Mansour Yousefpour
URBAN FOG: SHAPING URBAN FABRIC
NURTURING THE LAND: BROADWAY AVENUE OF THE FUTURE
THE BARN: FOOD, ECONOMY AND CULTURE
PLAYGROUND: TESLA DEALERSHIP
25°14’11.9N 60°53’19.1E: CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
POLENOID: PLANETARY URBANISM
TALIESIN WEST HABS DOCUMENTATION
URBAN FOG: SHAPING URBAN FABRIC ‘’Toupkhaneh” or literally “place of cannons”, a square dating back over 90 years, is constantly changing, yet is considered one of the main nodes that branches out into different routes. With the removal of several governmental buildings from the site, its integrated development has run out of control. The project was conceived by coming to terms with the chaotic, worsening and incurable context, in addition to the inapplicability of the prevailing urban design. The current context and design conspire to bring about awkward interconnections and lack of visual interactions, consequently resulting in crime that diminishes this prominent square. The idea is to juxtapose two opposing objects that results in a new quality- a consistent setting. This setting can transform the unharmonious qualities of the square into a family-friendly, functionally integrated place, imparting a new character that diminishes potential crime opportunities. The vast unobstructed edge on one side accounts for a big white structure of frames that strikes the viewer as a huge Fog that puts a white coating on everything. The old dangerous place can turn into a public plaza with a Ferris Wheel that attracts people to hang out and connects different elevations of the Fog structure. The central area with no attractive attribute to entice the public to stay can be considered a hostile environment, therefore the Fog structure masks the otherwise hideous and unbearable context. The square’s six-lane route deters pedestrians from crossing and increases the chance of accidents. Note the likeliness of Red and Pink lines crossing each other. In order to liven up and secure the square, the number of points were increased and by incorporating a family place in the center, a dangerous hostile setting is transformed into a safe sanctuary.
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central platform for civic, including a Ferris-wheel that also serves as an elevator.
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market hall
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NURTURING THE LAND: BROADWAY, AVENUE OF THE FUTURE Setting Own Terms: Narratives of the making of a City In 2018 San Antonio celebrated its tricentennial, and in 25 years the city’s population is projected to increase by one million. While citizens are optimistic about the future of their city, future development must address the role of the public in finding solutions about public infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic development. To address these challenges this project explored how the city evolved over time and how hidden geographies that shaped the city changed, especially in how they related to local values. Over the course of this study seven terms that addressed collective and individual desires were extracted, these seven terms shaped the design. The idea is to activate a spatial design process which seeks more direct engagement with citizens and communities in order to capture the nature of future urban transformation while recognizing and preserving the city’s past and collective culture. Broadway Avenue of the Future explores urban transformation processes and asks questions about the future of transportation, housing, and food. How can public interest have agency on Broadway Avenue’s ultimate design, and what is the role of the citizen in the transformation of the city? mind map extracting seven terms.
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preserve humanity
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global warming
looking towards future
collaboration
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building
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people equality
insurgent vs. humanity
racism
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refugee
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social media
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city of all
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food
breaking down religious barriers
ordinary
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adaptibility
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nomadic
ordinary
transitioning space sterilized culture small economy
self-governance
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ownership
trash performative art activating children developmant
awarness
media coverage
women picture
inside outside
breaking down sterreotypes
no ownership
urban scale
Amusment Park
cool
polution
dry
set back felexibility
adaptibility
Eco Park
Dar Al Sulh Design Museum
people
climate
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freedom
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management of ethos, call for action in frameworks that enable activity and expression, materializing of the relationship between the social and the physical shaping of the city.
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AUTONOMY
management of self, new architectural frameworks, authority and governance based on social organization, identity, solidarity and ethical positions.
Individual
INCREMENTAL
management of existing architectural and urban frameworks, and activity, change and interaction of planned or unplanned, intentional and unintentional activity. existing architecture is the host, Building upon past.
Neighborhood
SYNCHRONICITY
management of ownership, authorship and the hybridization of visible and invisible threads. use and transformation of public infrastructure. city is the host. utilizing existing frameworks
TRANSGRESSION
management currencies (electronic, political, economical), curiosities, rituals, and habitations. proposing new systems and frameworks.
