Rua do Catete: A Flânerie como Prática de Intervenção Urbana

O ser humano é um ser que se movimenta com ou sem intenção ou objetivo. Ele perambula ou flana descobrindo e explorando o espaço vivido, se apropriando dele através do caminhar pela fruição e pelo prazer de sentir e vivenciar o espaço. Neste presente artigo, a autora vivencia esse espaço na atual configuração da Rua do Catete, no bairro do mesmo nome no Rio de Janeiro. A combinação de trechos preservados com edifícios construídos em terrenos remanescentes de demolições, junto à persistência de vazios urbanos, mostram uma relação transacionalista que oferece a possibilidade de ampliar a compreensão desse objeto de estudo. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a evolução do espaço urbano e também dos indivíduos (flâneurs) que habitam e percebem a cidade. Por meio da imersão em campo pelo método da flânerie, inspirado no conceito criado por Walter Benjamin a partir de textosde Charles Baudelaire, é criada uma cartografia textual como ferramenta interpretativa. Esse método possibilita a percepção do espaço focada nos detalhes que se materializam no tempo, revelando outros “territórios” além daqueles demarcados pela história. Palavras-chave: Rua do Catete; Flânerie; Flâneur; Intervenção Urbana. Abstract The human being is a being that moves with or without intention or objective. He wanders or wanders discovering and exploring the lived space, appropriating it through walking for the enjoyment and pleasure of feeling and experiencing the space. In this article, the author experiences this space in the current configuration of Catete Street, in the neighborhood of the same name in Rio de Janeiro. A transactional relationship that offers the possibility of broadening the understanding of this object of study. The objective of this work is to analyze the evolution of the urban space and also of the individuals (flâneurs) that inhabit and perceive the city. Through field immersion using the flânerie method, inspired by the concept created by Walter Benjamin from texts by Charles Baudelaire, a textual cartography is created as an interpretive tool. This method enables the perception of space focused on details that materialize in time, revealing other “territories”, in addition to those demarcated by history. Keywords: Catete Street; Flânerie; Flâneur; Urban intervention.The human being is a being that moves with or without intention or objective. He wanders or wanders discovering and exploring the lived space, appropriating it through walking for the enjoyment and pleasure of feeling and experiencing the space. In this article, the author experiences this space in the current configuration of Catete Street, in the neighborhood of the same name in Rio de Janeiro. A transactional relationship that offers the possibility of broadening the understanding of this object of study. The objective of this work is to analyze the evolution of the urban space and also of the individuals (flâneurs) that inhabit and perceive the city. Through field immersion using the flânerie method, inspired by the concept created by Walter Benjamin from texts by Charles Baudelaire, textual cartography is created as an interpretive tool. This method enables the perception of space focused on details that materialize in time, revealing other “territories”, in addition to those demarcated by history. Keywords: Catete Street; Flânerie; Flâneur; Urban intervention.

Island and Field

<p>We build transport infrastructure to move about the city efficiently. However, in New Zealand, it is often one-dimensional and disconnected from the urban fabric. This is the case in Hataitai, where State Highway 1 imposes a boundary between the nearby village and the Town Belt that could be bridged when new work on the Mt Victoria Tunnel takes place. What could be the nature of a pedestrian bridge that connects these disparate urban territories? I explored this question with two distinct methods. The first used ‘fast and loose’ hand drawing and physical modelling to explore a ubiquitous mesh structure, replacing the ground plane of the site. This Field accommodated a variety of programmed elements and crossings. The second experiment replaced the mesh with an autonomous loop between the park, village and tunnel. This Island required more precise digital modelling tools and a more measured design process. The two methods offer vastly different approaches to urban design. The ubiquitous mesh replaces the existing ground by extending it. The Loop structure is an autonomous figure over the existing and messy ground of the urban junction below. The research demonstrates the tensions between these two approaches to urban intervention and how they can offer alluring moments in the everyday life of the city.</p>

