Tutorials on Tuesday 2nd of December will be as follows,
10.30 Raya
11.00 Amar
11.30 Olimpia
12.00 Jeanne
12.30 Sophia
2.00 Elias
2.30 Antonin
3.00 Mikolaj
3.30 Shira
4.00 Hana
4.30 Patricia
5.00 Yasmina
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Tutorials W8-2
The research issues will be reviewed in tutorials on Friday 28th of November as follows,
10.30 Olimpia
11.00 Sophia
11.30 Yasmina
12.00 Antonin
12.30 Amar
2.00 Mikolaj
2.30 Patricia
3.00 Raya
3.30 Elias
4.00 Hana
4.30 Jeanne
5.00 Shira
Please bring your issues page in the following A2 format (collage, title, subtitle and text)
FINDING OUT ABOUT SOCIO-CULTURE ASPECTS & WAYS OF LIVING
In this initial approach to our site, students will start exploring Chilean socio-cultural, political and economical aspects and everyday life hidden in Santiago urban grid. The first part will consist in a detailed investigation about the different cultural customs and spatial characteristics where they take place. The reading of texts and reviews of movies and Chilean literature will help to elaborate different analytical diagrams.
Presentation of initial researches on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014.
The second part is a refl ection on how citizens’ everyday life activities construct politics in this city. The collection of specific information by interviews, photographs, maps, drawings and visits during the unit trip to Santiago will complete the first hypothesis elaborated in London. These are the initial stepsfor later individually select programmatic framework and location for each block proposal in Santiago colonial grid.
Submission of final reserach on Tuesday 13th of January 2015.
Reading:
Tahl Kraminer, Miguel Robles Duran and Heidi Sohn: Urban Asymetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization, Rotterdam: 010 Publisher, 2011, pp.146-169.
Suggested Movies:
The Shock Doctrine by Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, 2009
Missing by costa Gavras, 1982.
Pin-up and tutorials Week 8-1
The different drawings for S, M .L. XL categories and the conclusions got from the reading will be presented on Tuesday 25th of November in groups in the unit space from 10.30 to 1pm. Please pin-up the panels in the unit space walls. We will also discuss some key ideas regarding the grid of Santiago and give you some directions to continue research brief.
From 2 to 6pm we will have tutorials on the final submissions of form exercise as follows:
2.00 Mikolaj
2.30 Elias
3.00 Amar
3.30 Raya
4.00 Patricia
4.30 Jeanne
5.00 Olimpia
5.30 Yasmina
6.00 Sophia
References for mapping Santiago
Maps:
-Ortofoto-aereal images of Santiago – http://www.sectra.gob.cl/datos_e_informacion_espacial/gran_santiago/ortofoto_2007.html
-Urban Laboratory Atlas – http://www.geo.puc.cl/laburb/atlas.html
-Cad Archive – http://www.cartografia.cl/beta/index.php/home/cartografia/704-bibliotecad-comunas-de-santiago-de-chile
– Santiago Maps:
2gis.cl/
http://www.catalogoarquitectura.cl/planos-xiii-region/
Information on the city of Santiago:
-Statistic of different Boroughs (Comunas) Report http://reportescomunales.bcn.cl/2012/index.php/Santiago
-Urban Plan for city center (spanish) – memoria_explicativa
-Metropolitan Governement of Santiago (maps)- http://observatorio.gorerm.cl/
– Socio-economic Atlas of Santago: GORE_RMS_y_UCH_2006-Atlas_Socioeconomico-RMS
– LSe report on Soutamerican cities South_America_Newspaper_English
-Web Militar Geographic Institute: http://200.27.184.149/IGMChile/
-Slums (Campamentos y Callampas) in santiago: http://www.techo.org/paises/chile/cis/vulnerabilidad/
Photographs by Hernán Pitto Bellocchio
Tutorials W7-2
We will have tutorials in groups as follows
2.00 Group XL – Amar
2.40 Group L – Patricia
3.20 Group M – Shira
4.00 Group S – Yasmina
4.40 Q&A Work behind schedule
6.00 Video Lecture on Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Urban Fabric
Before deepening into material aspects of the block the unit should be familiarize with the different formal aspects of Santiago. In four groups of three, the unit will create an archive of drawings in different scales(S, M, L, XL) with information about the urban grain, voids, density and urban form. Later, Individually each student will select a block in Santiago urban grid where the proposal will be located.
Compulsory Reading:
Arturo Almandoz Marte: Planning Latin America’s capital cities 1850-1950, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-4 (Introduction) and pp.109-138 (Santiago de Chile).Planning Latin Americas Capital Cities
Tahl Kraminer, Miguel Robles Duran and Heidi Sohn: Urban Asymetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization, Rotterdam: 010 Publisher, 2011, pp.146-169. Urban Asymetries
Tutorials W7-1
The final submission of the Form brief will be on Tuesday 18th of November. This submission requires a pdf with all iteratios, hybrids and transformation of your Shape phase block in a pdf, a final version sumarizing your experimentation drawn and two models of it ( a detail of the spatial organization in 1/100 or 1/200 and an overall model of the block in 1/500 scale). We will shrotly review your pdf and models. Please prepare your key questions that define your form of the block and a brief explanation of them.
The review will be as follows:
10.30 Hana
10.50 Shira
11.10 Antonin
12.30 Amar
12.50 Patricia
1.10 Elias
2.00 Mikolaj
2.20 Raya
2.40 Yasmina
3.00 Olimpia
3.20 Jeanne
3.40 Sophia
4.00 New brief presnetation and definition of groups of work. All unit together in unit space.
Tutorials W6 – 2
Tutorials on Friday 14th of November will be as follows,
10.30 Sophia
11.00 Jeanne
11.30 Mikolaj
12.00 Raya
12.30 Patricia
2.00 Olimpia
2.30 Yasmina
3.00 Amar
3.30 Elias
4.00 Shira
4.30 Antonin
5.00 Hana
Pin-up Week 6
Next Tuesday 11th of November we will have a pin-up in the unit space from 10.30 to 12.30 and from 2 to 6pm where all Form brief drawings and models will be reviewed.
At 12.30 we will have a meeting with third years and TS tutors in the unit space.
Please pin-up your work on the walls of the unit and prepare some words on the key spatial organizational elements you are using in your proposal.
POLITICS OF THE NEOLIBERAL BLOCK 