IAAC RS1 Emergent Territories
Borders concept final approach
The borders in the city have been build on averages, standarized dimensions. What if the borders respond, instead of to this static conditions, to the real time data generated by the spatial needs of the people? A topography of borders able to adapt to the real necesities of the city.
The hyperbordered port.
Barcelona Port, March 2012.
IAAC RS1 Emergent Territories
Borders concept first approach
We began to define the concept of borders, as well as their implications and constraints. We also started to develop a catalog with all the parameters that we considered necessary in order to understand the borders according to the different urban activities which they make possible or impossible.
Blurring the borders.
Barcelona Port, February 2012.
IAAC RS1 Emergent Territories
First impressions on the site
The borders of the port called particularly our attention, as spatial determinants and generators. We began to explore some of their basic conditions: their location, materiality, temporality, evolutionary character, psychological character and their impact on the area.
Can you feel the borders?
Barcelona Port, January 2012.
Our studio work is about how the garden of nature and the artificial world could be integrated and supported by each other.
In the site exists Barcelona’s biggest element, Montjuic mountain. It is able to purify the rainwater with soil strata, and clean the air with plants. But, this well-functioning system was cut by human.
The aim, what we wanted to achieve is how we can connect again this natural element with the surrounding artifical area. Barcelona’s air pollution has 25% from the cruises. We wanted to use visible and invisible natural sytems and flows to create a connection between human and nature to procreate the Third Paradise – as it was written in Michelangelo Pistoletto’s manifesto.
< The existing visible and invisible layers of the site – from the view of verticality
> The main areas of the site – in top views and section. From top: mountain surface, port land, sea body
Our main interested inputs: 1. Slopes (as surfaces), 2. Slopes (as vectors), 3. Rain saturation, 4. Wind direction and speed
Cruise smoke pollution and composition map
Air pollution caused by cruises smoke percentage. Cruise smoke separated six main composition with percentages.
Collecting real time datas – with arduino sensor
Emergence of dune formation and pine cone movement
Process to generate the area and shape of the system by invisible layers of flows
One part of the air coming in low level is filtered by the natural system of Montjuic. The rest of the air doesn’t go up – it is turning to the city. The evolving system is able to capture the maximum polluted air.
Section of the system – Way of the process – starting with collecting and separating the different components of cruise air pollution.
Inputs and outputs diagrams – System input and output relations.
Collages
A space may be defined by its usage, environment, volume and time. Port de Barcelona is one such space being characterized and having unfathomed attributes of the same, yet to be explored. An orchestrated play of such spaces may be constructive, liberating and help redefine the fundamental concept of port spaces.
link to the video
Anya
Emily
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