Urban Messages a platform for interaction in Venice
Ana Rodriguez
URBAN MESSAGES The aim of this project is to provide physical spaces for the spread of locals and tourists voice. Currently, diverse types of messages are spread in the city street network and the main purpose to address is how to aware people of them. As a general strategy, the mapping of Venice’s streets messages overlapped with space syntax analysis were the steps used in order to achieve the location of three physical social devices that would improve interaction among people as well as the visibility and reachability of the messages. Urban messages in Venice were divided into three main groups, ecological, cultural and political. Also, they are located in specific elements such as the wooden pier poles for the gondolas, exterior pipes, hanging lamps, wheelbarrows and walls; fact that has been used as evidence in order to prove the hypothesis of the lack of spaces for promoting ecological, cultural and political activities. On the other hand, some other current issues such as the shortage of rubbish bins in the squares and some flags hanging from the local’s balconies protesting against the big vessels were the most alarming messages that had been found.
launched from the Grand Canal. MARKET PLATFORMS Venice’s cultural messages are currently spread around the city as overlayed stickers or posters; this is the fact that proves their lack of visibility. Hence the main purpose the cultural devices pursue is to integrate the current message’s network and to improve their visibility. The use of the geo-referenced evidence, (NACH) radios n; some cultural land-uses such as artworks, galleries, museums, theatres and information centres overlapped with VGA in the highest values (NACH) was the applied strategy to find the location of the cultural social devices. Campo Santo Stefano resulted as the busiest place to locate the devices; its physical shape was inspired from some market stalls as an exchange node of goods and ideas. The Market Platforms have the same structure as the ecological, it collects rainwater and works as the antique Venetian head wells that currently are not working. DIPLOMATIC ROUNDTABLES Venice’s political messages are shown as graffiti and posters concentrated around Dorsoduro, where the main two Venetian Universities are located. This landuse had been taken as the place to propose in their internal courtyards some roundtables around the water wells. The geo-referenced evidence had been mapped, overlapping (NACH) radios 400 m, and Wcalculating how many steps furthers they are from the messages. The use of spatial analysis techniques in order to locate these social devices would ensure their proper use and their function as interactive platforms. The three proposals work as the interface for social interaction, exchange of ideas, goods and infrastructure for Venice. The three proposals would enhance ecological, cultural and political issues, but the most important output is the promotion of citizenship, where locals and tourist interact and can spread their thoughts freely.
AN ECOLOGICAL FESTIVITY Venice’s ecological messages protest against big cruises and the population decline of some fauna because of the current pollution of water. Thus, the strategy to understand the location of the ecological devices was to overlap the geo-referenced evidence with the (NACH) of the water channels radios: n and the vaporetti station location. As a result, it has been found that the ecological messages were not in the Giudecca channel, the main cruises entrance. The proposal of recycling the infrastructure used in La Festa del Redentore on mid-July for closing the Giudecca channel, and proposing on the 22nd of April an Ecological Parade, which celebrates Earth’s Day. The new Venetian festivity will consist on a bridge in Giudecca channel and three ecological platforms 3
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ECOLOGICAL MESSAGES
CULTURAL MESSAGES
POLITICAL MESSAGES
ECOLOGICAL MESSAGES WITH NACH CHANNELS r : n LANDUSES-VAPORETTI AND CRUISE PORTS
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CULTURAL MESSAGES WITH NACH r: n CULTURAL LANDUSES
POLITICAL MESSAGES WITH NACH r : 400 LANDUSES UNIVERSITIES
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Roof Structure Modular and Ecological
Tensor Solar Pannel
Pergola
Column as water collector
Polycarbonate
Water tank
Flexible module, which conforms the Floating Platforms 22nd of APRIL ECOLOGICAL FESTIVITY - ECOLOGICAL PLATFORM PARADE Three Platfroms launched from The Grand Canal Bridge from Zattere to Giudecca
CULTURAL DEVICE - MARKET PLATFORMS VGA Campo Santo Stefano, before.
VGA Campo Santo Stefano, after.
MARKET PLATFORMS . Campo Santo Stefano. 6 Ana Rodriguez
MARKET PLATFORMS . Campo Santo Stefano.
POLITICAL GROUND - UNIVERSITIES COURTYARDS Head Wells
Modular table
Roundtable
Interactive Kiosks, citizenship device
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