CRAFTED COMMUNITY
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WHAT IF HOUSES WOULD FUNCTION AS FACTORIES AND MACHINES AS MEGAPHONES?
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TLATELOLCO 1965-2012
1965 102 residential buildings 40 common/private buildings
1985 10 buildings collapsed 3.000 families remained homeless
2011 1/4 of the initail inhabintants abandoned the site 55.000 out of initial 80.000 units are still inhabinted
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3.000 families remained homeless
INDEX
Crafted Community
1965 2011 102 residential buildings 1/4 the initail inhabintants 40 of common/private buildings abandoned the site 55.000 out of initial 80.000 units are still inhabinted
1985 10 buildings collapsed 3.000 families remained homeless
2011
+ INDEX + DF’s TIMELINE
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+ TLATELOLCO SITE STUDY
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+ TLATELOLCO LIFE/WORK
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+ LIVING
12
+ WORKING
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+ THE BORDER CONDITION
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+ THE LOST DENSITY
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+ WEAVING STRATEGY
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1/4 of the initail inhabintants Life / Work abandoned the site 55.000 out of initial 80.000 units are still inhabinted
Mario Pani vision’s consequenses Density loss: 1965-2012 Housing & Labour conditions Harvest time
Formal / Informal Tlatelolco / MC sprawl Informal settlements around Tlatelolco Mexico productions systems’ catalogue Weaving and textile taxonomy DF’s alternative production systems Intentional & Purposefull attraction: Open space definition Accidental: Self-segregation Social: People of Mexico City Political: Housing and National Identity Re-Densifying: two scale study New production’s insertion Rules of production The Machine The Process The Materiality The structural process The structure: two scale study
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DF’s TIMELINE Life / Work
LIFE-HOUSING
FALANSTERIO
FALANSTERIO, PUERTO RICO
SETTLEMENTS: FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE XXI CENTURY There are tree different production systems that we could take into account. First of all the pre-hispanic one then the colonial and the post industrial one that still operates now a days.There are tree different production systems that we could take into account. First of all the pre-hispanic one then the colonial and the post industrial one that still operates now a days.There are tree different production systems that we could take into account. First of all the pre-hispanic one then the
AZTEC HOUSING
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1325
1519
CUARTOS DE AZOTEA
HOUSING AND WEAVING
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1821
CHILDREN EXPLOITED
WORK-LABOUR
COLONIA POPULA
1900
FIRST LABOUR’S RIGHT
40
35
25
ZAGA FAMILY
DIEGO RIVERA MURALES
Article 123 1917 Mexican Constitution
sets minimum employment standards for the workplace.
TEXTILE: DIFFERENT PRODUCION SYSPEMS There are tree different production systems that we could take into account. First of all the pre-hispanic one then the colonial and the post industrial one that still operates now a days.There are tree different production systems that we could take into account.
TRAPICHES
TELARES SUELTOS
WHERE
VILLAGE COMMON PRODUCTION - FROM THE MATERIAL TO THE TEXTILE
HOUSEHOLD CLOTH PRODUCION
WHO
WHAT
THE ORIGINS OF SELF-EXPRESSION ETHIMOLOGY In the terrible tale of Philomela, who was raped and her tongue cut out so that she could not tell about her violation, her loom becomes her voice, and the story is told in the design, so that her sister Procne may understand and the women may take their revenge
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Among the Olympians, the weaver goddess is Athena, who punished the impious pretensions of her acolyte Arachne by turning her into a weaving spider.
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EARLIEST PRODUCTION OF SOCIETY ALSO AS A FORM OF SETTLEMENT
MYTHOLOGY
the English word text is derived from the Latin word for weaving, texare, explaining the source of terms like "weaving a story".
