bus brakes and engine lowing down
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bus engine waiting
bus engine waiting
group of young Japanese talking before entering the restaurant
hydraulic group of young Japanese brake talking before entering and the restaurant acceleration
car engines approaching the traffic light and taking off
power generator and wind interference
man clicking the lighter 3 times in an attempt to light up his cigarette
[ Venice St. ]
car engines starting
traffic noise fading away
hydraulic brake
car engines accelerate
car brakes
car engine approaching
traffic noise fading away
wheels of handluggage case rolling by
pedestrains talking
car car engines brakes accelerating
bike brakes
traffic flow
pedestrians talking
car engines in idle gear
car engines accelerating
[ Whitworth St. ]
bus engine in idle gear and distant traffic noise
traffic flow
pedestrians conversating footsteps background traffic noises
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loud electronic music
heels on the
wind background traffic noise
footsteps
On the Move: An Architectural Model Exploring Transportable and Improved Living Networks for Nomadic Communities
[RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship Project Summary]
The main objectives of the study are:
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Foreword
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Stage 1
Manchester, UK September 2013 - May 2014
Stage 2
Bucharest, Romania June 2014 - August 2014
Declaration
No portion of the work referred to in the dissertation has been submitted in support of an application
Copyright Statement
Notes on copyright and the ownership of intellectual property rights:
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Acknowledgements
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STUDIO 5.1
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‘[...]some things have to let themselves go to ruin
The Presence of Absence
presence to the architectural form and creates a new type of spatial and aesthetic freedom 1
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Paralyzed Aspirations: A Global Overview
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PARIS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
reproduction of the Arc de
France
17.
Biosphere 2 Arizona, US
16.
2.
1. Salton Sea
10. The New South China Mall
unoccupied.
3. 6.
Cafe
Information Point
News Stand
7.
Public WC
5. Isla de la Juventud
4.
B&B
Gift Shop
16. Albania’s Concrete Mushrooms VENICE
Aspiration:
Gondola rides on a
12.
Present Condition:
13.
15.
16.
14.
Airports of the USS
Reason for Interruption:
Frame Modularity: a template of rapid implementation and space
6. 11.
9.
10.
a space untainted by material
7. 8. Australia
Sinai Hotels Jordan
crete
boundaries or
When Hyperreal Meets Stalled
1
Which are the truly dystopian spaces?
that can be designed to cleanse the Junkspaces 2
According to Baudrillard
3
when the culture employs a modernist gesture and somehow a consumerist tendency produces the disease of Junkspace?
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2 3
FAKENESS BEAUTY
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SOCIAL ORDER
TIME
REPRESENTATION
SIMULATION
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Manchester: Brand City
has entered a perpetual state of restructuring
1
be - unmindful of the chaos the future might actually bring - rather than the present
Post-industrial Manchester has shifted its attention towards more ephemeral sectors
2
3
1
2 3
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Workshop 1
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? Exploration
?
possible stalled sites based on the
that were discussed and debated
? With the Origin site as the reference the Northern section of the strip sites
only
that
had
reached
physical
and most eloquent stalled
our understanding in terms of the traces of which are still notable across
3.
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Incomplete Infrastructures: Manchester
-
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ORIGIN, Princess St.
2
URBAN SPLASH, New Islington
MAPPING SUSPENDED SPACES Suspended
spaces
are
an
12
4
Manchester city centre is scattered with a network of them – stalled 5
buildings and empty plots – and many can be found within walking
11
along central water infrastructural
Stalled transitions between the past demonstrate what can happen
10
9 15
stalled sites after the 8
undeveloped sites
1.
stalled sites prior to the
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GRAND CENTRAL
14
POLYGON 26 & 27
2.
13
FOUNDRY LANE
3
SARAH POINT, Ancoats St.
53 NOMA, Todd St.
4
5
Pic-Vic Tunnel
6
CHINA LANE
7
PICCADILLY TOWER
8
RIVER STREET
resumed
4
13 5 3
14 2 6
7
1
9
AXIS TOWER, Albion St.
N
3.
12
GREENGATE 1-7
4.
11
CHAPEL WHARF
10
POTATO WHARF
1
92
Potato Wharf Site
AXIS Tower, Albion
90
87
ORIGIN, Princess St.
