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THE GRIDS The area is an urban void at the crossing point where 3 different grids of the city meet but do don con-nect:

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[The Area]parks and [dis]connections

THE LIMITS The Zoo, the train station and the ronda [highway] cut the site in two, not allowing pedestrians to cross from one side to the other:

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Estación Ronda

Zoo

Ciutadella

Zoo

THE ENTRANCES The Ciutadella park has access from the Eixample and the El Born grids. The other parks are not well connected to the city:

THE USERS Because of the lack of prop-er access, only the Ciutadella park is fully used by barcelonians. The other parks remain empty most of the time:

Barceloneta Park

Cascades Park Ciutadella ParkEstación de Francia

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Curitiba_Brazil

Area: 430 km2Park Area: 90 km2% Green Areas: 20.93%Population: 1,746,896


The World healTh organizaTion suggesTs aT leasT a minimum of 9 m2 of green open space per ciTy dWeller.

51,50 m2 | hab

Curitiba_Brazil New York_USA New York_USA

[The Green Areas]barcelona x the world


Area: 101 km2Park Area: 9 km2% Green Areas: 8.90%Population: 1.621.537

The World healTh organizaTion suggesTs aT leasT a minimum of 9 m2 of green open space per ciTy dWeller.

New York_USA New York_USA Barcelona_Spain Barcelona_Spain

23,10 m2 | hab 5,60 m2 | hab

Zoo

Cascades Ciutadella

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Arc de Triomf

Barceloneta Park

[The Strategy]connecting and creating green areas

THE ZOO that today acts as a limit has to be ‘exploded’ throughout the entire territory so pedestrians can cross from Ciutadella to Barceloneta park:

THE EXISTING PARKS have to be physi-cally connected to activate the green areas that are not being used to their full capacities today:

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Arc de Triomf

Ciutadella

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Barceloneta Park

Cascades

Barceloneta Park

Arc de Triomf

Ciutadella

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L’Eixample

Poblenou

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Barceloneta

Estación de Francia Ronda

Pier

THE GRIDS also have to be connected through physical paths. Today, there is no connection between the grids in-side the parks:

THE NEW PARKS Because of the lack of green areas, the train station [soon to be deactivated], the ronda and the pier will be transformed into new parks

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THE CARS of today are getting smaller. In this case, the hypothesis is that the flow of vehicles will continue the same, so the space that was left free was transformed into a green urban area, connecting the existing parks of the territory.

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The Triangles The idea of creating a ‘mountain-building’ to connect the park not only horizontally but also in section was made possible by using triangles. The process that generated the tectonic movement that would created the building would also have to work in pedestrian scale devices. To allow that system to be applied throughout the territory, the triangulation was fractalized so each area of the park could - if necessary - receive an intervention.

Selecting the points Triangulating the mesh

[The Fractal System]from tectonic to pedestrian scale

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The Triangles The idea of creating a ‘mountain-building’ to connect the park not only horizontally but also in section was made possible by using triangles. The process that generated the tectonic movement that would created the building would also have to work in pedestrian scale devices. To allow that system to be applied throughout the territory, the triangulation was fractalized so each area of the park could - if necessary - receive an intervention.

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Triangulating the mesh Fractilizing the system

Tectonic Scale

Human Scale

[The Models]the flower model

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[The Models]the origami model

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[The Models]the cave model

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[The Models]the fabric model

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[The Real-Time Data]transforming information into smart spaces

The Hypothesis Increasing green areas in urban environments is not only about construct-ing more square meters of green public spaces. It’s about [re]activating the existing ones and, more importantly, promoting the possibility of different uses [scenarios] for the same space. Transforming mono-functional into hybrid, so the expansion happens not only in space but also in time.

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The Hypothesis Increasing green areas in urban environments is not only about construct-ing more square meters of green public spaces. It’s about [re]activating the existing ones and, more importantly, promoting the possibility of different uses [scenarios] for the same space. Transforming mono-functional into hybrid, so the expansion happens not only in space but also in time.

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[The Real-Time Data]transforming information into smart spaces

Park UserData Input #1

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Park and User Interact

Park Network

The Technology avail-able today already al-lows us to detect data and promote interaction between user and ob-jects. The same concept should be applied to cit-ies, so the inhabitants could participate in de-signing the spaces they live in.

[The Reactive Program]transforming static into reactive spaces

Ciutadella Park

Output #1 11 amPark Time

Output #2 17 pmPlayground

Barceloneta Beach

Output #1 11 amBeach Time

Output #2 17 pmPlayground

17 pmPlayground

Output #3 2 amSonar Festival

17 pmPlayground

Output #3 2 amCircus

[06. june. 2038]

[The Interactive Model]connecting real-time data with a physical model

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For the simulation of the project, a physical model was built according to the different possible scales of triangula-tion, from human scale - in the form of an inflatable bench / platform - to a pavilionar scale, in the form of a foldable structure. For the bench, the ground plane was inflated by a pump controlled by valves that simulated the interaction between the park and the users. For the pavilion, a Grass-hopper code simulated the ‘Park Network’ controlling the physical ‘arm’ folding the structure up and down.

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Inflatable ‘Rock-like’ Structures

‘Incision’

‘Incision’

‘Cave-like’ StructuresPermanent Program

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Foldable ‘Pavilion-like’ Structures

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FOR THE VIDEO OF THE MODEL IN ACTION VISIT: http://vimeo.com/00000000

‘Incision’

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