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AUTOPROGETTAZIONE
PREVI, LIMA
U.H.PRESIDENTE
MAQUILLADORA
ELEMENTAL,CHILE
SATELLITE CITIES
NONALCO-TLATELOLCO
DOCTOR-G,FRENTEARCHITECTURE
ARES
MAQUILLADORA HOUSING
ZOCALO OCCUPATION
CUIDADES PERDIDAS
DETERIORATED PUBLIC HOUSING
Mexico City
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
EARTHQUAKE
LOS ODIVADOS
GARMENT FACTORY
95
00
10
NAFTA
OBRAJES FARO
MAQUILLADORAS
HOUSEHOLD CLOTH PRODUCION
AUTOPROGETTAZIONE 2.0
chaiselounge
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TLATELOLCO SITE STUDY Mario Pani vision’s consequenses
THE ORIGINS OF SELF-EXPRESSION MYTHOLOGY In Homer's legend of the Odyssey, Penelope the faithful wife of Odysseus was a weaver, weaving her design for a shroud by day, but unravelling it again at night, to keep her suitors from claiming her during the long years while Odysseus was away. Penelope has a high lineage that melds human and divine, and is she perhaps secretly Odysseus' own weaving goddess-nymph[citation needed], like the two weaving enchantresses in the Odyssey, Circe and Calypso. Helen is at her loom in the Iliad.
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TLATELOLCO TLATELOLCO SITE 1965-2012
STUDY
Density loss: 1965-2012
1965 102 residential buildings 40 common/private buildings
1985 10 buildings collapsed 3.000 families remained homeless
2011 1/4 of the initail inhabintants abandoned the site 55.000 out of initial 80.000 units are still inhabinted
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TLATELOLCO: LIVING ANDLIFE/WORK LABOUR TLATELOLCO Housing & Labour conditions
LIFE-HOUSING THE FACES OF TLATELOLCO: The Unit Nonoalco / Tlatelolco 3 sections 90 buildings 10.384 departments 51.920 inhabitants 11 kindergartens 6 elementary schools 4 Secondary Schools 2 Clinical ISSSTE, 1 ISSSTE Hospital 1 Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics 4 Theaters, 3 with a ďŹ tness centres, pool. 1 Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco 1 pre-Columbian archaeological site 1 colonial church. 1 subway station. Housing Unit originally had 90 acres in area, 45 of them were originally green areas.
INCLUDED
SEMI-INCLUDED
AUTHONOMUS
MINI-AUTONOMUS
PERMANENT DURATION (%) DISTANCE FROM HOUSING
0
10
20
WORK-LABOUR
30
THE ACTIVE TLATELOLCO: PERMANENT to TEMPORARY Scaling and grading from the physically closest activity to the living areas to the further once. Infrastructure that vary from leisure to religion were though and provided in hte original modernist plan. With time other less structured and preplanned activities and job developed
TEMPORARY
100
10
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TLATELOLCO: HARVEST-TIME TLATELOLCO LIFE/WORK Harvest time
BASURE
RACCOGLITORI
TYPE 1
Raccoglitore n1. Preleva principalemente lattine per rivenderle ad di fuori di Tlatelolco
Raccoglitore n.2
Raccoglitore n3. Dotato di un trolley mobile. TYPE 2
Raccoglitore n4. Dotato di mezzo di locomozione mobile
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LIVING
Formal / Informal
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LIVING
Tlatelolco / MC sprawl
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AROUND TLATELOLCO: ALTERNATIVE LIVING/WORKING CONDITIONS LIVING Informal settlements around Tlatelolco
‘The way in which current typologies address issues such as the extended family, the live/work space, the dwelling/rental unit and the upgradeable house is very limited. No wonder the urban life and economic dynamics one finds in informal settlements is more interesting than the ones in planned communities.’ Jose’ Castillo ‘Modernist system oftraffic circulation eliminating the urban crowds and the outdoor political domain of social life that the street traditionally supports. Alienated from and fearful of the no-man's land of out-door public space that results, people stay inside. But the consequent displacement of social life from the outdoor public "rooms" of streets and quares to the indoor rooms of malls, clubs, homes, and cars does not merely reproduce the outdoor city public and its citizenry in a new interior setting. Rather, this interiorization encourages a privatizing of social relations.’ James Holston Space of Insurgent Citysenship ‘Public space has been a “conquest” of civil society, rather than a “right” conferred by the state or developers.’ Carlos Monsiváis
TIMELINE
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14
100
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PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: CATALOGUE WORKING
Mexico productions systems’ catalogue
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WEAVING AND TEXTILES: TAXONOMY WORKING
Weaving and textile taxonomy
Loom
3 Traditional cloth Huili
Who?
