Architecture and Desing
from Lima/Peru & Tijuana/Mexico

Excercises of growth without design nevertheless results in organizational structures through processes of urban sedimentation in time—settlement, coagulation, and consolidation, all common patterns in “informal” housing conditions generated by poverty in many parts of Latin America. In my view, such patterns occur equally in housing, commerce, and transport, creating a network of microurbanisms that linked together makeup the “informal” city. A city of microurbanisms is constructed of units that reduce down, from near chaotic complexity, to the scale of one single individual. A person can carry his home, business and transport on the body; several individuals create micro-organizations that, outside of legal structures, consolidate over time into complex systems creating the new urban matter of physical and social infrastructure.

Project: SlowTrans Anyang (Korea) - For Anyang Public Art Project 2010 (APAP2010)

m7red: The “Model making day” is a collaborative mapping platform that tries to give “rights” of existence to those spots or places or we would called them “nodes”, of a neighbourhood targeted by the redevelopment plan of the city of Anyang. It comprises a slow transport system that easily make their way trough “kolmoks”, (the korean system of narrow streets), parking lots and even “terrain vagues” of difficult access. The event starts when a caravan of customized bikes, makes its way to a “un” represented spot. It arrives to the place and starts to display mobile furniture to set up a temporary workshop. A display of satellite images, maps and modeling materials is provided to the neighbours and occasional passers by. While taking pictures on the area, the documentation process on the node is started. The pictures are uploaded to a website , geo- referenced and tagged. This is the first representation of the node at the web. Then, some carefully chosen pictures are printed in order to provide material to build up the model of the node. We’ll concentrate on register those life support systems that exists beyond the cadastral line. This means to make visible by the modeling, all of the encroachment and easement that have no existence at a survey map of the city hall or the land corporation. By turning pictures easily into 3D models, we finally “represent” the node and its issues. This model activity on real time, will spark stories, memories and debates on the role of theses spots to create new spaces at the city.We hope!

m7red:

The “Model making day” is a collaborative mapping platform that tries to give “rights” of existence to those spots or places or we would called them “nodes”, of a neighbourhood targeted by the redevelopment plan of the city of Anyang. It comprises a slow transport system that easily make their way trough “kolmoks”, (the korean system of narrow streets), parking lots and even “terrain vagues” of difficult access. The event starts when a caravan of customized bikes, makes its way to a “un” represented spot. It arrives to the place and starts to display mobile furniture to set up a temporary workshop. A display of satellite images, maps and modeling materials is provided to the neighbours and occasional passers by. While taking pictures on the area, the documentation process on the node is started. The pictures are uploaded to a website , geo- referenced and tagged. This is the first representation of the node at the web. Then, some carefully chosen pictures are printed in order to provide material to build up the model of the node. We’ll concentrate on register those life support systems that exists beyond the cadastral line. This means to make visible by the modeling, all of the encroachment and easement that have no existence at a survey map of the city hall or the land corporation. By turning pictures easily into 3D models, we finally “represent” the node and its issues. This model activity on real time, will spark stories, memories and debates on the role of theses spots to create new spaces at the city.We hope!

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