RELATIONAL MAPPING
Relational Mapping
Relational Mapping helped us to improve our understanding through a deeper exploration of the data we collected during our initial mapping exercises. These examples of early work show a quick and rough exploration on paper to develop an initial understanding of a particular issue like green spaces and social boundaries. This was a freer way of mapping to explore Colombes beyond the obvious physical issues and to see how they connect on a social and economic scale.
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Mapping Contested Space
Relational Mapping
Taking areas around Fosse Jean and Petite Colombes we tried to map out places where we witnessed spaces defined by confrontation or appropriation. For example, men playing boules on a empty plot up for rent, or cyclist and motorcyclists reappropriating walkways as roads. Mapping these, and the zones of influence that radiated out from these enabled us to get a sense of Colombes contested territories
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Mapping T.O.A.D -
Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict
GREEN SPACE & T.O.A.D SPACE Mapping the urban grain of Colombes identified the relationship between the current used green spaces and T.O.A.D spaces. Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned and Derelict spaces are common within the northern industrial area of Colombes. INFRASTRUCTURE & WALKING PROXIMITY TO IDENTIFY T.O.A.D SPACES Indicated on the map are the key axial routes through Colombes. The primary route that serves the industrial zone runs parallel to the river. The river provides international water transportation to the neighbouring town of Gennevilliers, northeast of Colombes. SOCIAL HOUSING & POPULATION A mapping of the social housing and the population of each quarter allowed for an understanding of the demographic context surrounding the T.O.A.D sites. The circles indicate people who qualify for social housing support [red] placed against people who do not qualify for social housing support [green].
Relational Mapping
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Mapping Local Economies & Social Housing
This Mapping highlights the key areas of local economies within the Fosses - Jean & Stade areas of Colombes in relation to the key physical and potential social boundaries that exist.
Relational Mapping
area -FOSSES JEAN - BOUVIERS
area - STADE
physical barrier
availability of transport
routes of transition area boundary physical barrier - motorway/railway social divide / barrier
high density tower block housing
medium density tenement housing
Relation Mapping - Local Economies & Social housing/barriers
low density individual housing
local economies
Physical Barrier / Social Divide
Avenue de Stalingrad
Gare de Stad
local economies
Fosse Jean
Physical Barrier / Social Divide
cultural divide
district division
Relational Mapping
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Mapping Spatial Appropriation
This map was focused on the appropriation of space in relation to the allotment Halima help set up in the Stade area of Colombes. Initially we looked at the allotment and the people involved in its development. This led on to an exploration of the skills these people have and how they are used to appropriate the space demonstrating this through examples.
Relational Mapping
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Mapping Produce Exchange - 56 Rue St. Blaise
This map helped us to understand the kinds of produce and resource exchanges which are taking place in the project Rue 56 St. Blaise. This could influence a project or act as a key precedent for how networks of exchange might work.
Relational Mapping
water
compost
fruit vegetables
produce
produce herbs
exchanges
bargain
exchanger
other Paris areas
local neighbourhood
list/ info
organisation
neighbouring buildings
handler
“guard�
produce to exchange
storage
storage
tools
EXCHANGES
visitors/ on-lookers
Relational Mapping
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MappingYouth Conversations
Exploring the Fossés Jean area, we were almost knocked down by a scooter carrying two young men, tearing up and down the street, flying an Algerian flag. The pair were cheered on by a large group of onlookers, all men, mostly 1819 years of age. When we approached, they first thought we wanted drugs, or were looking for the stadium to see a rugby match, excitedly contradicting each other as to the best direction. But when we managed to convey that we were interested in the area, they had one resounding comment: “pas pour les jeune!”, “nothing for the youth”.
Relational Mapping
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Mapping Residential Grain
This map shows the different types of building that make up the urban grain of Colombes. The urban grain is broken down into residential and non residential. Residential is the split into apartments, including high rise tower blocks and smaller apartment blocks dotted around the area, and housing, which includes stand alone villas, semi detached villas and terraced villas. The non-residential buildings include everything else, such as offices, shops, commercial buildings, schools, churches, cinemas and government buildings. Indicated on this map is the percentage of housing that predate 1974 for each quarter, in addition to this the ‘chomage’ [unemployment] level is shown as a percentage of the overall population. The areas that have a high percentage of old housing stock and high unemployment will benefit most from the Adaptive Housing project. This will only account for housing rather that apartment blocks as they will have been constructed after this time but are possibly in requirement of renovation, areas such as Petit Colombes and Fosses Jean.
Relational Mapping
RESIDENTIAL VEINS. COLOMBES
As a comparison of information a map showing social housing against non social housing is shown to in a similar section, this highlights the areas that are predominantly social housing [HLM], and my help identify sites that require attention. [Social Housing map produced by Emma Wood]
STADE
EUROPE
This drawing takes wide sections through the identified sites of interest [Stade/Europe/Fosses Jean/Petit Colombes], as a way of looking closer at the urban grain and identifying areas that my require action. Through each section the areas that are predominantly housing and apartments have been highlighted.
HOUSING
HOUSING
HOUSING
APARTMENTS
APARTMENTS
APARTMENTS
APARTMENTS
HOUSING HOUSING HOUSING
APARTMENTS
HOUSING APARTMENTS
HOUSING APARTMENTS
HOUSING
HOUSING APARTMENTS
FOSSES JEAN
PETIT COLOMBES
[Social Housing map produced by Emma Wood]
APARTMENTS
APARTMENTS
APARTMENTS
HOUSING APARTMENTS
HOUSING
HOUSING
Cross-section through Social Housing map
HOUSING
Cross-section key