River Street Tower
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Piccadilly Tower
82
China Lane Site
nal
ale Ca
Rochd
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Conservation Area Inner City Ring Road Approximate Walking Distance
Origin
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Manchester: Brand City
1
1
2
3
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the area has other needs:
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On - site actors BLDA Consultancy (sunlight & daylight analysis)
Key Actors Autorities & State Bodies Human Actors Consulting/ Auxilliary Actors
Drivers Jonas (planning advisers)
Fabe (traffic, eco
Greater Manchester Police (crime impact statement)
Local Planning Authority Ken Dobson (city centre councillor)
Sir Howard Bernstein (council chief executive)
Morgan Stanley (current owner)
Local Community
English Herita
City Council
Ian Simpson (architecture practice)
NAMA (National Asset Management Agency)
Companies House Register
MIMAS Properties Ltd. (client) ‘W’ Hotel West Properties (developer)
Stage 1: Consulting & Approval Stage 2: Design Developments & Analysis
Starwood Group (hotel & resorts developer)
Francis Hilto (managing dire
Donal Mulryan (sole shareholder)
Stage 3: On - site evolution Stage 4: Post-recession Impact, new actors & role reversals
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Lambert Smith Hampton (office agents)
Consultancy daylight analysis)
Chris Burnett Associates (visual impact assesment)
TRI Colliers Robert Barry (hotel advisors)
Mark Vaughan Gillingham (retail agents)
Heritage Architecture (heritagel analysis)
Faber Mansell/AECOM (traffic, ecology & environmental assesment) Chris Burnett Associates (visual impact assesment)
DACL (concrete, rebar, formwork and falsework, craneage & pumps supplier) Ellis Design (foundation & excavation)
English Heritage
ein ive)
Byland Engineers Ltd (geotechnical design engineers)
Dunne (structural engineers)
son practice)
nies House Register
WSP Environmental Ltd (environmental, fire, structural & geotechnical analysis)
CABE (Comission for Architecture & Built Environment)
Francis Hilton (managing director)
ARUP (radio & television interference) Chris Speck (’Save Our Village’ campaign)
Donal Mulryan (sole shareholder)
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In
F
February
b
pump is installed.
Th Chris Speck launches the ‘Save our Village’ campaign agains the disruptive construction process, criticizing the impact the
14th November The Planning Application is lodged.
In la
a
on Canal Street’s culture.
b p
2006
2007
C
27th March The project is receives planning approval.
D A B
Concept
E
2009
J
Developers fail to submit accounts information and to respond to notices in the month of January.
Technical Design
Design Deveopment
Appraisal
F
Production Information
Design Brief
G
Tender Documentation
H
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Tender Action
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Mobilisation
Construction to Practical Completion
The companies House Register suspends the project .
Project is ‘back on track’ aiming for a 2011 opening.
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In September, a petition is launched by Ken Dobson (city centre councillor) against the unattractive stalled site. Hoardings are moved back for better access to pavements and parking.
2010
2009
rs fail to submit information and nd to notices in nth of January.
mpanies House r suspends the project .
s ‘back on track’ g for a 2011 opening.
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2012
2011
2013
West Properties (Donal Mulryan and Francis Hilton) meet council chief executive (Sir Howard Bernstein).
The entire scheme is re-evaluated with the residential component reconsidered.
Post Practical Completion
L
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question:
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Location Plan 1:2000 @ A1
Location Plan 1:1000 @ A1
B
A
A
N
B
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Historical Context
1
1807 [Roper]
1824 [Swire]
1848 [Slater]
1870 [Bartholomew]
1900 [Bartholomew]
1913 [Kelly]
1959 [Ordinance Survey]
2006 [Ordinance Survey]
N
1
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A Forgotten Encounter
An interesting feature of the site that can later inform further spatial and conceptual interpretations 1
1
N
1807 [Roper]
1848 [Slater]
2006 [Ordinance Survey]
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It is important to note the permeable footprint the site displayed prior to demolition as well as the
2 3
C
1 B
4
D A
5
N
1
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1
B
2
C
3
D
4
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Urban Palimpsest: Destruction and Renewal
1
or piece of writing material on which later writing has
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Workshop 2
current condition. investigating aspects such as:
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Mapping the Visible
elements and situations that inform its direct connection to the immediate and
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][
RO CH DA LE
RY BU Victoria Station
][
LE
][
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Deansgate Station
Station
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/ LIV
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Station
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ALTRINCHAM
LD
FIE
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L FO STRETFORD
M60 / WYTHRENSHAW
Absorbent Boundaries
GREEN QUARTER
RETAIL CORE
NORTHERN QUARTER
PICCADILLY GATEWAY
SPINNINGFIELDS CENTRAL BUSINESS CORE
CHINATOWN LEFT BANK THE VILLAGE
EASTERN GATEWAY
PETER’S FIELD CASTLEFIELD UNIVERSITIES
SOUTHERN GATEWAY
N
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A Programmatic Vacuum
civic institution
abandoned
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Issues of Permeability
Building
House
EDGE
PATH
NODE
LANDMARK
1
as elements
A special focus will be attributed to the notion of paths as they regulate and distribute urban
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handrail
pole
tree lining
strong edge
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hoarding
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I M I N A
I N E
and border as physical or conceptual conditions that create potentials for interaction or 2
3
1
2 3
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The Descent
light cones become our guide through the pitch-black spaces while echoes of the outside world are
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Mapping the Invisible
Mapping the Spatial Value
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1.6 m (King St.)
