Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Shotengai Report
Gabriela Spaniol
Katherine Dominguez
Hiroki Tachino
Carlos Momo
July 2015
Just city
Beautiful City
Ecological City
City of easy contact and mobility
A compact polycentric city
Diverse city
# Creative City
Why a creative city is more sustainable city?
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Quick adapt
New ideas (how to use the city)
Blend new ideas with the city design
# Creativity
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# Creativity Experience
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#Theory of place
Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and
meaning.
Urban Regeneration
#Regeneration: Recreate damage tissue
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# Renewal Redevelopment
- Areas are rebuilt to improve the physical environment
# Conservation
- Keep a building or a place so as to retain its aesthetics,
cultura, historic or scientific.
# Urban Conservation
- Authenticity
- New wood? New bricks? Does it make it conserved or a new
version?
- Conservation/restoration/innovation
# Benefits of Reuse of Buildings
- Gentrification: The area is being improved by people that
lives there.
- As an example the area in the movie Nothing Hill in
London.
- New york The loft
- Paris New concepts stores
Embodied Energy: The energy to build a building.
#Concept of European City
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Wall around wall: City grows around wall, wall stays center.
Many small streats/lanes: No sunlight, bad air, unhealthy.
Health issue in the city: city needs fresh air, sunlight and
sanitary system.
Paris splits into 20 areas.
Old railway roads are reused and get a new social use.
TOD
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# 3 Principles of TOD
- Growth guided by expansion of transit and more compact
urban form
- Discard singles zoning uses and replace with mixed-use
- Walkable neighborhoods
# Principles of transit-oriented development
- Walkability
- Mixed use/ mixed house
- Quality architecture and urban design
- Density
- Sustainability
- Vernacular architecture
# Living
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in a communal area
Many families close to each other, helping each other.
Japan: High roof, protect against cold and heat.
Ice glue: Temperature inside and outside differs in about 30
C (inside 15 C). Human inside warm up with body
temperature and ice inside melts a little bit so it sticks
together.
Santorini: White building, small window, thick walls.
Thailand: Houses on sticks, expecting flood.
Sustainable City
#Footprint
- How many earths we need if we lived like USA: 4,1 planets.
- If we keep living like we are right now we would need 1,5
planets!
- My footprint in Japan was 1,9 planets, my footprint in Brazil
was 1,2 planets.
# Sustainable Development
(Enviromental + Social + Economic)
-> Act local Think Global
#Dimension of Urban Sustainability
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