tesis taller de arquitectura 5, urbanismo parametrico

FRACTO CITY

FRACTOCITY

BY AHA

Tutor:

Abril GarzaAlejandro DiazHector García

Alex Rodriguez

PROJECT DEFINITION..........................3SITE ANALYSIS.....................................4PROBLEM..............................................5CONCEPT & INTENTIONS.....................6RESEARCH............................................7

DESIGN ENGINE..................................11MASTER PLAN.....................................19

EXPERIMENTS......................................9

INTRODUCTION....................................2

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CONCLUSIONS.....................................31BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................32

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INTRODUCTION

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The project has as objective to open the mind toward new expectations of urban design, trying to generate a new

vision and conceptualization of the city, which can take to the creation of a new city with a different functionality with new layouts and urban designs, for this investigation topics were used with objects and experiments that are to the en-vironment of the life, making it an experimental project with a without end of new design possibilities. All the new proposals were managed in a parametric way and they will be been able to use in the city to try to gener-ate to a drastic change of functionality and trying to give a solution to the problems of the big cities.

PROJECT DEFINITION

Create a conceptual and experimental model of urban design with which you can generate a proposal of In-

ner city less dispersed and disjointed.

With the objective of looking for a solution to some of

the most serious problems in the city like it is it the insufficient vehicular infrastructure, the shortage of green areas and the lack of housing developments, by means of the improvement of the infrastructure, equipment and half urban, as well as the recovery of natural spaces and the development

for the creation of a pedestrian net to promote the not motorized traffic and to reduce the use of the automobile by means of the construction of housing equip-ment and work areas inside a radius not bigger to 15 minutes on foot, providing a bigger quality of life and always considering the citizen as the main factor in the project.

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SITE ANALYSIS

The site is located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. Its situaded in the center of the city, crossed horizontally by the Santa Catarina River in the middle. Two main avenues of the city folow the river, them being Consitutcipon and Morones Prieto.

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SITE ANALYSISPROBLEM

INSECURITYPUBLIC TRANSPORT

GREEN AREASINFRASTRUCTURE

SOCIAL GROUPSDISPARITY

INEFICIENCYSHORTAGE

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CONCEPT

To generate a model of Inner City or urban downtown that it impels and propitiate the social,

economic and cultural development of the area by means of the design of collective spaces, housing, green areas and the necessary urban equipment

INTENTIONS

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sustainable coomunity

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Pedestrian infrastructurePublic transport

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Study that determines the type of fracture, frag-ile or ductile, and the mechanism that gener-

ates it, adicionally.

RESEARCH TOPICO

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PARAMETERS ANALYZEDCrack propagationCrack ramificationShapes generated in the fractureRelation between the length of the frac-ture and the pressure applied.Direction of the crack propagation

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We did research, and we found interesting the way that when a glass breaks from an impact it can create different patterns,

and how each one of these patterns has cracks which connect with all the others cracks in the pattern, we also noticed that there were forms that were created in between the cracks, so we though the cracks and the forms created could work for a city plan, the cracks being possible vehicular connection systems, and all the given forms being everything that can be in a city: living spaces, business centers, commerce, education areas, etc.

Why did we choose this topic?

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We experimented with glass of different thickness and laminationNumber of impacts

3mm FLAT GLASSBOTH SIDES LAMINATED






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3mm FLAT GLASSONE SIDE LAMINATED




6mm FLAT GLASSONE SIDESLAMINATED

3mm FLAT GLASSONE SIDELAMINATED



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THE AIM OF THIS EXPERI-MENT WAS TO FIND IF ONE OF THESE PATTERNS COULD BE APPLIED TO GENERATE AN URBAN MODEL

THROUGH THE EXPERI-MENTATION OF BREAK-ING FLAT GLASS IT WAS FOUND THAT DIFFERENT PATTERNS WERE CREAT-ED IN THE GLASS SURFACE

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ALL CRACKS CREATED CONNECTPOLYGONAL FORMS GENERATED IN EVERY PATTERN

CRACKSVEHICULAR CONNECTION SYSTEM

POLYGONAL FORMSAREAS REQUIREDFOR THE CITY

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Of all the experiments we did with glass, we found this particular one when we used

hammer on a 6mm flat glass surface the most interesting one, since in most of the experi-ments we got radial forms, in this one we got a pattern that had different shapes and cracks that connected themselves all the way through, and being these two thing the reason of why we chose these topic we thought this type of im-pact was the one that could work the most.

Why did we select this type of impact?

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We wanted to create two ur-ban centers, one in each

side of the river, so we wanted everything to go from high densi-ty in the center, to low density in the ends. And we wanted the two sieds of the river to be communi-cated, so making those impacts there generated these patterns that interconnect each other in the center.

