OSPMadrid 21

1. OSPMadrid 21 patriomonio construido de Espane John Kunz Week 3: 25 January

2. 54. Road crossing 55. Raised walk 56. Bike paths and racks 57. Children in the city 58. Carnival 59. Quiet backs 60. Accessible green 21. Four story limit 30. Activity nodes 31. Promenade 61. Small public squares 62. High places 66. Holy Ground 67. Common land 69. Public outdoor room 92. Bus stop 94. Sleeping in public 95. Building complex 96. Number of stories 125. Stair seats 163. Outdoor room Patterns Week 3: 25 January

3. Pattern 54: Road crossing • Problems • Cars frighten and subdue walking people • Pedestrians must be extremely visible to car drivers • Cars should slow down when they approach a pedestrian crossing • Pattern (only for “special” roads, not all), when pedestrians need to wait >= 2 seconds for traffic to pass • To broaden safe walking space, allow pedestrians on narrowing of the road that allows cars on through lanes only, i.e., allow pedestrians on eliminated curbside parking lanes • Add pedestrian islands for wide roads Week 3: 25 January

4. Pattern 55: Raised walk Any pedestrian path along a road carrying fast-moving cars should be about 18 inches above the road, with a low wall or railing along the edge Week 3: 25 January

5. Pattern 56: Bike paths and racks Build a system of bike paths: clearly marked, along local roads • Provide bike racks Week 3: 25 January

6. Pattern 57: Children in the city Create a network of bike paths, adjacent to homes and shops, through every neighborhood so children can roam “freely on their bikes and trikes.” Week 3: 25 January

7. Pattern 58: Carnival Set aside some part of town as a carnival, a space for “mad” sideshows, clowns, dancing, music, street theater, freak events, transvestites, that allow people to reveal their madness. • Put an outdoor theater at one end Week 3: 25 January

8. Pattern 59: Quiet backs Give buildings a quiet “back” muted from public noise. • Build wall along back so it gets sunlight • Connect it to other walks to form a network of alleys. Week 3: 25 January

9. Pattern 60: Accessible green Build one open public green within three minutes’ walk – about 750 feet – of every house and workplace. • Greens >= 150 ft across, >= 60K ft2 Week 3: 25 January

10. Method to use patterns • Start with list of all patterns • Find one pattern that best describes your project • Note related smaller patterns • Select next most descriptive from all noted patterns • Exclude a pattern when in doubt • Iterate 4-5 until you have all patterns you want • Add own patterns • Change patterns if you want As in poetry, the most interesting spaces have many (harmonious) patterns Week 3: 25 January

11. Steele - Roots of sustainability • Ancient history – preserve; develop slowly: • American Indian culture for millennia; Spain? • My grandparents: very thrifty farmers • > Industrial revolution – develop quickly & deplete “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant , China, 2005, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/14/unbelievable-pollution-in-china-yet-the-us-is-the-baddie-at-copenhagen/ Wiping smog tears, Los Angeles, 1953. http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/Archives/History/50th_photos.htm Week 2: 18 January

12. Steele: roots of sustainability • 1970s  “Zero growth” • Population Bomb, Ehrlich – 1968 • First Earth day – 1970 • Limits to Growth - 1972 • 1980s  Sustainability • Brandt commission North – South – 1980 • Bruntland report Our Common Future promise of environment and economic development - 1987 • Discussion of values, standard of living Week 2: 18 January

13. Sustainability • Sustainability now links economic development with ecological (and now cultural) preservation  • both economic development andecology must and have started to redefine their values more broadly • To develop either indefinitely over time requires the other • Fundamentally an ethical question: how do we want to care for those who are yet unborn? Week 2: 18 January

14. Flessig - Smart Growth objectives: long-term health of existingcommunities --economically, environmentally, socially • minimize impacts of new development (public infrastructure costs, congestion, air pollution, loss of agriculture land, etc.); • provide greater accessibility and choices in how we move about fromhome, work, shopping and leisure activities; • stabilize and improve the long-term financial performance for commercial and home owners; • maximize the return from public investments in existing and new roads, schools, utilities, transit systems, bridges, waterways, etc; • protect natural habitat and watersheds for the future; and • foster a greater sense of connection, responsibility and continuity forcitizens with their communities. Week 3: 25 January

15. Critical components  biggest “Smart-Bang-for-the-Buck” 1 . PROXIMITY TO EXISTING/FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE; 2 . MIX AND BALANCE OF USES; 3 . SITE OPTIMIZATION AND COMPACTNESS; 4 . ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY CHOICES; 5 . COMMUNITY CONTEXT AND SITE DESIGN; 6 . FINED-GRAINED BLOCK, PEDESTRIAN AND PARK NETWORK; 7 . ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; 8 . DIVERSITY; 9 . RE-USE AND REDEVELOPMENT OPTIONS; 10. PROCESS COLLABORATION AND PREDICTABILITY OF DECISIONS Week 3: 25 January

16. 1. PROXIMITY TO EXISTING/FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE Week 3: 25 January

17. 2. MIX AND BALANCE OF USES Week 3: 25 January

18. 3. SITE OPTIMIZATION AND COMPACTNESS Week 3: 25 January

19. 4. ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY CHOICES Week 3: 25 January

20. 5. COMMUNITY CONTEXT AND SITE DESIGN Week 3: 25 January

21. 6. FINE-GRAINED BLOCK, PEDESTRIAN AND PARK NETWORK Week 3: 25 January

22. 7. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Week 3: 25 January

23. 8. DIVERSITY Week 3: 25 January

24. 9. RE-USE AND REDEVELOPMENT OPTIONS Week 3: 25 January

25. 10. PROCESS COLLABORATION AND PREDICTABILITY OF DECISIONS Week 3: 25 January

26. Projects Objectives: • See, experience and describe some aspect of the Built Environment of Spain that you choose • Personally meaningful • Create some evidence that what you describe exists • Methods: look for examples of theories we have considered or Grounded theory • Team experience (w/partner) • Build on and explicitly use our theoretical (Alexander, Brand, etc.) framework Week 3: 25 January

27. Projects Methods: • Propose (next week, 1 Feb) your project to experience and describe some aspect of the Built Environment of Spain • Subject • Research method to collect and interpret evidence that what you describe exists • Observe and test or Grounded theory • Structure to explicitly use our theoretical framework • Adapt proposal to include content of future readings • Submissions: incremental (rest of quarter) + final (last week) Week 3: 25 January

28. Q3 • Photo • Sketch • Formal symbolic model of the function, form and behaviors of your project. Brief description of relationships among functions, related forms, related behaviors • Comment on things you liked and did not like (Plus/Delta) about behaviors you identify in your symbolic model; comment on relationships to forms and functions. • Architectural critic review, in the manner of one we read, i.e., in about 500 words and with 1-2 photos, summarize your project. Include provocative commentary. • Personal vignette. • Theoretical interpretation based on your interpretations of the patterns of Alexander • Compare your project with one that has similar functions but that was done in another country or century, • Smart Scorecard assessment of your project that includes your (brief) assessment of the ten critical components described on p. 6 of the Flessig reading. • Field notes (brief transcript, initial coding and memos) that summarize interviews of at least two local residents. • Briefly propose your project to experience and describe some aspect of the Built Environment of Spain. Propose a research method, using Grounded Theory,  to collect and interpret evidence that what you describe exists. Propose a structure to explicitly describe your project using our theoretical framework. Week 3: 25 January