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Before 2013, I was a public artist. Since 2013, I have two roles窶馬ot only an artist, but also an urban designer. The work in my hand will not be just an aesthetic thing. The work in my hand will be a network structure between social and spatial issue. If it is said that art could make artists themselves intoxicated, urban design could serve public.
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This diagram shows the framwork of this whole year. As my original magor was Public Art, I always considered the urban work from the perspective of Public Art at the beginning. With the time flying, my urban design process was generated gradually. Firstly, Urban Design Tools and Participation of Architecture and Urban Design played the role as the application method and the sessions of Urban Histories and History and theory of Urban Design palyed the role as the theoritical foundation to support my Urban Design Projects. With the module of Reflection of Urban Design Practice, I explored more about decision making in the urban design process. All of this theories and methods consisted my knowledge system and worked together with my Public Art thinking.
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The site of Urban Design Tools and UDP1 is in Shalesmoor, Sheffield. These two sessions took us 12 weeks to experience Shalesmoor and give the proposals at last.
ABOUT URBAN DESIGN TOOLS Actually, I didn’t learn any tools of Urban Design before I come to Sheffield. It is a method to frame the urban design work which consisted of situating, gathering, surveying, mapping, communicating and collaborating. To experience the space and communicate with the public are the most important aspects in the further projects.
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What I found: Problems in Shalesmoor: Too many empty buildings could be reused in different ways to rescue this area and to make here vivid again. We can see some attempt like studios, shops, exhibitions and so on. Some other solution should be found as well. Situating: During this week, I situated myself in Shalesmoor. I walked to this area, I walked across streets here, I walked along the road here, and I also walked into some spaces in this area. I tried to chat with the local to explore more about this unfamiliar spaces and the history, although I am living here. I was always thinking what I should record. So here, the conclusion in my view is that situating is just a tool that focusing on not only Shalesmoor, but also all kinds of places in our projects. We must hold this tool during our projects. The other thing I recognized is that time and space could contain all the things. Just situate ourselves in the time and the spaces.
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SITUATING
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--FORGOTTEN SPACE & ARTS Every time, when I walked into a new city, I would focus on the arts aspect of the city. How do we use arts to make communities engaged, experience and get happiness in the urban space? Here, I would like to use different methods to gather the arts information of SHALESMOOR. I thought although this area was not as booming as the steel age, the power of arts could give it a new life.
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COLLABORATION
ABOUT UDP1 The main issue of this project is public space. At first, I thought I was so familiar with the word “public” and “public space” as all the public art would and must happen in public space. I was so confident to talk about this topic. However, during the task of giving a definition of public space, I felt confused. I cannot give an exact definition this time, because the things are always dialectical and relative. At last, according to the research, were defined “public space” in our project which is the places where you can make things happen legally and feel free to talk and communicate are accessible and well-maintained; at the same time, it is a relative concept which depends on the user group and time. After the re-definition task, we turned on to the part of public space audit. In order to know the space better, in this project, the design participation occupied a big part. We used four participation techniques which we learnt from the module of participation of architecture and urban design with our own creative and critical thinking to make public get involved in our research. Actually we got lots of feedbacks. This part would be showed in the further pages of my portfolio. At the meantime, we collaborated with other groups to do the public space taxonomy and map the spaces in the Google map.This stage also gave us a inspiration of our strategy part. Finally, the proposals were given basing on all the research we had done. Urban Design Tools and participation design played a role as the application method in the first project, we attempted the tools and the participation techniques which were much lacked during my previous work of public art in the whole process. Although we were always struggling with the research, as the beginning of Urban Design studying, we all enjoyed it. We were making great effort to learn from “0”.
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I have been living in Shalesmoor for about three months; however, I just walked to the river Don because of the Mapping Task. That is really a fantastic place. The public place like the Kelham Island Museum, the old machine, the good view of river Don and so on. All the things look lovely. But one thing I have to consider whether all the places are open for public. Sometimes I was really very nervous to enter the courtyards, because I didn’t have the sense of belonging, although there would be surprising.
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After re-defining "public space", as to our site
! Blind Spot where people don’t normally notice but has the possibility of becoming a public space.