+
1.3 m (Portland St. & Oxford St.)
+
+
56 k (Chinatown)
+ +
110 k (Origin)
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Crime Data
+ 245
Burglary: 42
+175
Other theft: 290
+143
+ 127
Vehicle crime: 42 +82
Other crime: 9 +48
+18
+54
+14
+29
+98 +34
+14
period:
Violent crime: 1
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A Sonic Exploration
human sound sources
points of on-site recording temporary sound source
differentiate from one another
permanent sound source
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Soundscapes
sound across four different locations along the site boundaries:
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power generator
power generator
power car brakes generator
car engine starting
woman’s heels
power generator
woman shouting a friend’s name
power generator
[ Venice St. ]
car engine
car in idle gear
car car in car car in brakes idle brakes idle
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engine accelerating
car engine starting
restaurant employee sweeping the street
car brakes
group of men chatting
car engine
restaurant employee sweeping along Brazil St.
woman’s heels
coworkers chatting
woman’s heels
passer-by footsteps
car engine and brakes
car engine starting passer-by voices
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
multiple car engines driving by
car engine accelerating
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
loud music from car halted at traffic light
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car engine accelerating
wheel hand lug case goi
EAST SIDE [ Venice St. with Whitwort
[ Venice St. with Sackville St. Intersection ]
pedestrians talking
man far-away giving traffic directions noise
pedestrians talking
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
pedestrians talking
traffic noise chatting in the distance
traffic noise fading away
car engines accelerating
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cars car brakes driving by
car engines accelerating
estrins king
luaggage wheels
bike wheels
car engine starting passer-by voices
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
multiple car engines driving by
man far-away giving traffic directions noise
wheels of hand luggage case going by
wheels of hand luggage case
bus brakes and engine slowing down
bus engine waiting
bus engine waiting
group of young Japanese talking before entering the restaurant
hydraulic group of young Japanese brake talking before entering and the restaurant acceleration
car engines approaching the traffic light and taking off
EAST SIDE [ Venice St. with Whitworth St. Intersection ]
29 %
power generator and wind interference
man clicking the lighter 3 times in an attempt to light up his cigarette
[ Venice St. ]
41 % human sound source
traffic noise chatting in the distance
traffic noise fading away
car engines accelerating
cars car brakes driving by
car engines accelerating
car brakes
car engines starting
traffic noise fading away
hydraulic brake
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[ Whitworth St. ]
car engines accelerate
car brakes
car engine approaching
traffic noise fading away
wheels of handluggage case rolling by
pedestrains talking
car car engines brakes accelerating
pedestrians talking
car engines in idle gear
car engines accelerating
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power generator
power car brakes generator
car engine starting
woman’s heels
power generator
power generator
woman shouting a friend’s name
[ Venice St. ]
car engine
car in idle gear
car car in car car in brakes idle brakes idle
engine accelerating
car brakes
group of men chatting
car engine
restaurant employee sweeping along Brazil St.
woman’s heels
coworkers chatting
woman’s heels
passer-by footsteps
car engine starting passer-by voices
car engine and brakes
car approaching
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
b w
[ Venice St. with Sackville St. Intersection ]
pedestrians talking
car engine accelerating
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
loud music from car halted at traffic light
car engine accelerating
pedestrians talking
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
pedestrians talking
traffic noise chatting in the distance
traffic noise fading away
car engines accel
SOUTH SIDE [Pri
bus hydraulic brakes
bus in idle gear
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pedestrains talking and traffic background
bus accelerating
car engines
traffic noise fading away
pedestrian conversation
cars driving by
honk car engine accelerating
car breaks
car engine in idle gear
car/bus engine accelerating
traffic intensifying
WEST SIDE [Prince
bike wheels
multiple car engines driving by
celerating
man far-away giving traffic directions noise
wheels of hand luggage case going by
wheels of hand luggage case
EAST SIDE [ Venice St. with Whitworth St. Intersection ]
cars car brakes driving by
car engines accelerating
bus brakes and engine slowing down
bus engine waiting
bus engine waiting
car engines starting
car brakes
car engines starting
group of young Japanese talking before entering the restaurant
hydraulic group of young Japanese brake talking before entering and the restaurant acceleration
car brakes
car engines approaching the traffic light and taking off
power generator and wind interference
car brakes
man clicking the lighter 3 times in an attempt to light up his cigarette
[ Venice St. ]
traffic noise fading away
hydraulic brake
car engines accelerate
car brakes
car engine approaching
traffic noise fading away
wheels of handluggage case rolling by
pedestrains talking
car car engines brakes accelerating
bike brakes
traffic flow
pedestrians talking
car engines in idle gear
car engines accelerating
Princess St.]
g
cess St.]