Why did we choose those impact spots?

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THREE IMPACTSRADIAL PATTERN IN THE UPPER SIDEDIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF TY-POLOGIES

FOUR IMPACTSCOMBINED PATTERNSDIFFERENCE IN THE NUMBER OF TYPOLOGIES

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types of forms that were generated could be classi-fied in geometrical forms, since all of them were simple figures with a certain number of sides.

We classified them inThree sided shapesFour sided shapesFive sided shapesSix sided shapesSeven sided shapesImpact area shape

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T 53 TYPOLOGIES126 TYPOLOGIES52 TYPOLOGIES2 TYPOLOGIES2 TYPOLOGIES2 TYPOLOGIES

After we classified all the typologies that we ob-

tained, we gave each typology a designation of what it would be used for on the inner city that we are planning.

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TCOMMERCE 185,029m2

LIVING SPACES 1,002,909m2

GREEN AREAS 413,536m2

BUSINESS 301,018m2

PLAZA 165,569m2

EDUCATION 42,929m2

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N Three sided polygons Commerce

These type of shapes were given in the whole pattern. And it was a union spot between other figures, and mainly connected with the four sided ones, that being important because those are the living spaces. So we think commerce areas should be in spots that are connected with all the dif-ferent areas of the city.

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Four sided polygons Living spaces

When we made a sum of all the areas in all the dif-ferent shapes individually, we obtained that the four sided shapes were the ones that had the most area. This being important parameter for all the living area that is going to be in the city, we chose these shapes as the most ideal for the living area.

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SFive sided polygons Green Areas

These shapes were con-nected with each other, and at the same time with all the different types of shapes. They were also scattered all over the pat-tern created by the im-pacts, so the whole city has green areas.

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Six sided polygons Business Areas

These six sided figures were located in the center of each side, and also in the center when the two patterns merge, so this . Also the six sided shape gave us a big area figure, which works for what big business center areas re-quire.

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Education

We chose the only seven sided shape that we ob-tained in the pattern to be the one that contains the education area. The pat-tern gave us this unique shape that is centered, and because of the 7 sides is a big one, so it has a big area that can work for an education space and works because of the cen-trality of itself in relation with all the other areas.

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Impact area Plaza

These shapes were creat-ed in the spot were the im-pact was generated, creat-ing shapes with more than 7 sides, that is going to be used as a plaza, since it is in the center of everything.

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Infrastructure

The crack fractures in the site generate vehicular and walking infractructure,

Walking Corridors

Undergroud Walking Corridors

Public Transport

Main Streets

Secundary Streets

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Pedestrian Infrastructure

The Walking Corridors were designed following the domi-nant winds of Monterrey city, creating wind tunnels and also influenced by the move-ment of the sun over city. 2

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GIVEN BY 2 PARAMETERSAVERAGE OF THE SUM OF THE LONGEST LINE IN THE 4 SIDED POLYGONSAVERAGE OF THE SUM OF THE SHORTEST LINE IN THE 3 SIDED POLYGONS

DENSITIESCENTER MORE DENSITYOUTSIDES LESS DENSITY

HIGHEST HEIGHTLOWEST HEIGHT

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PARAMETRICDIGITAL

LATERAL VIEW TOP VIEW

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CONCLUSIONSThrough the experimentation and the analysis of the ramification of the frac-

tures in the glass a fracture pattern was obtained which was used to gener-ate an urban model, this pattern generated a new city model in which the aim was to solve some of the biggest problems that the city of Monterrey has, like the lack of green areas, the necessity of vertical housing in the area center of the city and the problems of the vehicular infrastructure.

The new proposal of inner city is an answer to these problems, new housing spaces were generated inside the city, as well as big corridors of green areas that interconnect the city, public transportation routes that run along the whole area, with which circulation becomes more efficient, also the proposal of creat-ing big walking corridors inside the city to try to diminish the use of the auto-mobile inside the area.

Thanks to this new one model a more efficient city is generated, where the use of the automobile decreases, so that people can walk and in turn the use of the public transportation is promoted, and also bigger green areas are created, all this with the purpose of giving people a better quality of life and a new ecologi-cal attitude.

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BIBLIOGRAPHYHull, D. (1999). Fractography : observing, measuring, and interpreting fracture surface to-pography. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Tressler, R. E., & E., B. R. (1994). Fractography of glass. New York, USA: Plenum Press,.

Gonzalez, D., Karachaliou, E., Roumelioti, N., & Andres, S. (2008., July 26). kokkugia Research. Retrieved November 2, 2008, from kokkugia Research: http://www.kokkugia.com/wiki/index.php5?title=David_Gonzalez%2C_Evangelia_Karachaliou%2C_Natalia_Roumelioti%2C_Andres_Serpa%2C

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