! Outdoor public space where we can reach.
OUR FOCUS As Public Space is a big concept, we want to focus on some specific point to start our survey. We attended one workshop of the Urban Blind Spots Forum several weeks ago, after that we’re seeing things differently, we can see places and traces that normally no one would notice. When we were walking in our site, we found some open spaces that are quite like “blind spots” which are easy to ignore but have the potential to become public spaces. And these so called “blind spots” are easy to operate on if we want to do some creative survey because few people care about them. That’s why we decided to start our public space audit by testing some of them.
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SITE ANALYSIS
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OUR BLIND SPOTS BS No.4 bus stop Which people only use to wait for a bus, but it can also be a shelter or gathering place. It’s like a blind spot on the function. BUS STOP ON THE RING ROAD Bus stop is a place where there’s always people waiting, and it would be easier to talk to someone who’s waiting in one place than the passers by. (And it really proved our point as it was raining and blowing hard on the day we chose to do the survey, the bus stop was the only place where we could get people to talk to us.)
BS No.1 a dead end path along the river It has a beautiful sight of the river but few people go there.
BS No.5 front yard of the Furnace Few people stop here or read the description of the Furnace, even HSBC workers.
BS No.10 an empty dead end road in a construction site It’s a temporary open space with no cars run on, and there are graffiti on the walls along the road. Could be a public space for a certain period of time.
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BS No.7 triangle side yard An empty semi enclosed yard.
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BS No.9 a part of the sidewalk with moss on Moss shows that no one walks on this part of sidewalk.
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BS No.2 the end Kelham Island Museum visitors an’t go in on dinary days, but holds Victorian hristmas Market every year.
THE SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF TWO CHOSEN SPOTS
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BS No.3 ground floor set back of Grind Café Ground floor setting back makes a natural shelter of the street where people feel comfortable to sit.
BS No.8 a tree in the corner A beautiful tree with no one’s appreciation.
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CHOICE & IMPLEMENT
POSTER--Get interviewer’s impression in our survey public space STREET FURNITURE--Not only attract people’s attention, but also provide a comfortable space GARTHERNING--Remodel our spots through cleaning and gardening with scissors
PARTICIPATION POSTER--PIN YOUR IMPRESSION
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The pinned places are our so called “bright spots”, which reflect how many times the interviewees mentioned each places during our survey.
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PUBLIC SPACE AUDIT ROUTES OF DIFFERENT USER GROUPS - Passerby: When there are choices they will avoid going into this area. - People who work here: go from one place to another without stopping, as few places for them to stay, so most of them not familiar with this area. SPOTS The most popular spots we have got are all indoor spaces showing the lack of outdoor public spaces in this area. TIME - After staying one place for a period of time, we experienced the changing of sun direction affecting the degree of comfort of outdoor public spaces. - The function of the blind spot we have chosen is changing between weekdays and weekends which we found out during our survey. - The square on the end of the Kelham Island is seasonal changeable (e.g. the Victorian Christmas Market every year). COLLABORATIVE EXPERINECE -The Participating Poster and the Furnace Park Bench used in our creative survey did attract people’s attention. -After the first surveying day, we took the advice from the interviewees making the roads on our poster clearer. -Using the existing materials (e.g. Furnace Park bench) can make a survey more effective. 22
After auditing public spaces, would give the proposals. Here is our vision.
We think what make the SKIN area so unique is that it’s a combination of 5 elements: Works & Business, Cultural & Creative Industry, Historical Building (*Identity & Characteristic*), Residence and Green Space. But. there are not enough connections between these 5 elements, people stay inside the buildings for most of the time, you can hardly see anyone on the streets even during lunchtime. So we want to fill in the gaps by using the unused open spaces along the streets. In the Taxonomy we’ve created in Task 4, there’s a tagging system which covers over 10 categories. We picked 3 tags from the system that we think represent the ‘off’ charactor of a public space which are no-function, facilities-unprovided and not-maintained, and we want to turn them ‘on’by our proposals. Hence, the aim is to
turn on the blind spots.
