Links to final Studio, Technology and Seminar projects

Links to final Studio, Technology and Seminar projects

Urban Design Studio – Comprehensive Group Projects Urban Technology – Situated and Mobile Prototype Design Urban Design Seminar – Design Description Nicole Konicke Sofia Chavez…

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08F Studio and Overall Presentation

08F Studio and Overall Presentation

I.   Person A) InDesign Captain;   Person B) Aerial Perspective Captain;   Person C) Plan Captain II.  Individual Intervention  – Revise presentation as per mural comments; combine…

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08E Media Final Exercise

08E Media Final Exercise

20% of Media grade – Demonstrate the integration and communication of design, theory and technology – Composite media: Include the repetition of contextual diagrams in…

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08D Advanced Technology Final Project - Survey

08D Advanced Technology Final Project – Survey

20% of Adv Tech grade, draft submission to WordPress due Tuesday, 8/16 – Demonstrate the integration of arduino processor and sensor technology in your individual…

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08C Post all work to Mural Week 7 Final + Sticky with initials

08C Post all work to Mural Week 7 Final + Sticky with initials

Please post all your work to the Week 7 Mural on the Final boxes to the right. **Per instructions there, please place a magenta sticky…

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08B Final Review Comments

08B Final Review Comments

Individual Post per student List 3 comments from the reviewers that you aim to revise as a group. List 2-3 comments from the reviewers that…

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08A Design Intervention Description

08A Design Intervention Description

Design Intervention Description, Phenomena and data Please do the follow below in a WordPress Post category [08A  Design Description]. Read and use as one of…

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07A Pre-final 8/1 + Final 8/4

07A Pre-final 8/1 + Final 8/4

(featured image credit: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/participaciociutadana/en/noticia/ideas-contest-to-design-the-barcelona-superblock-resolved_1045200) TEMPLATE: Please use InDesign files 8-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ exported to 450 dpi.  The below outline is firm unless you get confirmation from…

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06A Assignment for Wednesday 7/27, Refine for Monday 8/1

06A Assignment for Wednesday 7/27, Refine for Monday 8/1

TEMPLATE: Please use InDesign files 11″ x 11″.  The below outline is firm unless you get confirmation from me in writing otherwise. Please think about how…

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READINGS Towards New Horizons in Architecture by Tadao Ando by  Tadao Ando …alt reading Phenomenon of Place_Introduction Phenomenon of Place by Christian Norberg-Schulz BASELINE COMPARISION LOCATION Positive…

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Diagram air, light, sound, humidity...

Diagram air, light, sound, humidity…

If you are not at home, diagram! Human scale …jump to a human outline and the forces around them. Test design ideas. . Hear are…

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TORRE AGBAR, MATERIAL AFFECT - Nouvel

TORRE AGBAR, MATERIAL AFFECT – Nouvel

My best explanation of material affect is in the article of Bottom Up Urban Design for the ACSA conference 2012 in the white books…Ned Kahn, 50…

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Phenomena - Holl

Phenomena – Holl

Here are some examples of the a lighting study, using a real model but measured and carefully cataloging light.  I know from being in the…

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Mixed-Use: Iñaki Abalos

Mixed-Use: Iñaki Abalos

Interesting historially grounded (gsd always is) discussion of the mixed use type and the religious and secular monastery type. Thermodynamics seems to be seated in…

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Pre-Jesus Arcos Streets Workshop

Pre-Jesus Arcos Streets Workshop

Notes: Trees – leaves or no leaves Shadows Terrazas (outdoor restaurant seating) Neighbors service, loading Staying, Playing Water drainage Winter, Summer Refuse (waste, recycling) Bikes,…

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Costa Brava (L’empurda) and the coast southward

Here are recommendations for day trips along the coast: To the North: San Pol de Mar, 50 minutes by train to the north, very small…

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ASSIGNMENT 03C: LANDSCAPE CATALOG

ASSIGNMENT 03C: LANDSCAPE CATALOG

Landscape Catalog (draft due Thursday, July 14, final Monday, July 18 ): Using your best idea for a baseline comparison space for your project in…

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Revised 108 pt Superilla plans

Using the recent Test 02 108pt Eixample Dreta walking data collection: Individual plans of each superilla of each quality north up (Name quality, Icon, Legend,…

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Diotronics - electronics store location

Diotronics – electronics store location

https://goo.gl/maps/SqUzoVAhqUF2  

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Superilles - now and future

Superilles – now and future

https://www.metropoliabierta.com/el-pulso-de-la-ciudad/exarquitecto-jefe-ayuntamiento-presenta-denuncia-contra-superilla-eixample_57694_102.html   https://www.metropoliabierta.com/informacion-municipal/movilidad/colau-superilla-eixample-junio-2022_37087_102.html   https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/superilles/es/superilla/eixample      

