Ariel Vazquez Portfolio
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Table of Contents Introducton Curriculum Vitae Academic Studio Projects Drexel University Berlage Institute Competitions
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Academic Studio Projects Architecture for me has been away to understand how I perceive objects, not until older I realized that ideas could be expressed in form. I tried to perceive space in ways that could only be describe as experience.
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Drexel University Studio Projects 2003 - 2008 Site Analysis and Design for a Wetlands Institute and Environmental Retreat Center
A retreat facility and education center is to be added on a site by route 33, adjacent to the village Sherwood, MD. The retreat is intended for use by institutional and private groups of 20 to 25 adults for 2 to 3 days periods of study, meetings, discussion and contemplation. In addition, it will be open to daytime visitors. The project needs to identify a suitable site location for the retreat base on an overall site analysis. It is set to be sited recognizing the desirable natural amenities, micro-climate, and views. The site plan is to be include a new driveway with twelve parking spaces, which will be used by the retreat for both staff and visitors. The retreat is used year-round. Designed to respond to and enjoy a range of annual conditions of weather, foliage, etc. And should permit many activities to occur outdoors when possible. A majority of retreat meetings and activities involve the full group, but some meetings occur in small sub-groups. The design allows for the individual to “escape� the group, either in the private or public areas of the retreat, both indoors and outdoors.
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500 Year Flood Line
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The design should impact to the minimum the natural landscape, anticipate timber as the primary construction material above grade, and to consider all aspects of site-responsive and energy-conscious design. The retreat is very much a place for re-thinking. It will be served well by an architecture that stimulates a questioning and reflective state of mind, and that allows of an interactive relationship with the site. The complex may be within one “structure: or composed of maximum of three individual built elements.
Temperature Fluctuation - Monthly Avergage
Solar Envelope The Solar Envelope is defined as the maximum built volume on a site such that is does not block direct sun to its neighbors in specified times. As buildings become taller and densities increase, the sun access to buildings decreases and the maximum buildable volume of the site approximates a pyramid.
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* Indoor Activiy Areas 12 Bedrooms (24 inhabitants) 1 Bedroom = 224sf x 12 = 2688sf WC and Bathing Facilities 225sf Dining Area 320sf Kitchen w/ Service Area 225 Meeting Rooms 306sf x 2 = 612sf Common Area 800sf Administration 700sf
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FOOTING AND FLOOR DETAIL
STEEL AND ROOF DETAIL
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STEEL, FOOTING, COLUMN DETAIL
Sherwood Wetlands Institute and Environmental Retreat Center
SECTION B-B THE MATERIALS FOR THE SHERWOOD INSTITUTE ARE SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE.
Land Usage and Community Preferred carpool parking, bicycle rack, pedestrian commuters. Location: Sherwood Rd. and RT. 33, Chesapeake Bay, MD. Site Selection: Site selection, building placement, and parking layout where integrated with existing conditions in order to eliminate negative impacts on the consumption of natural resources. The main entrance was a repurposed road, existing driveway very close to the proposed access road. The building main fenestrations are mainly in the north due to the site location and to maximize solar path. Shading systems were installed for protection of south solar exposure. Green roof was installed on the west-north side for summer cooling and air conditioning use reduction.
BALCONIES PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTIVE OF BUILDING
FIRST FLOOR
Materials and Resources Selection of building materials were based on their renewability of resources, environmental effects associated with production of the products, materials available on site (existing shelf unit bricks). Each products recycled content and recyclables. Materials selection criteria resulted in specifying over 15% of building materials manufacture within the tri-state area. Building plans include a centralized storage area for materials separation and recycling.
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EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
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Drexel University Studio Projects 2003 - 2008 Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvatiom Design Comepetition The Roosevelt Island Universal Arts Center Southern tip of Roosevelt Island, New York
The Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation competition is an open international ideas competition to design a Universal Arts Center for the community of Roosevelt Island, New York. The competition is hosted by the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, in cooperation with the Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association (RIVAA) and the Coler-Goldwater Hospital, and is supported by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. The competition results are intended to generate ideas for the site and will not result in actual development by ENYA or other parties involved. The Southpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation competition is an effort to provide young and emerging architects and designers with the opportunity to engage in the development of the souther tip of Roosevelt Island. The site, located at the ruin of James Renwick Jr. Smallpox Hospital, will provide a platform to discuss issues of preservation, an opportunity to take advantage of glorious city views, and a chance to access this unique and inimitable physical environment. Inspired by its tradition of being a public gathering space for the Fourth of July festivities and a transient art installation space, the Universal Arts Center program will call for a multi-use facility that can accommodate both performing and visual arts.
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360°
Views throughout the site
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Because of the location of the Island there is an unobstructed views of the sun rise and sun set with maximum sun exposure all day long, because of its location on the river, the Island is exposed to wind from all directions. The prevailing winds are from the West with mean annual speed of 14mph, and maximum annual speed of 52mph. Structure that exist on the site include: * Strecker Memorial Lab. * Smallpox Ruin * Mounds of rubble from landfill and demolition debris from the City Hospital. * Stone stockpile left from the City Hospital that could be reused. * Earthworks created in 1997 for the proposed FDR Memorial.