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Make people feel belonged to the area. Achieve an atmosphere of sharing & communicating. Attract more people to come to the area. Retain the key character of the area.
PARTICIPATION WALL Firstly, we chose the temporary walls of fences which are obvious to be seen, Secondly, we used spray paints and chalks to write down the questions we had already prepared and left chalks on the wall to let passersby answer the question. On the right hand side, the outcommes here were the results for two days participation wall. - From this participating walls test we understand more about people’s demands and needs for different kind of facilities, which can support our strategy making. - The walls are also communicating walls, as they can create a space for people to share their emotions and ideas, at the same time enhance the communicating atmosphere here. - There are two walls having the most of answers which make us think about the location selection of communicating walls in the proposal making.
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“If there is a bridge connects the island it will be an interesting shortcut.” “Why don’t we have a riverside green road along the river? It is really a pity the road just end here.” “Maybe add some ground lights here which can create a more PARTICIPATING romantic atmosphere as the view here is already quite TOUR beautiful. “ - The purpose of this tour is “ connecting each blind spot into a I on network and making people have an stops to entire image of this area. Meanwhile, If I have to “You people can experience some of the about it, m mean this participating walls on this trail and the signs to chimney is a symbol participate into the test by giving obvio of this area?! I have never their own ideas. “ If you add noticed there is a furnace lights her before actually. “ - The participants of this two attract “Maybe changing a more days tour, although, only 5 come attractive and obvious people in total, but they gave introduction board will let a lot of practical suggestions of more people know the what facilities they want to add to story behind the each spots, and help us understand furnace.” more about which function is more suitable to each spot.
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“The wall is amazing! Can I add some more answers here?” “This idea is so cool! And it seems works well as I have seen other walls having other answers along this trail.”
Meeting “Wall paintings Point - Meet absolutely can work at Ball Bridge and here, especially paintings overlook two blind about the industrial history. “ spots along River Don “Yes! And add more facilities and on the Kelham here, like playground or stalls like Island respectively. Then start the “Blind the Victorian Christmas Market every year.” Spots Trail”. “That’s true! Why not use this square more frequently? It will be the best of both sides, remind people the history at the same time give people place to have fun.”
“ If you’ll change this to a park t can only be a microark. (laughter) Anyway, a good idea to add more ts here especially different ds of trees, like some are her and some are lower. “ And more lights! I don’t hink it will be safe if only add a lot of trees here.”
“The shape and size are interesting here, which inspire me about the street sports like skateboard. Maybe you can add some facilities about that here.”
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“Frankly, nly use bus wait for buses. o say something maybe change clearer and more ous ones.” d some decorative re maybe it will more people and use it.”
“The Grind Cafe just stands out from the surroundings. I think maybe because the bright green color giving an obvious contrast to people pass by. “
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- FUNCTION: Setting weekend markets or night markets (i.e. second hand market/ hand crafts market/ temporary library) in some of the car parks near the blind spots can be an efficient way of using the public spaces, as they will be almost empty during weekends or after work.
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- FACILITIES: - The communicating board is an efficient and creative way of increasing the sharing atmosphere here, which is better than some forums on-line. - In consideration of prostitutes in this area, shelters mentioned in the draft facility proposals should better be designed transparently. - More street lights, ground lights and CCTV should be added to enhance the sense of security in this area.
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1-PRESENTATION OF DRAFT STRATEGY - Introduction of the project and our subject: BLIND SPOT - Our previous works - The structure of our draft strategy: VISION – AIM – PROPOSALS - The draft proposals: FUNCTION – FACILITIES – MAINTENANCE – FUNDING
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- MAINTENANCE: - Encouraging local companies to maintain the transformed spots can be better than the local residents, as social responsibility is an important fact in business report for each company. - Make the process of transformation easy and interesting and stimulate local residents engaging in the construction stage, then companies maintain.
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2-CONSULTATION OF STRATEGY 3-WORKSHOP ABOUT PROPOSALS - Use photos of each blind spot and several of carved photos of facilities as a visual way for participants engaging. - As participants are all familiar with this area and having professional knowledge, the outcomes of the workshop provide a significant reference for our proposals.