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* VISUALIZATION EXAMPLES – FOR COMPOSITE IMAGES

* VISUALIZATION EXAMPLES – FOR COMPOSITE IMAGES

Please see these examples of some visualization techniques. Interboro Partners – various RCR – I googled “RCR Siteplan”   BIG – various Cantrell Holzman – Downsview…

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07 LOCALLY GROWN INTERACTION

07 LOCALLY GROWN INTERACTION

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CENTRAL PARK IN BENICASSIM – ESTUDIO FERNÁNDEZ-VIVANCOS

CENTRAL PARK IN BENICASSIM – ESTUDIO FERNÁNDEZ-VIVANCOS

http://www.fernandez-vivancos.com/articles/parque-central-de-benicassim/

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SHELTERED PUBLIC | KERN+LINK

SHELTERED PUBLIC | KERN+LINK

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Low-cost mobile sensors to evaluate air quality within and between intra-urban areas in Barcelona, Spain and Portland, Oregon, USA

Low-cost mobile sensors to evaluate air quality within and between intra-urban areas in Barcelona, Spain and Portland, Oregon, USA

This is yet unpublished article on recent air pollution research I have done with some collaborators including leading air pollution expert Xavier Querol. Website version…

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ALDAYJOVER - Thursday or Friday

ALDAYJOVER – Thursday or Friday

https://www.aldayjover.com/

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Drawing

Drawing

These projects are from Nicholas De Monchaux’s Berkeley studio course. Others are labeled. Think about each of the layers, their boundaries, line and the composition…

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GOOGLE MAPS(KML) TO CSV

Each group investigated four plazas in Granada,  most groups collected information manually,  all this data must be converted into a single .csv file for grasshopper…

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ASSIGNMENT 03B:  URBAN QUALITIES GRX

ASSIGNMENT 03B: URBAN QUALITIES GRX

01 Urban Qualities in Granada  Chart from Idea to Indicators (copy from Assignment 03B) Project Title and Idea Theoretical idea / organization of sub ideas…

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Assignment 03A: Project Definition

Assignment 03A: Project Definition

  Group work:  I will give you time to work on this tomorrow in the middle of the day in Granada while its too hot to…

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RCR ARQUITECTES

RCR ARQUITECTES

I thought I would provide some info.  Below is some work of RCR. You may wish look look for more work. We will go to Olot…

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Data Dimension: Accessing Data (this was pivotal for me)

Data Dimension: Accessing Data (this was pivotal for me)

Data dimension: accessing urban data and making it accessible (Carlo Ratti, MIT SENSEable Cities Lab), Please do this by Friday and leave a sentence or…

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ASSIGNMENT 02F MAPPING

ASSIGNMENT 02F MAPPING

Please map your 2 indicators digitally and post for Friday day 10am. [02F Mapping] Workflow: GH adjust indicators in drop down; ‘bake;’ post process in…

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02E Three Datasets - Opendata

02E Three Datasets – Opendata

Find at least three relevant datasets to your topic from https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat/data/en/dataset Visualize the dataset based on an attribute field Export the projected dataset to rhino…

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Listening 6/28: Helle Søholt

Listening 6/28: Helle Søholt

Helle Søholt, Gehl Design https://youtu.be/mk6moDlmPFc optional: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/from-jane-jacobs-to-livable-cities/section/e556ec7f-4b69-468b-8ef0-fa4a5b49f40d

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02D Street Sections

02D Street Sections

Please digitize / hard line your street section and plan that we did in person of Rambla Catalunya, Balmes and Enric de Granados. **Its important…

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02A Barcelona Urban Health Design Problems

02A Barcelona Urban Health Design Problems

Please come up with two to three topics of Barcelona urban design and health problems for its people. Use the following link but not limited…

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02B Tiling Exercise

02B Tiling Exercise

Tiling: Barcelona urban health design criteria + Eixample block parameters This exercise begins to explore analog parametric procedures to later model Eixample and Superilles unit…

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02C ARDUINO LESSONS 6-14

02C ARDUINO LESSONS 6-14

Please do lessons 6-8, 12-14.  Post to this category please [02.2 Arduino 6-8 12-14] due Saturday, July 2 at midnight. Thank you. Arduino Lesson 6:…

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Public Health: Superilles, Salvador Rueda + Guallart Smart Cities

Public Health: Superilles, Salvador Rueda + Guallart Smart Cities

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Vicente Guallart - Smart Cities

Vicente Guallart – Smart Cities

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ASSIGNMENT: 00A ARDUINO 1-5

ASSIGNMENT: 00A ARDUINO 1-5

download Arduino for Windows or Mac Toptechboy Website- Arduino Lessons (Playlist)   Please do lessons 1-5 (website or video with headphones): Arduino Lesson 1: In…

