Reclaim the streets
Carnivals of protest
Car free streets
London streets
London streets
Parliament protest
Berlin
How to sort a street party: 1 Get together with some like-minded people and work on a plan of action.
Get together with some like-minded people. Possibly your friends. Work on a plan of action. Sort out different roles, jobs and timescales. Imagine. What is possible?
Carnivals of protest
2 Decide on a date. You may need money.
Decide on a date. Give yourselves enough time. Not too much - a deadline is a great motivator - but enough to sort the practicals: materials, construction etc. You may need money.
3 Choose the location. A separate meeting place is good: people like mystery, bureaucrats don’t. Choose the location. Your street, the town centre, a busy road or roundabout, a motorway! A separate meeting place is good: people like a mystery, bureaucrats don't.
4 Publicise! Make sure everyone knows where and when to meet.
Street closure
Word of mouth, leaflets, posters, e-mail, carrier pigeon. Make sure everyone knows where and when to meet. Posters and paste go well on walls, billboards and phone boxes. Leaflet shops, clubs, pubs - everyone, and your mum.
5 Sort out your sound system. A party needs music.
Sort out your sound system. A party needs music - rave, plugged-in, acoustic, yodelling - go for diversity. Invite jugglers and clowns, poets, prophets and performers of all kinds. Ask campaign groups to come along and set up a stall in the middle of the road.
6 Transform the space.
Festival protest
How will you transform the space? Huge banners with a message of your choice, colourful murals, bouncy castle, a ton of sand and a paddling pool for the kids, carpets, armchairs. The materials and money from earlier may come in useful here. Print up an explanation for this "collective daydream" to give to participants and passersby on the day.
7 Open the street.
For opening the street - or rather stopping it being re-closed by the traffic - ribbons and scissors are not enough. A large scaffold tripod structure with a person suspended from the top has been found useful. Practice in your local park. Blocking the road with a car that can then be dismantled is nice. Even the traditional barricade will do.
8 Rescue some young trees from the road.
Rescue some young trees from the road of your local development and have them ready for planting. You may need a pneumatic drill and safety goggles for the last bit.
Festival protest
9 Have a street party!
Have a street party! Enjoy the clean air and colour full surroundings, the conversation and the community Bring out the free food, dance, laugh and set off the fire hydrants. Some boys in blue may get irate. Calm them down with clear instructions.
10 Find a solicitor.
At least a couple of the boys in blue will fail to get the point and nick people - six is generally the minimum to convince their paymasters it was worth all that overtime. Of course you found a solicitor who understands about street protests and distributed a bust card with their number, a phone number to collect details of arrestees, and basic advice - the Release bust card is a good basis in the UK. Make sure someone stays awake, alert and near that phone to take messages, gather names, and organise a defendants’ meeting a week or two later.
Festival protest
Massive meal protest
Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces. Participants characterize the collective as a resistance movement opposed to the dominance of corporate forces in globalization, and to the car as the dominant mode of transport. Reclaim the Streets often stage non-violent direct action street reclaiming events such as the invasion of a major road, highway or freeway to stage a party. While this may obstruct the regular users of these spaces such as car drivers and public bus riders, the philosophy of RTS is that it is vehicle traffic, not pedestrians, who are causing the obstruction, and that by occupying the road they are in fact opening up public space. The events are usually spectacular and colourful, with sand pits for children to play in, free food and music.[1] A Temporary Autonomous Zone sometimes results. The style of the parties in many places has been influenced by the rave scene in the UK, with sound systems playing dance music. Reclaim the Streets is also as a term used to denote this type of political action, regardless of its actual relation to the RTS movement. Reclaim the Streets was originally formed by Earth First! in Brixton, London, in Autumn 1991 and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down. The idea of street reclaiming soon spread throughout the United Kingdom. The first actions can be seen as specifically anti-car and proalternative transport, but over the years the members of the core group changed its focus, realising that it was better to go to the root of the problem as they saw it, namely the capitalist system. "Our streets are as full of capitalism as of cars and the pollution of capitalism is much more insidious."Never theless, the actions always followed the principle of non-violent direct action. The earliest written source for the phenomenon "reclaim the streets" can be found in Marshall Berman's. All That is Solid Melts Into Air. In a chapter entitled "Modernity in the Streets" Berman writes: "At the ragged edge of Baudelaire's imagination we glimpsed another potential modernism: revolutionary protest that transforms a multitude of urban solitudes into a people, and reclaims the city streets for human life.. Thesis, a thesis asserted by urban people starting in 1789, all through the nineteenth century, and in the great revolutionary uprisings at the end of World War One: the streets belong to the people.