Panoramic photo of south end of the Island
Pictures taken in the site and existing building to understand near context of Roosevelt Island
Mound of rubble
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Rubble mounds
Rip rap shoreline
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Stone stockpile
Early successional forest
Summer sun angles - sunset
Summer sun angles - 3:00 PM
Summer sun Angles - sunrise
* Stockpiles of soil and rock fill with crushed rock and demolition debris exist throughout the project site. * In the area of the North of the Smallpox Hospital, fill basically consist of dark brown silty sand with rock fragments, pieces of concrete, brick fragments and wood, all at depths ranging from 10´near The center of the Island to 20´along Perimeter. * In the area of the South of the Smallpox Hospital, the fill basically consist of brown fine to medium sand with large amounts of rock fragments with thickness typically as much as 30´-40´. * Organic silt/silty sand was encounter beneath the fill layer of some areas, with a layer of fine to medium sand below. * Bedrock was encountered in most of the boings within depth of 8´. The top rock varies from elev. 6´at The North end of the site to deeper than elev. 30, and the top of the rock is generally higher in the center of the Island and slopes down very quickly along the perimeter of the Island.
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WALKWAY INTO GARDEN
SMALLPOX GALLERY SPACE
SMALLPOX ENTRANCE
MAIN BUILDING ENTRANCE W/ OUTDOOR GARDEN The Soutpoint: from Ruin to Rejuvenation competition has been broadly constructed with the intent to elicit the widest possible spectrum of design ideas. With that in mind, a loose set of criteria for judging the competition has been assembled. These include: Innovation and delight. Preservation/Adaptive Reuse. Program. Site. Universal Design. Competition Goals and Objectives.
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INTERIOR OF LOBBY
INTERIOR OF MAIN GALLERY
FIRST FLOOR PLAN W/ SMALLPOX HOSPITAL RENOVATION
SECOND FLOOR PLAN W/ SMALLPOX HOSPITAL RENOVATION
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Drexel University Studio Projects 2003 - 2008 Philadelphia Skyscraper Mixed Use Tower Philadelphia, PA
Beginning in the last quarter of the 19th Century, the pressure on urban real estate occasioned the need for higher density in cities, forcing development in the only direction available - up. The first tall buildings were massive affairs with think masonry walls at their bases that tapered internally to the top. As cast iron, steel and concrete frames technology developed, the skyscraper was born. The technical imperatives of tall buildings include: resolution of structural frame slab based on material properties and planning requirements; building mechanical, electrical, control and data systems; vertical transportation systems, and building exterior ‘skin’. Site is located at the northeast corner of 30th and Market Street, and comprises about 100,300 GSF, and is currently occupied by the 1950’s vintage Post Office Annex, which can be demolished to make way for development. To the east of the Annex are the rail tracks, which are the air rights for the high rise, but can not be used for building. The area its intended to leave open or developed as open space or a plaza for the building. The floors below Walnut street level are used for parking, mechanical and electrical rooms services.
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Mixed Use Building SITE PLAN
Proposed Commercial Area
The client, a multinational corporation, attracted to Philadelphia by the available open land at tis heart for its manufacturing businesses, as well as the access to shipping and transportation offered, has chosen to also relocate its management and data operation to the expanding Center City. The company is aware of the residential growth in central Philadelphia, and has chosen to team up with a developer to build a mixed used office, residential and commercial tower.
Proposed 350’-400’ Height Proposed Residential Tower
Proposed Reuse of Structure above train tracks SCHEMATIC PERSPECTIVE - ENVELOPE STUDIES
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FLOOR PLANS LUXURY APARTMENTS LEVEL 16-50
ADMINISTRATION AND MECHANICAL LEVEL 11-15 NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
Residential: 500,000 GSF of apartment units in the following mix, 40% one bedroom units, 55% two bedroom units, and 5% three bedroom units. Office Space: 1,200,000 GSF Retail and Entertainment: up to 100,000 GSF
GROUND LEVEL COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL
Public Plaza, winter garden and atrium 15,000 SF. Conference center with cafeteria and dining, open by invitation to the public. A public observation deck in the 40th floor.
GROUND LEVEL AND RETAIL SPACES
BUSINESS LEVEL ABOVE GROUND
SCHEMATIC PERSPECTIVE - SKIN STUDIES
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Drexel University Studio Projects 2003 - 2008 Urban Design: Redefining Urban Corridor, Italian Market 9th and Washington Ave. Philadelphia, PA
The ability to structure and identify the physical environment is vital to human survival and our emotional well being. We need to be able to recognize and pattern our surroundings so that we can move quickly, safely and efficiently, so that we can organize our daily activities, and so that our lives are securely anchored in time and place and a corresponding framework of knowledge and beliefs. The city, with its frequently over overwhelming size and complex physical and social diversity, can offer a special challenge in the search for an ordering structure or recognizable patterns. We all know the anxiety and outright fear that can arise from finding oneself “lost” in an unfamiliar place, and also the special pleasure that derives from “coming home”, or recognizing a previously visited place, or becoming competent in a foreign environment.
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Shopping food
Automobile friendly
Sprawl
Mobility
Iconography
Perpetual motion
Blog your Block! Statement The purpose of this project is to explore the relationship between technology (blogs) and everyday practice (community development). The idea is to create intercommunication with the existing merchants, future merchants, neighbors and developers in the Italian Market by using the internet. In addition, I would like to propose an expansion that will allow for growth in a multi-axial pattern along the market, not just in the 9th Street commercial corridor. Lastly, I’ll investigate an expansion on the boundary of the market with Passyunk Avenue for future connectivity with other neighborhoods and new visitors.