[ Whitworth St. ]
4%
91 %
human sound source
car engines fading away
footsteps and conversation
bus brakes
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mechanical sound source
traffic flow
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pedestrians conversating footsteps background traffic noises
wind background traffic noise
footsteps
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power generator
power car brakes generator
car engine starting
woman’s heels
power generator
power generator
woman shouting a friend’s name
car brakes
[ Venice St. ]
car engine
car in idle gear
car car in car car in brakes idle brakes idle
engine accelerating
group of men chatting
car engine
restaurant employee sweeping along Brazil St.
woman’s heels
coworkers chatting
woman’s heels
passer-by footsteps
car engine starting passer-by voices
car engine and brakes
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
multiple car engin driving by
EAST S
[ Venice St. with Sackville St. Intersection ]
pedestrians talking
car engine accelerating
traffic noise fading away
loud music from car halted at traffic light
car engine approaching
car engine accelerating
pedestrians talking
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
pedestrians talking
car brakes
traffic noise chatting in the distance
traffic noise fading away
car engines accelerating
cars driving by
SOUTH SIDE [Princess St.]
bus hydraulic brakes
bus in idle gear
bus engine
pedestrains talking and traffic background
bus accelerating
car engines
pedestrian conversation
traffic noise fading away
cars driving by
honk car engine accelerating
car breaks
car engine in idle gear
car/bus engine accelerating
traffic intensifying
car engi
WEST SIDE [Princess St.]
11 %
84 % mechanical sound source
human sound source
conversation between two men by the canal side water flow in the background other voices coming from the
conversation between two men by the canal side water flow in the background traffic noise
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talk, laughter, shout traffic noise
traffinc noise conversations
car engine starting
traffinc noise conversations
car engine starting
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conversations
light- conversations er click
door car conversation betweem two men, creaking brakes music on the background and closing
conversations, laughter, glasses clinking, music on the background
conversations, music on the background
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NORTH SIDE [Canal St.]
bus brak es
bu bra conv tions o
car engine starting passer-by voices
ngine brakes
ks
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
multiple car engines driving by
man far-away giving traffic directions noise
wheels of hand luggage case going by
wheels of hand luggage case
bus brakes and engine slowing down
bus engine waiting
bus engine waiting
group of young Japanese talking before entering the restaurant
hydraulic group of young Japanese brake talking before entering and the restaurant acceleration
car engines approaching the traffic light and taking off
power generator and wind interference
EAST SIDE [ Venice St. with Whitworth St. Intersection ]
pedestrians talking
traffic noise chatting in the distance
traffic noise fading away
car engines accelerating
car brakes
cars car brakes driving by
car engines accelerating
hydraulic brakes car brakes
[ Venice St. ]
bus in idle gear traffic noise fading away
car engines starting
hydraulic brake
car engines accelerate
car brakes
car engine approaching
traffic noise fading away
wheels of handluggage case rolling by
pedestrains talking
car car engines brakes accelerating
bike brakes
traffic flow
pedestrians talking
SOUTH SIDE [Princess St.]
[ Whitworth St. ]
car engine in idle gear
car/bus engine accelerating
traffic intensifying
car engines fading away
footsteps and conversation
bus brakes
bus engine in idle gear and distant traffic noise
traffic flow
pedestrians conversating footsteps background traffic noises
backgrou
WEST SIDE [Princess St.]
conversations, laughter, glasses clinking, music on the background
conversations, music on the background
conversations, music on the background bus brakes
bus brak es
bus brakes conversations on the
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bus brakes conversations on the background
conversations
conversations water on the backgound
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loud electronic music
loud electronic music
loud electronic music
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music, heels water flow on the music on the background background
heels, conversations
slow music, water flow on the bac
power generator
power car brakes generator
car engine starting
woman’s heels
power generator
power generator
woman shouting a friend’s name
car brakes
[ Venice St. ]
car engine
car in idle gear
car car in car car in brakes idle brakes idle
engine accelerating
group of men chatting
car engine
restaurant employee sweeping along Brazil St.
woman’s heels
coworkers chatting
woman’s heels
passer-by footsteps
car engine starting passer-by voices
car engine and brakes
multiple car engines driving by (straight ahead)
car engine accelerating (taking a right turn)
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
multiple car engines driving by
EAST SIDE [ Ve
[ Venice St. with Sackville St. Intersection ]
pedestrians talking
car engine accelerating
traffic noise fading away
loud music from car halted at traffic light
car engine approaching
car engine accelerating
m gi dire
pedestrians talking
traffic noise fading away
car engine approaching
pedestrians talking
traffic noise fading away
traffic noise chatting in the distance
car engines accelerating
cars car brake driving by
SOUTH SIDE [Princess St.]