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01A Diagramming

01A Diagramming

(featured image is Temps de Flors festival) Link to a possible OSM file here.   Time, Material, Location + Phenomenological Data: Compose the following four…

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Benvinguda i Gracies- Welcome and Thank you

Benvinguda i Gracies- Welcome and Thank you

*UO VPN to use Pandora in Europe as well as other Virtual Private Network needs – the internet will think your computer is in Eugene….  …

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10 PRINCIPLES FOR LIVABLE TRANSPORTATION, BY JAN GEHL & WALTER HOOD

10 PRINCIPLES FOR LIVABLE TRANSPORTATION, BY JAN GEHL & WALTER HOOD

10 principles for livable transportation, by Jan Gehl & Walter Hood More images http://www.designboom.com/architecture/jan-gehl-urban-visionary/ (GREAT DIAGRAMS/DRAWINGS HERE!!!)

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baking COLOUR

baking COLOUR

We run into an issue in grasshopper were we use the HUMAN plugin to visualize data in in color gradient but when we attempt to…

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ASSIGNMENT 01 GRACIA:  SUPERILLES = GRACIA **ASSIGNED VISIT FRIDAY, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT

ASSIGNMENT 01 GRACIA: SUPERILLES = GRACIA **ASSIGNED VISIT FRIDAY, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT

  We did a lot of walking this week. In an age of Google street view there is still a different sensory experience walking in a…

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ASSIGNMENT: 01B MAPPING SYSTEMS

ASSIGNMENT: 01B MAPPING SYSTEMS

Today at the Plaça de Vicenç Martorell we will observed and map, in LINES, qualities of the urban experience: inhabitation light/shadow surveillance degree of inebriation…

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ASSIGNMENTS: 01C WRITING

ASSIGNMENTS: 01C WRITING

“Urban Processes and the Human-Scale: Measuring social interaction at pedestrian-scaled Superilles in Barcelona, Portland and Eugene,”  //  writing assignment,  3 paragraphs 1. Describe the general theoretical framework…

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ASSIGNMENT: 00B Elk Gotico

ASSIGNMENT: 00B Elk Gotico

Use ELK and OpenStreetMap.org to extract geometry for urban room diagram. Use the Google My Maps I shared “Maritime Metropolis 1.1a” for help locating plazas. Try…

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Outdoor Cinema

Outdoor Cinema

www.salamontjuic.org 01/07 – PULP FICTION CONCERT The Sey Sisters 04/07 – BELFAST CONCERT Los Stompers 06/07 – GREASE CONCERT Enma Fernández 08/07 – LICORICE PIZZA…

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Barcelona City Protocol

Barcelona City Protocol

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGFdYihdsM?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Link here to the Protocol with Cisco.  Maybe Portland can be a partner city?

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Drawing Systems

Drawing Systems

Vicente Guallart, from the book Geo-Logics Louis Kahn

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TOWARDS A SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT, BY VICENTE GAULLART, HEAD OF URBANISM, CITY OF BARCELONA

TOWARDS A SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT, BY VICENTE GAULLART, HEAD OF URBANISM, CITY OF BARCELONA

Towards a self-sufficient habitat, by Vicente Gaullart, Head of Urbanism, City of Barcelona http://elpais.com/diario/2009/03/28/opinion/1238194813_850215.html This economic crisis is a fantastic starting point to physically change…

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Poblenou 22@

Poblenou 22@

Please click on and watch these videos: (You may wish to bring the resolution down to 240p in Youtube.) The map on pg. 10 below…

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Elk plugin for Grasshopper

Elk plugin for Grasshopper

Friday we will so Elk together but here are additional resources You will need to download the ELK plugin (Elk v1.0) and (Elk 2.0) to your…

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Design Description

Design Description

I) Research questions (list 2): When designing streets for children, how can the environment be enriched with stimulations and textures that increase a child’s cognitive skills? How…

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09G Revisions

09G Revisions

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Final Booklet Konicke

Final Booklet Konicke

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04 Reading (Zhongyang Huang)

04 Reading (Zhongyang Huang)

The Difference is in the Detail, by Vitello, Willcocks “The form of these details (sounds, smells, textures etc) provides a clue as to how our…

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Final Review Comments (Zhongyang Huang)

Final Review Comments (Zhongyang Huang)

More further designs are made based on the actual streetscape and are closely linked with the actual site A more logical, systematic visualization of map…

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FINAL BOOKLET

FINAL BOOKLET

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Final Revisions

Final Revisions

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Advanced Technology Title: Pollution Lights What is the sensor technology, how does it relate to the qualities studied within the theoretical framework and phenomena, and…

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Light Design Plaza (Zhongyang Huang)

Light Design Plaza (Zhongyang Huang)

Research Questions: How to combine tactile experience with light and shadow, support care in public space? How to design a community space with diverse activities…

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