Unit 22 Brief and Agenda Harbour: several crafts, plenty of decks, efficient provisioning. In terms of typology second and third term will invite students to go beyond the average con strains of a building to face a more open definition of built environment. Specific activities in the harbour will be defined by each student. - The crafts. Students will be invited to develop and combine not only their own previous proposal for dwellings and the previous experience on the scale one pavilion but other students’ proposals for both dwelling and pavilion. Design should not only be develop further but gain an ‘operating’ system in the sense Buckminster Fuller was proposing in his book Oper ating Manual For Spaceship Earth. - The decks. Built environment will incorporate open air facilities, infrastructures, landscape treatment, links and connection between crafts extending the concept of deck, meet ing and organizing different environmental levels as in the book The Structure of The Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment from John Habraken. - The provisioning. Architecture requires a lot of supplies as well as environment. Logistics to maintain both natures alive will be incorporate to the students design.
Project Brief River Medellin is very important for its people who are now showing an increasing interest in keeping it clean and making it part of their everyday lifes. To promote this idea, the design proposal consists in the creation of several transitional spaces which placed in urban area will bring nature into the city by linking to bigger green and open areas. Simultaneously, Medellin has social issues between communities, not only economical bound aries divide them, but also deifferent backgrounds. This creates an anti social behaviour and marginalisation of certain areas of the city. This design proposal will be focused in one of the transition spaces, in this case in the area of Moravia known for its usage as a rubbish dumping site in the past. The project consists in a building divided in for levels in which vegetation will grow and connect spaces from inside to outside. The inner spaces will be used as an interactive food hall in which the users will be able to cook and sell their products or buy a great variety of meals and enjoy the spaces. The site is strategically placed so the flow of people visiting experiences a transition from pri vate (driving their car to the foodhall) to public (after socialising in the vertical gardens, taking the train). The building shape will be defined by its functions and the navigation through its spaces.
Key Project Aims: -To create a vegetation network from the nearby green areas to the Medellin urban mesh -To create connections from and to public transport -To increase social interaction in the neighbourhood -To provide the neighbours with a space and facilities from which they can make their living by cooking their fresh and natural products -To make the building as self-suficient as possible through energy and water harvesting