SG 3
Mr Green
Dear friend With the climate crisis in mind I, Mr. Green, will inspire my fellow human beings in all ages to increase focus on sustainable choices in their everyday lifes. I am not flawless, none of us are, but by acting from common sense we can all make a difference. Big and important decisions for the Earth is to be taken by the worlds top leaders at the COP15 in December. A green angle on this decision making is of the highest importance as we are all a part of the climate crisis that is endangering our planet. I, Mr. Green, believe that we through positive green activism can contribute to an improvement of the conditions.. for you, for me, for the two of us, and all of us and all the ones coming after us. Go into the fight for a greener now and a greener future together with me! Dress green! Think green! Lets save the World and lets have fun doing it!
SG 2
The Yes-Men.
1. SHF antenna with supplementary LF antennae 2. Receiver and data processor 3. Protective headgear with visor
The YesMen logo
4. Drinking Straw 5. External pores (defensive) 6. Defense enhancement unit (1 of 3; primarily) 7. Food reprocessor (receives nutrients from Nutrition Refunction Center, 21) 8. Maniple Pods (for interaction with people, technology and the environment) 9. Nutrition Utility Transfer (conveys nutrients from Food Reprocessor, 6)
1623. Juan de la Corte
10. Electrical Gafting (secures against power loss) 11. Dynamo 12. Motors (powered by dynamo and Maniple Pod plug interfaces) 13. Electromagnetic strips (generate electricity for dynamo and allow external linkage) 14. Maniple Pod deployed as rotor (applicable to all MPs)
1623. Juan de la Corte
15. Defense Enhancement Unit (2 of 3; non-lethal) 16. Power converter 17. Defense Enhancement Unit (3 of 3, rear) 18. Power conduits with inline power converters and dynamo 19. Medical Analysis Unit 20. Personal Trapment Unit (runs constant scans on health and energy)
1623. Juan de la Corte
21. Nutrition Refunction Center (extracts nutrients from cast-off) 22. Persistent Nutrition Unit (delivers small amounts on an ongoing basis) 23. Suspension Grid (elasticated cable system) 24. Hyperfine Elasticity Units (impart added momentum) 25. Medical Stability and Emergency Unit
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26. Communications and Infrastructure Motoring Assemblage
When trying to understand how a machine works, it helps to expose its guts. The same can be said of powerful people or corporations who work hard to make themselves richer - regardless of consequence for everyone else. By catching powerful entities off-guard, you can momentarily expose them to public scrutiny. This way, everyone sees how they work and can figure out how to control them. We call this identity correction.
In a Nutshell:
Find a target (some entity running amok) and think of something sure to annoy them - something that’s also lots of fun. If you’re stumped, imagine the target losing control and acting stupidly. What would it make them do that?
