Ensanche de Vallecas HYBRID MONUMENT Advanced Studio Project by Lucy Liu
Content Initial response Case study: CSA LA Tabacalera Actor: Social Centers of Madrid Urban Strategies and Mapping Spatial Organization Site visit: Madrid, Spain Narrative Proposal Readings Notes
Retrofitting Foreclosure: the Trial of Empty Castles Strategies for the aborted constructions of Madrid’s Periphery BelÊn Moneo & Eduardo Rega Rhode Island School of Design Advanced Studio Spring 2013
initial response
on the Buell Hypothesis, actor-network theory, diagramming and the two exhibitions
February 15, 2012 Exhibitions: “Castles in the Sky” Hans Haake at Reina Sofia, Madrid & “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream” at MoMA, New York operation as mediation transposition mind
drawing
object
American Dream
home
house
intent
Urban Planning
sprawl
3x + 2y + 21z = 0
single variable function with defined set of solutions
2x - 4 = 0
x = 0, y = 0, z = 0
x=2
x = 3, y = 6, z = 1 ...
if, x = 8, y = 9, then, z = 2
f(x) is dependent on the value of x
multi-variable function with infinite set of solutions
multiple operations that relate to each other, each processing the output of the former, a continuous transposition, becoming the narrative
conditional parameters are created to provide situational results - a ‘truthful fiction’
if, the operations were the same?
then, an operation as system Creating a system that has a static vessel for the flowing of energy, materials and actors, where ‘abstract machine’ and a ‘fluidity of the parts – a disjointedness that keeps the elements in play and allows for their constant recontextualization with changing external forces’ can happen.
A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals by Clement Valla, the process of establishing a new situation from the former product with repeating operations. http://vimeo.com/18998570
action-reaction attitude “change the dream and you change the city” “diversity of housing needs not met by the monotony of housing production” “the willingness to re-invent not only the types of places we build, but the way we own and administer them”
operation as attitude
mind
drawing
object
American Dream
home
house
intent
Urban Planning
sprawl
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MICRO-URBANISM WITHIN THE “ACAMPADASOL”
FRAVM
Federación Regional de Asociaciones de Vecinos de Madrid
District of Villa de Vallecas PAU del Ensanche de Vallecas Madrid celebrates 40 years of AAVV Neighborhood Associations, including a list of 80 neighbourhood associations across its districts and municipalities.
SPONTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS
SQUATTERS
DISTRITO CENTRO Areas of demonstrations, political activity and gathering: Puerta del Sol Plaza Cibele Plaza Neptuno (Fuente de Neptuno) Plaza Colon Plaza Mayor Embajadores Plaza Lavapiés Calle Toledo
ENSANCHE DE VALLECAS The identity of PAU del Ensanche de Vallecas is crystallized in autonomous spaces in the center of Madrid.
occupation micro-city
WEEK 3
WEEK 2
WEEK 1
MICRO-URBANISM WITHIN THE “ACAMPADASOL”
case study: csa la tabacalera
FRAVM
Federación Regional de Asociaciones de Vecinos de Madrid
District of Villa de Vallecas PAU del Ensanche de Vallecas Madrid celebrates 40 years of AAVV Neighborhood Associations, including a list of 80 neighbourhood associations across its districts and municipalities.
Fábrica de Tabacos
SPONTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS
ABANDONMENT
ACTION 1: reclaiming private space for public use
Centro Nacional de Artes Visuales (CNAV) SQUATTERS
CYCLICAL PATTERN OF SPATIAL DEFINITION? BUILDING STRUCTURE LIMITING FREE FORM?
FIRST FLOOR
BASEMENT AND PATIO
CSA LA TABACALERA
PLANNED “FREE SPACE” DISTRITO CENTRO Areas of demonstrations, political activity and gathering: Puerta del Sol Plaza Cibele Plaza Neptuno (Fuente de Neptuno) Plaza Colon Plaza Mayor Embajadores Plaza Lavapiés Calle Toledo
OBJECTIVE: SOCIAL “FREE SPACE”
UNUSED SPACE ENSANCHE DE VALLECAS The identity of PAU del Ensanche de Vallecas is crystallized in autonomous spaces in the center of Madrid.
HISTORIC SPACE PLANNING
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Social Centers of Madrid Definition an unused building that has been squatted and converted into a social “free space” for the neighborhood, not government affiliated, functions through democractic, collaborative means of expression
ACTION 2: programmatic needs propel spatial adaptations, re-inventing the built structure MADRID FUTURE ALTERATIONS
PRESENT ALTERATIONS
FRAVM
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INSTITUTIONS: FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES DE LA UCM
OTHER CENTRO SOCIAL
FRAVM
PLAZA DE LAVAPIES
LA PLAZA DE CEBADA
RA IBE ER LL CA
LA CASA ENCENDIDA?
S RE IDO RT CU DE
PAR CASINO DEL QUEEN
EDO DE TOL RONDA
ACTION 3: programmatic extension creating network of affiliated institutions, groups, collectives
ACTION 4: connecting neighboorhoods through events and shared spaces, projecting nodes for gathering, stitching neighborhoods together
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Urban fabrics and strategy ACTOR 1: Social Centers
AUTONOMOUS
1. self-managed growth and construction; 2. require components: abanndoned/empty structure and a collective with the philosophy of free-space; 3. autonomous system.
Favela da Rocinha, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ACTOR 2: SUBVERSIVE URBAN HABITATION STRATEGY 1. requires an existing fabric with pockets of “public” or open space; 2. an invasive characteristic; temporal structures/settlements overtake spaces to create informal cities; 3. the evolution of parasitic architectures with the original city fabric; the injection of such a parasite mutates the normal development of a city (may develop different systems of organization, circulation, program, etc.)
