Cybrid Fringe [ hyperspace ] | Group 18

Rambla de Prim [ east fringe of Barcelona ] is the place where multitude of complicated spatio-social situations intersect, from urban experiment of ideas of international modernism to the biggest imigrant communities in the city. How can we turn this at first sight disadvantage to a powerfull tool which will bring near future development? After analyzing the socio-cultural and economic background of the area we propose develop an open program, free of restrictions and hierarchies, centres or rhetorical figures and create areas of opportunity, interaction, investigation, research and development [ eDucattion + Diffusion, R + 3D, culture and entertainment ].

Hypermedia structure [ bits, information, interface, sensors, hologramatic materials, telematic environments ] as an urban catalyst responds to the heterogeneous and diverse society with continuous and instant flows of multitude social profiles and personalities  [ age, culture, social class, nationality, ethnic, religion, race ]. This concept focuses on social sustainability, covering the demands and allowing the constant interactions of the users in the public environment. Aim of the project is to create a tension like atmosphere among a series of sequentially related activities which establishes an urban rhytm [ a sequence of functional nodes produce the temporary activations of a place in different times ] and stimulates the creation of urban inteligence networks. Inhabitants here are the protagonists of the actions and events rather than mere spectators. Hyper-space consist of physical spaces with continuity in cyberspace [ full-colour, dynamic, morphing, modifying, configurable, re-active, instant, fast-moving ]. “The computers are vanishing and screens expands to the size of any space you choose and the best interface for access to the digital world is not a keybord or a screen but actual physical world itself.” [Vicente Guallart] H-S architecture acts as a Total inteface of a new hybrid of virtual-physical where diferent uses accumulates,  acts as a interface with evolutional capabilities of growing and developing, mutating and transforming, altering, varying and deforming. The Cybrid Fringe as a new type of smart public space enables the flexible regulation of flows of vehicles and persons with their fluctuating trajectories.

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Design Studio _ Smart Block | Group 13

www.noumenaarch.com

MAA 12-13
Design Studio_Smart Public Space on 17.12.2012

Smartblock Concept Video

SmartBlock: Smart Public Corridor

Thesis_SmartBlock is a social platform proposed by Group Meridiana to transform the cur- rent Avenue Meridiana to an interactive hybridized social public corridor that will eventually become the iconic street for the city of Barcelona.

Objective_The objective of this project was to explore all the possible opportunities to en- hance the spatial and mobil experience of Avenue Meridiana by providing solu- tions that complements the SmartCity initiative. An intensive research and analysis took place to understand the existing condition of the street that touched on mul- tiple attributes ranging from historical facts, current infrastructure, traffic, events and social interaction of the street and its surrounding neighbourhoods. The study led to findings that questioned the lack of social interaction due to the physical and functional characteristics of the street which mainly serves the purpose of connect- ing the northern outskirts to the center of the city.

Concept _ SmartBlock is targeted to three main users at different levels that will contribute
to the exchange of information on the platform which will result in transforming the street. The targeted users of SmartBlock are; the general public (event go- ers), private business (event creators), and the municipality (traffic control). In addition, SmartBlock events are to be co- funded by its users and the municipality, moreover, it enhances the cyber experience by linking the user to the RideShare interface. RideShare is a social network, a pool of individual private drivers participating in SmartBlock events and able to spare the extra time to offer cost and time efficient rides to event go-ers.

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Rambla de Catalunya is a unique and dynamic public space however; its information is static and nonreactive. The pervasive and real-time information that is on the avenue is un-linked from the activities and people on the street. Using social media and geocoding the information that is produced within the avenue is connected to an actual location. When this locative media is monitored and analyzed, events and trends start to emerge. This public information starts to affect the relationship between public and private space. By producing public information within a private space begins to shift its state into the public realm.

An atmospheric information system on the street provides the link between the people and events. The events within the private spaces become represented on the public space. The visualization takes place in three parts; the people, the hits on the events and the connection between other events. This dynamic proposal is seen first at a cloud and projection that will later evolve into an omnipresent atmosphere of information. The final rendition looks at how information will become 3 dimensional which will create an information system that completely physical.

Introduction Movie-   http://vimeo.com/55820928

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Final presentation: Disseminated production at carrer de Sants

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Passeig de Grácia Street – Group 2: Chamma | Garita | Valenzuela

Passeig de Grácia Street – Group 2:

Nasr Chamma | Robert Garita | Mauricio Valenzuela.

Web-site link: www.bcnmainstreet.com

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BcnMainStreet

Issuu presentation: http://issuu.com/bcnmainstreet/docs/bcnmainstreet

Passeig de Grácia is one of the most important streets in Barcelona, from its historical face like a starting line for planning the entire city, its commercial entertainment type, its famous architectural buildings and the huge public spaces.

The current situation of the street is active; it always has a lot of citizens and tourists that they are making these big consuming relations, high density, big mobility movement but only at the day-time, nothing at night, just in case of some events.

Commercial entertainment street = Consumer = Active street

How to make it: Pro-Active, Productive?

In a smart way, for a better space use, dynamic street and intelligent city

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