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The internet has being a significant tool for merchants to obtain or distribute their goods and/or services locally, nationally, and globally. Not only does merchants benefit form this tool, shoppers now have the freedom and convenience to shop for their goods from anywhere they want. Shoppers as well as merchants can rate the product, website, and service that the distributor is offering. What if you take this idea of rating using the internet, and then turned it into a blog. A blog is a frequently updated journal or diary usually, often hosted by a third party, in this case the empowerment development zone that would manage the interaction between the community, the merchants and the developers. This would give developers the opportunity to see what the community’s views were about the developers’ proposal. These interactions would give birth to a place in where developers, merchants and neighbors can interact, advice, request, and submit their concerns about design propositions on a giving site or neighborhood, using the opportunity to experiment with this notion, I select the Italian Market. The American Ice & Coal Company building is the physical connection to create that expansion. This building would allow for existing merchants and future ones to congregate in a multi-ethnic empowerment business center. The building would house the program in where existing merchants could bring new merchants to the market and create a connection with each other. Merchants could access a blog setup by the empowerment business center, so developers can perceive what points are important to the community. The idea is that bloggers can input in the design and development of the market. They can add to what the outcome of the design is going to the blog.
SITE PLAN, ITALIAN MARKET Pro´s: Washington Ave. it is very diverse, in its ethinicity and culture. Many types of business rule the realm for this community. Car friendly with ease-access parking. High-end/low-end goods. Con´s: Disorientation through pedestrain access, no clear definition of boundry. Lack of iconographic views by car or pedestrian. Filth, dirt, and trash seems to be an unavoidable layer throughout the area. Vehicular congestion.
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SITE ANALYSIS OF SITE EXISTING CONDITIONS
Industrial Commercial Residential TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS
POLYCENTRIC URBAN AREAS
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QUARTER MILE DEVELOPMENT
PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN PATTERN
PROPOSED AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT BY POINT OF TIME PHASE 1
PROPOSED SITE PROPOSED INFILL
PHASE 2
PROPOSED RENOVATION
PROPOSED ADDITIONS PROPOSED EXPANSIONS
PHASE 3
NEW INFILL
FUTURE EXPANSIONS
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MOVEMENT PROPOSAL / MARKET / ACCESS / CORE = CONSTANT MOTION ANALYSIS
ITALIAN??
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FACADE/ STORE FRONT RETAIL? NOISE/ VEHICULAR TRAFFIC
COMMERCIAL FACADE
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Past ITALIAN-AMERICAN
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Homeless Vendor
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Washington Ave - Redefining Urban Corridor Selected Site: Italian Market (from Catherine St. to Federal St. between 9th St. and 4th St.) The Italian Market faces many problems that need to be faced, there is to much trash left behind by the vendors. The sidewalks are filthy and unkept, and with the waste that accumulates make the area looked dirty. Signs and other forms of business advertising are scarred around the awnings making it chaotic to find a business while walking. People!!! people are everywhere in the Italian Market, with no sense of direction, making it almost impossible to navigate around them.
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Drexel University Studio Projects 2003 - 2008 Welcome to Hispter Heaven Thesis Project Liberty Lands, Northern Liberties Philadelphia, PA
Site Study & Culture Analysis Code:Art, a place where ART becomes EXPERIENCE Northern Liberties is located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Masters Streets to the North; Callowhill Street to the south; North 8th Street to the west; and the Delaware River to the east (from Callowhill Street to Laurel Street; from Laurel Street to Girard Avenue the eastern boundary is North Front Street). The historical boundaries are the same, except that instead of Master street, the northern boundary was the Cohocksink Creek, which now flows as a storm sewer under the following streets:(starting at the Delaware River and running from southeast to northwest: Canal, Laurel, Bodine, Cambridge, & Orkney Streets).
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Map of Nothern Liberties
Aerial View of Liberty Lands
Site: Liberty Lands is a two-acre, multi-use community green space, wholly owned and maintained by the Northern Liberties community. Originally the Liberty Lands site was fully developed, with buildings that held many businesses including a tannery. These buildings were donated by a developer in 1994 and the plan was to develop the property as senior housing, but these plans had to be abandoned when the buildings were demolished. In 1996, a small group of neighbors conceived a vision to create a park on the site. At the time, Northern Liberties was the only zip code in Philadelphia without a green space. A landscape designer volunteered his services to create a design, and a $59,000 grant allowed the project to begin. EPS soil testing ensured that this former Superfund site could be safely developed for green space; Liberty lands is now a poster project for the EPA’s “Brownfields to Greenfields” program. With national support, several small grants, donations of materials, food, plants, trees, professional services, construction services and thousands of hours of volunteer labor, in the spring of 1997 the park became a reality. The park was quickly recognized as the heart of the Northern Liberties community and the City of Philadelphia forgave many tax and demolition liens on the property. The Playground in the Park was conceived soon after the establishment of the park. For four years a group of volunteers designed, fundraised, and then built the five-unit playground. Plans to further involve the growing community of young families include a Children’s Garden, playground shade improvements, and new children’s activities. Liberty Lands plays host to a variety of community events for all ages. Large neighborhood parties, like the summer music festivals, take place here, as do picnics and birthday parties. The free Lawn Chair Drive-In movie series plays weekly during the summer; halloween brings the Hayride and other holiday activities for kids. Monthly workdays are a chance for neighbors to meet each other and to work
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Existing Building Count - Context Map
Registering the pedestrian movement, patterns through the site, helped understand the path of randomness within their circulation. It was impossible to register each individual path throughout the site, but by creating a 20´x20´grid, It was possible to record segments of this pattern and use a script to calculate an approximation of that flow.
