Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Architecture & Design
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José María González del Pozo. 788661 Studio Design. Prof Hozler.
the duality of human space for protest and revolution
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.¨ ”
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George Orwell, 1984
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City Hall now a days. Meaning and spaces....................6_11
City Hall North Vancouver............................................11_15 Future City Hall..............................................................15_86 Antrophologic philosophy Political theory Shape developing Different protest inside Development of the spaces Diagramatic explanation
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When we should start to think about what a City Hall means for the city there are some questions that we can´t avoid to answer:
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What should a town hall public place offer people in the future? What are the new challenges for social life? How do digitisation and globalisation affect every day life and the interface between citizens, politics and administration? How can they cope with growing multiculturalism? What social and political challenges of the future will the framework and architecture of the city hall of the future shape? How can we respond to changes such as increasing diversity, social differences or demographic change with buildings and buildings - architecture? How are spaces for citizen participation? 7
minority collective headquarters
citizen help political management
fluided politics
Mitigation of social disintegrations
brainstorm
axis of change
virtual polyvalence
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spatial versatility cultural exghange
mercantile administration
volumetric lightness
forum for discussion
visual cleaning
city symbol multicultural centre
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Project for a new City In a future society, where every one becomes aggressive and always fights to subsist, we have to find a way to control the population. We need to create a space where people can discuss, where everybody can share his or her own opinion and where we can recover the lost values for a society in which everyone would grow up personally and professionally. In these days, we are constantly rethinking every field, searching for a society that is better than the past society. We are able to redesign the human behaviour; trying to be more inclusive and permissive with different points of view and multiculturalizing the ideas of the youngest, expanding the sexual, religious and cultural possibilities of each individual. I would like to create a place that focalizes the light and the atmosphere within people, and that makes them feel more comfortable. I think that people need a big space for big discussions but also other smaller spaces, because the scale of the space is one of the main factors when people feel uncomfortable in many places. 16
These kinds of spaces are a legacy for the roman forum and Greek agora, which separate the space in a big rectangular or circular space, and a legacy for the Spanish and British parliament, which inherit these performances in these two different spaces. Many buildings during human history have taken these geometries in order to structure big spaces who have to contain large amounts of people. Cathedral, indoor markets, industrial spaces, botanical gardens or exhibitions. The society doesn´t need leaders. The democratic society delegates the power between a few people who are responsible for their decisions, and these decisions set the way for a society and a state.
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Individualism Virtual lifestile Social network Urban neuronal scale conections Parametrical systems Online comunication No administrative management
two different aspects of humans being
Primary survival instinct Greek and roman heritage Necesity to discuss and debate Imposing our own ideas The heart of the human being Interior face of humans Human instinct of power
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The society of the future One of the greatest concerns during the history of human beings has been the future. How events will unfold during the coming times. In terms of politics, economics, demography, culture, science and many others. Human beings have always imagined, designed, drawn and projected the near and far future. We have taken as our starting point our present to elaborate a future in its image and likeness, as we are capable of discerning. When we have started to project this future in our head there has always been a placid idea in which the future appears to us better than the present. A future in which all or most of today’s problems are solved, in which we are not continually in socio-political wars and in which the sumum of peace is reached. Throughout history there have been a multitude of texts that have postulated different ideas about the society of the future, about how we will be, where and how we will live, how we will reproduce ourselves and a multitude of similar questions. The chapter on how and where we will inhabit is perhaps the
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one that concerns us most today, but first I have the necessity to desal with other previous cultural and evolutionary issues of the individual. To begin with, when faced with the question of how we will be, different branches of study are proposed to us. Physically or morally speaking. Each of these branches, according to our database, can be one way or the other. I am going to focus on the mental, on how human development will be in an ethical way in a certain way in the future, because I consider that the physical one is more marked in great measure by the climatic conditions of that future, even more difficult to imagine.