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management of climate and data driven spatial frameworks
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management of ecologies (grounded)
TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY IN THE MAKING building upon nature and disappearance of it
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Avenue C and River Road are seperate streets. Extra ditches added for washing and drinking water
Railway Station
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1822 Mission turned into military fort The Alamo
1877 water works company install underground water system
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city grid based on acequia
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EXPLORATION OF RELATIONSHIP
Labor de Los Adaisenos San Pedro Creek Acequia Madre
Grid System Result of Topography
Broadway Result of Topography
Broadway Relation to Topography
Historic and New Grid System
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Available Space Land Use
Broadway Distance to SA River
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future result Broadway
past result Acequia Madre
past initiator SA River
“Super Blocks” Using Existing Frameworks
Alternative Routes East-West Connections
New Acequia Building Upon Past
WHAT IF THERE WAS NO BROADWAY?
NEW-ACEQUIA 1 The new acequia has to follow the path of topography in order to work.
2 There are potential spaces where the new acequia could connect to the old.
3 Broadway Avenue has some very well known reference points like the Do-Seum as well as the Pearl the new acequia should connect to.
4 In order to find be able to make the acequia work there needs to be available space.
5 There need to be east west connections in order for traffic to flow.
6 All of this formulates a new acequia as well as new superblocks which are able to provide for new space and new interventions.
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THE BARN: FOOD, ECONOMY AND CULTURE The achievement of UNESCO World Heritage status by San Antonio’s five Spanish Missions has brought more public attention to the south side of the city and its lack of proper public green developments in particular. In this situation, local residents are asking for small green incremental developments while the visiting public are seeking the authenticity of San Antonio’s unique attributes. These competing interests raise questions about the city’s future and its state of constant transformation. How can we preserve San Antonio’s core ethos while embracing change and progress? The Barn is a farm-to-table restaurant located by Mission San Francisco de la Espada to grow, prepare and sell local crops, produce, and food. It considers sensitive attention to the rural characteristics of the surrounding environment and preserves these qualities. Defining these attractive and authentic attributes will encourage the visiting public to develop a close interrelationship and dialogue with locals and activate new alliances that builds new capacities to addresses the situation. The idea is to form a sustainable interaction between the two that will result in mutual benefits. Locals, by offering fresh produce, authentic foods, and local products to the tourist, will shape a platform for interaction. The interaction between locals and the visiting public will encourage economic and social benefits and preserve unique tangible and intangible heritage through the use of food.
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SAN ANTONIO ZOO JAPANESE GARDEN SUNKEN GARDEN THEATER
WITTE MUSEUM
BRACKENRIDGE PARK
PEARL
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART
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BLUE STAR ARTS COMPLEX
MISSION CONCEPCION
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HOT WELLS
MISSION SAN JUAN
MISSION ESPADA THE BARN
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existing situation and original building to remain, mission espada salvage unoriginal buildings elements
existing building will turn to a local shop and cafe. mom and pop businesses.
new programs, farm and restaurant
visual connectivityt by shading surface
trees and buildings cut the surface
SA RIVER HISTORY CULTURE
Local mom and pop bussiness
farm, greenhouse and fresh produce
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vapor barrier
2x6 wood blocking
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6x6 steel tube
steel sash window system
sliding steel frame wood panel
restaurant building section
restaurant enlarged section
PLAYGROUND: TESLA DEALERSHIP Due to restrictions from the State of Texas that prohibit direct automobile sales from manufacturers, Tesla requires a space in San Antonio in which to educate customers about the alternative sustainable lifestyle and market their products. Unlike other projects that are the result of dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, and policymakers; Playground is not reacting to architecture dependent on power and wealth. In this instance, although the spatial design fulfills the expected experience of space from affluent consumers, the project is shaped by culture that is not necessarily socially or economically sustainable. In this situation users’ role can be limited in smaller scale into the co-creation of individual experience of space. The idea is to have an exclusive adult playground that stimulates users by giving them opportunities for play that breaks the otherwise formal ambiance of traditional car dealerships. Objects and textures, like a sculpture garden, amplify the sense of curiosity and creativity and provides a pleasing user experience that promotes the upscale lifestyle associated with Tesla products. The brick enclosure wraps the programs within itself and creates a sense of curiosity by minimizing the visual connection of exterior facade and interior space. Within this unity, the juxtaposition of spatial qualities shapes the personal experience of space, intimacy, and comfort.