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SITE ANALYSIS, PEDESTRIAN PATTERN BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
PEDESTRIAN PATTERN
PARTICLE ANALYSIS Using Realflow™ simulation software to understand volume of site using preset parameters.
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GEOMETRICAL STUDY OF SITE
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FLOOR PLANS
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SECTIONS AND STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
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Berlage Institute First Year Studio 2010 - 2011 Whose City Is It? Design Strategies for Marginalized Communities Buenos Aires good life Reprogramming Marginalized areas
Basic needs and commodities are essential for all city residents, formal and informal. Our goal is to introduce basic infrastructure for the improvement in the quality of life for impoverished neighborhoods. Using strategic planning and providing infrastructure that is flexible and adaptable; this will enable the unslumming process in marginalized communities. The planning needs to be adaptable for the continuous densifications in these marginalized areas. One issue is densification, since these precarious areas are growing at alarming rate, how can infrastructure be added in order to empower the marginalized community? Formal planning does not comply with the irregularities of precarious settlements. Therefore, creating new alternatives for introduction of programs in a fixed plan did not seem to make sense. The solution is to implement programs that are versatile and expandable. Distributing the plan inside the marginalize neighborhoods will allow for a cohesive integration. The polycentric infrastructure requires the employment of guidelines and rules in order work; these hierarchies allows for a relationship of the facilities or infrastructure to the existing network of the neighborhood. In this case, the hierarchy is implemented with the use of the existing street pattern and the urban fabric.
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Church
Industrial factory
School
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Mapping In the process of mapping, the apparent conclusion is that there is a problem with the distribution of different facilities and infrastructure. In the scale of San Martin to Barrio Independencia there is a deficiency of public infrastructure proportioned to its density. In the case of San Martin, the average number of facilities is related to the density of the population. One example is that in San Martin Scale there are 6 schools in less than 10 km radius. But in the case of Barrio Independencia, there are only two schools, one of them being private, for a population of +3000. Therefore, mapping is the tool for understanding the necessities of a marginalized community. Using mapping as an investigation tool, not only allows the understanding of deficits of infrastructures or facilities. It also allows for the exploration of new possibilities by utilizing the existing fabric for implementation of rules and programs for the unslumming process. The result was the understanding of the different conditions of the existing network, which enabled the introduction of flexible programming.
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PROGRAMMING After understanding the physical conditions of the site, using the mapping as a tool, it appears that flexible and adaptable strategy is the panacea for all the insufficient facilities. Due to the existing urban fabric of Barrio Independencia; it appears to be impossible to implement formal facilities, attributable to the short supply of open space that is required for large-scale infrastructure. Therefore, the strategic way to implement the program is to disperse it. Dispersing the program guaranties connection and integration between the different ‘actors’ of this community. For the new program to work in Barrio Independencia it is essential to integrate the neighborhood, not only in the barrio scale, but also, in the block scale. Using a systematic approach and the existing network, along with the implementation of program that can be connected with the existing arteries, seems more to be a more feasible approach. Furthermore, the program creates integration or linking internally to the block as well to the street. There are two existing deficits in infrastructure that needs attention. The first is education. It appears that Barrio Independencia lacks of a proper educational facility enabled to accommodate the entire community. The second is health care. The centro de primeros auxilios (first aid) facility seems insufficient. The program is very limited, only on size but also in function qualities. Therefore, implementing a program that can be added to the existing facilities in order to improve the quality of life will enhance the activity and productivity of the community. Connecting the proposed infrastructure to the existing, and linking it with the existing network will allow for future expansion. The program requires that rules and hierarchies for this connection must be define.
EXISTING FACILITIES
Playground Area: 1200.00sqm
Centro de Maderes Mother Center Area: 174.33sqm
Miguitas de Amor Soup Kitchen & Daycare Area: 53.65sqm
Daycare Center Area: 27.27sqm
School
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Area: 2226sqm 470m2
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Healthcare Area: 288sqm
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STRATEGY
Education Exsisting condition Area: 2226sqm Type: Primary and secondary school Capacity: 270 Barrio Independencia Inhabitants: approximately 3000 Average of infabitants attending school: 1000 Average of inhabitants attending elementary school:250 Average of inhabitants attending secondary school:250 Expectation primary school Each student area: 8sqm Needed area: 8*250=2000sqm Strategy Reprogramming the existing school facility to accommodate high school students, and implement a new program for the elementary school students within the barrio. The location chosen follows the already existing network of the barrio, in this case, streets and alleyways for the program implementation. Each program implemented need to follow a connection rules that allows a stronger relation between its different amenities.
