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Exploring how private and public spaces coexist within the urban fabric. Examining how cities can be made more walkable. Considering squares as places for social interaction. Recognizing the river as a major landscape feature that citizens can enjoy. (Pen - Watercolor painting on paper)
Exploring how to make the old city form greener and more walkable. Exploring how to repurpose old urban infrastructure (such as city walls) as landscape elements. Exploring how twentieth-century car-oriented planning penetrated ancient cities. Exploring how modern urbanism expanded upon historic urban cores. (Pen - Colour pencils on paper)
Exploring the canals as waterways that function as roads for boats. Exploring how a city of boats is not disconnected, but rather connected through water.(Pen on paper)
The islands were chosen as places to live for their views, while the port remained on the mainland. The canals emerged as a response to the need for circulation through the city. (Pen on paper)
Exploring how to use available resources—such as water—as a solution for enhancing urban infrastructure. (Pen on paper)
Exploring the bays for trade. Exploring the defense of the bays. (Pen on paper)
Casi Dos años despuĂ©s de haber pensado en un trazado romano a lo largo de cuatro paginas,es muy satisfactorio verla por fin terminada...Una vez mas presento al mundo una ciudad ilĂłgica y desproporcionada...Imaginen una ciudad donde cada una de las figuritas pequeñas es una cuadra de modo que las calles visibles a simple vista encuadran al rededor de 17 cuadras.Â
¡Imaginen una ciudad donde las manzanas tiene esas formas!!! Imaginen una ciudad donde el cardo y el decumano tiene al rededor de 20 carriles y donde hay mas de 30 lineas subterráneas de metro...Se trata de un mundo donde la poblaciĂłn a crecido desmedidamente y aun con su magnánima extensiĂłn esta conformada, en su mayorĂa, por torres de mas de 20 pisos. Se trata de a lo que parece que la humanidad llegará...Bienvenidos a la ciudad de Nombarda. (Pen - colour pencils on paper)
Exploring the conurbations of a metropolis. Exploring the polycentric city. Exploring sponge cities and their ecological connectivity. Exploring economic infrastructure, including industrial zoning, railways, airports, and ports. A first exploration of how the city is shaped by natural slopes. (Pen - Colour pencils on paper)
Exploring the different urban designs that compose a single city. Exploring the disproportionate share of urban space dedicated to cars. Exploring how poverty, deprived of land, moved onto the water. Exploring, for the first time, life on the water. (Pen - Colour pencils on paper)
Exploring full ecological and hydric connectivity. Exploring the connections between logistic and industrial areas. (Pen - Colour pencils on paper)
Exploring how smaller villages are absorbed by growing cities. (Pen - markers on paper)
Exploring the reshaping of slopes to create roads. Exploring density as a means to make cities walkable in three dimensions: using all building levels as public space, and connecting buildings with parks and stairs to navigate hilly terrain. Exploring public terraces as a way for private construction to give back space to the city. Exploring mixed-use buildings. Exploring the integration of different infrastructure eras within the same city. (Modelling clay)
Exploring how the hill shapes the urban form. Exploring the location of buildings as a symbolic expression of power, with colors reflecting land use. (Modelling clay)
A first exploration of how to build on the hill. Exploring contrasts in urban architecture. Exploring sanctuary cities: how to build around a relic. (Modelling clay)
Exploring perspective before the abstraction of maps. (Pen on a CD)
Exploring the different architectural styles and urban inequality.(Marker on acetate)
An involuntary puzzle of polygons that revealed itself as a city. (Pencil on paper)
Exploring possible urban forms. Exploring types of infrastructure: transportation. Exploring leisure infrastructure: parks. Exploring urban logistics: urban farms, canals.(Pen - Colours on paper)
Exploring the optimal balance between natural and artificial elements on a hill. Exploring the beauty that emerges from the harmony between human interventions and nature.( Modelling clay)
Progressing in the terracing of a hill up to the maximum feasible level. (Modelling clay)
Exploring how artificialization represents a simplification of nature. Showing how artificialization often lacks beauty.(Modelling clay)