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XIXc. Jean Laurent
1995. Anonymous
1895. Anonymous
1960. Anonymous
Capitalize on the target’s reaction. Write a press release and email it to hundreds of journalists. 1960. Anonymous
SG 1
The Ring of title Steel main Sitesecondary condition
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The ring of steel ismain the poptext ular name for the security and surveillance cordon surrounding the City of London, installed to deter the IRA and other threats. The term was borrowed from an earlier stage of the Troubles when the centre of Belfast was fortified against attacks, the perimeter of which was known as the ring of steel. Roads entering the City are narrowed and have small chicanes to force drivers to slow down and be recorded by CCTV cameras. These roads typically have a concrete median with a sentry box where police can stand guard and monitor traffic. City planners call these types of precautions “fortress urbanism”. Some roads have been closed to traffic entirely. Despite the term “ring of steel”, the roadblocks and chicanes are actually created with concrete blocks, sometimes plastic coated, that are wedged together.
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The measures were introduced following a massive IRA bombing campaign in the City in the early 1990s such as the 1992 Baltic Exchange bombing and the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing. At this time the sentry posts were guarded by armed police almost continuously. Initially the ring of steel consisted of plastic cones and on duty policemen which the locals described as the “ring of plastic”.It served the purpose of providing a visible sign to the public that the City authorities were taking the threats of more attacks by the IRA seriously. This was replaced by more permanent structures consisting of concrete barriers, checkpoints and thousands of video cameras.Following IRA ceasefires the police presence was curtailed.
The Ring of Steel Site condition 4 private streets in the core of the City of London are the site for the project. The buildings enclosing those streets will undergo several cuts and pieces will be printed around the new open space.
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10
5 9
6
19
12
18
17 16
8
20
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24
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Crowd Theory
Canetti
Campamento Sol
Los Indignados
Crowd Growing pt
Food and Water
Permanent camp Alternative smaller speaking points
Speaking Point
LoudHouse
House of Protest
SCREAMING BOOTH
x 09
ACCUSATION BOX
x 10
CONFESSION CABIN
x 00 0
SELF LISTENING POD
x 09
STATEMENT ROOM
x 00
ASSEMBLY A SSEMBLY HUB
x 04 00 4 0
DIALOGUE CHAMBER R
x 02 00 0
R2.20
45°
R1.20
45°
5.40
45° R3.93
R3.20
R1.20 76°
2.20
R1.05
3.20
R1.58
R2.20
30° R1.55
2.20
30°
3.20
R1.05
45°
2.20 45°
