December 2012, Cybrid Fringe

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Cybrid Fringe-Hyperspace 2060, IAAC Barcelona, ES, 2012
Design Studio-Smart Public Space, Rambla de Prim, Barcelona

team: peter malaga, diego colinas, diego diaz, dirce medina, amireza saheb
supervisor: areti markopoulou, tomas diez, maite bravo, rodrigo rubio, pablo ros

Rambla de Prim [east fringe of Barcelona] is the place where multitude of complicated spatio-social situations intersect, from urban experiment of ideas of international modernism to the biggest immigrant communities in the city. How can we turn this at first sight disadvantage to a powerful tool which will bring near future development? After analyzing the socio-cultural and economic background of the area we propose develop an open program, free of restrictions and hierarchies, centres or rhetorical figures and create areas of opportunity, interaction, investigation, research and development [eDucation+Diffusion, R+D, culture and entertainment]. Hypermedia structure [bits, information, interface, sensors, hologramatic materials, telematic environments] as an urban catalyst responds to the heterogeneous and diverse society with continuous and instant flows of multitude social profiles and personalities [age, culture, social class, nationality, ethnic, religion, race]. This concept focuses on social sustainability, covering the demands and allowing the constant interactions of the users in the public environment. Aim of the project is to create a tension like atmosphere among a series of sequentially related activities which establishes an urban rhythm [a sequence of functional nodes produce the temporary activations of a place in different times] and stimulates the creation of urban intelligence networks. Inhabitants here are the protagonists of the actions and events rather than mere spectators. Hyper-space consist of physical spaces with continuity in cyberspace [full-color, dynamic, morphing, modifying, configurable, re-active, instant, fast-moving]. “The computers are vanishing and screens expands to the size of any space you choose and the best interface for access to the digital world is not a keyboard or a screen but actual physical world itself.” [Vicente Guallart] H-S architecture acts as a Total interface of a new hybrid of virtual-physical where different uses accumulates, acts as a interface with evolutional capabilities of growing and developing, mutating and transforming, altering, varying and deforming. The Cybrid Fringe as a new type of smart public space enables the flexible regulation of flows of vehicles and persons with their fluctuating trajectories.