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Well, on an intellectual level, I believe that the human species will suffer, according to the morphological progress it has been suffering since its appearance, a considerable increase in its cerebral activity, which need not be accompanied by an increase in cranial volume, since there is an increase in neural connections, thus allowing the possibility of receiving, administering, managing, manipulating, thus similar and communicating a greater amount of information in less time and with less
time and with less effort. This will be clearly supported and sustained by an advance in technology, which I will talk about later. Due to this increase in neuronal capacity, human beings will begin to focus on their personal development, in a way intrinsically linked to their most basic needs, which although they have always been covered, are part of their primary instincts. All the actions that were carried out will be rethought and the order of the same ones for the attainment of any movement or instinctive development in the human beings. The action parameters will be reconfigured for each specific situation, situations linked to man’s basic primary instincts. The spaces containing these actions will always be the object of a project, providing a solution to all the human needs that may exist in Maslow’s pyramid, from the basic to the superficial. With all this, individuals will develop a concern for their own being. A concern that will focus on their learning and personal development, on the expansion of their intellectual capacities, which will inevitably lead to an exaltation of radical individualism. Each person will only be interested in himself and in his closest environment, not only on a 22
and in his closest environment, not only on a communicative level but also in the physical space that will contain them. This individualism will provoke a decrease in interpersonal relations in physical form, all of which will be carried out through the Internet. This will evolve the way of socializing, where it is done and how this affects reproduction in the future. As for the field of study that concerns us, where and how we will inhabite a future, I would like to rely on the above to facilitate understanding. Due to the upswing of individualism and the decrease of social relations, it is unnecessary to develop and plan urban structures that generate public and meeting spaces, because they are not necessary. In their defence there will be an increase in the demographic density of cities, since these spaces will be used to house new souls instead of public spaces. The questioning of an overpopulation, at this point, is unquestionable. We are more and more human beings in the world and the growth we experience follows an exponential succession, while that of resources is algebraic, which in just a few decades unbalances the 23
resources and people. The main resource tending towards exhaustion is clean, breathable air, the result of the increase in global pollution therefore, in turn, of the greenhouse effect. This problem appears as the main concern today by many governments around the world, both developed and undeveloped countries. The development of an industry powerful enough to produce everything that technological progress requires, generates in its production greenhouse gases that accelerate the development of the greenhouse effect, slowly but unstoppably destroying the ozone layer that surrounds our planet and that today is already quite damaged. With all this, the control of the climatic conditions that are generated within the spaces of the city becomes one of the great preoccupations for the architects of today and tomorrow. Returning to the technological aspect, and applying this development to its possible application in cities, we are presented with neural networks that run through the entire urban fabric, in the form of large operating systems that control all 24
the parameters of what we intuit today as intelligent cities, facilitating the accessibility of citizens, social and energy resources, reducing the time on different journeys, providing real time information on any aspect that is taking place in the city, giving citizens the opportunity to be direct witnesses of the development of their own city. This would lead to an increase in the importance of the figure of the citizen in the evolution of their city and would bring important decisions closer to each and every one of the futures affected by these, the citizens. With it, and here enters an important subject in this essay, would appear a direct neurotised democracy through intranet, a secondary Network that would connect each point and each citizen of a city, independently of the size of this one. With the evolution of this direct economy through the support offered by new technologies, the figure of the politician would lose importance, as everything is decided directly by the people. With this, the idea of the politician as a person with power disappeared and he would become the figure of each one of the citizens who will make up the city. 25
In this way, if the neural network would serve to bring the city and politics closer to everyone, from the individualism of its lounge, it would also serve to facilitate any kind of online processing. All the bureaucracy that today tortures a multitude of citizens would be solved in a computer way in tomorrow’s town hall. That construction that we will talk about later is our object of study. With all this, and as we have said before, despite all the evolution behind human beings, there would still exist basic aspects of their being and even their animal instinct we could say. Among them, apart from the instinct of survival and reproduction, there would be the instinct of power. That of being able to impose oneself on the rest, or at least try to do so, in order to achieve that power. This is where politics arose in its origins (Greeks in a democratic way in its beginnings). The human being would need a space in which to give free rein to these instincts. A space for debate where he can share his ideas and refute those of the opposite, where in a certain way he can entertain his mind with the retaliation of an action that, to this day, has no political function or legality but at 26