R1.20
2.20
R1.05
R1.05 30°
2.20
R1.20
2.20
R1.05
195°
R1.05
R2.55
R1.55
30°
3.20
90°
R1.05 2.20 R1.20
R3.60
2.20 R1.05
90°
2.20 2.20
R1.05 7.20
R2.30
5.20 45°
R1.80
R1.05
30°
R3.45
R1.80
75°
75° 4.80 R1.80
6.62
R2.30
R2.80
R1.80 R4.10
3.80
75° R2.10
R3.80
6.60
R1.80
5.10
R4.10
R2.10 75° 3.80 R1.80
R2.10
PIECE TOTAL
= 031
PollHouse
House of Suffrage
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R1.90
SCREAMING BOOTH
x 00 0
ACCUSATION A CCUSATION BOX
x 00 0
CONFESSION CABIN
x 20
SELF LISTENING POD
x 03
DIALOGUE ROOM
x 03
ASSEMBLY HUB
x 01
DEBATE CHAMBER
x 00 0
R2.60
R2.50
R6.28
R2.69
R1.72
25°
R20.01
25°
R20.01
25° R1.40 55°
R1.40
R1.40
R1.40
R5.00
25° R1.40
R1.40
25°
R1.40 R1.40 R1.40
3.40 4.40
R1.80
3.39
5.40
5.40
R1.40
30°
R2.10
3.40
20°
4.40
3.40
R2.10
3.40
4.40 5°
5.40
R2.10
25°
R1.80 4.80 R1.40
R5.00
R1.80
3.40 3.44 R1.90
R3.80
R2.40
R1.40 R2.10
R2.10
4.40 R1.40
30° 3.40
R1.40
R2.90
R1.40 3.40
5.40
50°
R3.80
2.40
R2.10
3.40
25°
5.40
R1.40
R3.13
R1.40
4.40
75°
R6.83
R5.41
R1.40
5.40 R1.40
R1.40
R1.90
25°
R8.23
25°
25°
R5.41
R3.15
25° 25° 25°
R8.23
R3.51 R3.09
R5.41
R8.39
R3.10
R2.90
PIECE TOTAL
= 030
BangHouse
House of Strike
SCREAMING BOOTH
x 08
ACCUSATION BOX
x 09
CONFESSION CABIN
x 04
SELF LISTENING POD
x 01
STATEMENT ROOM
x 00 0
ASSEMBLY A SSEMBLY HUB
x 00 0
DIALOGUE CHAMBER R
x 00 0
R3.20
R3.40
R1.20 R3.20
R1.40 2.20
R1.40
R3.20
R1.20
2.20
R3.05
2.20
5.22
R5.67
R1.20
45° R1.05
5.00
30°
R1.05
R1.05
7.31
R7.46
30°
R1.20
9.62
2.80
2.30
R1.05
3.30 3.80
5.22
R1.20
R1.05
R1.05
R2.69
4.30
2.30 2.80
2.20
20°
3.30
3.80
R1.80 40° R6.48
2.20
2.20
R1.40
R1.05 45° R1.20
R1.20
30° 30°
R1.40
R1.05 R6.48
R3.20 R3.20
R1.05
R5.65
R3.40
PIECE TOTAL
= 022
SparkHouse
House of Propaganda
SCREAMING BOOTH
x 05 5
ACCUSATION A CCUSATION BOX
x 05 5
CONFESSION CABIN
x 00 0
SELF LISTENING POD
x 10
DIALOGUE ROOM
x 04
ASSEMBLY HUB
x 02
DEBATE CHAMBER
x 02
R3.75
20° R3.10
R2.10
R2.10
3.42
R2.40
25° R2.40
R2.90
20°
R2.90
25°
4.23 4.23
25° 25°
R2.60
240°
R2.90
20°
3.42 20°
R2.10
R2.60
45° R3.80
R2.10
200°
240° R1.80 R1.80
R3.80
4.00
R1.80
30°
4.00 5.00
R3.80
5.00 30° 6.00 7.00 R3.00 R1.80
R3.80
8.00
R3.00
9.00
9.00
8.01
R12.51
R1.80
30°
R1.80
R3.80
R1.80
230°
R3.80
R1.80
R12.51
R1.80
R1.80
40°
R1.80
20°
30° R38.96
R12.51 R12.51
PIECE TOTAL
= 018
WetHouse
House of Brainstorm R1.80
R1.80
R3.20
5.00
5.00
R1.20
R1.80
R1.20
R1.80
R9.36
SCREAMING BOOTH
x 06
ACCUSATION A CCUSATION BOX
x 00 0
CONFESSION CABIN
x 02
SELF LISTENING POD
x 06
DIALOGUE ROOM
x 08
ASSEMBLY HUB
x 03
DEBATE CHAMBER
x 02
R3.20
R1.20
R1.20 5.00
5.00 R1.80
R1.20
R1.80
R1.20
10.00 5.35
5.35
R2.10
R9.36
R2.10 7.12
7.12
R2.10
4.10
13.15
R1.90
13.15
R1.40
3.10
17.18
17.18
R2.10
R2.60
R2.10
R5.00
R2.10
R2.10
R4.10
3.10
R1.40 R2.10
R3.00
R4.17
4.00
R3.00
R6.00
R5.00 R5.41
9.41 R6.83 R5.41
R2.40
R5.41 R5.41
R5.41
R5.41
9.41
R2.40
PIECE TOTAL
= 027
Plan Overlay The two Parlaments