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25°14’11.9N,60°53’19.1E: CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY Because of geopolitical circumstances, the southeast coast of Iran is rapidly transforming to facilitate international trade by connecting central Asia with international waters. Due to this extensive development and lack of civic infrastructure, the role of the citizen is being neglected in the urban transformation. As a result, both the area’s large scale context and failure to address public interest in future developments is exacerbated. The challenge of addressing these issues is in how citizens and designers capture the nature of these changes and recognize the city as a collective culture. 2514N, 6053E marks a point on Route 98 and refers to a motel and rest area adjacent to the Gulf. The idea is to define attractive local community attributes that entice the public to stay. This project will positively enhance the connections between the city, community, and citizens, and through this dialogue hostile qualities can be transformed into a safe functionally integrated setting that can form long-term social and economic benefits. The presence of public services builds new capacities, addressing issues of public interest and increases the economic vitality of communities while preserving the unique culture of place.
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POLLENOID: PLANETARY URBANISM Pollenoid is an interdisciplinary essay on how our world would change by means of teleport. Jumping from point
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to B instantly, can bring in a new City/Landscape with new tenants or make the whole planet urban in the most radical way. Pollenoid aims to find answers and investigate as to the specific alterations and draw distinctions among different aspects of such phenomenon.
“Isidora is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed of city contained him as a young man; he arrived at Isidora in his old age.”
Invisible Cities Novel by Italo Calvino
“The eye does not see things but images of things that means another things. If a building has no signboard or figure, its very form and position it occupies in the city’s order suffice to indicate its function.”
“One morning your desires waken all at once and surround you. The city appears to you as a whole where no desire lost and of which you are a part.”
“Your labor gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia (the city) wholly.”
SELECTIVE FRAGMENTATION TELEPORT simply turns “Paths”
into “Points”. We do not need to take
consecutive points to travel, instead vanishing from A and appearing on B is essentially the easiest navigation. The entire world including buildings or infrastructure and every single
point of landscape becomes “HOST”s. Such space of endless hosts will be filled by pollens. “POLLEN”s are wanted spaces that try to find the best matching hosts. This process resembles current Dating Sites.
“Gradually some points attract relatively more pollens and are selected frequently but or hers are not; attracted points and attracted points are not permanent. As with fluids, the movement of one part affects the movement of whole.” It turns the space into fragments.
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This research partly revolves around the question, What happens to these fragments? and How are they going to integrate?
Pink Parts are Pollens occupying their matching hosts on different scales. S- Might only teleport into a few certain parts of house, So What happens to the rest? M- Perhaps certain segments of any building are more popular, So “What happens to the rest of Empire State? L- What happens to the areas of the city that few pollens seek host inside it? XL- What will happen to areas like Europe or Sahara?
“NO Street” “Assorted Scales” “Different Eras” “Landmarks”
POLLENOID CITY
People still need “Cultural Monuments” Modern City as a multiplex superposition of network infrastructures, defined by hierarchical information systems and material exchange. Current informational technologies have power to conversely hyper-centralized or hyper-localized the city, thus encouraging disengagement or engagement with the emergent social practices of inhabitants.
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Future Roma, First Futuristic Fantasies
Smart Citizen
Ubiquitous Intelligence
“Now media landscape is global, social and ubiquitous. The audience can talk back.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi as a pioneer in futuristic thinking in 18th century, convinced of the future of Rome as a city with no grid, no particular orientation, of different scales, replete with monuments.
“By 2050 over 70% of the world’s population will live in a city, as more than half of us already do. In the information society, in which we have limitless access to data via the screens, the territorial centralities which manifest themselves in our cities are the nodes that enable us to meet and interact person to person. The city thus affirms its strategic value as a geographical focus in the territory, as a setting for communal life and sociability.” “Data allows us to model the highly dynamic nature of cities, their social life, and their infrastructure networks at an unprecedented level of detail.” “More connected information generates more nature. The reprogramming of the world occurs when an informational rain capable of drenching every elements on the planet, endows it with a digital identity, enabling it to interact with other elements by means of decentralized relational protocols.”