PROPOSALS
FUNCTION The first spot is a dead end pavement along the river. It’s in a mixed area with residence and works. It should be a good place to relax, but few people go there. We want to draw more people to use it by adding some facilities. FACILITIES Bench/Board/Dustbin/Street light/Ground light/Wall light/Landscape 30
ABOUT UDP1 FUNCTION The second spot is on the western end of Kelham Island, next to the Museum. It has been holding Victorian Christmas Market for several years, and at other times it’s rentable for multiple uses, but always empty. Due to the good view and the people who live near it, it would be good to use it as a children’s playground and have some facilities put for families. FACILITIES Food truck/Fitness facility/Plant/Bench/Playground 31
FUNCTION The bus stops have already got shelters for people to wait under, why not make it more than that? People can make the bus stop a place to meet and share information. FACILITIES Board/Dustbin
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ABOUT UDP1 FUNCTION The blind spot in front of Furnace can be used as reminiscence and exhibition area to communicate with different kinds of people. FACILITIES Description sign/Bench/Ground light 33
FUNCTION The corner space of a building is one of our tested spots. It could be a good place to go to during lunch break and on weekends. FACILITIES Direction sign/Dustbin/Van/Ground light/Wall light/ Street light with shelter/Flower 34
ABOUT UDP1 FUNCTION These two spots stand on the two sides of a slope road. Many things can happen here, such as street sports, temporary street market. FACILITIES Board/Bench/Wall painting/Facility for street sport/ Ground light/Wall light 35
FUNCTION This small triangle area on a street corner is covered with moss. It could be a place where people stop to check directions or a place to rest a bit. FACILITIES Direction sign/Bench/Food truck 36
ABOUT UDP1 FUNCTION This dead end road next to a construction site has temporary walls on both sides. It’s a typical interim space where could be used for street arts and a place where people express themselves. FACILITIES Wall painting/Street ligh/Board
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24 months is our first strategy circle. We believe a strategy should be updated as the circumstances change. A strategy should have a wide range of people and organisations signed up to it, taking responsibility for its delivery, monitoring and review. We would like to take the squares we are working on as a module, and there are many similar modules in SKIN. We wish the strategy we provided could spread like a network in the whole SKIN area.
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REFERENCES
Sheffield City Council (1998) Unitary Development Plan Sheffield City Council (2004) St. Vincent’s Action Plan Sheffield City Council (2008) Kelham Neepsend Action Plan Sheffield City Council (2009) Sheffield Development Framework – Core Strategy Sheffield City Council (2011) Sheffield City Centre Breathing Spaces Strategy
The municipality of Copenhagen, Technical and Environmental Administration (2011) More People to Walk More – The Pedestrian strategy of Copenhagen Other Documents from SKINN Momoyo, K. Junzo, K. Yoshiharu, T. (2006) Made in Tokyo. Tokyo: Kajima Institute Publishing Co., Ltd. Nick, W. (2000) The Community Planning Handbook. London: Earthscan http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html http://on.ted.com/Chang TED Talk by Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...
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CABE Space (2009) Open Space Strategies – Best practice guidance
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ABOUT UDP2 In the second project, we should deal with the urban support system in Zimapan, Mexico where we could not go directly—a remote project. We focused on the urban built environment and regarded it as the urban support system to provide new possibilities in the street environment for the whole city and the public. The enormous challenge in this project was that almost all the facts of the site we got were secondhand. Hence, in the first four weeks we exploited different kinds of tools to contact with the collaborating university in Mexico, because they have been there and done some research, and the local people to understand the site better, like facebook, twitter, survey monkey, you tube, etc. Fortunately, one local kind-heart man named Ortiz Rodriguez gave us a huge help during the whole project and we had a very good interaction with each other. In this project, firstly, we were trained to use diagrams or charts to show all the information and the structure of urban support system. It is really an effective way to explain our ideas and thinking to our tutors, collaborating university colleagues and the local people. Secondly, in order to present a narrative project, we tried a lot of creative ways to show our work, such as the power point presentation, pop-up models, acting, and strategy booklet making. Last but not least, because of the collaborating with the group members, the project could go smoothly. It plays the same important role not only for urban design but also for public art, because both of these two disciplines are integrated disciplines which could not be done by just one person.