political function or legality but at a personal level to comfort oneself. With all these parameters developed and structured, a council is designed for the future that accommodates all of the above and that serves as an answer to many of these questions. In the first place a simplification of the form to its simplest expression is raised. The cube treated by Pythagoras to exemplify a large number of mathematical problems. The cube used as a base form of construction in any culture since its origins now takes shape as the main element of the new town hall. This cube, composed of steel and polimeres, houses a virtualized world. A world where all the worlds of each citizen converge. Due to the suppression of urban elements of public character this new space is raised as a substitution of them but at individual level. Where the individual can carry out socio-cultural, recreational, administrative and bureaucratic or even recreational activities. The Greek agora transforms from two dimensions to space in order, in response to the great demography, to house the human instinct of self-relation with oneself and with one’s surroundings. 27
In opposition, is the deconstruction of the maximum expression the instinct of power and debate for both Greeks and Romans. An opened and quadrangular parliament is proposed where any aspect referring to the city and to the citizens who inhabit it can be discussed. The bench represents this Greek theatre, as opposed to the artificial crater that surrounds it, emphasising the public function of this large space on an urban scale. The conjunction of both pure forms encloses the poem of what will be the human being of the future. A bipolar entity enclosed in an intellectually developed body. Beings that manifest the two facets of their being in a space where ideas converge in a total horizontality between citizens. The interior space is appropriate at a climatic level, as well as physical, atemporal, a town hall not only for the future but for all futures.
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functional and communication diagrams of the city council with itself and with the society
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ideas collages
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original system idea 36
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basic structural system
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joints
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work with 40
interior spaces 41
studies on space and the relationship 42
of both human perspectives with 43
When the duality of the humans of the future has been understood
When the entity of the form has been subordinated to the protest to be contained in the monument
When the final product inherits the entity of a manifestation of the people
When the protest is appropriated by the citizens themselves.
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Development of the human indivuality and of the group entity of the homo gender Since the emergence of the genus homo, human beings have progressively developed their social skills while developing their individual intellect. We learned at the same time to develop ourselves as individuals and to socialize with the group to which we belonged. The fact remains that in their origins the nomadic groups were composed of social individuals who formed a collective whole, but without feeling of individuality. The functions performed by this group, all of them aimed at survival, were disaggregated by sex, because for biological reasons the lactic age of the babies, was the one that marked that the work areas that required spending time outside the refuge were performed by men and those that could be performed near the cave were performed by women. This meant that a woman who was breastfeeding, if she did not feed her baby every 4 hours, could contract health problems due to the accumulation of milk. There are archaeological dates that show that in hunter-gatherer societies, 46
because being able to carry out the sowing near their cohabitation zone, the distribution of tasks according to gender was not so marked at all. This distribution of tasks was what marked that the men were the ones who began to lead the singing voice with the decision making. It was considered that, having known more of the world, even if only for the periods when they hunted outside the normal cohabitation zone, they had more experience and more vision of life, so they were left in charge of the decisions. Lot of zoologists have classified all animals throughout history in a way and according to criteria that are not marked by sex. Type of reproduction, adaptation to one environment or another, type of food, etc. Man is the only one who, due to his biological condition, has always attributed this differentiation intrinsically. Returning to the identity of each of these individuals within a group, numerous anthropologists and archaeologists have highlighted the group entity that existed in these early societies. Each individual did not have a consciousness on a personal level. But of belonging to a whole. 47
There was no need to distribute what would have been because it would have meant accepting that the group is formed by smaller parts, but each individual took from the group what he needed and contributed to it everything he could. In this way an innate moral group conscience was established in these human beings. This changed with the appearance of private property, the fruit of the storage of goods and the need to maintain them. It was this private property that motivated the beginnings of a society of power, and this led to the appearance of violence. If we continue studying the history of the development of the individual and the evolution of the figure of power within society, we observe that they are intrinsically linked. Everyone knows that the relationship between occupation and domination has always been directly inverse in terms of people and power. A society with a multitude of tasks to do on a daily basis dedicates its time solely to cultivating or collecting in order to survive and does not focus its efforts on any kind of politics or social concern beyond its individual. 48
