Legamaro | Trevizo | Springer

Anthony LegamaroCorpus Chrsti, TX

anthonylegamaro@swbell.netIvan Trevizo

North Mesquite, TXivansgreat05@neo.tamu.edu

Sloan SpringerLongview, TX

sloan_springer@mac.com

TAMU | FPC | BAC < DESIGN STUDIO PROGRAM FALL 07HOUSING VARIATIONS; HABITABLE LANDSCAPES.

PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR > Juan Carlos Sanchez Tappan !"#$%&#'(")*+#*,(-.*-.SECONDARY INSTRUTORS > Douglas Hecker, Miguel Roldan

INTRODUCTION>

DRS makes special emphasis on analysis and research as intrinsic part of the design process understanding design as research as an attitude.

The frame for the studio agenda departs from the recent proposal from the candidates of CIU and PSC on their political campaign for the municipal elections for major of Barcelona held last May 27th.The plan proposes to “open Monjuic” to the rest of the city with metro and tram connection and the construction of 10,000 protected housing 1 units as part of the creation of the new neighborhood “El Morrot”. 2

The studio takes advantage of this year European debate on new public spaces and sustainability (Europan 9, Sustainable city and new public spaces 3 ); and the exploration and exhibition of built prototypes (APTM, Construmat 4 , Fira BCN) to combine housing with other activities related with work, communication, knowledge and time out.

We are witnessing an important transformation of dwellings, pre-industrial areas and public spaces, as the offer of the city of Barcelona is increasingly related to a global fluid market through urban culture, tourism and branding.

AGENDA >

The agenda seizes upon an opportunity to connect and engage our academic investigation – design as research – with a complex initiative currently on debate:To think, experiment and design a “protected housing prototype” as a short term shared facility with a continuous variation of users and clients; providing the chance to explore design identities, variations, and the flexibility to accommodate the widely differing demands of users.To challenge ideas of dwelling in terms of cultural change and urban / interior living arrangements, exploring new possibilities for human negotiation within public, private, and semi public spaces.

1 www.bcn.es/habitatge/esp/welcome.shtml

2 http://www.ciu.cat/microsite_fitxa_noticies.php?ms_ID=9&news_ID=9937

3 www.europan-europe.com

4 www.construmat.com/

In parallel, the studio -working on teams of 2-3 students- will develop a “deep plan” as urban proposal for the new neighbourhood of El Morrot, where bigger built organisations should emerge involving protected housing, parks, public spaces; and other cultural, environmental, infrastructural, and turistic facilities rethinking issues of combina-tion, interchange, multiplicity and the experimentation on the simultaneity of uses, programs, and lifestyles.

Each team must produce a book organized on the three intervals of the term: 1) Research and Mapping, 2) Low reso-lution alternatives, and 3) Hi resolution Design. At each deadline, work must be submitted in the form of a desktop-printed hard-copy as well as a digital copy.

1) Research

Research is to be conducted in libraries and archives as well as in the “field” of the city itself. Readings and DatacardsTwo datacards will be generated and submitted as information structures in the form of a desktop-printed hard-copy. One for the reading and the other one to represent the social and spatial organization of this course and how it fits within the context of the city through a topic of research.Site mapping and datascappingTeams are expected to visit the site, to analyse it and document it thoroughly generating their own maps and datascapes. Define study areas and site.Programming Research on relevant precedents, site’s present and future economies, events and regulations and its context will result in a precise program to be tailored by each team.

2) Low resolution alternatives

Teams will transform their knowledge on the site developing – opportunities/strategies – a master plan, cataloguing/experimenting with possible housing assemblages and exploring unit prototypes. Working and comparing by means of sketches, diagrams, models and drawings three different scales in parallel: 1:10000, 1:1000, 1:100

3) Hi resolution DesignGenerated process is to be taken to a high level of resolution on each scale. Each team must produce a highly re-solved and credible design.

PRECEDENTS>

Housing as an independent basic unit has stayed during decades without being significantly challenged by architects and as a result is still far from satisfying the real necessities of inhabitants in terms of quality, flexibility and value.

The traditional idea of family life based on a conventional module of 2 adults and 2.4 children is every time more obsolete and it is being displaced for more dynamic structures that fit better with the major economical shifts, tech-nological advances and lifestyle changes. Every day more young people share housing and the tendency aims for and increasing emergence of diversified cohabitations and relationships.