1. Earl marshall 2. Sealer 3. Dressing room 4. Lord Chancellor's office 5. Messengers'room 6. Lord Chancellor 7. Dressing room 8. Clerk of Parliament 9. Peers' robing room 10. Dressing room 11. Chairman of committee 12. Secretary's room 13. Counsel room 14. Unopposed committee room 15. Select committee room 16. Doorkeeper 17. Royal staircase 18. Parliament office stairs 19. Court 20. Cabinet room 21. Housekeeper 22. Deputy Speaker 23. Members' stairs 24. Court 25. Proxy room 26. Dress room 27. Yeoman Usher 28. Staircase 29. Vote office 30. Peer's private corridor 31. Private room 32. Waiting room 33. Clerk of Parliament 34. Clerk assistant 35. Witness room 36. Witness room 37. Witness room 38. Master in Chancery 39. Witness room 40. Counsel 41. Ventilating office 42. Messenger 43. Waiting room 44. Clerk's office 45. Lord Great Chamberlian's room 46. Lord G C dressing room 47. Writing room 48. Archibishops room 49. Ante room 50. Bishops room 51. Reading room 52. Doorkeeper's dressing room 53. Peer's terrace affairs 54. Refreshment room 55. Office 56. Office 57. Office 58. Sergeant Arms 59. Witnesses' waiting room 60. Witnesses' waiting room 61. Doorkeeper's room 62. Public petitions 63. Public petitions 64. Messenger 65. Copying office 66. Public stairs 67. Stationery room 68. Messenger 69. Black Rod's dining room 70. Black Rod's stairs 71. Librarian's dining room 72. Court 73. Librarian's stairs 74. Librarian's ante room 75. Black Rod's drawing room 76. Black Rod's library 77. Librarian's drawing room 78. Refreshment 79. Public courts 80. Clerk of committees 81. Passage 82. Clerks' office 83. Examiner and speaker's court 84. Clerk's office 85. Examining office 86. Clerk of private bills 87. Examining office 88. Court 89. Public office for Deputy Inspector of Plans 90. Engrossment office 91. Commons Private entrance 92. Messenger 93. Cloak room 94. Clerk's office 95. Vote office 96. Court 97. Refreshment 98. Chaplain 99. Secretary 100. Trainbearer 101. Speaker's official room 102. Court 103. Store room 104. Messenger's lobby 105. Committee clerks 106. Committee clerks 107. Private bills 108. Doorkeeper's room 109. Clerk's office 110. Commons terrace stairs 111. Court 112. Sitting room 113. Dining room 114. Tower 115. Clerk of the House - dining room 116. Clerk of the House - study 117. Clerk of the House - drawing room 118. Librarian's residence - drawing room 119. Librarian's residence - study 120. Librarian's residence - dining room 121. Librarian's residence - bed room 122. Air shaft 123. Messenger 124. Gallery 125. Offices for votes and proceedings of the House 126. Division room 127. Speaker's room 128. Clerk assistant 129. Clerk assistant 130. Clerk assistant 131. Clerk assistant 132. Deputy sergeant 133. Refreshment 134. Bussiness room 135. Dining room 136. Drawing room 137. Speaker's staircase 138. Writing room 139. Speaker's room 140. Drawing room 141. Library 142. Speaker's gentleman's room 143. Waiting room