bus hydraulic brakes
bus in idle gear
bus engine
pedestrains talking and traffic background
bus accelerating
car engines
pedestrian conversation
traffic noise fading away
two men
conversation between two men by the canal side water flow in the background other voices coming from the
conversation between two men by the canal side water flow in the background traffic noise
car brakes
talk, laughter, shout traffic noise
cars driving by
honk car engine accelerating
car breaks
door creaking and closing
traffinc noise conversations
car engine starting
traffinc noise conversations
car engine starting
conversations
light- conversations er click
door car conversation betweem two men, creaking brakes music on the background and closing
car engine in idle gear
car/bus engine accelerating
backgorund
conversations, laughter, glasses clinking, music on the background
traffic intensifying
WEST SIDE [Princess St.]
conversations, music on the background
conversations, music on the background bus brakes
NORTH SIDE [Canal St.]
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car engines fading
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bus brak es
bus brakes conversations on the
multiple car engines driving by
bike wheels
man far-away giving traffic directions noise
multiple car engines driving by
wheels of hand luggage case going by
wheels of hand luggage case
bus brakes and engine slowing down
bus engine waiting
bus engine waiting
group of young Japanese talking before entering the restaurant
hydraulic group of young Japanese brake talking before entering and the restaurant acceleration
car engines approaching the traffic light and taking off
EAST SIDE [ Venice St. with Whitworth St. Intersection ]
car engines accelerating
cars car brakes driving by
car engines accelerating
car brakes
man clicking the lighter 3 times in an attempt to light up his cigarette
power generator and wind interference
[ Venice St. ]
car engines starting
traffic noise fading away
hydraulic brake
car engines accelerate
car brakes
car engine approaching
traffic noise fading away
wheels of handluggage case rolling by
pedestrains talking
car car engines brakes accelerating
bike brakes
traffic flow
pedestrians talking
car engines in idle gear
car engines accelerating
SOUTH SIDE [Princess St.]
[ Whitworth St. ]
traffic intensifying
car engines fading away
footsteps and conversation
bus brakes
bus engine in idle gear and distant traffic noise
WEST SIDE [Princess St.]
ersans, on the ound
conversations, music on the background bus brakes
traffic flow
pedestrians conversating footsteps background traffic noises
bus brakes conversations on the
bus brakes conversations on the background
conversations
conversations water on the backgound
footsteps
heels on the
loud electronic music
bus brak es
wind background traffic noise
loud electronic music
loud electronic music
loud electronic music
music, heels water flow on the music on the background background
heels, conversations
slow music, water flow on the background
water flow
NORTH SIDE [Canal St.]
64 %
5% human sound source
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references to green areas
8%
sea or beach related programmes
6%
sex and party related programmes
10 %
various programmes
the crescent
a party
10 % 9%
a second hand bookshop
gang bang
strong language
11 %
em
references to drugs
10 %
oth
green area
Park
a predominant need for an open space or green Built!
Park
Not in the universe
Park
?
?
Green Space :)
5th Avenues ruins.
Park
SKATE
PARK
A Crack Pipe !!
something!
Belgium
Madrid
A GAY BAR !
A place for people to relax and chill and sing
the queen soaking fanny!!
A Park !
NBD
George Henry
LANDFILL a disco
PARK
Gardens which is located within the immediate A Park
D
A Park :)
a brothel
a park
Shark Tank !
A Public Space
NBD
usefull
Park
Brothel
full of penis
M+S
better
Housing for the poor
WEED !
ethnic
(urban park)
A Park
+
Pond
FINISHED!
Chocolate Factory
B
A
8%
sea or beach related programmes
6%
sex and party related programmes
9%
references to drugs
Just GRASS :)
car park - ed
Pretty!
a party
A Beach for Village after-partys :)
NOT a HIGH BUILD
a mosque
a park
A big booty hoe!
full of MDMA
?
?
crack
An erection section
MALL
B
AREA
SHOPPING
dogging
x
x x
another gay bar :)
x
x
x
x
A Kids Activity Centre
A strip club.
x
x
GREEN AREA
a park
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Tourist 10 %
11 %
emotional Student Commuter
10 %
indecipherable responses
strongDelivery language Party Goer Man Restaurant Staff
10 %
various resposes
x
responses
Business Man
Park
gang bang
a second hand
green area
Park
Not in the universe
Park
?
?
Park
Green Space :)
5th Avenues ruins.
Park
SKATE
PARK
A Crack Pipe !!
A park full of love, live and laughter:)
LANDFILL
something!
Belgium
Madrid
A GAY BAR !
A place for people to relax and chill
Brucie’s nipples
a rape den !!
the queen soaking fanny!!
A Park !