Pla Catalá de l´habitatge 2002-2007 is a precedence that represents the importance to guarantee by government af-fordable housing for as much people as possible regulating offer according to the necessities of citizenship.With the Llei d´Urbanisme, 20% of new housing from 2002 is under official protection. This includes of rent, reha-bilitation, financial leasing regimes; the creation of regulations to allow the use of new land to increase the offer for private and public developers. Furthermore, it stresses the importance to act on neighborhoods to avoid degradation upon architecture and landscape.

PROGRAM DRAFT>

The Plan of CIU and PSC to open Montjuic of considers:10,000 Protected housing including Housing for elderly, young and handicapped people, residence for students, sport facilities, nursery and playgrounds for children, cultural center and library, green park of 200,000m2, transmediter-ranea port terminal, shopping and commercial facilities, entrepreneur incubator and think tank.

Additional programs should be tailored according with the strategies and opportunities found and defined after the research and mapping of the study area and site. Projects should develop and defined the interstitial conditions be-tween interior and exterior, private and public domains.

Particularly important as an essential ingredient of the programmatic agenda of each project is the consideration of a business plan to bring in particular affiliations (brands, institutions) with the short term shared space as well as the analysis of urban patterns, infrastructure networks, programmatic affiliations, landscape, time, etc.

Where does public space start and where does it stop? We can start by thinking about its boundary with private space?

THE CHALLENGE >Programmatic parameters must be explored to allow the coexistence of different activities on the same time and space. Circulation, leisure, shopping, relaxing should interact with domestic realm through public - private and col-lective - individual spaces. Projects are expected to displace conventional typologies for advances complex spaces that could offer alternatives for traditional habitat schemes.

Typologies will be reviewed and evaluated in relation to landscape, orientation, movement, circulation, densities and intensities.

Proposed Urban Plans – deep plans/machinic plans - besides including different programs and facilities must accom-modate multiple users, local and abroad; must consider the business users, who primarily require speed, efficiency of service and flexible spaces to an economically sensible part of society such as students and people under 35 and elderly. Proposed housing should provide working and relaxing environments. Housing schemes must operate on short term leasing or long term rentals, they must provide dwelling from students, who require a sense of home, community and low cost needs to young families who require a sense of a neighborhood atmosphere in the area.

From converted spaces to new constructions, projects must develop fresh and innovative urban and architectural pro-posals influenced by mobility, evolution of lifestyles and increased individualization of contemporary urban culture, together with diversity and multiplicity of social interactions, communication intensity as well as a newly empha-sized community life to provide a needed degree of social stability for a contemporary citizen.

ACCOMODATING Diversity

Typological innovation and accommodating diversity.

Several spatial logics can be pursued: Diversification of typologies Convertibility of space: transformation and adaptation of dwelling according to succession of different oc cupants, changes in the overall requirements of the houising program Creation of morphological layouts: housing clusters, mix of hotel and housing, office and housing, typologies containing a mixture of activities, etc.; Public / private; open and enclosed spaces for a variety of social interactions.

Urban Intensity

Innovative approach of multiple possibilities for social and personal life. For example, working at the home, shop-ping, and recreational and cultural activities in their setting. Shortly, to partake in new forms of social interaction.

A variety of approaches for urban intensity of social life can be developed, interwoven:Assembly of different forms of accommodation, that is, the creation in a neighborhood of different types of dwelling: weekend traveler, the guest on a longer holiday, the entrepreneur, etc.Addition of associated services: new local shops, public services, sport and cultural facilities, etc.;Creation of conditions that will allow for the existence of a home / workplace interface: work space associated with the hotel, high performance technology units for skilled trades and professions, small office units.

THE SITE >

The proposed site for the intervention is a 20 h sector of the industrial port limited by Montjuic and Ronda Litoral and the sea front.

The area of study and site will be defined and mapped by each group during the analysis phase, their research work and interests.

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PERIODICALS >“The Transformable house”, AD Magazine, Vol 70, 2000Notebook from Here. Quaderns 240, January 2004Eric Howeler,Soft Serve; Gwendolyn Wright, Modern Housing, in Praxis Housing Tactics, issue 3,Cambridge:2001Carlos Arroyo, LifeStyles; Juan Domingo, Contacts; Federico Soriano, Social Services Centre, in El Croquis 119, Work Systems, Madid: 2004Patrik Schumacher, “Rational in Retrospect”, AA Files 38, p.32.Hensel, Michael, “Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies”. AD Magazine, 2006Sánchez, Juan Carlos, “Infra-nets.org”, in Young Blood, AD Magazine, no. 71

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