Courts
Breathing/ventilation
Halls
Corridors
Stairs
WESTMINSTER HALL
85
84 87 1
3
2
5
4
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
14
13
15
86
88 18
30
23 20
111 92
89
19
21
PUBLIC CORRIDOR
30 31
24
35
32
22 25
ST STEPHEN'S HALL
17
VICTORIA TOWER
36
33
28 HOUSE COURT
PRINTERS COURT
33
37
34
38
91
CLOISTER COURT
93
STAR CHAMBER COURT 113
90
ST STEPHEN'S COURT 26
94
Congregational
114
29 27
GUARD ROOM
Speech
16
96
CORRIDOR 39
95
122
AYES DIVISION GALLERY
115
41
40
116
117
119
118
120
121
111
42 126
HOUSE OF PEERS VICTORIA GALLERY
QUEEN'S ROBING ROOM
HOUSE LOBBY
PEERS CORRIDOR
COMMONS CORRIDOR
CENTRAL HALL
HOUSE OF COMMONS
BAR LOBBY
HOUSE LOBBY
62
48
97
NOES DIVISION GALLERY
107 103
67
135
98
PEERS CORRIDOR
PEERS COURT 52
49
ROYAL COURT
45
46 50
78
47 BLACK RODS CORRIDOR
PEERS INNER COURT
99
104 66
57
68
100
106
58
101 80
WAITING HALL
79
102
102
COMMONS INNER COURT
53
59
102
60
102
82
61 81
102
PEERS PRIVATE CORRIDOR
PEERS PUBLIC CORRIDOR
COMMONS CORRIDOR
105 56
134
125
65
55
51
128
108
129
130 133
83
102
Administrative
SPEAKER'S COURT
COMMONS COURT 109
COMMONS PUBLIC CORRIDOR
102
136
131
133
102
102
132
102
SPEAKER'S ENTRANCE GALLERY
COMMONS PRIVATE CORRIDOR
70
142
Waiting
143
73 68
71
SELECT COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE HALL
SUITE OF PEERS LIBRARIES
COMMONS ROOMS
134
138
SUITE OF COMMONS LIBRARIES 111
137
PEERS COMMITTEE ROOMS
74
123
111
125
63
CORRIDOR
43
44
124
111
Documenting 127
64 54
124
111
CHOIR LOBBY
72
139 75
76
140
77
Private
141
Dressing
Other
WESTMINSTER HALL
85
84 87 1
3
2
5
4
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 86
88 19
23 20
21
PUBLIC CORRIDOR
30
30
111 92
31
24
35
32
22 25
ST STEPHEN'S HALL
18
17
VICTORIA TOWER
89
36
33
28
93
26 PRINTERS COURT
STAR CHAMBER COURT 113
90
ST STEPHEN'S COURT HOUSE COURT
91
CLOISTER COURT
Courts
94
37
33
114
29 34
27
GUARD ROOM
96
38
CORRIDOR 39
95
122
AYES DIVISION GALLERY
115
41
40
116
117
118
119
120
121
111
42 126
HOUSE OF PEERS VICTORIA GALLERY
QUEEN'S ROBING ROOM
HOUSE LOBBY
PEERS CORRIDOR
CENTRAL HALL
COMMONS CORRIDOR
HOUSE OF COMMONS
BAR LOBBY
HOUSE LOBBY
111
127
62
48
65
97
135
98
46 50
78
47
102
102
99
104 66
57
68
100
106
58
101 80
WAITING HALL
79
BLACK RODS CORRIDOR
COMMONS INNER COURT
PEERS INNER COURT
53
59
102
60
102
82
61 81
102
PEERS PRIVATE CORRIDOR
PEERS PUBLIC CORRIDOR
COMMONS CORRIDOR
52
49
ROYAL COURT
45
PEERS CORRIDOR
PEERS COURT
128
108 COMMONS COURT 109
Halls
130 133
83
102
SPEAKER'S COURT 129
102
102
102
132
102
SPEAKER'S ENTRANCE GALLERY
COMMONS PRIVATE CORRIDOR
COMMONS PUBLIC CORRIDOR
136
131
133
70
142
Corridors
143
73 68
71
SELECT COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE HALL
SUITE OF PEERS LIBRARIES
COMMONS ROOMS
134
138
SUITE OF COMMONS LIBRARIES 111
137
PEERS COMMITTEE ROOMS
74
Breathing/ventilation 134
NOES DIVISION GALLERY
107 103
