A Multiple Perspective View on Cañada Real Madrid

Master thesis (2013)

Authors

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H. Bier (mentor)
O. Rommens (mentor)
P. Jennen (mentor)
Programme
Border Conditions (Architecture) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2013 Driessen, I.S.C.
Multiple perspective Cañada Real Madrid
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Published Date

29-01-2013

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Programme

Border Conditions

Abstract

In the Msc3 semester the relation between spatial experience and navigation is being investigated. The new technology like GPS, smartphones and interactive maps (Google, Bing etc.) effects the way we move trough space and how we experience the space. We are directed trough space with a GPS instead of analyzing the space by our self and decide de route based on what is seen and experienced. The Interactive maps allow us to perceive a space from multiple perspectives and scales. At the same time a group research was done about the periphery of Madrid. A 15 kilometre strip of illegal housing along a historic cattle trail was found and investigated in the theme of accessibility. The individual research about navigation is reflected on the group work. An investigation is done about the meaning of navigation in the specific area of the Cañada Real. The focus is pointed at the infrastructural intersections with the Cañada Real. Mappings are being made of the multiple perspective experience of three infrastructural intersections with the Cañada Real. In the Msc4 semester the relation between the top down and the bottom up perspective and the spatial experience is being investigated by a further spatial analysis of one of the three intersections. From the route which is taken several spatial conditions are isolated and analysed. By the isolation of the spatial conditions a spatial lexicon is developed as a tool for design. The spatial elements are being studied by reconfiguration and exaggeration. The proposed site is an area where different infrastructural systems and with this different navigation systems meet. The existing systems and territories in this are being mapped. Based on this map focus points are being discovered where two ore more systems meet or intersect. As a design concept interventions are being created on three of these points to reconnect the Cañada Real with the existing infrastructure and neighbourhoods. These interventions are built up from the spatial elements which were investigated. One of these interventions is picked to work out further on an architectural scale. With these interventions the Cañada Real gets more connected with its surrounding in a physical and visual manner. These connections can be the start of the acceptance and integration of this exceptional area in the periphery of Madrid.