Healthcare Exsisting condition Area: 288m2 Type: First aid hospital Capacity: 1500 Barrio Independencia+Surrounding Inhabitants: approximately 30,000 Expectation Hospital Needed area: 5000sqm Healthcare center the Barrio Independencia Needed area: 600sqm Strategy The idea is to implement new facilities or hubs of health care within the community in order to support the existing first aid facility. Using existing network of the barrio, for the allowance of connectivity with community and interaction between the new facilities and the existing. Consequently, introducing a main hospital, that will provide all of the more specialize care and emergencies. This facility or facilities cannot be inside the barrio, because it is meant to alleviate the flow of transit and also create interaction from the actors in San Martin to the actors of Barrio Independencia.
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NETWORK RESEARCH
Street as Network Streets are public roads in a city or town, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides. They serve as transit flow, amenities, pedestrian movement and public space. The streets played an important part in ancient cities as generators of activities, movements and social interaction. However, modernity ignored this, breaking the interaction by assigning different roles. Nevertheless, In Barrio Independencia, the streets renders an integrated role within Barrio Independencia. The role is complex between the ‘actors’ and the relationship to infrastructure. Hence the precarious condition of the barrio, the streets no longer follows the formal patterns. They have become a hybrid between movement infrastructures to land parcels. Street analysis method To comprehend the street and how it works, there are two important parameters that need mentioning: First, typology, the classification according to general type, which help us understand what type of characteristics in street pattern are best for the emergent introduction of programs through the use of connections. Furthermore, typology catalogues all the physicality of the streets in order to be classified for the next parameter.
Second, hierarchy allows rank the streets according to their importance and connection to the existing infrastructure. The hierarchical classification requires two other sub-parameters in order to be fully understood. The two sub-parameters are accessibility and connectivity. Accessibility, as defined, is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. In transportation, refers to the ease of reaching destinations. People who are in places that are highly accessible can reach many other activities or destinations quickly. This last definition was an integral for our study and distribution of programming. Connection, the relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. This parameter, helps revised the rules to define the street type in order to implement programming, a very essential aspect of our approach to us the streets as flux of movement and distribution of infrastructure. The connections allow understanding of how existing programs can be connected to the new network of new facilities.
Block A
Main Road (I) Streets (II) Alleyways (III)
Total area: 1430.55 sqm
Houses facing the streets: 36 houses
Built total area: 2,218.5 sqm Unbuilt total area: 2,704.58 sqm Built
Total area: 984.01 sqm
Houses facing the alleyways: 37 houses
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(I) Hierarchy - Main Street The main street needs to have accessibility to public transportation. It must be paved, two-way and width should not be less than 5 meters.
(III) Hierarchy - Alleyway The alleyway should have access to the secondary and first hierarchy and allow for motorbike or bicycle accessibility. The width should not be less than 2 meters.
(II) Hierarchy - Street The street should belong to the ‘formal’ grid pattern, with a width no less than 3 meters.
(IV) Hierarchy - Others The fourth hierarchy needs to be accessible for pedestrians.
Accessibility, noun, as defined, is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. In transportation, refers to the ease of reaching destinations. People who are in places that are highly accessible can reach many other activities or destinations quickly. This last definition was an integral for our study and distribution of programming. Connection, noun, the relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. This parameter, helps revised the rules to define the street type in order to implement programming, a very essential aspect of our approach to us the streets as flux of movement and distribution of infrastructure. The connections allow understanding how existing programs can be connected to the new network of new facilities. Typology, noun, a classification according to general type, which help us understand what type of characteristics in street pattern are best for the emergent introduction of programs through the use of connections.
HIERARCHY (I)
CONNECTION
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(III) (II) 3min 5min 10min human walk speed = 100m/min
(Street Hierarchy Diagram) Different types of streets provide different types hierarchies of accessibility (Street Hierarchy Diagram), the different hierarchy defines the spaces; the different gradients of colours showed in the diagram (Location Hierarchy Diagram) represent how the street affects the hierarchy of the space.
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The strength of the connection is defined by time. A 10 minutes of walk is the desired comfort walking distance to move from one place to another. (Walking Speed Diagram) The diagram (Connectivity Diagram) represents the location of the new program when ‘connected’ to the existing one (blue colour). There are three kind of connection strength, the darker colour means stronger connection by street or alleyway. Walking Speed + Location Hierarchy = Connectivity
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HIRERACHY AND CONNECTION OF PROGRAM (I)
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IMPLEMENTATION In order to implement new infrastructures, after applying the defined hierarchy rule, empty lots in the block need to be claimed for development of the proposed infrastructures. The new facilities should connect existing facilities and have accessibility to the network. Once the locations for the proposed facilities are determined, the process of implementation starts. Modular standardized buildings are placed in the open lots. The reason for using modular buildings is their capability of arrangement and their dimensionality, which is needed for the spatial context. Furthermore, they allow for the integration of basic infrastructure, i.e. gas, water and electricity already built-in in the unit. The new infrastructure will work within the block to create interactive and strategic process of unslumming. The new facilities will allow for future expansion, therefore new improvement around the existing houses and facilities. With these strategies we want to create new attractors that will spark interactivity not only in the barrio, but also to the entire scale of San Martin, and the rest of Buenos Aires.
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Step1 Calculating the required space need for programming using ‘tipical plan’ to implement the program.
Step2 The program can be divided according to rules depending on its different requirements.
Step3 Locating each ‘modular structure’ by following the network and hierarchy rule.
