Granada Site Analysis

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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

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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

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Surrounding Cathedral locations

Cathedral

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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.






































































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