Uploaded on 2016-08-27 by Arch. Jose Alberto Venegas Soriano

DIVERSITY (MAKING THE INVISIBLE – VISIBLE) La Molina, Lima – Perú 1. Identify and present two "invisible information" that can be extracted out of the visible information of this photo. This is the urban area where I work, where very different uses are taking place in a couple of blocks. VISIBLE: The street, a university, a car museum, an evangelic temple and the mountains/sky. It´s very diverse, as the information provided. The 3 buildings have different shapes, proportions, materials, colors, artificial lights and stories: The university has a glass façade, concrete/stone structure, colored elements and a flat roof. The evangelic temple has an almost neo-classical style architecture with a brick façade, small windows and a V roof (it doesn´t rain here, but…). The museum is a colored box with no windows, but shows the images of some of the cars inside. The street goes into two directions, is 3-lane-wide, has a slim sidewalk, lights, divisions and is full of traffic signs. The mountains and the sky are definitely an essential part of the landscape, as they embrace the whole “scenario”, reminding us we are still in a humid desert. INVISIBLE: The 3 buildings function in very different ways and times of the day, that means the population flow has peaks. Those peaks not only happen because of the practical use of each building, but also because of the weather, day of the week and the capacity to receive people. As they have different architectures, positions and capacities, we can´t see how much energy they need to function, how many people work/study/pray/live inside of them, how many CO2 is embedded on their facades and interiors, the condition of their structure, if they are clean or not inside, how much water they use/waste, how old is each building, how much noise is created inside/outside, etc. The size and number of lanes on the street makes us think the magnitude of the transportation flow and when it comes to a peak –and the different types of transportation. The important information would be the types and quantities of energy used by each transportation type, how much CO2 is produced, embedded and in suspension. 2. Select one of your choices from the previous question and describe how this invisible information can become knowledge and contribute to the planning of a more livable urban space. As we need to achieve sustainability, it´s imperative that we predict the population flow in the area, then, we can analyze if the transportation methods are the right ones in quantity and quality, how much space is needed for them, how much energy will they spend, how much trees are needed to clean the air, how much more space we can give to the pedestrians –mainly children.