67
105 56
123
111
125
55
51
124
125
63
CORRIDOR
43
44
111
CHOIR LOBBY
64 54
124
72
139 75
76
140
77
141
Stairs
Speech
WESTMINSTER HALL
Congregational 85
84 87 1
2
3
17
18
19
5
4
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 86
88
23 20
111 92
89 30
21
PUBLIC CORRIDOR
30 31
24
35
32
22 25
ST STEPHEN'S HALL
VICTORIA TOWER
36
33
28
93
HOUSE COURT
26 PRINTERS COURT
33
37
34
38
STAR CHAMBER COURT 113
90
ST STEPHEN'S COURT
94 114
29 27
GUARD ROOM
Documenting
91
CLOISTER COURT
96
CORRIDOR 39
95
122
AYES DIVISION GALLERY
115
41
40
116
117
118
119
120
42 126
HOUSE OF PEERS VICTORIA GALLERY
QUEEN'S ROBING ROOM
HOUSE LOBBY
PEERS CORRIDOR
CENTRAL HALL
COMMONS CORRIDOR
HOUSE OF COMMONS
BAR LOBBY
HOUSE LOBBY
127
48
62
63 97 103
67
PEERS CORRIDOR
52
49
ROYAL COURT
45
46 50
47
78
102 BLACK RODS CORRIDOR
102
99
104 66
57
68
100
106
58
101 80
WAITING HALL
79
53
59
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Debate Chamber
expected noise level = 000 DB
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Spatial Model Medical Theatre
Speaking Chamber
House of Lords main title main text
Queens chair
witnesses
hanging microphones
dialogue heysack
mics peers built in speakers
clero
transcript
neutral benches
Spaces of sound Whispering Galleries
SCREAMING diameter number of people sound transmission noise spatial model visual relationships recording typology -
CONFESSION diameter number of people sound transmission noise spatial model visual relationships recording typology -
ACCUSATION - 3 TO 6M -2 - CHANNEL - PERFECT REFLECTION - CONFFESSIONAL - NULL - FACING A WALL - CCTV
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SELF LISTENING - 2.1 M -1 - NO - HIGH REVERBERATION (LOUDSPEAKER) - COURT - NONE - RADIO BROADCAST
DIALOGUE - 6M - 20 MAX - RADIAL - PERFECT REFLECTION - MEDICAL THEATRES - DIRECT VISUAL CONNECTION - HANGING MICS, EXTERNAL
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- 2.5 M -1 - CENTRAL POINT CONCENTRATION - TOTAL ABSORBTION - HEADPHONES - MIRRORED??? - ON THE MATERIAL SOMEHOW
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- 3.6 M -1 - CENTRAL POINT CONCENTRATION - ATTENUATION - RECORDING ROOM - DARKNESS - OPTIONAL MICROPHONE
ASSEMBLY - 2.5 TO 6M - 2 (MIXED) - MULTI CHANNEL - ABSORBTION - BAR - ANY - NONE (OPTIONAL)
diameter number of people sound transmission noise spatial model visual relationships recording typology -
- 4 TO 6 - 20 PER SPHERE (ASSEMBLED) - DOME - ELECTRONIC - HOUSES OF PARLAMENT - FREE - ABSOLUTE MONITORING LIVE BROADCAST
Different typologies of sound spaces for emotional discharge and free self expression and communication.
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House of Brainstorming
Undoing buildings Bank of England Painting of the Sir John Soane s Bank of England by Gandy. The building is represented as a ruin that shows the constructive process of the building itself.
