The merge of living units with public spaces to generate a complex urban network achieved through exploration of assembly and growth. Urban Promenade is an amalgamation of different collision meshes and geometries using assemblage exploration.
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Visual of Assemblage
The components are designed to create Open, Semi-open and Closed spaces with varying configurations and diverse settings. The idea was to create a loop in the environmental setting where the assemblage would grow, creating a gradient of sparse to dense spaces. This would create an opportunity to assign different functions to the spaces with successful “placemaking”.
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Collision meshes with their handles
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Circulation path
Analysis of the Heuristics and selection of connections was important to create a complex spatial setting where each space has a distinctive characteristic.
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Component A-A
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Component A-A iteration
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Component B-B
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Component B-B iteration
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Component A-B
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Component A-B Iteration
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Component A-B-C
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Selected Heuristics
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Selected heuristics
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Shortest walk
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Component catalogue
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Set – 01
Block Variations – Set 01
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Set – 01
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Set – 01
Block Variation – Set 02
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Set – 02
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Set – 02
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Set – 02
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Set – 02
Block Variation – set 03
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Set 03
Block Variations – Set 04
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Set – 04
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Set – 04
Block Variations – Set 05
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Set – 05
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Set – 05
This was further developed by providing an environmental setting and creating a loop in the urban context which contained Transitional spaces and Circulation paths connecting the modules.
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Environment setting
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Environment setting
Environment growth
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Final Assemblage
Section Slice
The Post-processing was done to provide a character to each space and make it unique.
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Section
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Visual 02
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Visual 03
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Visual 04
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Visual 05
Urban Promenade is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the Master in Advanced Architecture 2020/21 by students –
Abrar Ali, Chirag Shah, Nan Yin, Prarthana Sudhindra
Faculty – Alessio Erioli and Andrea Graziano