“The challenge for architects designing operating systems is to find an appropriate balance between a pre-designed and an under-designed system; to propose a meta-system that promotes creativity without adding further layers of prescriptive control. Such a design strategy is not only adapted to individual needs but also offers the potential to create a collective social space.
In line with the idea of separating the design process into different hierarchical levels, instead of an architect controlling the overall system we could think of an alternative approach in which the architect is responsible for the design of individual parts, constructing the whole system, and the interactions between its components.
In this case what we have is a self-organizing system in which the final outcome is the emergent result of a real-time interaction between the individual parts. An architect who designs only individual components and their local interactions will also have limited control over the whole system, since the ultimate effect depends on interaction dynamics between the components and the environment. The key attribute of emergent complexity is its tolerance and adaptability to var able conditions, making it much more flexible and responsive to change than complexity programmed and predesigned in its entirety. Distributed systems are also more efficient, since each of the components is responsible only for its own simple behaviour, while their combination generates collective intelligence and complexity.”
Section City
The railway between Barcelona and Mataro, acts as a boundary between the sea and the surrounding villages. It separates them. This Border makes it difficult to clarify where Barcelona ends and where the suburbs begin. Our intention was to analyze the site and propose better ways of connection, both between Barcelona and its suburbs but between the suburbs themselves.
The idea was to use the free available land as well as the rail corridor to stimulate the areas around the city and the sea, feeding from existing patterns and movements based on sectional analysis, rather than a total imposition of the new. These connections refer to:
-Existing
-Landscape connections
-Peninsula connections
-Habitation space
-Public Space connections
-Vertical industry
Project by: Maria Papaloizou_Vagia Pantou_Ben Howard
Tutors: Andreu Ulied_Xavier Font
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