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ZIMAPร N MUNICIPALITY PPL: 34,476
HIDALGO STATE PPL: 2.6m
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POPULATION Zimรกpan Town--------------------------------------------12,455 Zimรกpan Municipality----------------------------------34,476 FOUNDED-----------------------------------------------------1522 ALTITUDE---------------------------------------------------1,776m COORDINATES--------------------------------20.44N 99.23W CLIMATE-------------------------------------Oceanic Climate SEASON:-------------Temp Range------------------------Rain Mar.-Sep.----------------15 - 22---------------Rainy & Windy Sep.-Mar.---------------- 6 - 18-----------------Mostly Dry --------------------------------------Zimapan 390mm
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METHODOLOGY Urban Design Tools Case Study Media Information Research Participatory Technology
MAIN POINTS 1 Our topic is focusing on the street life in Zimapan. 2 We used tools to collect the information about existing conditions of town. 3 We investigate the problems of street environment and make proposals to improve them.
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TOOLS FOR THE REMOTE PROJECT
ZIMAPAN URBAN SUPPORT SYSTEM
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EXSITING PHSICAL-CULTURAL IDENTITY COLOUR EXTRACTION
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PROBLEMS
PARTICIPATION DESIGN VIA http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NJWZ8XV
1 IMPORTANT TO PLACE LIGHTS IN SOME PARTS 2 LACK OF DESIGNED STREETS FOR THE GROWING POPULATION DO NOT HAVE HANDICAP RAMPS / SOME AREAS NEED MORE FACILITIES FOR THE DISABLED
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Family members GRANDFATHER: 67 years old, retired, disabled GRANDMOTHER: 66 years old, retired FATHER: 42 years old, miner MOTHER: 39 years old, street seller DAUGHTER: 20 years old, nurse SON: 11 years old, primary school student The existing situation is not suitable for different activities with uncomfortable facilities or dangerous environment.
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URBAN CONDITIONS OF ZIMAPAN
ZIMAPAN WALK 1.6 km long A full circle safe walking connects some of the main cultural attractions and two schools Cars access only for local residents and deliveries to businesses Improve the materials and finish on both the road surface and the facades of buildings this provides a safe, accessible and comfortable walk route with facilities which may be donated by local people and made by volunteers.
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AIMS
2 DEAL WITH THE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS To spread congestion away from main square by providing a pleasurable experience along the walk route and promote walking culture. To reduce the speed of traffic on the main street and control pedestrian crossing by providing two pedestrian crossings. 3 IMPROVE STREET LIFE To improving local people connection to their town and pride by participating, volunteering and taking ownership of the route and its design. To establish play areas that are safe and comfortable for children, local schools and families to visit and gather. To promote and improve tourism in the town by providing a pleasurable and beautiful walk route that connects the cultural sites of the town.
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1 IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF THE STREETS To promote walking even during the middle of the day when the sun heat is at its peak by providing shading and water fountains. To provide accessibility to all people including the disabled by providing good path surfaces and clear signage.
4 ESTABLISH THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF URBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY To establish a pedestrian walk route through the centre of Zimapan that links the main cultural sites of Zimapan and supports walking culture in the town. Improving the link between main cultural sites in Zimapan that provide a clear identity for the town.