Island and Field

<p>We build transport infrastructure to move about the city efficiently. However, in New Zealand, it is often one-dimensional and disconnected from the urban fabric. This is the case in Hataitai, where State Highway 1 imposes a boundary between the nearby village and the Town Belt that could be bridged when new work on the Mt Victoria Tunnel takes place. What could be the nature of a pedestrian bridge that connects these disparate urban territories? I explored this question with two distinct methods. The first used ‘fast and loose’ hand drawing and physical modelling to explore a ubiquitous mesh structure, replacing the ground plane of the site. This Field accommodated a variety of programmed elements and crossings. The second experiment replaced the mesh with an autonomous loop between the park, village and tunnel. This Island required more precise digital modelling tools and a more measured design process. The two methods offer vastly different approaches to urban design. The ubiquitous mesh replaces the existing ground by extending it. The Loop structure is an autonomous figure over the existing and messy ground of the urban junction below. The research demonstrates the tensions between these two approaches to urban intervention and how they can offer alluring moments in the everyday life of the city.</p>

Integrating Digital Twin Technology Into Large Panel System Estates Retrofit Projects

As sustainability is now a standard for the proposed developments, the focus ought to be shifted towards the existing buildings and, among them, the worldwide stock of large panel system (LPS) buildings. Major upgrades and retrofits were done to some of the LPS estates in Germany and France, but a leading sustainable way must still be developed for LPS buildings in Eastern European countries, where apartments in those half-a-century-old estates are privately owned. Both sustainability and ownership issues make the demolition option redundant, and therefore the method for deep thermal retrofit and urban intervention is being developed with the use of BIM simulation tools. Digital twin (DT) technology allows for calibration to intertwine with the Internet of Things applications that reward the inhabitants for sustainable behaviour while feeding the relevant data back to the DT. Thanks to this, smart technology can be used to raise the level of social participation in the projects and thus help educate the end-users, which is paramount in establishing and maintaining good ecological habits, and as such, also for the efficacy and viability of the final endeavour. This article proposes a procedure of creating a 3D model typology repository for facilitating DT technology to provide a good analytical tool for community consultation and enable virtual testing of technical and urban solutions before implementation. It aims to determine the method for virtual technology to give deteriorating estates a new lease of life and improve their perception in the wider community while being a conduit for the adaptation of CEE to the digital revolution.

Promoting Sustainable Mobility: Impact of an Urban Biking Programme on University Students

The use of bicycles is an active and sustainable mode of transport par excellence. It is a way of increasing people’s physical activity time and should therefore be promoted in educational contexts. The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an urban bicycle programme in a sample of 164 university students (n = 164), 88 women and 76 men, using a standardised instrument with pre and post measures after a theoretical–practical intervention. The sample was divided into an intervention group (n = 122) with 69 women and 53 men; and a control group (n = 42) with 19 women and 23 men. The instrument considered conceptual and attitudinal aspects. The results showed that participants in the intervention group obtained statistically significant improvements (p ≤ 0.05) in the measurement. No significant improvements were observed in the control group (p = 0.35), which means that the urban intervention programme is an effective method for increasing bicycling knowledge and attitudes in the university students who participated in the experience.

Making the logic: a methodological experience of digital design process for small urban interventions

The emerging digital design process discourses point to the growing need to connect and manipulate design objective data. One of the challenges is knowing how to relate and operationalize this data accurately using a computational environment. This article investigates digital design processes by developing a design logic for small urban projects using objective data. This work follows the method: (1) defining the project location criteria, according to georeferenced data and the Space Syntax theory; (2) operationalizing the socio-spatial relationships according to the book A Pattern Language; (3) developing a Grasshopper definition for modeling several families of objects. We tested the method in a small urban intervention, in the city of Viçosa (MG), with the purpose of digital fabricating a piece of urban furniture.