dewaller
unarcher
rotunda centrifuguer
arcade dismantlers
floor cracker
forest picker
column un-stacker material picker
Dismantling Windsor Building
The Windsor tower in Madrid was fully dismantled by robots after a fire
robots for remote control demolition pieces are removed by robots
lower body demolished
upper body demolished
removal of waste
upper body is demolished
burnt pieces removal
lower body is demolished
Demolishing main title Plaza Mayor
early XVIc
XVIc. Anonymous
s. XIV
s. XVII
s. XX
s. XV
XVIIc. Anonymous
1623. Juan de la Corte
XVIII. Anonymous
XIXc. Jean Laurent
1895. Anonymous
1938. Anonymous
1960. Anonymous
1995. Anonymous
The origins of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain, are from the XV century, when at the confluence of the streets Toledo and Atocha, outside the medieval village, the market would take place in this site then called Plaza del Arrabal. It was the main market of the village and, for this purpose, the first porticos were buit on the facades of the "Casas de la Manzana" in order to regulate the trading at the plaza. In 1580 a remodeling proyect was given to the architect Juan de Herrera. The demolition of the "Casas de la Manzana" took place and the building of the "Casa de la Panaderia"got under construction. In 1617 Juan Gomez Mora concluded the proyect. The project consisted on cutting a perfect rectangle (129m*94m) out of the existing buildings. The cut is resolved with a very thin buildings, 5 storey high, almost as thick facades (made of wood and covered in brick) to cap the sectioned existing houses with a porticated street level (made of stone pillars). This arcades would allow for guilds to gather and discuss, regulated market and simple protection against weather inclements. The central void was used for various purposes such as bullfighting spectacles, the Inquisition "Autos de Fe", public executions and beatifications. After a big fire in 1790, Juan de Villanueva was in charge of the reconstruction works. He did a couple of important alterations to the previous design: reduced the height of the boundary building from 5 storeys to only 3 and converted it into a continuous building resolving the access from the surrounding streets with arches. Thus, the plaza is enclosed by a continuous "thick wallpaper" that generates an absolutely isotropic space and converts the views of the surrounding streets into framed pictures. In the early XIX century the concerns about the hygienic status of the city eliminate the markets from the plazas and new covered markets start to get built. At this point the plaza starts to operate more as a social meeting point than ever and its monumental character is enhanced. The equestrian statue of Felipe II is placed in the middle and a garden is designed around the statue. In 1874 a tram line is built to run on the perimeter of the plaza, enclosing the garden, but during the civil war in 1936-39 all this is torn down again and the arcades are used as barricades. After his the plaza is refurbished, closed to road traffic and paved with a grided pattern that organises the uses of the square, now based on comerce and restaurants. During the 60s an underground parking is built and later in the 90s some mural decoration is painted on the facade of the "Casa de la Panaderia".
Demolishing
Plaza Mayor
The Plaza Mayor in Madrid is a public space generated through several demnolitions or erasures on the urban fabric.
s. XIX s. XX s. XV
s. XVII
Facility
Positive Ruination
The project is the generation of a facility for positive ruination. Public space is generated by cutting through the buildings on the existing urban fabric. After the cuts an infrastructure is installed, functioning both as temporary props and 3dprinter for publicness. The printers generate the spherical pods that enclose broadcasting spaces for the public action parlament. These pods, once printed, become also the new props, the structures that hold the cut buildings around them.
In response to the urban groups of political protes and, specifically the group Reclaim The Streets, the project is based on the generation of public space through series of cuts on the existing buildings to generate the optimum conditions .
Buildings are cut and the waste mareial is grinded into dust and accumulated in mounds.
Temporqary props are installed, which function also as 3dprinters for the broadcasting pods.
Urban protest is addressed by the generation of a direct action parliament within the newly oppened public spaces. These pods are printed and will become the long lasting elements that support the destabilized buildings.
The pods get printed using the grinded dust of the existing buildings. Their spherical shape responds to the required internal acoustic properties and their structural performance.
Once the pieces are printed , the loads from the cut buildings are applied and the printed structures re-stabilize the cut buildings. Settlement of the cut buildings is expected and the pieces are designed for possible cracking.
Building cuts
cutting strategies
Possible cuts performed on the surrounding buildings to generate the extracted public chamber.
courtyard cut
courtyard cut
upper terrace
upper terrace
extended floor light cut
extended floor light cut
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FPR
House of Protest
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House of Protest
FPR Project