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PARTICIPATION DESIGN VIA INSTALACIONES EN LA CALLE CAMINANDO RUTA FOR ZIMAPAN Hola a todos. Nuestra investigación se basa en la vida de la calle en Zimapán. Gracias por su ayuda a quien le gustaría muchas gracias por participar en nuestra encuesta y un agradecimiento especial a quienes que nos ayudó a recopilar la información sobre la última encuesta. Toda la información que proporcionan es muy valiosa para nuestra investigación. Podemos ver las ventajas y los inconvenientes sobre el tema de la calle. Queremos hacer todo lo posible para mejorar el entorno urbano en Zimapán. Ahora, de acuerdo a sus respuestas, tenemos algunas ideas sobre la mejora del medio ambiente calle. Proponemos una ruta a pie basado en la cultura e identidad de la ciudad de Zimapán y también hacer otra encuesta en línea acerca de nuestra visión. Aquí puedes ver el enlace de nuestra encuesta en línea. Si usted desea contratar nuestro estudio, se agradecería la opinión de que al tener un mirar nuestra propuesta y participación Dé su opinión. En realidad, también es una buena oportunidad para hablar en voz alta sobre sus ideas para mejorar el entorno urbano. Gracias de nuevo. Mis mejores deseos. LINK: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= a.115422465310107.1073741826.100005270625228&t ype=3 1.¿Te gusta esta ruta a pie? Si no es así, ¿tiene usted alguna sugerencia? Describir ella. 2.¿Crees que deberíamos utilizar estas instalaciones de la calle en la ruta a pie? ¿Qué parte de la ruta crees que debemos usar? 5 partes en ruta a pie que puede elegir La ruta a pie se ha dividido en 5 partes, se puede elegir todo tipo de instalaciones para más de un location.When a decidir cuando las instalaciones 56
se pueden poner en, usted sólo debe marcar en 1,2,3,4,5, que representan estos parts.Otherwise 5 si usted piensa que no es necesario poner la instalación, puede dejar en blanco.
COMMENTS: 1 Different types of benches should be provided in areas 1, 2,3 2 Lighting and ground lighting should be provided in all 5 areas, because all city centre areas need good lighting at night. 3 Light fountain could be put in area 3 4 Coffee kiosk is necessary nearby the market and church 5 Drinking fountain is needed everywhere, because Zimapan is a semi-deserted zone 6 Play ground is really brilliant for some children and families
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ABOUT THE ROUTE: Many local people support our walking route 5 SECTIONS OF THE ROUTE: Most people support our route areas, and some think we need to add some other parts.
PROPOSALS OUR PROPOSAL IS TO PAINT THE WHOLE ROAD WITH COLOURS TO MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS AND UNIQUE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp8IRFL4G2Q& feature=youtu.be Display walls along Reduce the route that the speed of traffic local residents on the main street and and students control pedestrian could display their crossing by calming art work or local craft. measures of two Colorful shading to pedestrian protect from the crossings. heat of the sun during the day. It is proposed that these are made from donated old sheets and cloths which can be dyed and installed by volunteers.
Improves the lighting along the route and provides some atmospheric lighting with variou light walks to improve the stre life at night
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Opening smaller kiosk to trade as part of the business at various parts of the routes.
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PUBLICITY Leaflets & advertisements
LOCAL COUNCIL
Send survey Website Information board
Public meeting Visiting existing community events
FEEDBACK
SET UP A COMMUNITY GROUP (OWNER SHIP & RUN THE PROJECT)
START CAMPAIGN FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING
DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROUTE
SHORT TERM STRATEGY
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YEAR 1 DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROUT PARTICIPATION EVE SET UP A WEBSITE
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THE CREATIVE PRESENTATION
SCRIPT Grandfather: Hello. My name is Eduardo. I am a 67 year-old retired mine worker, I am wheel chair bound at the moment, I think this proposal will help me get around with ease and more independence in the town, with pedestrian only and improved accessibility and safety to the main sites of the town and provide more facilities so I can spend more time outside in the fresh air with old friends and family. Grandmother: Hello. My name is Miranda. I am 66 years old retired school teacher, I think this proposal will make my necessary trips to the market easier, safer and more comfortable as I have many places to rest now and have some water to drink while giving me shade to walk in to have a break from the hot sun. Grandson: Hello. My name is Jorge. I am 11 years old and I am a school student, the new changes would make my walk to school safer and easier and I can meet my friends on the way to school and we can spend some time enjoying the colorful walk, we also do walks in school to the park where we spend time playing in the new playing area while on the route we display our art work from our school work. Granddaughter: Hello. My name is Audry and I am a nurse , this proposal has really helped me spend more time out-doors while meeting friends and my boyfriend, we walk the route and enjoy the main sites of zimapan while providing resting places where we can have coffee and chat specially at night with improved lighting when we feel comfortable and safe. Mother: Hello. My name is Carmen. I am 39 years old I am a traveling street seller. At the moment I spend some time selling fruits and vegetable in the market, I think this proposal will help me sell my goods by making it easier for me to push the trolley around with ease and provide shade and water during the hottest time of the day, so I can finish selling earlier and spend more time with my family in the evening, when we meet with other families in the new facilities with the kids playing safely. Father: Hello. My name is Sergio. I am a 42 year old miner, I spend all my working week working in the mines and this proposal will make me less worried about my family when I am at work by knowing that safety and accessibility will be improved. In the evening I spend more time with friends having coffee and enjoying the new facilities and lighting.