Rebozo Rebozo
Material: Fibers vegetable origins
animal origins
Product look synthetics
others: glass carbon amid and basalt
Price Location
Backstrap Loom Coyacan Gloves 150 $
Frame Loom Market Barket 300 $
Free standing Loom Plaza de las tres culturas 69 $
Plaza Zocalo Pink scarf 40 $
Cuitadela Souvenire 156 $
Pedal Loom
Cuitadela Souvenire 156 $
Coyacan Gloves 55 $
Jacuard Loom Coyacan Gloves 55 $
Plaza Zocalo Pink scarf 40 $
Dobby Loom
Plaza de las tres culturas 69 $
Plaza Zocalo Pink scarf 40 $
Market Barket 300 $
3D Loom
Plaza Zocalo Pink scarf 40 $
Plaza de las tres culturas 69 $
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WORKING
DF’s alternative production systems
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R EA 1Y R EA 1Y
X2 X2
FARO FARO
1 YEAR
3 MONTH 1 YEAR WORKSHOPS
3 MONTH WORKSHOPS
ELASTIC ELASTIC
GOLDEN GOLDEN SPIDER FARM SPIDER FARM
X5 > X5 >
>>> sit down please! >>> sit down please!
AUTOPROGETTAZIONE 2.0 AUTOPROGETTAZIONE 2.0
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THE BORDER
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R CONDITION
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Intentional BORDER
Purposefull attraction: Open space definition
Case study: Locomotiva, Pier Vittorio Aureli
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Accidental BORDER Self-segregation
Case study: Faro De Oriente, Alberto Kalatch
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Social BORDER
Who: Architect When(Numbers!) : 2nd Octobre. 68’. yesterday 72 people were killed for narcotraffico. 400 in the massacre. 93 hectars.
People of Mexico City
Interesting (said?): “Rock concert. Estremist from the movement would be violent if not helped and followed.” Inexpected (space?): His own house. Smoke and many people. Takes out his journals from Tlatelolco.
8. Who: sign spesa When(Numbers!) : Interesting (said?): Inexpected (space?): Chiuaua is the place where people buy. Tepito il not liked.
7. Who: Sr. low housing
2. Who: Maria the weaver.
When(Numbers!) : 32 years that live here. 25 floors. Interesting (said?): Recordo il massacre as well as the earthquake of the 85. Inexpected (space?): Collection of garbage. Many people pass to collect organic.
When (Numbers!): Few years she has been living there. On the 7th Slim will come to reclaim that space. 24 families cohabit. Interesting (said?): work and live in the same space. Many kids. traditions . telar de cintura Inexpected (space?): Sitting in the corner. From there she can point out both the workshops and her house. A girl becomes our translator. In the corner we create a connection between the Mexican girl, the weaver and us.
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15.
Who: green peace
Who: Faro policewoman
When(Numbers!) : 40 years living here. 3 units. Live in the 2nd. 1st time people organise themselves.
When(Numbers!) : Interesting (said?): “Creation of a secure place. consequence of an enclosed space secured by plice the borrough has one of the highest presence of violence and assaltsa. People do not feel safe outside the centre. Different spaces for different croup od people. separation between kids and teenagers to evade bad influences. impossibility to have activity outside the centre.”
Interesting (said?): Inexpected (space?): The teacher is on the green spot.