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Berlage Institute First Year Studio 2010 - 2011 Master Class A Wonderful World
“Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city’s functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.” Yona Friedman
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World map of access of airline, ship and information
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Building Every day we are confronted with a condition that is asking us to live multiple parallel lives simultaneously. We argue that current architectural production and buildings are far below the most advanced communication technologies in terms of being able to address flexibility and multiple use of the space where we spend our time living and working. How could buildings finally catch up a condition where the traditional boundaries between very different activities are getting more and more blurred? In our daily schedule we are sort of split into multiple beings, working at home, managing the private sphere at work; the full access to information, the possibility of being reached at any time, anywhere by any of our contacts makes it more and more difficult to tell where and when we are working and where and when we are having fun. Does this condition call for a new kind of space? Is it possible to think of a space that does not have a fixed program? Can this space be programmed “on demand” by single or multiple users? What if outside the basic, minimal, living unit – the space of absolute privacy, buildings could allow multiple usages in a continuous flow of information, people and goods? What do buildings need to work this way? What do we need to tell “this is my office … my church … my favorite restaurant … the place I meet my friends/my colleagues/my boss”? The building where we are going to live is made of stacked platforms connected to each other in a continuous routing that allows multiple paths climbing the building up and down; there is not a main direction on the platforms, there is not only one way to enter (or to exit) the building. People can use the building the way they need or desire. On the platforms, at any height, it is possible to set up the space for a wide range of programs; the functional connotation of the space is not given, it comes from the way users furnish the open space. The building host a number of storage spaces that allow potentially infinite configuration, there is no typical plan, it is not possible to predict behavior. Since buildings do not have nor an entrance nor an exit, nor a bottom nor a top, they are parallel to each other always addressing the continuity of the movement through them. The space between the buildings is an open landscape; at a larger scale, it allows a wide range of programs in the same way the buildings do. These programs can be related to agricultural production, markets, events or simply be related to the existing structures or monuments. But what is keeping buildings together? Where do buildings get the amount of information, people and goods that allow their continuous reprogramming?
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Living Spaces This individual unit is a merging of Living & Working spaces. It’s serve activities for : Sleeping, working, Shower And the need of storage. This compact space have flexibility by moving removable panel to create different boundary. 28 SQM
Countinous Public Routing The open plan platform not tobe a dead end pathway , it contimous to each level and this circulation space conatin programs.
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Deliver Goods % Programs Demands Works as our automated warehouse , plugged into the logistic of the linnear city.
Fixed Stucture & Open Platforms Fixed elements are storages and warehouses ehere the programes (furniture) is kept. In order to changes: Spaces are not connotated but receive connotation by the furniture you decide or order to use.
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Building - continuous routing
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Megapolis A linear infrastructure provides the possibility to access instant information and to move people and goods at fast speed along the city. The buildings, where the only fixed elements are the living individual cells and the storages, are connected to this infrastructure. According to the desired destination people choose the public transport system they need. In a similar way, goods are sorted and delivered along the infrastructure, from the main hubs, through different storage spaces, to the buildings either in the furniture storages or in supermarkets, shops, vending machines. The furniture storages inside the buildings are fed by the automated system that works at the city scale. The city is a huge logistic device between Schipol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam in Hoek van Holland, while the rest of the country will not be allowed to physically grow anymore. Larger and larger sections of cities and landscape will be slowly recovered into a not compromised condition. Schipol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam provide the connection to and from the rest of the world and the Netherland for goods and people. The flow of information at the highest speed comes from the sea.
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Nodes definitions Information node in reality
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2010 : Forming of city center for easily information exchange. People living in the living area and commute to the CBD to work.
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol the Netherlands’ main airport, located 17.5 km southwest of Amsterdam.
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Netherlands existing industries map
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Linear City Development Economic Goods Media Culture Labour
Economic Goods Media Culture Labour Communication Knowledge Service People Food
Phase1 : Choosing node have potential of access to information and transpotation.
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Communication Knowledge Service People Food
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Sorting and Delivery of Goods Diagrams
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Sorting and Delivery of Goods Diagrams
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Process 3 : 3rd CODE - Quality in Category
Building Code : JK Building 3th Floor Room 7
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Final Logistic Diagram
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The Map of the World The map of the cables that tie together the planet does not show any fragmentation, division, border. In this image we see a world without physical interactions and pacified: countries and cities share communication and knowledge. What if this direct, fast, neutral flow of information, once landed, could help to physically shape cities? Could the physical realm and the virtual realm finally meet in a new form of city? How can we harvest this information to its true potential? With technologies supporting mobile and flexible life style at hand, the traditional way of city living will change radically for 2085, blurring more and more the living/working spaces and going beyond the condition of any known borders. We are going to be able to move from city to city, through cities, in a matter of seconds fulfilling the need for faster information and transportation, and on demand delivery of goods and flexible use of space. The resulting map of the world will show cities growing from informational and material hubs where connections and access are fast, where the parallel living conditions are finally made possible and fully integrated.