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THE VISIONS OF DAILY LIFE
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REFERENCES
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Gehl, J (2011). Life between buildings: Using public space. 6th ed. Washington, DC: ISLAND Press. Gehl Architects. Gehl Architects. Available: http:// www.gehlarchitects.com/. Last accessed 10th Mar, 2013. http://www.zimapan.gob.mx/ http://www.designboom.com/architecture/ performance-architecture-guimaraes-2012/ Files from Mexican students
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ABOUT UNP3 This time the group work become a little bit harder because we just had two members during the whole process. Creative quarter was the vision we needed to propose with the resources for this project. The site of the last project of this year was Oberhafen in Hamburg. Fortunately, we had a fabulous field trip in Hamburg for one week. We explored not just our site but also the collaboration of Udn, architect studios and so on. The most impressive thing was the workshop day with the colleagues from Udn. We did a no-money trade activity to explore “city as a resource� in Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg. The details will be showed in the further pages. After the field trip of City as a resource in Hamburg, we had a long discussion about the concepts of resource, tool, etc. And then, our re-definition of creative quarter for Oberhafen come out which was a process that the original culture of the site as an old train station become the public memory because of the obsolescent status and we would like to add new elements to active this place, at the meantime, the new culture was produced, with the time flying the new culture generated a relative original culture. It worked like a machine all the time. And the issue we would like to deal with was the relationship between the logistic companies and the creative workshop and how it could become coexistence. Hence, the proposals we gave followed this concept. Another significant part of this project was the physical model making. As an art student, the handing ability was not a problem. It was an efficient way to understand the scale of the site better, test our ideas and discuss with others with the physical model. It was more intuitive. 67
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LOCATION The centrally located Oberhafen neighborhood is well connected to the rest of Hafencity. Later it will also encompass the Central Wholesale Market site to the east and its creative influence will spill over into the central neighborhoods of Hafencity, Rotenburgsort, City Sud and the “museum mile�. The whole area is shaped by the southern Oberhafen harbor basin and the rail tracks, which reveal its movement characteristic.
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BACKGROUND OF OBERHAFEN
BACKGROUND OF OBERHAFEN CLITURE
Before, as a tax free port, Oberhafen showed the busy scene.
Currently the area is still dedicated as a rail depot and long warehouses and multi-story frontage buildings are the main features of Oberhafen neighborhood. Most buildings are still occupied and will continue to be used primarily for logistic activities. A few vacant lots have already been occupied by creative lessees, like artistical workshops. Nevertheless, new change of use permits and considerable modernization will be needed, as well as flood-protection for individual buildings. 70
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REGENERATION QUARTER
CONCEPT & AIMS MIXED PEOPLE EXISTING RESOURCES
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Stay harmoniously, owning to the flexible, changeable and recyclable constructions depending on different functions, people and time. AIMS According to the theme, this quarter will become a coexistence space, which is consisted of the internal coexistence between the logistic companies and artistical workshop; and the external coexistence among the historic Hamburg, Hafencity and Oberhafen. As a creative quarter, the constructions will be considered for not only the permanent daily work but also the temporary activities. Making the best use of the existing and the potential resources in/surrounding the area is to make a new movement of this area.
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In order to know the site better, we did two survey of the people inside and outside Oberhafen.
SURVEY
After the survey, we analysed the information, the chart below shows the potential activities time duriation. BAR DINING
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PROJECT EVOLUTION The photos below show the model evolution of our project. We tested our ideas trough the models.
