Spain, Barcelona
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2020-05-09 by Panagiota Tziourrou
The picture illustrate the area of Barcelona port from a cable car. The visible information that are present in the photography are the port of barcelona, with ships and smaller boats, a kind of luna park next to the port, tree clusters parallel of a high traffic road, buildings similar in scale and some skyscrapers that sprung up between them. Also, some fundamental movements, like Sagrada familia, stand out in the urban fabric, while the mountains constitute the background of the city. The first invisible information that can be extracted out is the intense use of the walkway under the shadows of the tree clusters, especially on sunny days. This is also reflected in the placement of the "lunapark" along this sidewalk. Furthermore, the second invisible information is that big companies are located in specific areas in the city creating business centers with strong character (which is reflected by skyscrapers), but at the same time far from essential monuments. Taking these invisible information into cosideration we could use for examble the first one to gain knowledge about the relationship between weather conditions and pedestrian flows in the city and how we could redistribute activities related to pedestrians in urban planning.