Typical Configuration
Multi-centerd contemporary city with typical sprawl. There are attraction points that define the density and qualities of space.
TELEPORT Configuration Concept of a teleport city as a scatter of pollens in XYZ axis. Teleport will able us to spread in every available point in space. However new alternative is the juxtaposition of typical and teleport configuration.
“Today, people themselves can be instruments of sensing. Over the past few years, a new universe of urban apps has appeared - allowing people to broadcast their location, information and needs - and facilitating new interaction with the city.”
The fact that they are no longer disconnected from each other, the fact that former consumers are now producers, the fact that the audience can talk directly to one another and media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals.”
Not consumer But creator of information Not consumer But constructor of architecture
Teleport Configuration
Typical Configuration
“Urban form has shown an impressive persistence over millennia - most elements of the modern city were already present in Greek and Roman times. Human have always needed and will continue to need the same physical structures for their daily lives: horizontal planes and vertical walls.” “New
Urbanism” will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential; it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields. It will no
longer be obsessed with the city but with manipulation of infrastructure for endless intensifications and diversifications, shortcuts and redistributions.
Pollenoid takes place on many levels: -Architecture on small scale-Housing -Architecture on urban scale-Urban planning -Urban Intelligence -Intelligence of new and old city -Constant stream of information -New Lifestyle
Many pollens like inherently public spaces can be haphazardly embedded into the city since we do not need access like path to our new structures. We can have an eclectic city with things pasted on very strange part of the city like Roman Amphitheater, Gothic Church, Swimming pools on roofs or inside the buildings or even under the sea.
COLLECTIVE DE-FRAGMENTATION “Any object, any building is ultimately the physical representation of an information node.” The physical proximity is starting to become a meaningless measure since social networks are in some way keeping us connected all the time and in the same time technologies destroyed objects. Virtu-
al proximity can compensate for the lack of physical closeness possibly in so far as people start to live exactly like primitives while their basic needs are fulfilled. Essentially mankind can revert back to individualism in “Cave” but with ubiquitous virtual connections on the side.
New Nomadism
Every pollen can jump to new proper hosts which results in a new nomadism and accordingly constant change in the city. Interaction Between Old and New
Absolute Separation
An image of Utopic teleport city that is completely separate from the current city. But can such vision be correct?
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Overlap
Country to the above vision, overlap seems like logical scenario. Considering the built infrastructure, historical attachment, and collective memories and so on, Pollenoid City is the result of such overlap. As a result of smart City and Smart Citizen, there are countless number of “Agents” in the space having the power to determine the properties of each point. Teleport is able to make point by point changes; meaning that such information cloud can make actual “Physical Changes to the City” or more generally everything.
What is going to happen to PRIVACY? How about
ECONOMIY and POLETICAL POWER? GLOBALIZATION? Does proximity of Pollens lead to COMBINATION? Does PROXIMITY necessarily mean AGGLOMERATION? Can we assume that city of POINTS evolve into a city of SURFACES? Does proximity of points lead to surfaces? And potentially NEW ALTENATIVE CITIES?
TALIESIN WEST HABS DOCUMENTATION Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned Taliesin West as a place of experimentation. As Taliesin West was a laboratory, the buildings consistently evolved over time and because of this transformation few original construction documents exist. The project was undertaken in response to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s need for digital documentation of the campus that will allow the foundation to move forward with planning for comprehensive restoration of Taliesin West. In the summer of 2017 and 2018, our group of graduate students under the supervision of Professor Sue Ann Pemberton completed the HABS survey of the drafting studio, cabaret theater, the office and dining area. The Historic American Building Survey (HABS) is the nation’s first federal preservation program, begun in 1933 to document America’s architectural heritage. HABS includes field documentation, digital drawings, hand rendering and large format photography. Drawings are recorded through an agreement with the National Park Service, the American Institute of Architects, and the Library of Congress. Our ambition was to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideas of space and environment and preserve past heritage for future generations.
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