From fragments to centrality
some samples of a current project done at the ETH Zürich, together with Georgia Papathanasiou.
Located in Brazil, dealing with the topic of satellite cities around its capital Brasilia.
The main focus for the site in Brasilia will be on the organisation and creation of multiply centralities.
On one hand related to the use and introduction of transportations systems, as an alternative to the use of cars, on the other hand linked to the idea of zoning to establish networks to open up possibilities for a richer urban life, a mix of program and a more complex, divers urbanity.
Mobility—the goal is here to use and trace ‘hard’ infrastructure (street, pathways,..) as a starting point by installing facilities and ecological transportation systems, to activate the spaces and free them from the conventional image of the street scapes.
Creating dispersed centralities through modification of the relations between the private and the public / common spaces.
Challenging the tendency to segreation of the existing urban fabric in the satellites, it is attempted to distribute functions in a way to mobilize the area in the scale of the neighbourhood as well as in a regional scale.
The proposed centralities are meant to achieve a degree of autonomy and at the same time, to structure an urban layout that works as a whole.
A green and public corridor attached with different kinds of facilities and functions connects the city center with the
existing wetlands and recreation area (1st phase) as well as the protected landscapes around Santa Maria (2nd phase).
existing wetlands and recreation area (1st phase) as well as the protected landscapes around Santa Maria (2nd phase).
Urban tools
Fig.01 - Zoning - Fig.02 - Transportation layer - Fig.03 - Public space layer - Fig.04 - Green layer
Only 20 minutes to Plano Piloto with an eco-friendly transportation system!
'Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade' - design proposal by the MAS Urban Design Program ETH Zürich, Publication by Ruby Press - May 2014
http://www.ruby-press.com/books/minha-casa-nossa-cidade
'What...is landscape?'...
'The land, the trees, roads, buildings, and man are regarded not as individual objects, ensembles of varied elements,
or classes of phenomena, but as superficial clues of underlying processes' (Meinig 1979:33-48)
...being featured within Part I of the book - Reading the landscape - 'What...is landscape?'
Asking questions of landscapes through design drawings.
An article by Ed Wall (Academic Leader Landscape, University of Greenwhich)
'The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape' - Karsten Jørgensen, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles, Nilgül Karadeniz
Publication by Taylor & Francis Ltd. - March 2019