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Independent Competitions Collaborations 2009 - 2010 Costanera Sur Zoo Framing the Artificial Buenos Aires, Argentina Collaborators: Brian S Johnston, Pablo Meninato, Ariel Vazquez
The Costanera Sur Zoo proposal is for an elevated, continuously sloping pathway that gently spirals around an open air atrium. The public pathway alternately engages, on the north side, the animal environments and, on the south side, expansive views of the ecological reserve. The spiraling pathway around the central open atrium affords dynamic views and multiple perspectives of the animals and the reserve as the visitor moves through project. Site: The Constanera Sur Zoo is located at the northern most point of the ecological reserve, allowing for expansive views of the city, river and reserve while taking advantage of, and linking to, the existing vehicular and pedestrian, and bicyclist pathways. The ground level program is minimized to reduce the project’s impact on the reserve, while becoming a part of the network of various circulation modes. Building / Program: The body of the Zoo (the horizontal “bar” component) spans between two vertical circulation elements. The bar component houses the zoo and is enveloped with a visual and environmentally diaphanous skin. The vertical elements, visually and structurally supporting the zoo bar component also serve to re-orient the visitor as they circulation throughout the zoo while the larger of the two vertical elements organize and house various program support areas (entry lobby, ticket sales, restrooms, administrative areas, cultural/ education components). The smaller of the vertical elements rises above the zoo “bar”, above the 100 m mark and culminates in an observatory platform. The animal environments are located along the atrium, which spans between the vertical elements and are serviced from a separate private circulation pathway on the north side of the animal environments to separate the staff access from the public circulation. The zoo pathway also engages the aviary at each level to afford varying access to the bird’s environments. The public services, café and souvenir shop, are located at the end of the zoo pathway at the base of the atrium space. The Cultural-Education program elements housed by the larger vertical circulation element are positioned on alternate levels from the primary zoo circulation to provide autonomous use as needed. Form and inspiration: The “Mate”, Surrealists work and images of animals by Juan Miro and Salvador Dali , organic structures, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.
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Independent Competitions Collaborations 2009 - 2010 TO REMEMBER |TO TELL A DIFFERENT STORY Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial Collaborators: Brian S Johnston & Ariel Vazquez
The design intent is to create a place of remembrance and re‐telling of the intertwining stories of the Holocaust. An accounting of genocide and destruction intertwined with a narrative of resilience of the human spirit and ideals in confronting such unimaginable atrocities. Ribbons sheathed in re‐purposed wood planks from the destruction of the boardwalk pavilion loosely frame areas of circulation, congregation and contemplation. Slivers of light (slivers illuminated by dark, reflective by daylight) are part of the fabric of the ribbons forming the memorial. The ribbons weave through a warped translucent concrete base that forms the memorial’s base that interlocks with the boardwalk’s edge. The base is simultaneously opaque and translucent, dark and light; it is the surface upon which the visitor’s will navigate the memorial. The primary areas of the memorial are the covered room and the (visibly linkable) uncovered platform which provide spaces for individual contemplation as well as group functions. Boarders | edges of the memorial are ephemerally defined by light rod reeds.
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Public Patio Medina of Fez, Morocco Collaborators Kyung Su Jung, Ariel Vazquez & ChengHsuan Wu
As it had froze in time, Place Lalla Yeddouna, the center of city Fez with all its history and who would play an important role in the future as a starting point to explain its historical, cultural and economical value of the city. Therefore, the preservation and development plan, two ideas that seem contradicting can come to compromising ground, with the idea of creating space “void”. The void, if well defined space, can place values of community in our daily life and shows the direction to a prosper future. The river Fez, Bin Lamdoun Bridge and the historical buildings in the center of square are symbols which represents traditions. Thus, we can’t only preserve is not only the physical condition, but also the memory of this historical city. In that sense, the proposed buildings need considered the role that these values, in a way by framing these interactions and relationships not only for the habitants but also its visitors. In addition, the proposed buildings need to embody all of the traditions of the people of Fez, this can be achieved by allowing the buildings adopt the characteristics of it surroundings, not just on the physicality (the facade) but under the skin (structure). The structure of buildings designed on bases of traditional layout and simple construction techniques. Thus, the local building technology will be applied for entire process of construction and it should be built on the ground of society. And, for tourist, the place will be a platform to start exploring one of the largest living museum in the world. The exploration can start by proposing a new transportation system, using the river a mean of moving through the area. The system of cabin raft would allowed locals and visitors see the hidden treasures of this historical city.
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“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.� Voltaire Author and Philosopher, 1694 - 1778
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01 Circulation Boats The Medina of Fez with its narrow alleyways can not support vehicular transportation, so using the river Fez as a from of transportation will allow harmonious movement through the city. The raft would allow for a easy and relax way of movement through the site by using the currents of the river. 107
02 Capital City with excisting building
The building typology render homage to the history of Medina and its islamic culture. By following the same principles of construction used in the 8th century. The proposed buildings are the perfect compliment to the historical owns, it is a mixture of new form with classic Mediterranean feeling. The proposed buildings will create the connection from a historical aspect to a prosperous future.
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03 Construction Method Mud brick is fire free brick, made of a mixture of clay, mud, sand and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. They use a stiff mixture and let them dry in the sun. This technology has been applied for construction in warm weather places since ancient time which goes with the characteristics of the history of the Medina of Fez and its islamic style. 110
04 Building Typology The courtyard allows the light to come in and keeping the harsh sun-rays out, which allows for the space to remain comfortable even in intense heat. This allows for the space to be inviting and useable.
The Mediterranean city with its endless passages through out and narrow alleyways create the most perfect condition to present a space where people can gather, and allowing a deeper exploration through its core.
