Granada Analysis Kimberly Ward Leo Jack Green Helen Davies Gemma Walker Harriet Shires Matthew Riley Fran Cullen Aidan Lewis Anna Athanasiou Eleni Zorba
Contents
01 Introduction to Granada 02 History of Granada 03 Cultural Impacts 04 Architectural Vocabulary 05 Urban Grain 06 Mapping of Granada 07 Solar 08 Wind 09 Precipitation 10 Visit to Granada 11 Site Introduction 12 Views 13 Flora and Fauna
14 Mapping on Site 15 Site Usage 16 Land Use 17 Geology 18 Massing
Contents
History of Granada
Cultural Impacts
Languages most commonly spoken in Granada
French
Spanish
English
German
Break down of Spanish dialects spoken in Granada
Castilian Spanish
Basque Spanish
Catalan Spanish
Galician Spanish
Graffiti of Granada
Popular graffiti locations around the world
Areas of strong Graffiti culture around the world
Artwork of Granada
Granada often referred to as a mecca for graffiti, with many of its streets adorned with murals and artists tags. The images above are 4 examples of stencil art nearest to our site. El Ni単o is a famous graffiti artist from Granada. His amazing paintings and graffiti are extensively distributed all over the city (mainly in the old part of the town) and are actually part of the urban landscape and culture of Granada. His graffiti sometimes involves the whole building itself, and have intelligent thought provoking sentences attached. His artwork transcends that of the walls of Grananda and is a regular in exhibition spaces around the city, incuding the Granada school of Architecture.
Locations in Europe El’nino has graffiti
Spain in the World.
Locations of El’nino graffiti in Europe, lighter shades indicate less pieces produced there
Graffiti prevention in Granada
REMOVAL - PREVENTION - THE LAW - EDUCATION Graffiti in Granada offers an attraction for tourism with locals offering tours of the most astounding pieces, however the council has taken steps to control the art form. Beginning with the removal of obscene pieces, then putting in place provisions to aide prevention such as making popular tagging sites harder to gain access to by planting cactus plants. To aide prevention laws have been put in place to give offenders harsher fines if caught. Several projects in Granada have recently taken place in an attempt to educate and direct the efforts of taggers away from damaging buildings and property.
Surrounding Church locations
Church
Site location
Surrounding Cathedral locations
Cathedral
Site location
Urban Grain from 1795 - 1894
The changes in the general and building landscape of the city are obvious when all layers of history are shown together
Buskers
Buskers occupied large areas of the city.
Street Artist
The caricature artist draws cartoon esc pictures of people.
View of the site from West side facing East.
Boreholes in locations 1
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