Re-awakening Cannons Creek: Revitalising the commercial centre

<p><b>As of last year, the Prime Minister and Minister of Housing and urban development has announced a 25-year project to regenerate Eastern Porirua. $1.5 billion will be contributed towards delivering better public housing as well as a safer and better neighbourhood. (Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, 2020) “This is a large, long investment to deliver a step-change for this strong vibrant community, who are amongst the most disadvantaged in New Zealand”(Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, 2020).</b></p> <p>As of right now, Cannons Creek has a dying commercial centre that has been struggling for many years. Research has shown that many locals living in the area are familiar with their ‘negative reputation’ of an unsafe neighbourhood with high crime rates (James, n.d). Therefore, this has affected the community’s growing progress (James, n.d). Based through site observation, the centre has poor infrastructure, unused carpark spaces, and abandoned buildings. Therefore, the current state may encourage crime to occur around the area.</p> <p>Moreover, there is no place for social support, public information and other facilities a community would need.</p> <p>Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to investigate ways of creating a liveable community by integrating an urban intervention into the area. In this context, intervention is defined as combining architecture and urban interventions to create a place of activity and social engagement. Cannons Creek will be revitalised into a vibrant community to live in.</p> <p>Eastern Porirua overall is slowly growing and changing, there is now more diversity within the population. The Transmission Gully that is set to finish within 2020 which will also add more value towards the land and people living in Porirua. There is now an opportunity to foster intensification within the suburbs town centres.</p>

Re-awakening Cannons Creek: Revitalising the commercial centre

<p><b>As of last year, the Prime Minister and Minister of Housing and urban development has announced a 25-year project to regenerate Eastern Porirua. $1.5 billion will be contributed towards delivering better public housing as well as a safer and better neighbourhood. (Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, 2020) “This is a large, long investment to deliver a step-change for this strong vibrant community, who are amongst the most disadvantaged in New Zealand”(Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, 2020).</b></p> <p>As of right now, Cannons Creek has a dying commercial centre that has been struggling for many years. Research has shown that many locals living in the area are familiar with their ‘negative reputation’ of an unsafe neighbourhood with high crime rates (James, n.d). Therefore, this has affected the community’s growing progress (James, n.d). Based through site observation, the centre has poor infrastructure, unused carpark spaces, and abandoned buildings. Therefore, the current state may encourage crime to occur around the area.</p> <p>Moreover, there is no place for social support, public information and other facilities a community would need.</p> <p>Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to investigate ways of creating a liveable community by integrating an urban intervention into the area. In this context, intervention is defined as combining architecture and urban interventions to create a place of activity and social engagement. Cannons Creek will be revitalised into a vibrant community to live in.</p> <p>Eastern Porirua overall is slowly growing and changing, there is now more diversity within the population. The Transmission Gully that is set to finish within 2020 which will also add more value towards the land and people living in Porirua. There is now an opportunity to foster intensification within the suburbs town centres.</p>

Prácticas emergentes en proyectos de espacio público: el caso de vía Argentina en ciudad de Panamá

This article uses an urban intervention in Panama City to discuss fundamental concepts in public space projects from a critical and theoretical perspective.First, the functions of the street as a basic structure of public space are illustrated. Its importance is recognized not only as an element of urban connectivity, but also as a place of movement, encounter, support and creation of urban meanings and social identities.Secondly, our case study is contextualized: the urban renewal of via Argentina, a street in the urban center whose environment was in a state of degradation like most streets in the city, largely occupied by the presence of vehicles. The intervention is part of a series of urban projects aimed at improving the physical structure of the city.The third section begins a critical analysis of the actions on Via Argentina, starting with the redistribution of street space, the relationship between vehicles and pedestrians, and the consolidation of public space.Next, we discuss in detail the new primary elements used for the urbanization of the street. Curbs, fords, pavement, rigola, gutters, tree surrounds and bollards become part of a system that must maintain a coherent relationship between all its parts. In addition, emphasis is placed on the design of the ground and the application of the pavement as a tool for the construction of an urban image and identity.Finally, the article ends with an analysis of the parameters of accessibility in the project, relating the concept to the use of the pavement and the configuration in some sections of the street as a single platform. The article uses a wide repertoire of documentary photography to contextualize the case study.