NBD
George Henry
PARK
PARK
A Park
a brothel
A Park :)
Shark Tank !
a park
James Lake
NBD
usefull
open air pool
A Public Space (urban park)
Horse Riding School
skate-park a kiddie shop
Park
Theatre
Brothel
full of penis Housing for the poor
M+S
better
WEED !
ethnic
FINISHED!
more of those.
A THEME PARK! Open as a park!
A Garden to chill
Park
a brothel
Enclosed park
benches and birds
a car
park
NOT HERE/ (please) Park Just GRASS :)
?
Park
Pond
Heated Gay Beach Chocolate Factory
car park - ed
A Beach for Village NOT a HIGH BUILD full of MDMA
K+H
x
fuck
GARDENS !
Pretty!
a party
a mosque
a park
NOT Manchester x
?
?
crack
An erection section
A GARDEN
AREA
SHOPPING
MALL
dogging
x
x
Ruiz Palace mate.
x
another gay bar :)
x
x
x
x
A Kids Activity Centre
A strip club.
x
x
x
GREEN AREA
a park
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
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x my fanneh! cock
SWIMMING beers...under the sun
D
A GARDEN SWIMMING
Ruiz Palace mate.
a party
A big booty hoe!
C
park
Built!
Park
GARDENS !
a brothel
the crescent
a disco
fuck
?
cock
A Garden to chill
beers...under the sun
references to green areas
x
Park
a car
71
K+H
x
Open as a park! // yes please
Enclosed park surroounded by bars and cafes
36%
Park baby smile
my fanneh!
Park
benches and birds
A
N
NOT HERE/ (please)
more of those.
A THEME PARK!
Horse Riding School
Heated Gay Beach Manchester needs a beach!
?
what are the elements that make a public space successful? C
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Workshop 3 Material Inventories
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1
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Archiving the Interrupted
2
1 2
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S Rebar Safety Cap
Electric Cable & Protection
Underground Cable Protection
shaft entrances
M Supporting Grill
construction fragments
Broken Frame
Planks
a frame structure
abandoned marketing elements
door lighting samples
Street Light
Site Spot - Lights
Protective Grill (Type 1) mesh
internal boundaries
waste containers
temporary storage elements
L
Bin (Type 1)
Bin (Type 2)
Skip
Container
Temporary Structure
Temporary Electrics Structure
area of the site that is considered
porary structures
roof
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Handcart
Safety Barrier (Type 1)
Safety Barrier Mesh
Safety Barrier (Type 2)
mm
Supporting Elements
Gate
Concrete Elements
Modular Bars
Tubes
Advertising Panels
Fence
Protective Grill (Type 2)
Hoarding
Banner Poles
area mesh
Container (Type 1)
Container (Type 2)
Fuel Barrels
Box (Type1)
Box (Type 2)
mm
Temporary WC
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Electrical Box
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Vegetation
Rubble
site area
site area
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An Underground X-Ray: Ambition vs. Reality
B.
of the possible encountered challenges in translating
A.
D.
C.
relocated or altered; discrepancies in the framework and building strategy from an
been built as intended
the reading of the superimposed plans can also
dimension;
structural strategies;
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Isolating Uncleanness
1
She continues to propose two ways these situations can be addressed in social practice: on one 2
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A Taxonomy of Litter
the impure and what are the temporal rhythms behind these unregulated practices?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Wear
5.
6.
7.
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Mapping the Impure
litter containers for public use
4.
7. 7.
1.
7.
5. 6.
4. 6. 7.
5.
2. 2.
1.
3. 3.
1. 1. 2.
5.
6. 3.
2. 5.
2.
3.
4. 2.
1.
2.
1.
4.
4.
2.
3.
6. 3.
4.
7. 1.
7.
1.
4.
4.
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Potato Wharf
River Street
and tram networks are also present on the site
With the ongoing aspirations for a high-quality Studies of artifacts found around the site
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Axis Tower
Piccadilly Tower
human agencies and gradually eroded by its important to note this is the only stalled site that has implemented the tactics of regulated temporary use until the construction process
concrete foundations and the partially casted
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Project Timeline & Involved Actors
AMBITION vs. REALITY
Spatial Social Economical Impact
Visual Permeability
BOUNDARIES
Lack of Accesability
Incomplete Structure
THE STALLED SITE
ARCHIVE
Overground Construction Fragments
Signs of Weathering
MATERIALITY
Reduced Material Complexity/ Anonimity
?
