Tesis Taller de arquitectura 5, Urbanismo parametrico by Abril Garza

FRACTO CITY

Tutor: Alex Rodriguez

Abril Garza Alejandro Diaz Hector GarcĂa

FRACTO CITY BY AHA

INDEX

INTRODUCTION....................................2 PROJECT DEFINITION..........................3 SITE ANALYSIS.....................................4 PROBLEM..............................................5 CONCEPT & INTENTIONS.....................6 RESEARCH............................................7 EXPERIMENTS......................................9 DESIGN ENGINE..................................11 MASTER PLAN.....................................19 CONCLUSIONS.....................................31 BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................32

INTRODUCTION

he project has as objective to open the mind toward new expectations of urban design, trying to generate a new vision and conceptualization of the city, which can take to the creation of a new city with a different functionality with new layouts and urban designs, for this investigation topics were used with objects and experiments that are to the environment of the life, making it an experimental project with a without end of new design possibilities. All the new proposals were managed in a parametric way and they will be been able to use in the city to try to generate to a drastic change of functionality and trying to give a solution to the problems of the big cities.

PROJECT DEFINITION

reate a conceptual and experimental model of urban design with which you can generate a proposal of Inner city less dispersed and disjointed.

ith the objective of looking for a solution to some of the most serious problems in the city like it is it the insufficient vehicular infrastructure, the shortage of green areas and the lack of housing developments, by means of the improvement of the infrastructure, equipment and half urban, as well as the recovery of natural spaces and the development

for the creation of a pedestrian net to promote the not motorized traffic and to reduce the use of the automobile by means of the construction of housing equipment and work areas inside a radius not bigger to 15 minutes on foot, providing a bigger quality of life and always considering the citizen as the main factor in the project.

SITE ANALYSIS

The site is located in Monterrey, Nuevo Le贸n, M茅xico. Its situaded in the center of the city, crossed horizontally by the Santa Catarina River in the middle. Two main avenues of the city folow the river, them being Consitutcipon and Morones Prieto.

SITE ANALYSIS PROBLEM

INSECURITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT GREEN AREAS INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL GROUPS DISPARITY

INEFICIENCY

SHORTAGE

CONCEPT

o generate a model of Inner City or urban downtown that it impels and propitiate the social, economic and cultural development of the area by means of the design of collective spaces, housing, green areas and the necessary urban equipment

INTENTIONS Vehicular infrastructure Pedestrian infrastructure Public transport

OPTIMIZE

GENERATE

New model of sustainable coomunity

RESEARCH TOPIC

FRACTOGRAPHY OF GLASS

tudy that determines the type of fracture, fragile or ductile, and the mechanism that generates it, adicionally.

PARAMETERS ANALYZED

Crack propagation Crack ramification Shapes generated in the fracture Relation between the length of the fracture and the pressure applied. Direction of the crack propagation

FRACTOGRAPHY OF GLASS

Why did we choose this topic?

e did research, and we found interesting the way that when a glass breaks from an impact it can create different patterns, and how each one of these patterns has cracks which connect with all the others cracks in the pattern, we also noticed that there were forms that were created in between the cracks, so we though the cracks and the forms created could work for a city plan, the cracks being possible vehicular connection systems, and all the given forms being everything that can be in a city: living spaces, business centers, commerce, education areas, etc.

EXPERIMENTS

Number of impacts

We experimented with glass of different thickness and lamination

3mm FLAT GLASS BOTH SIDES LAMINATED

3mm FLAT GLASS ONE SIDE LAMINATED

3mm FLAT GLASS ONE SIDELAMINATED

3mm FLAT GLASS ONE SIDE LAMINATED

6mm FLAT GLASS ONE SIDESLAMINATED

6mm FLAT GLASS ONE SIDE LAMINATED

FRACTOGRAPHY OF GLASS

DESIGN ENGINE

THROUGH THE

EXPERIMENTATION OF BREAK-

THE AIM

ING FLAT GLASS IT WAS

DIFFERENT PATTERNS WERE CREAT-

OF THESE

FOUND THAT

COULD BE APPLIED TO

ED IN THE GLASS SURFACE

MODEL

OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO FIND IF ONE

PATTERNS

GENERATE AN

URBAN

FRACTOGRAPHY URBANISM

CREATED PATTERNS ALL CRACKS CREATED CONNECT POLYGONAL FORMS GENERATED IN EVERY IMPACTS IN GLASS

PATTERN

POLYGONAL FORMS

CRACKS

VEHICULAR CONNECTION SYSTEM

AREAS REQUIREDFOR THE CITY

PATTERN SELECTED

Why did we select this type of impact?

f all the experiments we did with glass, we found this particular one when we used hammer on a 6mm flat glass surface the most interesting one, since in most of the experiments we got radial forms, in this one we got a pattern that had different shapes and cracks that connected themselves all the way through, and being these two thing the reason of why we chose these topic we thought this type of impact was the one that could work the most.

