Same space _ different activities

Same space _ different activities The multiple uses of the square Agustin Lara in Lavapies

Intensive Study of Graphic Design prof: Maria Mallo Zurdo student: Dimitra Charmantzi academic year: 2016 - 2017 1

This issue studies the impact of the design and elements of a certain square, Agustin Lara, on people’s behaviour. These activities are presented and show that different type of users coexist harmonically in the same area and give life in the square all day long.

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E T H N O M E T H O D O LO GY In architecture we realize that there is a chasm between the designed function and the true use. Ethomethodology observe the way people act in everyday life in order to make conclusions about the way people form communities. In architecture is called to explicate the human behaviour, which is not directly recognizable, so that we can understand what is the impact of certain spaces in humans and in general how we can improve the way we design.

During the investigation, were recorded the activities of the different groups of people who were in the square, the paths of the visitors, the intensity of their movement and their behaviour.

REFERENCES The following projects worked as an inspiration and references in order for the presentation of the activities that were captured in the square during the study.

Increasing Disorder In a Dining Table

This drawing by architects Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, documents the progression of a meal.

source: http://www.ediblegeography.com/dining-disorder/ 4

eMotion, mapping museum experience

EMotion researches how the museum and the installations effect and affect the behaviour of the visitors.

The fielding took place in the Art Museum (Kunstmuseum) St.Gallen, Switzerland, in 2009. Visitors who wanted to take part in the project, did receive a dataglove at the exhibition entrance that included several signalling and measurement sensors. The dataglove, allowed for the precise measurement of the path of each individual through the museum, their speed, their time spent in front of a picture/object. source: http://www.mapping-museum-experience.com

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Electrodermally significant activity and heartrate signifiers of the same visitor in reference to the curatorial groups

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MADRID 6

The chosen square is Agustin Lara in Lavapies, a neighbourhood in the center of Madrid. Lavapiés has a higher concentration of immigrants than any other neighbourhood in Madrid. It has always been a humble barrio, which until the 1980s was home to mostly elderly people who lived in the typically Madrileño ‘corralas’ – apartment blocks mostly built around an interior staircase.

These days, thanks to the cheap rent in comparison to that of other areas, and the multiculturalism, young people are attracted to the area, and they live alongside people from some 90 different nationalities. In addition, there are a number of neighbourhood associations and self-managed centres which host a lot of cultural events, which are quite popular in this barrio and always supported by the locals.

Plaza Mayor Tirso de Molina Retiro Park

Reina Sofia Museum Embajadores metro station

Atocha station

Lavapies square metro station

Escuelas Pias library

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The square Agustin Lara was designed by the architect J.I.Linazasoro in 2004 along with the rehabilitation of the Escuelas Pias, a library in the north side of the square. The square is facing the library and the pedestrian road between them. In the other sides is surrounded by 2 pedestrian roads and residential buildings and a one direction street.

It is developed in different levels creating various zones which are connected through ramps and stairs.

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Fisrt impression of the square is that it is full of life all day long and include all kind of users. The square is divided in different spatial zones, which host different activities which usually are combined creating a familiar environment and an everyday destination for the locals and the visitors of Lavapies.

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Kids running around and playing, men and women sitting on the ground, eating, talking, laughing, drinking beers, playing music, even fighting, selling drugs, sleeping, relaxing, singing, passing by, kissing, reading books, selling poems, juggling, playing ping pong.

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paths of women

paths of men

paths of children

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