Assignment for Wednesday
Pages from ISLAND PARK_20191004__
HUDSON HOUSE BINDER (EDRA process)
1. Please write a paragraph about each reading with three points or questions:
Click here for the Field Conditions chapter of Points + Lines by Stan Allen
Click here for Between Diagrams and Matter by Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Atmosphere InFormed: Design Awareness of Small-scale Differences of Atmosphere in Architecture and Urban Design, EDRA Best Paper Award 2018
A human-scaled GIS measuring and visualizing social interaction in Barcelona’s Superilles, Journal of Urbanism accepted publication, by Philip Speranza
2. Review the urban analysis tools from UO Barcelona Urban Design Program 2018 2016, 2017
and Granularity of Time and Atmosphere + Design.
Try to think of an interest/objective of your project that the tool may helpful investigate. What is the problem with the development site? Exclusion / inclusion, virtual / in-situ, mobility access, open space, student connectivity, health and open space, social interaction, etc. Please rank three projects you might want to first study.
*Please be prepared to discuss our virtual shared spaces.
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Additionally this list of top level organization of urban experiences may be useful to begin to think of a problem or interest for you projects to explore:
New Urban Ecology Phenomena
Air Quality
Light Quality
Sound Quality
Thermal Quality
Energy Quality (Net-Zero, Passive House)
Social Qualities
Gentrification
Inclusion / Exclusion
Housing
Traditional Urban Design
Use: Residential / Office / Industrial / Institutional
Transit
Open Space
Historic Preservation