IMAPCT SELECTED

Why did we choose those impact spots?

e wanted to create two urban centers, one in each side of the river, so we wanted everything to go from high density in the center, to low density in the ends. And we wanted the two sieds of the river to be communicated, so making those impacts there generated these patterns that interconnect each other in the center.

DIFFERENT SCENARIOS THREE IMPACTS RADIAL PATTERN IN THE UPPER SIDE DIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF TYPOLOGIES

FOUR IMPACTS COMBINED PATTERNSDIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF TYPOLOGIES

GEOMETRY

fter we analyzed the patters we realized that all the types of forms that were generated could be classified in geometrical forms, since all of them were simple figures with a certain number of sides.

We classified them in Three sided shapes Four sided shapes Five sided shapes Six sided shapes Seven sided shapes Impact area shape

DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES

53 126 52 2 2 2

TYPOLOGIES TYPOLOGIES TYPOLOGIES TYPOLOGIES TYPOLOGIES TYPOLOGIES

fter we classified all the typologies that we obtained, we gave each typology a designation of what it would be used for on the inner city that we are planning.

DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES

COMMERCE 185,029m2

LIVING SPACES 1,002,909m2

GREEN AREAS 413,536m2

BUSINESS 301,018m2

EDUCATION 42,929m2

PLAZA 165,569m2

MASTER PLAN

COMMERCE

Three sided polygons Commerce These type of shapes were given in the whole pattern. And it was a union spot between other figures, and mainly connected with the four sided ones, that being important because those are the living spaces. So we think commerce areas should be in spots that are connected with all the different areas of the city.

MASTER PLAN

LIVING SPACES

Four sided polygons Living spaces When we made a sum of all the areas in all the different shapes individually, we obtained that the four sided shapes were the ones that had the most area. This being important parameter for all the living area that is going to be in the city, we chose these shapes as the most ideal for the living area.

MASTER PLAN

GREEN AREAS

Five sided polygons Green Areas These shapes were connected with each other, and at the same time with all the different types of shapes. They were also scattered all over the pattern created by the impacts, so the whole city has green areas.

MASTER PLAN

BUSINESS

Six sided polygons Business Areas These six sided figures were located in the center of each side, and also in the center when the two patterns merge, so this . Also the six sided shape gave us a big area figure, which works for what big business center areas require.

MASTER PLAN

EDUCATION

Seven sided polygons Education We chose the only seven sided shape that we obtained in the pattern to be the one that contains the education area. The pattern gave us this unique shape that is centered, and because of the 7 sides is a big one, so it has a big area that can work for an education space and works because of the centrality of itself in relation with all the other areas.

MASTER PLAN

PLAZA

Impact area Plaza These shapes were created in the spot were the impact was generated, creating shapes with more than 7 sides, that is going to be used as a plaza, since it is in the center of everything.

MASTER PLAN

INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure The crack fractures in the site generate vehicular and walking infractructure,

Walking Corridors Undergroud Walking Corridors Public Transport Main Streets Secundary Streets

MASTER PLAN

INFRASTRUCTURE

Pedestrian Infrastructure The Walking Corridors were designed following the dominant winds of Monterrey city, creating wind tunnels and also influenced by the movement of the sun over city.

HEIGHTS AND DENSITIES

HEIGHTS

GIVEN BY 2 PARAMETERS AVERAGE OF THE SUM OF THE LONGEST LINE IN THE 4 SIDED POLYGONS AVERAGE OF THE SUM OF THE SHORTEST LINE IN THE 3 SIDED POLYGONS

HIGHEST HEIGHT LOWEST HEIGHT

DENSITIES CENTER MORE DENSITY OUTSIDES LESS DENSITY 28

DIGITAL

PARAMETRIC

LATERAL

VIEW

TOP

VIEW

CONCLUSIONS

hrough the experimentation and the analysis of the ramification of the fractures in the glass a fracture pattern was obtained which was used to generate an urban model, this pattern generated a new city model in which the aim was to solve some of the biggest problems that the city of Monterrey has, like the lack of green areas, the necessity of vertical housing in the area center of the city and the problems of the vehicular infrastructure. The new proposal of inner city is an answer to these problems, new housing spaces were generated inside the city, as well as big corridors of green areas that interconnect the city, public transportation routes that run along the whole area, with which circulation becomes more efficient, also the proposal of creating big walking corridors inside the city to try to diminish the use of the automobile inside the area. Thanks to this new one model a more efficient city is generated, where the use of the automobile decreases, so that people can walk and in turn the use of the public transportation is promoted, and also bigger green areas are created, all this with the purpose of giving people a better quality of life and a new ecological attitude.

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