Assignment for Wednesday

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 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? traffic, open space, resident to worker connectivity, transit relationships, health and open space, place to eat, social interaction, etc.  Please rank three projects you might want to first study.

*Please setup the room.

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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:

Traditional Urban Design

Land Use: Residential / Office / Industrial / Institutional
Transit
Open Space
Historic Preservation

New Urban Phenomena

Air Quality

Light Quality

Sound Quality

Thermal Quality