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RECEPTION: For tourists to know the whole area better. GALLERY: For the indoor exhibition. COMPANIES: For the existing logistic companies and other companies. RECREATION AREA: For the entertainment of the company staff, artists and the tourists. CREATIVE WORKSHOP: For the creative companies. CONTAINER AREA: For the creativers to work, study, do experiments, sell their ideas and live.
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According to the survey, the area is designed with 6 function areas.
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1 Two bridges should be built to connect with the historic Hamburg, at the meantime, the tourists could share the same parking area with the wholesale market, as the busy time of the market is in the morning. 2 Because of the establishment of the metro station in the south of Oberhafen, one undercross could be built to combine with it. 3 Utilisation of the existing ferry system, a new port could be built as a new stop for ferry transportation.
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ENTRANCES
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According to our analysis of resources,
SECTION VIEW & PROPOSALS
RECREATION AREA LOGISTIC COMPANIES
OPEN SPACE AS A CONNETION AREA, ALMOST ALL THE RECREATION ACTIVITIES WOULD HAPPEN HERE. IT PLAYS A ROLE AS A BRIDDGE TO CONNECT THE LOGISTIC COMPANIES’ STAFFS AND THE CREATIVERS TOGETHER TO USE THE CREATIVE QUARTER MUCH BETTER.
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ABOUT THE CONTAINER CONSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET THE CONTAINERS?
OWNERS OF GOOD
SECOND-HAND CONTAINERS: Usually the longevity of the containers would be 15 years. 6.1M*2.44M*2.59M
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HOW TO USE THE CONTAINERS IN THE QUARTER?
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
HOW TO MOVE THE CONTAINERS?
With the help of the tracks, trucks , carriages, and the cranes
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Rent the containers to creative workshops with the lower rent. Decide the price and the term of renting containers. Assist the service of the container installation and display.
CREATIVERS
The containers could be their creating workshops, retails, exhibition areas, performance stages, even could be used as their accommodation area.
HOW TO RECYCLE THE CONTAINERS? After the tenancy, the logistic companies would collect back the containers to clean them and then wait for the next tenant. FLOOD ContainerďźšIt is possible to use crane to remove the containers to the terrace of the building when there would be flood disaster. Building: In our project, the internal space of building which is existing up from 5.2m height might be used as important space according to flood. 87
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Logistic companies could collect the second-hand containers from the shippers and the owners of the goods with the low price.
PROPOSALS FOR CONTAINER CONSTRUCTIONS
STRATEGIES 2013
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NEGOTIATION BETWEEN THE ACTORS—shippers, logistic companies and creativers Hafencity Hamburg Gmbh should play the dominant role during the whole process. According to the participation to decide how the creative quarter is built.
CONSTRUCTION PERIOD STEP BY STEP The additional buildings should be built during this period. The source of the containers could be found. The metro station and ferry system will be built during this time. All the founctions will be settled down from 2017
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THE SPECIFIC IDENTITY WITH ABUNDANT FUNCTIONS AND FACILITIES, SUCH AS THE TS FACILITIES AND INFRUSTRUCTURES. amburg, it is a cultural generator. afencity, it becomes a new memory of the citizens. Oberhafen, it generates a win-win status for the logistic companies and the tivers. 89
MODIFICATION OF THE CREATIVE QUARTER
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COEXISTENCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW ELEMENTS
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REFERENCES
During the main module of urban design, I applied some methods of public art in the urban design work. After that, it also gave me more inspiration in public art work. There is no doubt that in my future career, urban design and public art would not be apart from each other. The theories and the methods will be used universally in my knowledge system. As an urban designer, I should take more responsibility to public and shoulder more hard work than an artist. This year, I travelled a lot, tried a lot and learnt a lot. How about you? ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Firstly, I would also like to thank my parents who gave me the big encouragement to study here. Secondly, I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to all the MAUD tutors who gave us the golden opportunity to do these wonderful projects, which also helped me in doing a lot of Research and I came to know about so many new things. I am really thankful to them. At last, I must thank all the colleagues who experienced the projects together with me, I think we learnt a lot from each other within the whole year. THANKS AGAIN TO ALL.
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