CAMBIO DE PENSAMIENTO 1981 Bridge of Houses [Steven Holl] En este proyecto teórico, Holl plantea retomar la idea de puente habitado de una manera totalmente distinta a las premisas megaestructuralistas. Partiendo de referentes históricos similares, entre los que destacan el London Bridge o el Ponte Vecchio de Florencia (cuyas imágenes abren el libro de Reyner Banham de Megaestructuras. Futuro urbano de un pasado reciente [1976]) , Holl abandona la idea de infraestructura, de variabilidad, de cambio, e incluso de densidad para generar un juego compositivo de bloques de viviendas (que parten de una misma figura en planta).
Uno de los proyectos sobre los que trabaja se sitúa en el conocido High Line de New York, que abandona su potencialidad de comunicación, infraestructura, nexo de unión para convertirse en un simple soporte que reproduce la trama ya existente en el resto de la ciudad. Cambio de pensamiento… Bibliografía: Pamphlet Architecture Nº7 [1981] Bridge of Houses. Rethinking the U.S./Mexico Border Fence, With Bike Paths and Burrito Stands | Co.Design. If you can't beat it, redesign it. An assistant professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Ron Rael, is not exactly a fan of the 700-mile series of separation barriers that have been erected between the United States and Mexico. He says the wall is expensive, detrimental to the environment, ineffective, and even deadly, since hundreds die of dehydration each year as they try to cross the culture.
And yet it's there. "It would be easy for me to raise a picket sign and as an architect say, 'Down with this wall!? ' Rael says. ? I have to accept the wall because it exists, but as a designer I see that something better is possible. Call it ironic architecture. To that end, he has re-envisioned the wall as something like a town center, complete with infrastructure, social services, and recreational facilities. Yet he's drawing inspiration directly from life. Rael has said that he looks forward to a "post-border wall world. " (Self)Urbanization and the Contours of Political Space | arenaofspeculation.org.
By Nasser Abourahme and Sandi Hilal An extract from the forthcoming article: “Political Subjectification, the Production of Space and the Folding of Polarity: the case of Deheishe Camp, Palestine” in James Holston and Teresa Caldeira (eds.) Peripheries: Decentering Urban Theory, University of California Berkeley Press.
(Republished on arenaofspeculation.org with permission from the authors.) Activist graffiti emblazons the walls of Dheisheh camp (arenaofspeculation.org) In discussing the democratic insurgency of working classes in Sao Paulo (Brazil) James Holston(1) identifies the self-construction or auto-construction of the city’s peripheries, of its houses, neighborhoods and urban life as a fundamental variable. The dense informal grain of the camp (arenaofspeculation.org) Herein lies the profoundness and novelty of what Deheishans have been able to do.
Deheishans have done this by explicitly linking urban improvement to the creation of new political space for agency. Endnotes 1. 2. 3. Borderline. Nigel Peake es un ilustrador que ha destacado por su habilidad para cartografiar ciudades y lugares. Su Thesis fue destacada por el RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) con el Silver Award. Se trata de un estudio sobre las condiciones de frontera de la ciudad de Estambul y más concretamente en la rehabilitación del puente de Gálata como una superestructura de programas mixtos. Hace tiempo que conocía este proyecto pero lo he vuelto a recordar al encontrarme con este mapa de las "fronteras" del mundo. Muy interesante. Water border-el paso/juarez. Third Nation: Michael Dear talks about a clear gradation from frontier spaces (of the Spaniards), to the delimitation of the boundary or “La Linea”, to the idea of a border spaces where US and Mexico seek control, later leading to the idea of fortification and enclave (“connecting the dots”).
We must note that with this hyper-border and heightened security, segregation and hegemonic behavior, also comes the idea of integration and interpendence. We refer to Michael Dear’s “Third Nation”, a psycho-geography that overlooks the border in the everyday… As such, the border exists only as images, symbols and signs, Baudrillard’s symulacra. It’s polices and existence deterritorialized from time and space, defined from a disconnected place, solely based on foreign strategies, signs and symbols of fortification and enclave… a clear contrast to the de facto and everyday life at the border.Clear aspects of interdependence transcending the border are evident in the politics of these spaces.
Zones of Contention | Between Borders and Frontiers. Monument for those who have died attempting to cross the US-Mexican border. Source: wikimedia commons contention [kənˈtɛnʃən] n 1. a struggling between opponents; competition 2. dispute in an argument (esp in the phrase bone of contention) 3. (Literature / Rhetoric) a point asserted in argument. Recently we published the post on the border, with some projects that present solutions to frontier conflicts around the world.
After that, some friends have shared with us projects, speculations and ideas on this subject and we realized that mostly all of them were focused on the US-Mexican border. And this fact just makes us wonder that if there are frontier conflicts all around the world, Why is this geopolitical point so important to concentrate so many speculative proposals?
The border’s total length is 3,169 km [1,969 miles], according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission. “Hyperborder, the U.S. Zones of Contention by Adam E. Bridging Mexico/USA. Like this: