the city: the raised prefab city

the city is a field of layers which is differentiated in to many defined areas, it is a space which needs heterogeneity of spaces in order to be inhabited.












A grid structure of 10mt was tested on the scale of the full site . Blocks were placs in to the structure as simple squares prefab elements.




possible city vision in elevation

diagram of blocks (red) being inserted in to the grid structure.

a city must provide dialoge between citizens, connections continuity and it should allow changes in the system.

the city is elevated from the ground. It has a system wich use a wire structure to generate connections and areas for the blocks that need to be inserted.

urban field - testing the layering system on 1:500 scale

as we studied in the previus tests the module from plan seems be always the same pattern.

Althought in plan the module is the same as the 2d pattern in the 3d axo the system starts generate different spaces which affect the elevation of each side of the module.

the test was moved to bigger scale sperimenting the module on a big area.

the module was mirrored horizontally and verticaly and it generated an interesting urban field that has multiplicity of spaces such as : many blocks sizes, links of different scale, different heights, and alternating relation between solids and voids .

this is a good start in order to analyze urban field systems.

pattern research : the urban field

the following studies analize the patter as a system which could generate different fields for a urban layout.

the rule used is insipred by the one used to generate the 2d pattern: the layering system

slice of the pattern tested on site

the squar e area for the model was selected area from the pattern in order to test the model on scale 1:500

second option: sliding the leyers

As we can see in the image above each layer of the model is around 2mm that in scale 1:500 corrispond to only to 1 mt. In order to start analyze urban field we need to get the proportions right therefore in the following studies the layers are changed to scale and each of them measure 3 mt.

the smaller blocks measure 5 mt going up to a max of 20 mt.

elevation density: the previus systems were generated by layers of same plans what if we change the elevation density of the system?

( see image below)

prefab studies/ jean prouvè / tropical house 1949

links and DENSITY

In th eprevius system (see images above) was studied the condition of a mirrored line which develop a grid from which are defined all the components of the system : solids, voids , links

The next studies will be focus on understanding how those links could change their properties and how could be modifed the pattern's density.

in order to generate a system that allows more multiplicity and heterogeneity the grid is changed from the previus pattern.

DISTORTION

The grid's lines are rotated and mirrored.



Test of the pattern in 3D :
The pattern from the top is always a 2D image, when it come to a more complex 3D space all the pattern components start generating new floors, and different spaces.
Every floor in the model is te inverse of the floor below , this system reflect the mirror rule used for the composition of the pattern.

test on site