Physical Evidence
HUMAN TRANSGRESSION
Crime Levels/ Spatial Violation
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Strategic Location
Conservation Area
CONTEXT
Social Diversity
Litter and Signs of Appropriation
High levels of privacy/ intimacy
UNDERGROUND
ORIGIN
A self-regulating enclave
Structural Disjunction
ASPIRATION
Public vs. Developer Aspirations
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Site Interpretation
Fig.1: Spatial Exploration
the surrounding noises regulate his internal
all products of circumstance that resuscitate
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levels of isolation proportional to
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Site Interpretation
of a critique towards the architectural
reinforces the idea that Origin was meant to
encounters
group
militated
for
a
opposing any form of disintegration or urban decay that could compromise its brand;
proletarian
increased material wealth of workers was not enough to stop class struggle
Situationist tactics included attempting to
potential
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Isolation
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In order to understand the rhythm of the urban spaces and the effects it bears -
-
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HM
H
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HM
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ac
HM
th
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Ho
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M
Site Interpretation
Minu
te
Second
H
Sp
Generation
by a strong daily and partcularly weekly
into and what new rhythms could emerge?
order to intercept the rhythms outside the
set of guidelines in understanding not only the general urban pulse in terms of ecoN
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ignated to the intellectual elite:
-
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Site Interpretation
and its inheret pleasures
Doctrine
of
something
of transgression of the
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Workshop 4 Space Network + Infrastructure Geometry
manipulate a set of possible spatial relationships that could enable the reintegration of the site the right place to insert a new link that could reinforce or challenge the direction of an entire
What are the spatial coordinates that could block or channel the sonic penetration throughout the structure?
site-related responses?
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Cartesian Netweorks
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A.
Z
Shaft Z
X
Y
X
between the canal datum and the underground carpark
X
Y
Y
boundary; Z
X
possible spatial relationships emerging from the inhibition or
B.
Z
Sound Direction
Y
X
X
Y
between the building datums
Z
Y
X
urban grain and the sound direction penetrating the stalled structure through the access shafts;
Z
-
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Cartesian Explorations: Overground
1.
Z
Y
X
intended to connect the
to the orientation of each
pedestrian permeability and
2.
Z
ce our
dS
un So Y
X
site;
contribute to the isolation of leisure - related;
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3.
Z
ss
cce
tA
f Sha Y
X
circulation by challenging the concept of the regulated
intersecting routes accordthe underground structure
4.
Z
Y
X
underground acoustic properties by using the crane shafts as sound channeling
intersecting routes accordthe underground structure
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Workshop 5 1 | 11 | 13
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Politics, Power and Plural Urbanism
DEFINITION
TEMPORARY :
TRANSITIONAL:
TRANSITORY:
PERMANENT:
1.
2.
3.
TEMPORARY
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TRANSITIONAL
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SPATIAL AGENCY TEMPORARY :
impermanent
TRANSITIONAL:
‘metamorphic’
process
TRANSITORY (TRANSIENT) a spatially dynamic
PERMANENT condition to a long-lasting
5.
6.
7.
PERMANENT
TRANSITORY
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TEMPORARY TACTICS
ARE ALL INTERVENTIONS ENGAGING? * passive vs. active
by solar energy; stalled sites temporary brand and pop-up stores leasing
interested parties
mediums;
until real-estate;
2009;
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TRANSITIONAL TACTICS * programmatic anonymity vs. programmatic drive?
and unplanned use of a larger structure;
political regimes and wars which contaminated its structure;
open both physical and mental boundaries in propositions;
West Berlin;
aesthetics of decay;
witnessed a construction boom; the people who want to maintain the city as it is;
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war schools;
TRANSIENT TACTICS
interested parties
buildings; policy; bath;
what the centre of Berlin now looks like: dreary around a tree or casts the pattern of a fence or the
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urban restructuring;
caused by this plan but also with recording them;
camp and meeting place;
planned to be erradicated;
BERLIN FREE ZONE 3-2
KITCHEN MONUMENT
SCHOOL PARASITES
OP-TREK
boundary
Anonimity
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PERMANENT TACTICS
- stalled skyscraper
district;
equipped it with a plumbing system;
delineations;
city;
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uninhabited levels on the North side of the building, crowned by a heliport
abandoned areas in the South sector of the building, yet to be occupied
sales of ‘empanadas’, housing, terrace gym and temporary accomodation bakery, housing convenience store, housing housing and convenience store selling cards, cigars and bread housing and convenience store selling groceries and chicken
housing housing
childcare services, convenience store, home-made ice-cream store, ice bags sale, stationary shop, housing housing convenience store, arcade, housing housing housing, store selling ice cream and ‘granzados’, convenience store selling sweets (chucherias) and calling cards
parking, housing parking, housing, hair salon, church parking, housing,sale of basic goods (rice, canned tuna, sugar, cooking oil, butter, soap and detergents, spices, toilet paper, soft drinks) parking, housing two guarded entrances (one on Avenida Andres Bello and the other in barrio Sarria), guarded football and basketball courts, parking entrance
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3rd generation
2nd generation
1st generation
* ad-hoc urbanism
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two main reasons:
settlers;
process resumes;
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Illegal | Temporary Use
ORIGIN - A TACTICAL MODEL
Rejection
Persistance
Feral Urbanism
DIY Urbanism
of the underground stalled structure for sheltering purposes;
construction process; raising awareness from the authorities and businesses;
Negotiation
Integration
Temporary Urbanism
Incremental Urbanism
Legal | Permanent
implementation;
placemaking; interaction between members of the community; permanent;
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Workshop 6
static condition of the stagnant condition of the stalled site?
