainly quite important – but also that of knowing what relations of propinquity, what type of storage, circulation, marking, and classification of human elements should be adopted in a given situation in order to achieve a given end. Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites. 

Michel Foucault

London Final Booklet

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London is one of the biggest metropolis areas in the world. The city is passing through a massive metamorphoses as it anticipates numerous mega events that should drastically change its urban and social character. The surveillance era is being assimilated into the routine of the city and people’s perception of privacy has created new social norms. In addition, the phenomena of the upcoming 2012 Olympics will seemingly shift the city’s order once again. Analyzing the Olympics as an urban and historical event, new requirements for the city’s urban fabric seem to be necessary in order to accommodate the event on its many different levels, and help the city to readapt to its new transformation for the post Olympic period. Considering the continuous population growth in the city and the upcoming Olympics, we can foresee a need for a new order of density, which will lead to a new type of infrastructure. The long-term prognosis for London is a large scale cataclysm, due to a high risk flooding situation. The consequences of global warming makes flooding a major threat all over the world, as sea levels rise and may directly affect London by the year 2030. Anticipating the flooding situation, we can envision the importance of the Olympics, as a foreground for a new infrastructure that will be able to  readapt to the flooding situation and as a commercial/economical resource that might substantially help in the execution of the project.

MUM_Cogmaps updated

The pattern of intensity dampening is now brought into excel and we’re beginning to diagram ontop of it. The site mapping now also reveals overlapping durations of effects with the green circles. There is an excel image to go along with this, but it hasnt yet been integrated into the pattern diagramming.

MUM_Cogmaps part deux

The results of our cogmaps began by exploring cognitive growth stategies that negotiate a site of varying intensities. The next version explores a slightly more nuanced growth strategie, but more importantly, begins implementing the idea of duration where the growth has a stationary phase at specific locations which causes effects over time within the intensity mapping. Once certain conditions have been meet within the system and in the local area, the stationary phase ends and growth resumes. In this case, there are both internal and external effects embedded in the relationships between the system and the environment.

Arne Quinze Sequence

via mocoloco:

Arne Quinze takes matters into his own hands with a new public art installation, The Sequence, designed to promote urban interaction by connecting the Flemish Parliament with the House of Flemish Representatives in Brussels. If you can’t change government from within, why not do a makeover on the outside? The wood and concrete installation, officially opening November 16 and projected to remain for at least five years, works as a prompt for communication as people walk through it. The physical connection between the government neighbours is also a symbolic one that is meant to reflect Quinze’s philosophy. As he says, “The Sequence bridges the communication gap between people, and generates movement in the city. I want to reconnect people and let them interact with each other like they did in the past on squares. At least people talked to each other back then.”

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NYC_Draft Book Submission

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Sinking City (as the list of crisis found in Mexico City increases…)

Mexico City is sinking an average of 10 centimetres a year due to the compaction of clay soil, the overexploitation of aquifers and the excess of concrete that prevents the permeation of rain. Currently, the extraction of underground water in the Valley of Mexico is more than four times greater than the inflow.

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Digital Urban

Interesting research sources, mapping and visualization projects, etc at Digital Urban

Info:

“Digital Urban is written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, aimed at examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media it covers a lot of the work going on at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is, when not writing the blog, a Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager at CASA.”

As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions

The Times reports on Sterksel project in the Netherlands, an attempt to collect and process animal waste, capture emissions and produce energy on a utility scale.

 

“The trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more even than from cars, buses and airplanes.

But unlike other industries, like cement making and power, which are facing enormous political and regulatory pressure to get greener, large-scale farming is just beginning to come under scrutiny as policy makers, farmers and scientists cast about for solutions.

High-tech fixes include those like the project here, called “methane capture,” as well as inventing feed that will make cows belch less methane, which traps heat with 25 times the efficiency of carbon dioxide. California is already working on a program to encourage systems in pig and dairy farms like the one in Sterksel.

Other proposals include everything from persuading consumers to eat less meat to slapping a “sin tax” on pork and beef. Next year, Sweden will start labeling food products so that shoppers can look at how much emission can be attributed to serving steak compared with, say, chicken or turkey.”

Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor

Boston’s reclaimed city landfill.

Spectacle Island

MILAGRO trailer

MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations) promo video.

Megacities 2004

This map shows the world’s 20 most populous urban cities in 2004. With 21,503,000 inhabitants, Mexico City ranks third.

Digg Arc

Digg’s partner, Stamen Design, created Digg Labs, a site that offers four ways to visualize what is happening on Digg: the Arc, the BigSpy, the Stack, and the Swarm. The goal is to highlight the community’s preference for certain stories while also allowing less popular ones to surface. According to Stamen Design, “Stories come in as circles with the title inside of them, and diggers ’swarm’ around these stories when they digg them.”

Digg Arc

Edward Soja | The Postmodern City