When a society begins to create separation of work, there is the beginning of free time, not dedicated to some obligations that suppose us to survive. From the great ancient empires until well past the middle age the concerns of a large population census were simply survival, which hindered the direct evolution that is being experienced even today. Continuing with the relationship that exists between the individual and the space that contains him, between continent and content, it must be the second who intervenes to the first, and not the first who modifies the second. The relationship that human beings establish with the space that surrounds them has been, is and is marked, in a direct and isotropic way, by all the actions that are carried out in that space. That is to say. We have all heard about polyvalent spaces, sports centers, cultural centers, etc. ... but has anyone ever thought of a new type of polyvalent space but in a social, philosophical and above all anthropological way? How will a space for all humans be projected for all spaces? Taking into account the evolution of the use of power over 49
the population and its response, it is possible to create a timeline where all the political systems that have existed throughout history are studied and reflected. But for me to create a political system for the society of the future, on which I will lean for the consequent spatial decision, I would like to return to the origins of humanity. The moment in which humans did not have an individual consciousness but a consciousness relative to intrinsic belonging to a group. At that time, each human being played his or her role through social commitment. There was no need for nafir to organize that system because it worked because of what each individual had internalized. A communism of tasks and functions within the great wheel that society would suppose. This collective cooperative responsibility is the one that allows the elimination of the figure of the politician. As has been postulated before, the figure of the politician has been degraded and suppressed from a society of the future. But this does not mean that the system is a participative or direct democracy, but that the guilds themselves that are structured, the citizen associa50
tion themselves, the components of each society, if they will be studied in an isolated way, would form anarchy, but when studying them as a group, eliminating the conception of the individual as such, the figure that can be taken advantage of this system is suppressed, since everyone knows what he has to perform without anyone telling him so. It is not enlightened communism, for there is no state that manages everything, and after all there will always be people who possess more goods than others. When this system begins to work, the intellectual capacity that these societies develop will be the one that marks the roles that each one plays so that the wheel can continue spinning and never stop. This is for that developed, rational and individualized facet. But the irrational and instinctive facet of man must also have a place in this society that creates spaces. Although all men and women enter this circle of self-managed economy, the utopia of equality has yet to be achieved. Breastfeeding periods remain the same and the bond created between mother and child would not be as strong without this. 51
Women, despite having entered the world of work in the same way as men, will always be conditioned by mere biological differences. Even if any of the races live equanimously, there will be differences of condition between them. Xenophobia will have been eliminated, but not racism. The workers’ struggle will have disappeared, but there will still be a loophole of people who, although they have decent living conditions, will protest why they want to live like the ones above, even if their roles are not comparable. The inequality of this power and these economic differences will generate new modalities, beyond the progressive and conservative ones we know today, but differences will be established in the same way, so that the wheel, although in another axis, will continue to generate opposite social discourses. And with all this, history will begin again. That is why the spaces for solving problems in the future cannot be restricted to what we think will happen, but rather to look at the past in order to avoid a repetition. 52
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Development of interior spaces in height ground contact and floor +5
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Economic struggle to preserve decent working conditions, equal wages, eliminate precarious wages or motivate the creation of quality employment
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Political protest against the political regimes that subjugate the people to the power of the state 63
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Demand for human rights, so that they are insurable for all people. 67
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Reaffirmation of the role of justice, as an independent power, in the application of the law and its correct interpretation.
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struggle for gender equality, against gender abuse and violence and for the achievement of the feminist movement in today’s society 75
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Demand for equality of races. elimination of inequalities on ethnic, cultural or religious grounds
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exterior collages
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the project encloses the dual reality of all human beings. a space for revindication and struggle that can be used in different parts of the world where altercations and uprisings against the people are taking place.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.¨ ”
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George Orwell, 1984
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Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Architecture & Design
José María González del Pozo. 788661 Studio Design. Prof Hozler.
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