INVASIVE Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti after 2010 earthquake
ACTOR 3: LOW-INCOME/ IMMIGRANT POPULATION 1. increased area of public space to compensate for limited private space; 2. concentrated density at a point, node or space; many users within a boundary; 3. ...while still maintaining maximum access to the outside.
Superstructure Rem Koolhaas, “Exodus, the voluntary prisoners of architecture
Controversy 1: Controversy 2: Tele-K + Social Center Immigrant + Social Center indirect interaction with events through media human interaction as broadcast
Controversy 3: Tele-K + Immigrant + Social Center social interaction collides with media
MADRID
FRAVM
Mapping: Urban Fabrics with Controversies
TELE - K
Extracted Urban Strategies
Establishing a dense core defined by parallel elements extending from the historic Vallecas neighborhood will focus on bringing up the density within the central axis of Ensanche de Vallecas and allow neighborhoods to grow from a strong spine of developments.
Existing Building Overlay
spatial organization
TYPICAL AREA OF SUPERBLOCK 5561 SQUARE METERS / 0.055Ha IDEAL URBAN DENSITY 100 DWELLINGS/HECTARE CURRENT DENSITY 30 - 35 DWELLINGS/HECTARE
DISTANCE BETWEEN PARALLELS 4 superblocks, 2 back roads, 1 main street + sidewalks The minimal recommended density in order for public service of buses is from 25 to 60 dwellings/Ha. The average density of London is 42 d/Ha. The average density of the urban centres in Europe is 93 d/Ha. All the sustainability organisms recommend high density and stipulate the ideal density around 100 d/Ha. (Mozas, 2004) The issue is not density, but density distribution. Dwelling density is high, residential density is high but urban density is low. The goal is to achieve an appropriate level of neighborhood density with a variety of programs and uses. Residential density can be average - low to improve quality of private space, whereas public activity density can increase to connect the neighborhood fragments.
typology investigation
Sectional Intervention
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site visit: madrid, spain
Rafael Moneo Studio
Torres Blancas
La Casa de las Flores Fisac Church
Transversal Carabanchel
Valdeluz with Javier Arpa
La Canada Real
Telef贸nica
Lavapi茅s
Ensanche de Vallecas
La Gavia Park
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narrative
The project seeks to negotiate between planning, policy and urban phenomena, while simultaneously acknowledging the increasing demands of a rapidly changing urban situation for regenerative mechanisms in architecture.
There is nothing in the world more invisible than a monument. -robert musil
The limitations of each actor provide the database of intelligence, and the desired result push for an inventive negotiation. Architecture is only a part of the narrative, it is a tool to negotiate conflicts and to deliver a complexity of relationships in urban phenomena. This is a project where the situation demands an architectural operation at the point of conflict, where boundaries need to be crossed, conventions broken and systems redefined.
“They own the walls but not the floor they’re built on.�
And then, we progress. Monument (latin monere): to remind, to warn. Ruin (from Latin ruina, from ruere): to rush headlong, fall, collapse
the world is (has been) thus, and not (never) so. at every stop, we make a monument to ruin
but a monument, also invites undoing. Their stories are simultaneously written, as the architecture is being destructed/constructed/inhabited, the beings are the activators.
Spain housing bubble burst
construction sector shrinkage
leftover construction material
typical tower crane dimension
crane modules delivered by train
crane builds itself
crane builds wall
crane builds infrastructure
crane retires into building core
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ruin as monument - living museum The project is a proposal to admit the existing unfinished developments in Ensanche de Vallecas into Spanish Cultural Heritage, and to release the structures from the monotony of land use resulting from the General Plan of 1997. The architectural intervention respects the new monument and provides circulation, amenities and habitation for users to interact with the existing structure without being structurally dependent. The architecture is an infrastructure that adapts to the programmatic needs of users.
Ensanche de Vallecas
Modules are suspended from the top rails and the ‘house’ reaches into the existing structure. The walls of the bedroom unit are reconfigured to adjust to room preferences or variety in program. The dissection of house elements allow the reorganization of the home to adapt with the infrastructure. The codependency generates spaces with function.
Readings & Bibliography Castles in the sky VALLECAS INTERRUPTUS by Silvia Herrero THE URBANISTIC CONSEQUENCES by Vicent Navarro SYSTEMS, DIALECTICS AND CASTLES IN THE SKY by Alexander Alberro y Nora M. Alter Foreclosure REOPENING FORECLOSURE by Barry Bergdoll PUBLIC PROPERTY by Reinhold Martin THE BUELL HYPOTHESIS by Reinhold Martin, Leah Meisterlin and Anna Kenoff BACK TO THE BURBS by Michael Sorkin FROM CRISIS TO OPPORTUNITY: REBUILDING COMMUNITIES IN THE WAKE OF FORECLOSURE by Shaun Donovan Diagrams DIAGRAMS MATTER by Stan Allen WHAT IS A DIAGRAM ANYWAY? by Anthony Vidler PRAGMATICS OF THE DIAGRAM by Sulki Choi MANHATTAN TRANSCRIPTS, introduction by Bernard Tschumi Actor-network Theory FROM REAL POLITIK TO DINGPOLITIK OR HOW TO MAKE THINGS PUBLIC by Bruno Latour ON ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY, A FEW CLARIFICATIONS PLUS MORE THAN A FEW COMPLICATIONS by Bruno Latour WHY HAS CRITIQUE RUN OUT OF STEAM? FROM MATTERS OF FACT TO MATTERS OF CONCERN by Bruno Latour BEYOND DISCOURSE: NOTES ON SPATIAL AGENCY by Tatiana Schneider and Jeremy Till
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