“The main issue of this research project is to try to develop a general theory about the understanding of the structures and logics were the construction of the urbanity is based, considering urbanity as a complex and diverse ecosystem were the people is able to develop their lives in a artificial environment exchanging information between them.
The undestanding of this complex reality as a system of networks that are mixed between them is the starting point for the methodology of analyse; ‘urban network structures’ are based on four elements:
Nodes > concentrate the information and specific contents
Nets > distribute the information between nodes
Enviroment > supports all the systems in a specific context
Protocols > organise the ingredients of the system: the information
Crossing this general structure to understand the city with the parameter of the scale, makes possible to recognise all the possible combinations, sizes and behaviours in the methodology of analysed proposed. The scales that we are considering are
1, 10, 100, 1.000, 10.000, 100.000 and 1.000.000 people, and it is specially interesting to detect the ‘ascalarity’ of the system. This means, for example, that the garden of our house (1 person) is the same that a big park for the city (1.000.000), or that the fridge of your house (1 person) is the same as a supermarket for a neighbourhood (1.000 people) or a big mall for a town (100.00). This ‘ascalarity’ is we can find it in physical and physiological studies of the city.
The main objective is to extract the general rules to generate domestic ecosystems for humans that are created from topics of sustainability, reaching the maximum level of self-sufficiency, capacity of self-proliferation and adaptation to the variable social, economical and environmental issues.
The first step to understand the rules of generation of the city is to detect and structure the anatomy of each systems that if taking part in the city.”
Logistics Transportation Network
For the Logistics Transportation Networks for the cities of Nicosia, Barcelona, Warsaw and Seoul, we tried to analyze the distribution of products in storage places and the relation with the consumer in terms of distance; and the time, distance and speed covered to reach these points from the city center. These diagrams can be used as tools to analyze the product distribution and transportation, therefore choosing the best storage points in the city, in terms of best distance and speed coverage from the preferable point of consumption (which can be other than the city center).
These are the diagrams for the city of Nicosia:
Nicosia:
190 sq.km
270 000 population
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Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Krystian Kwiecinski_Bianny Poueriet_Ki Hoon Nam
Tutors: Vicente Guallart_ Assistants: Daniel Ibanez_Rodrigo Rubio
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