and transitional forms of temporal practice under one diagram that analyses the
Overground Temporary
Transient
Rejection
Integration
Permanent
Transitional Underground
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1, 2
A Strip of Interaction
inform the programmatic and
conceptual The
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1, 2
The
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1, 2
2
Experiment
denied access
granted access
that determine the segregation the
rules seems to strictly regulate the
A total of 9 clubs or bars granted my
based on the grounds that I could not
their access through a set of unwritten
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1, 2
YARON MATRAS
DELJANA IOSSIFOVA
Manchester School of Architecture
years following the release of the work borders and the community to be willing to interact with me;
that will focus on a trust-based relationship that scarcity and what would be the economical and
lifestyle into architectural language could lead to girls while teaching them the basics in the English
and arrangements;
skills; under one concept; deeply rooted customs and beliefs that prompts
would be particularly useful as it would become
when building the relationship with the community;
suggested;
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1, 2
The ty
multilingual m
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Grid/ Group Theory
1
2
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1, 2
common reason to be together though with less of a
TYPES OF CULTURES & THE FOUR RATIONALITIES
1, 2
GRID
FATALISM
HIERARCHY
‘B’
‘A’
GROUP
GROUP
INDIVIDUALISM
EGALITARIANISM
‘C’
‘D’
GRID
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1, 2
A Face in the Crowd
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1, 2
Rewriting the Project Narrative
the condition of the stalled site as well as the interpretations that can emerge by analysing the
the conceptual sphere and introduce notions such as
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1, 2
LITTER
SPATIAL JUSTICE
BOUNDARIES
PURE/ IMPURE
PERMANENCE/ TRANSIENCE (NOMADIC)
STALLED
MINORITY/ MAJORITY
INCREMENTAL PARASITICAL
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ROMA GYPSIES
ROMA CAMP
FAIRGROUND
PRIMARY
INTERMEDIATE
GAY
(the village)
VILLAGE EXTENSION
SECONDARY
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Extending the Site Boundaries
If he
community;
donations;
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Programmatic Principle
PERFORMANCE
SHELTER
Trust
ADAPTING
Distrust
EXPLORATION
ROOTING
TRADE
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Stage 6: ‘ over 10 years Stage 5: ‘ 5 - 10 years Stage 4: ‘ 2 - 3 years Stage 3: ‘
10y
1 - 2 years Stage 2: ‘ 6 months - 1 year
P
5y
R FO ER
Stage 1: 0 - 6 months
3y
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2y 1y 6m SH E
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INWARD Transgression
Defense
Distrust Boundary
Rooting
OUTWARD Direct Link
Border Trust
Approach
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1, 2
Pure vs. Impure in Roma Practice
1
1
2
1
2
interactions
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practices
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Annex A The 2013 RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship
a different understanding and appropriation of
My methodology stems from the belief that archi-
-
-
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Although some progress was made during the last years in this area through European legislation
to physically force them apart from the surrounding local
ally unstable and are rarely decorated maintaining a purely
creates identity; tainable and independent lifestyle;
-
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-
-
-
designed for sedentary people?
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what these structures mean to them and how they speak through the homes they are per-
-
-
-
-
-
implementation of these concepts that could lead towards new approaches in the manner
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Annex B
Building the Hypothesis gypsies are rising;
to the main commercial area of Market
are made aware of their presence and raid itinerants trundle mattresses and belongings in buggies and stolen supermarket trolleys;
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A ROMA CAMP STAGE 1: ILLEGAL APPROPRIATION - ORIGIN AS HIDEOUT
closest site to Market Street for sheltering purposes;
centre;
structure;
Transgression
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STAGE 2: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM
scattered across the city;
sorting the construction rubble that will consequently be used to build their own required materials;
consideration the growing number of incoming nomads;
Rooting
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STAGE 3 : BOUNDARY EXPANSION
scattered across the city;
sorting the construction rubble that will consequently be used to build their own required materials;
consideration the growing number of incoming nomads;
Defense
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STAGE 4 : EQUILIBRIUM
disappears but a strong connection is still maintained with the Village programme;
needs of the community;
the sheltering function will always shift towards the top of the structure;
Approach
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STAGE 5 : DECLINE
Tactical Connections
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