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05 Open Space The flexibility of having open space is endless, this void allows for the center to be a focal point in the interaction with the habitants and the visitors. These characteristics allows for the people in this space to interact within the void.
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Independent Competitions Collaborations 2011 - 2012
Ridge Ave: Urban Bench Collaborators Zhongshi Liu & Ariel Vazquez
Similar to the Voyage bike by Schwinn with a single steel tubing frame, this metal bench is designed with the same concept. The idea is to incorporate various functions in a simple form. The design allows for sitting on both sides with backrest, an area for leaning back while waiting for the bus, a tree plating area for shading, and bike racks. The sleek and elegant design presents pieces of continuous tubing which aim to facilitate fabrication and to reduce construction material. Its curvatures provide ergonomic utility and structural resistance. Its form not only serves for its function, but also it can be a beautiful piece of art for the neighborhood The idea for its construction is to use 1-1/2� thick round tubing with chrome finish and to be flattened at sitting area.
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New Taipei City Museum of Art Collaborators Zhongshi Liu & Ariel Vazquez
Evolving from the existing site conditions, environmental issues and sight lines, dynamic volumes emerges to provide new visual and spatial experiences for the visitors of NTCArt. These forms are designed as a metaphorical play of the picturesque topography, hills, bridges, the Ceramic Art Plaza, the Art Workshop, the creek below and the Yingge area and River.conditions, environmental issues and sight lines, dynamic volumes emerges to provide new visual and spatial experiences for the visitors of NTCArt. These forms are designed as a metaphorical play of the picturesque topography, hills, bridges, the Ceramic Art Plaza, the Art Workshop, the creek below and the Yingge area and River.
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Typical Level 3 - 5 01 Exteriors: The conceptual design presents a continuation and connection of the existing pathways and to extents the strolling experience for the visitors. The building surfaces gently from the existing landscape to create an uninterrupted green carpet in the horizon. Three access points, reach out to connect existing the trails and to bring people up and into the building. The arms integrate the Ceramic art plaza with the existing facilities. The main entrance is located on the northeastern area of the site, expressed by a welcoming canopy for pedestrians and drivers on Huan-he Road. Bordering the front and rear façade, functional multi-layered ramps reflects the forms of the neighboring hills, in conjunction to the artificial stream below and its whimsical landscaping. Similar to a modern piece of art, the exterior glazing is visually stimulating and dynamic. The Rhomboid shape, derived from abstracted curved hills, varies in size and gradient, attracting the viewer’s attention to center tower. The pattern becomes the new trademark for the museum, as this geometry repeats itself in the façade, floor plan, architectural elements and structure. The exterior gradient also echoes the programmatic spaces within, large grazing for large public spaces moving into more private and intimate spaces. The center tower houses the Hall of Fame, administrative offices and a public observatory. Echoing and harmonizing with the Ceramic Art Plaza, the tower contrasts with the horizontality of the museum and its surroundings. This vertical element not only provides and architectural focal point, but it also attracts people to the top plaza with its green recreational and art exhibit spaces.
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03 Interiors: A series of ramps controls and divides vertical circulation within. This system offers a new space and concept for the display and experience of art. Circulatory elements become a functional visual interest, activated and conglomerated by providing interactive art display areas. New sensorial and artistic experiences are created by compression of which becomes released as one moves into more open and larger spaces. Large spaces within are designed to be flexible to accommodate changes in the exhibition and function. These areas have open wall concept, which overlap subtractive into multi-story atriums providing a playful visual connection with the movement of other visitors. People and architecture becomes a complementary backdrop for the art. The Children’s Museum of Art is divided from the Contemporary Museum of Art by a different circulation system. Located in the southeastern side of the building, a series of ramps connects the children’s spaces, which are divided from the main museum. Nonetheless, all spaces within the building are connected visually, thus providing the children with a glimpse of the main museum and vice versa.
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03 Sustainability: Covered by a thick layer of green roof, the building consumes 50% less energy for cooling. The glazing is directed towards the northern side to reduce sun light penetration while maximizing indirect natural light. A series of skylines also provides defused natural lighting. The curvature of the building provides protection for the winter monsoon winds also resistant towards earthquakes.
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Independent Competitions Collaborations 2012
PUBLI©ITY - The Common Framework - Collaborators Andreas Faoro, Luca Picardi, Francesca Rizzetto & Ariel Vazquez
In today’s age of global communication and technology, public spaces need to be reinvented. Since architects and designer are an integral part of the ongoing space production, that shape the way we live, we need to revamp how public spaces are developed and adapted to the current changes of our society faces. We cannot just think of public spaces solely as places service, but also of exchange. Human interaction has become more complex and redundant, as people spent more time looking at their Smartphones, iPads, and laptops. It is evident that users’ practices changed, we now interact with social networks i.e. Facebook, iChat and Skype. It is clear that we do task in news ways, often interleaving and crosspollinating in new ways. It is necessary to revisit the way we think about public space.
We need to create an open, pluralistic and self-organizing space to interact. A space in where researchers, students and other intellectuals workers have access to exchange collaboration in a true “open platform”. A hub designed to be capable of production (labor) and goods (knowledge) that can be traded and transferred to the citizens to build a new economy (education). This space can facilitate something similar to a university, but with the freedom of a public park. Therefore, the endeavor of thinking about possibilities for alternative action and if how to love together in our contemporary society, where work becomes home and home becomes work.
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