Assignment 05B: Project 1 Definition – Performance, Program + Affect

June 25, 2018 · by · in , ,

Please post the following work through Granada assignments by Friday, June 9, 6pm, catec [05B]

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IDENTIFY PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES TO URBAN HEALTH IN BARCELONA

 

Please do the following work collectively.

Please see the post for Salvador Rueda’s BCNecologia_Presentacio Superilles definition and the J. of Urbanism submission, ACADIA 2015 and ACSA 2016.

INTRODUCTION: Context, Problem and Purpose

  • Title: Two-word title
  • Purpose Sentences as typed paragraph: What is the problem/challenge of urban health in Barcelona, how is it applied to Superillas and social interaction? Who is affected (be as specific as possible); Why is it important, including social value? (highlight key words) Consider social issues and ecological issues (air, water, light, heat, animals and green light).
  • From the Primary category  (Uses, Demographic and Infrastructure) choose a secondary category. List qualities (processes) and indicate with a symbol if it is a fixed urban quality or an urban phenomena (human or natural)? Consider 1 indicator for each.
  • Choose 1-2 geometry inputs? (parcel area, height, sidewalk width, rail, bike, waterway) Hint: see OSM/ELK. This will lead to unit diagrams at GPS data point locations.
  • Small thumbnail pictures and/or narrow texture of swatch of qualitative image/material perhaps hinting at final output. Graphic hints: set the tone for the unit and highlight color here

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BACKGROUND: Context 

  • Outline: Diagram and or Google Sheet of Purpose / Primary and Secondary categories  / Qualities / Indicators (history) / On-site or Off-Site / Fixed or Phenomena
  • Literature Review: (3) 2 paragraphs of theory / reading (Password: Barcelona), specific then general.  Specific Paragraph 1  (hour glass): 1) idea; 2) citation; 3) further idea. General Paragraph 2: 3 sentences explaining how this applies to your project.  **Address ideas from the reading that include: downtown urbanism; Latour’s idea of attachment; Morales’s ideas on how the Eixample Plan Cerda works; Corner’s idea of adaptability with specificity; Jacob’s idea of unpredictability; Schartz’s idea of scenarios; Guallart’s idea of self-sufficiency (post); Jan Gehl’s ideas of walkability (post); or other ideas from the readings.
  • Research Superilles and current Barcelona health and livability problems/challenges: 1- 3 recent articles as quotations or informational statistics (El Periodico, El Pais, other) (FYI, City of Barcelona is Ajuntament de Barcelona; Catalan Government is Generalitat).
  • UO Case Studies (optional), relevant with operations, workflow diagram, their purpose and plugins (citation as one image) Ex. Intergenerational Interaction PP 2014 or others from Barcelona Urban Design Program 2017 and 2016.
  • Comparative Statistics: Infographics to set a quantitative baseline big picture to small picture indicators to follow. Research climate information by month or season such as precipitation, temperature highs and lows, relative humidity, wind direction and speed, animal migration. Research effects of human behavior such as sources of sound pollution (discos, tourists, terraces, schools), air pollution (terraces, construction, restaurant hours), light pollution (cars, commerces).

BACKGROUND: Quantitative and Qualitative Baseline (statistics and info-graphics)

  • Qualitative media: picture (zoomed in) of your urban design characteristics (criteria)
  • Abstract scientific data: measurement of basic relationships, statistics related to measure quality (ex. 6:1 water to urban farming recommendation). Abstract and Baseline models.  Ex. Cost of water Barcelona / Granada. Ex. Overnight temperature difference, humidity, income per capita, etc. 
  • Policy Context: Catalan/Barcelona/ 22@ 10/10/10, BCNecologia_Presentacio Superilles,  Patrimonio (Generalitat/Ajuntament) vs comparative city such as Portland, Madrid, EU. Can you find relevant law or ordinances in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain or the EU
  • Planning Diagrams: visualize/organize relationships of your ideas in degrees of time, material, space and real-time data
  • Ecology: Bar charts and graphs may also be helpful, especially for quantitative contextualization and possibly comparison.
  • Timeline: Identify time relevance in periods (daily, weekly, seasonally, annually, multi-year) Corner Collage / Minard
  • GH Plugins: What GH plugins would be helpful (show their icon)?
  • Sensors (on-site): What sensors might be helpful? +Find online an example with script and prototype diagram. ++Inventory what you will need.
  • Real-time Data (off-site): What databases exist?

METHOD

Qualities and indicators, plus Icons and Thumbnail image of quality (zoom). Coding for data dictionary. (Quality – conditions)

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GRANADA 

Insert Assignment 05A: GRX

BARCELONA

Unit Module Diagram

  • Diagram a base primitive geometry unit approach: Intersection or Street (abstract or scaled)
  • Within the unit, create a module diagram testing the location of the indicator data: water catchment, air quality area, zoning use, street-level shop use, street trees, shrubs, running paths, exercise space, bike share station, metro station entrance, etc.

Diagrammatic List of Urban Characteristics / Indicators

  • In-situ, 6-8 (indicators), Icons
  • Off-Site, 2-4 at the small scale of 33m data point. Examples include: water collection, air pollution source, school, market, water source, etc.- found via municipal, digital, Yelp, Google), Icons

Barcelona Study Area 

(unit street and Superilla) – Eixample Esquerra 

  • Propose your selection of a Barcelona street and intersection and in the designated 3 x 3 superilles between Carrer de Roger de Flor and Carrer de Sardenya and Carrer d’Arago and Gran Via de les Cortes Catalanas . (see superilles map at BCNecologia_Presentacio Superilles)
  • Exemplary Baseline Comparison area (Gracia, E. Granados, Alhambra, Pati Aigua, Joan Oliver, etc)

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Landscape Catalog (due Monday, July 9): Photograph and catalog materials and urban furniture (high and low). Indicate phenome / phenomena it supports (Alday Jover) using databases on individual Google Drive per student team. (See post to follow of presentation of landscape material cataloging, Corner, McHarg, etc).

Blog category [05.1 Landscape Catalog]

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