Garden Cities of To-morrow / Sir Ebenezer Howard

A pedestrian and inclusive city has to do with an approach that is given prevalence humans and pedestrian traffic insurance from an integrated public and private spaces, to provide vitality to the urban space as a whole configuration and lead to harmonious coexistence, not segregation of traffic flows and different modes of transport. This, by the provision of public spaces continuous pedestrian level without physical and / or architectural barriers, where the distances required for travel on foot or by bike are short in consideration of the prevalence to be given to these modes transport, and which are directly related to the first floors of buildings generating a direct interaction between public and private, giving as a result secure and dynamic environments. The proposed architecture level existing public space must be permeable visually and physically through the arrangement of windows and access to private spaces, allowing an appropriate relationship between public and private spaces, forming vital and safe urban environments.

Apparently this relationship user – building was designed in the Sendai Mediatheque, and generated public private relationship of that first floor inviting users to access and have a set of atypical programs in each of its floors, connected by a structure program which fulfills two functions.

Many projects can fail by not having this connection between the building and the user first floor, as it is this that gives wealth in this public space is connected with different parts of the city, and not turn it into an isolated entity.

Whereupon regard to reading, it would be interesting to analyze this behavior exists and describes the author discusses certain patterns that Christopher Alexander in his book “Pattern Language” whether pedestrian street realm of circulation, pedestrian pathways, among others, and try to establish a logical user behavior and different types of buildings in their first floors.

Picture: Dr Gary Settles / SPL / Barcroft Media

The first image that comes to my head when I see the project Moriyama House, is a frozen rupture in time, an explosion of some element that is fractionated into different elements and at that moment the picture freezes and are the different parts of the item acquired a unique character making each in a new element, which can remain in a constant fractionation.

In the case study project, you can see how several disparate elements in one place but which form a single spatial unit, and it is this uniqueness that gives the richness and unique atmosphere with regard to how it behaves on project with its environment, people and nature.

With this second point we can identify an element (object) makes a connection between habitat and nature, gives new meaning to the inside / outside, public / private, creating a new relationship between all atmospheres creating a balance for all parties.

The relationship between this logic and scope of advanced architecture is given at the point of how a foreign object can influence the natural landscape (architecture) to the immediate environment and the natural behavior of people level, and continuing the theme spatial subdivision I can relate this with the “broken windows theory” by George L. Kelling, in summary we show how an object can alter the spatial order and human behavior.