Inexpected (space?):
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1.
Who: tombe
Who: Pedro. He likes Italy.
When(Numbers!) :
When(Numbers!): Closes at 9. Market is 46 years old.
Interesting (said?): No cementaries here. People buy these things.
Interesting (said?): Says he actually goes to villages every day to collect pieces of clothing. He says his materials are all originals.
Inexpected (space?):
Inexpected (space?): Cuitadela. Shop of the dad. The shop is just in the corner next to others. The space allows us to have a shot where the frame is created by the cloth.
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3.
4.
Who: basura
Who: Raul
Who: Director of Luum
When(Numbers!) :
When(Numbers!) : 43 years that he works there.
When(Numbers!) : 23.million people city
Interesting (said?): Small cans to sell. Interesting (said?): Inexpected (space?): Tlatelolco e despendio after the bridge.
Inexpected (space?): Workshop closed space. Porno magazine upholster the 4 walls.
Interesting (said?): “Unfair relationship between commercialisation and production. Difficult generalisation and understanding of the whole country. Community tend to create fixed labels on people, depending on what they produce. Fixed labels. Told what is their tradition and important to preserve.” Inexpected (space?): In his office. Many embroidered cousins in the background
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14.
Who: UVA theatre
Who: Director Juan
When(Numbers!) : 40% from Tlatelolco.
When(Numbers!) :
Interesting (said?):
Interesting (said?): “Craft as a way to create community. workshops of three month. Learning process helps people get together. Treagure of independent collectives that then move ouside the centre outonomusly.”
Inexpected (space?): Staying outside. Took place of an old nursery.
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“Public space has been a conquest of civil society rather then a right conferred by the state and developers.” Billemburg
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Political BORDER
Housing and National Identity
“The anti-historical attitude of the early wentieth-century avantgade [...] was to an extent an inevitable outcome of the pressures placed upon architects by the development of the science of history in the nineteenth century”. Adam Forty
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THE LOST DENSITY
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RE-DENSIFYING SITE Two scale studyPLAN URBAN CROWDING
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WEAVING STRATEGY New production’s insertion
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BOBINE MAKING
DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL
WEAVING STRATEGY Rules of production
DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL
LOOM PRODUCTION
LOOM PRODUCTION
PRIVATE PROPERITIES RESIDENTIAL AREAS COMMUNAL AREAS
PRODUCTION SPACES
TLATELOLCO: SPATIAL
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- Composed by machines not spaces. - Machines are self-constratable. - Machines are aquired consequently an agreemet from the inhabitants. - The agreement helps braking physical limitations - Decontextualisation too brakes preconception of physical limitation. - New textile production is not the primary activity. - It's the secondary one that triggers all the primary. Where do you position yourself in the context of the possibility of an endless production? is not the production that has an end but its limit is faced by other factors. is only by decontextualising the production that is possible to emphasise its primordial and more essential processes. To follow and not to demand. the PRODUCT-CONSTRUCT has a preset age. it has a life that passes through its expansion, fixation and contraction.
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WEAVING STRATEGY The Machine
WEAVING STRATEGY
COMPONENTS
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Self-assembled Pedal loom weaves recycled materials creating new extensions out of and in contrast with the modernist estate. [Stop motion wax model animation, structural wall detail, 1:1 Loom]
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WEAVING STRATEGY The Process
MELTING AND STRIPING MELTING AND STRIPING BOBINE MAKING BOBINE MAKING
DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL
LOOM PRODUCTION LOOM PRODUCTION
PRIVATE PROPERITIES RESIDENTIAL AREAS COMMUNAL AREAS
PRODUCTION SPACES
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WEAVING STRATEGY The Materiality
ETNOC AT TOLRAC YTINUMMOC DETFARC
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WEAVING STRATEGY The structural process
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The charged voids between traditions and modernity...
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WEAVING STRATEGY The structure: two scale study
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WINDOW DRIP FLASHING
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