Encuentros con la infraestructura: intersecciones entre infraestructuras lineales elevadas y arquitecturas de la ciudad sedimentada europea
- Autores: Pablo Villalonga Munar
- Directores de la Tesis: Cristina Jover Fontanals (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2020
- Idioma: español
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- Resumen
This thesis investigates the encounters between elevated linear infrastructures and architectures of the European sedimentary city. The scalar contraposition between these two opposing urban elements (one small-grained element present in stratified historical urban layers and a large, self-supporting element that also generates a below in section) is a mechanism that guarantees the existence of contrasts.
It focuses on the encounters between spaces of unequal qualities and their areas of relationship. Based on the contrast of scales, as part of the hypothesis, it is proposed that more related dichotomies emerge when these components are opposed in architecture. Opposing conceptual pairs such as monumental and everyday, order and chance, society and individual, imposition and adaptation, abstraction and concretion, eternal and ephemeral, heavy and light, or unique and repetitive, are just some of the possible contrast relationships. These are all contrapositions that go beyond issues of scale and also emerge in conflicts of intangible dimensions that enable readers to draw their own route maps through the different cases, allowing cross-reading and non-linear reading from different inputs.
Although it traverses urban areas and other subjects and disciplines in the process, the study focuses on the architectural framework as a place for defining limits and the encounter space’s surroundings. Geographically, the thesis has searched for cases in the European sedimentary city. And temporally, the search for cases is delimited by one condition: they can be visited today.
This research aims to provide a useful and expandable manual forunderstanding present cases and addressing similar cases in the future. Based on case studies, the intention is to use their surroundings to create a silhouette of inherent strategies to be uncovered and their invisible relationships, generating a critical attitude and a propositional gaze in the reader.
The thesis’ starting points are based on the words that make up the title (infrastructure, elevated linear, encounters, European sedimentary city) and a historical review of the inhabited bridge type as a precedent. From there, the thesis is based on observing, describing and analyzing different cases of encounters at different levels of research. Specifically, locations are considered in the city of Lisbon (the Águas Livres aqueduct, the arches of several superimposed streets in Rua Alecrim, Rua São Sebastião Pedreira and Rua Santa Marta, and the viaduct over Alcântara), in Barcelona (the Sants railway corridor), in Mostar (the Mostar bridge), in London (the Borough Market and the Holborn Viaduct), in Edinburgh (the viaducts of the South and North Bridge), in Florence (the Vasarian corridor), in Hamburg (the Isemarkt), and in Oporto (Ponte Luis I). In addition, an open collection of cases located in Europe is included, presented in the form of comparable files.
Attention is devoted especially to those cases that simply exist, without any direct intervention by architects or any intention to create an extraordinary situation, even if it happens. The investigation touches on the exceptionality that emerges from chance, error or unforeseen or unconsidered edges during certain projects. Applying different scales and points of view, always linked to dimensions with architectural causes and effects, we illuminate and propose possible architectural projects and gazes contained in each case. In these encounters with the infrastructure, the thesis seeks to investigate the generation of architectural spaces that provide a source of strategies and possible fields of action within project design.
