Estirar Forma - senior interdiciplinary design studio
Well, after about four weeks of intense working with my studio group, we presented our final design to a panel of 8 guest critics and our two studio instructors last December 5th. It was hard work, but the six of us pulled it all off and we recieved a positive review from the critics!!
Estirar Forma, the name of our project, is spanish. Estirar means to stretch, and forma means shape, form, or social convention.
Below is a short project brief:
Estirar Forma: The resurfacing of Placa de la Gardunya. Currently, the Mercat de la Boqueria shapes and defines the identity of Placa de la Gardunya. A vast parking lot, market operation dominance, ill-placed garbage and recycling facilities, disjointed pedestrian paths, and vacant buildings reflect a lack of spatial organization and this has led to a failure to realize the potential of this space. Our design proposes to: restructure the urban fabric; connect flows from market, plaza, and surrounding neighbourhood; insert program as an urban catalyst, and capitalize on the need for infrastructure as an opportunity to reveal market functions.
Elements of our design included: underground public parking, underground offloading and storage for market use, adjacent youth housing buildings, an adjacent culinary school, workshop space, raised and lowered mini-plazas within the big plaza that allow different types of public space, ground plane undulation that permeates into the market, and the surrounding streets to create a continuity of language, and the creation of a mini ramblas with tree plantings and pavings that lead the user both through the space and in directions they may want to explore.
Really, the most important part of this design must be seen to be understood. Below are just a few pictures of the physical model we built. I personally glued every single one of those toothpicks. The model also came apart to show the section of the underground parking!! There are other numerous pictures and images, but I can't put them all up here. Email me if you would like the full design document (8 pdf pages).
Estirar Forma, the name of our project, is spanish. Estirar means to stretch, and forma means shape, form, or social convention.
Below is a short project brief:
Estirar Forma: The resurfacing of Placa de la Gardunya. Currently, the Mercat de la Boqueria shapes and defines the identity of Placa de la Gardunya. A vast parking lot, market operation dominance, ill-placed garbage and recycling facilities, disjointed pedestrian paths, and vacant buildings reflect a lack of spatial organization and this has led to a failure to realize the potential of this space. Our design proposes to: restructure the urban fabric; connect flows from market, plaza, and surrounding neighbourhood; insert program as an urban catalyst, and capitalize on the need for infrastructure as an opportunity to reveal market functions.
Elements of our design included: underground public parking, underground offloading and storage for market use, adjacent youth housing buildings, an adjacent culinary school, workshop space, raised and lowered mini-plazas within the big plaza that allow different types of public space, ground plane undulation that permeates into the market, and the surrounding streets to create a continuity of language, and the creation of a mini ramblas with tree plantings and pavings that lead the user both through the space and in directions they may want to explore.
Really, the most important part of this design must be seen to be understood. Below are just a few pictures of the physical model we built. I personally glued every single one of those toothpicks. The model also came apart to show the section of the underground parking!! There are other numerous pictures and images, but I can't put them all up here. Email me if you would like the full design document (8 pdf pages).
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