The Informal City Practicum is a pilot studio focusing on how residents use, appropriate and activate urban space and how architects and urban designers can learn from that use value to assemble new design scopes and solutions.
Authors: Alicia Rabadan, Bushra Al Derbi, Rashidah Williams, Mi Zhou Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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Since this was my last design studio presentation, i thought of comparing the architecture critiques with urban design critiques. At the architecture critiques, what the critic say is usually expected. Also the juries understand each other, understand which projects they are talking about, know each others’ opinions and thoughts. The school has a pretty clear [...]
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The culmination of our studio project was a multi faceted discussion a few blocks from our site. The proposal of a stacked skate park multi-use hybrid within the Wynwood gallery district generated varying viewpoints from the diverse critic panel. The younger members of the jury viewed the proposal as a teenagers’ fantasy land while others [...]
After many long hours in the studio spent staring at the computer screen, the time had finally come for our group to present our vision for the Wynwood community. Although we went first and consequently had to bear the brunt of the criticisms, I feel that our project was well received by the jurors and [...]
The final presentation after all was a blessing experience in different way, we struggled and steamed over solutions and discussions and pulled all nighter and worked for hours and hours, we even thought we will never finish the project on time, we had to go through nervous breakdown when the printer was acting weird and [...]
Today we sat down to hash out our ideas for the actual Wynwood Free Trade Zone site and came up with some sketches for different options…. pic_2004 and pic_2005 Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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Regarding commercial activity in Wynwood, One can find retail spaces around housing stock. Nevertheless, their scope is quite limited. Some retail is concentrated on NW 2nd Ave, but arguably it hardly satisfies the daily needs of residents. NW 5th Ave is a great and walking-friendly boulevard, yet its scale and the space located for cars [...]
On our very first visit to the site, we discussed the idea that the barricade next to our site was set up as a means to separate the different ethnic groups who live in the area. When you walk around the area the barricade is what strikes you the most, and you start to question, [...]
The visit to the Wynwood Free Trade zone was quite interesting. Most of the walls of the structure were painted white, except the walls on the rear building. These walls were covered with REAL graffiti, since most of the “graffiti” in the art district area can be considered art work. The site indeed, provoked a [...]
In my latest fieldwork excursion to Wynwood, I took the opportunity to interviewed a person who has been working there since ’06. This interview proved instructive. This person works at a gallery and has experienced Wynwood at all hours of the day and throughout the week. Below a summery of my questions and answers. + [...]
In article published by Eliott Rodriguez in the early 1980’s, the following information stands out: - In Calle Ocho, you find Cubans but no real Puerto Ricans. - In Wynwood is where you find real Puerto Rican restaurants and music stores. - Emilio Lopez, the founder of health care centre, claims that Wynwood is not [...]
According to some preliminary archival research at the South Florida Historical Museum, In 1920’s, Wynwood (called Buena Vista at that time) was a growing suburb in the City of Miami. In the North and West subdivided plots were already evident. These plots were private property. By carrying out a comparison of maps in various periods, the [...]
