ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 15-20| Alberto Visentin

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Dundee industrial and historical timeline

Global-Rural versus Global-Urban disparison

[ Hinterland - Proximity and Productivity ] Global footprint: ONGOING THESIS PROJECT:

BIRTH OF DUNDEE PORT

1349 Dundee is become a thriving town with a population of 4k people, wool and hides are exported, and whaling industry is emerging

1520 Dundee population is 7k, the wool industry is flourishing and big amount is exported.

1750 Dundee is Known for its linen industry and whaling.

Population is 11k.

1861 Populayion over 90k, Shipbuilding and jute are major industries .

Dundee bacome an industrial and trading centre.

DE-INDUSTRALISATION AND EXODUS OF INDUSTRIES TO SUBURB OR EVEN CLOSURE

1902 dundee trams are electrified.

Dundee known for the 3 J’s: jute jam and jurnalism.

1979 Tatcher economic manouvres Industrial economy start to fell from contributing 40% of uk GDP, to 39% in 1990.

Unemployment started soaring from 5,3% to peak 12% in 1984.

1985 Major industrial workers strikes after the closure of many industries.

GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL DISPARISON

1990 Industries contribution fell to 20 % of total GDP. Big amount of unemployment.

2018 Dundee Effect: Failure of capitalist regeneration.

Communities forced into new peripheries, and fails to tackle endemic poverty levels, embraces exploitative employers and unstable employment and ignores the mounting housing crisis.

Similar to ‘Bilbao Effect’: the social and economic fallout of the new Guggenheim museum and gentrification of the surrounding area, in the Basque Country’s largest city in 1997.

Labur, Productivity versus State Understanding cooperative behaviourarea trends identification of productive suitable for proposal between different realms during time in order to enforce this cooperative behaviour in the proposal.

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Initial Global Pairing-Cities concept In a global concept, the pairing of cities and therefore the creation of linear links between them, will avoid the expansion of uncontrolled radial urban sprawl ( main cause of the creation and acceleration of disparision between the modern urban cores and the ever more ‘’disperse’’ suburbs and peripheries where communities are forced to move due to gentrification of the core) .

This linear concept will avoid expansion of industries towards the countrysides but will encourage them to be more phisically and socially connected to the paired cities, leaving the countrysides as pure paesants reserves.

The system would be no longer dominated by cities, but by productive territorial lines of circulation Global growth: and population production, creating a dual system, where cities will mantain their distinct role and singularity while being connected through linear networks of production, communication and exchange.

This concept aim to create a continuous relationship between production, manufacture, consumtion and re-use, curtailing the abandonment of the rural in order to promote industrialisation and urbanisation of the hinterland in a linear organised manner.

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Typical growth of contemporary human settlament: From radial concentric non organized urban sprawl to linear and circular controlled linear sprawl

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WILL BE LIVING IN CITIES BY 2050

Investigating the links between the social and the phisical in cities and urban realms is crucial with half of the seven billion people on hearth living in cities, a substantial proportion of global GDP would need to be invested in energy and renewable resourches to accomodate further urban development and growth both in global and local realms over the next decades.

The form of this new wave of urban construction and shapes of future urban settlament and cities will have a profound impact on the ecological balance of the planet and the human conditions of the people living in it.

Please find full Research Thesis and Project A further investigation must be done between the urban and rural realm in today’s globalisation.

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has long tracked the growth of urban populations: pubblications on: It reported that the world population had reached a tipping point, in which the total population, having been mostly rural for all of human histor, had shifted to being mostly urban for the first time.

From the graphs we can predict that the gap between rural and urban populations would continue to diverge (UN desa, 2008).

Actual and Proposed urban metabolism: from one-way linear metabolism to circular urban metabolism: These graphs suggest that while the urban population accounted for less then one-third (30%) of the total world population in 1950, the ratio would grow of two-third (66%) by 2050 (UN desa, 2014). ributio

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Cities transform raw materials into finished products. They convert food, fuels, forest products, materials, water and human energy in to building, goods, financial and political power and therefore waste.

In the one-way flow still leave the soil as food, and yet since the food is consumed far from its origin points, the waste products are no longer returning to the soil as fertilizer but are simply expelled in an un-ecological way.

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How can we achieve a universally applicable idea for redestribution of the urban and rural in to cities and its resourches pruductivewaste landscape?

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Can we obtain a balance between urban and rural, aiming for a self-sufficent city, therefore designing the hinterland as an extended urban ?

proposed circular metabolism flow

concentric cities that would benefit from productive hinterland and would eject waste that would then reused and reintroduced as sources in the proposal, creating a circular metabolism flow of sources.

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The proposed circular flow would try to maximise the re-use of resourches, products and waste created by Perth and Dundee.

The proposal, acting as a compacted and productive hinterland will try to sourche and create energy locally, reusing waste as nutriments for agrarian productive areas and connecting different realms of the hinterland with the two cities, therefore creating a linear system that will sustain them while fostering new infrastructures, workplaces and accomodation.

inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure connecting in a circular flow the two cities.

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

some areas divided by the ‘’fingers’’ of the proposal would be left as expansion areas for the possible future growth of small towns in the area not directly linked with the proposal.

inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure connecting in a circular consideration areaflow the two cities. consideration area #2?

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

primary resourches production areas, each area would be separated by the others by the ‘’finger’’ structures concerned with the manufactury, import and export of the sources.

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inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure connecting in a circular flow the two cities. consideration area #2?

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

consideration area

trainline

trainline

main road

main road

important infrastructural nodes

important infrastructural nodes

primary resourches production areas, each area would be separated by the others by the ‘’finger’’ structures concerned with the manufactury, import and export of the sources.

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1100 A small port grows at Dundee

INDUSTRALISATION, URBAN AND WORKS GROWTH

The Hinterland city will introduce a circular flow between the two cities linked, a circular flow of goods and resourches, as a way to improve the reuse of waste generated by the cities as fertilizers or other needs.

The linear design of the city will avoids the expansion of industries and urbanity towards the countryside, creating a pure paesant reserve outside of it.

Through the proposal the hinterland will become the backbone of primary and then manufactured resourches for the cities that will connect.

The compacted and productive hinterland linking and supporting the needs of the proposal itself and the cities that will connect, would serve both as an extended urban realm and as infrastructure for delivering manufacturing an reusing sourches and goods. Urban, industrial, agricultural, maritime, logistic and aerial realm would be physically and socially connected, with themselves and the linked cities, creating a new mixture of unexpected social interactions.

There would be a continuous relationship between production manufacture and consumption promoting industralization and urbanisation of the hinterland in a linear organized manner.

The connected cities will mantain their distinct role and singularity while being connected through linear networks of communication and exchange.

The urban system would be no more dominated by cities, but by territorial lines of circulation and production.

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inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure considerationconnecting area in a circular flow the two cities.

consideration area #2?

trainline

trainline

main road

main road

important infrastructural nodes

important infrastructural nodes

some areas divided by the ‘’fingers’’ of the proposal would be left as expansion areas for the possible future growth of small towns in the area not directly linked with the proposal.

area for further development of the ‘’Infrastructural Boundle’’. area where different infrastuctures will link creating a key area of movement.

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure connecting in a circular consideration area #2? flow the two cities.

consideration area

trainline main road important infrastructural nodes

primary resourches production areas, each area would be separated by the others by the ‘’finger’’ structures concerned with the manufactury, import and export of the sources.

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

new harbours linking directly with proposal in certain areas. consideration area consideration area #2?

the ‘’fingers’’ structures would host the logistic, managment and manufacture of the resourches, dividing different production realms and connecting with exhisting infrastructure in order to maximise import and export of sources and manufactured goods.

trainline main road important infrastructural nodes

flight landing expansion

aeroport expansion to host more international flights and cargo flights.

inhabitable linear structure, acting as a production line and as an infrastructure connecting in a circular flow the two cities.

main roads residential commercial mall

[ Eastern Obus - Shanghai ] The Eastern Obus is an hibrid me gastructure proposal for the Old Town of Shanghai, designed in order to host the equivalent of the total population living in the town, while mantaining the social and collaborative way of life of the inhabitants.

The Obus would be a continuous linear form running from east to west.

There will be distribution of services, each zone would have a set of programmes which would accommodate facilities missing from the fabric around it and two similar programmes would not be more than 5-7 minutes apart from each other.

These dense residential living and large-scale public programmes such as health care, education, sports facilities will be hosted along the all lenght of the obus, creating a poly centric federation of urban communities along the obus, avoiding a mono centric conurbation.

Here are presented a few selected drawings.

Please find the full project publication: https://www.issuu.com/albertovisentin

obus adapting to site constrains

avoiding vis a vis with southern high rise buildings

avoiding vis a vis with northern hotel towers while maximising sunlight

hotels mixed comm | residential education green development areas

opening views in order to maximise land use

optimal views towards city skyline and south.

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concrete flowers pot extensive green roof

ventilation system privacy green veil concrete flower railing pot paving insulation concrete slab metal decking suspended ceiling girder water pipes structural column

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CabAbode

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London

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We questioned the nature of the envelope challenging the convention of architecture as bound spatial entity with a distinct binary condition between public and private do- mains existing around its perimeter; we hibridised our pro- grammes with radical new proposal for affordable city dwellings.

The idea behind the project was to see how we could recu- perate the St John’s Wood Station so as to propose to bring back the historical Green Cab Shelters in a new con- figuration in addition to the creation of dedicated housing proposals for the Cabmen and their families.

Please find the full project publication: https://www.issuu.com/albertovisentin

[ BuskArchives - London

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The concept that governed this project was to try and find a solution to assist the London Busking Community, and not only, in making their busking activity simpler.

The design we have drawn up provides, not only for dedi- cated spaces for the Buskers to play, record their music and obtain their licenses but also public areas where various memorabilia is on display as well as exhibit areas, an auditorium, archives and public study and research areas.

Here are presented a few selected drawings.

Please find the full project publication: https://www.issuu.com/albertovisentin

[ Urban Furbishment Competition - Genova ]

[ Algiers Business Centre - Algiers ]

In this urban refurbishment competition we were asked to design some kind of ‘‘no place urban furniture ‘‘ that can be placed both in the historic centre of Genova or in residential and turistic area of the city.

A simple bench-bike-rack is proposed in order to facilitate socialization in different areas odf the city while having a minimal impact on the surroundings.

These visualisations were part of a commissioned work for a business centre proposal in Algiers.

My duties were mainly regarding visualisations development and suggestions on the use of certain materials.

Please find the full project publication: https://www.issuu.com/albertovisentin

Please find the full project publication: https://www.issuu.com/albertovisentin

[ Commissioned illustrations ]

[ Commissioned illustrations ]

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