some samples of a current project done at the ETH Zürich, together with Georgia Papathanasiou.
Located in Brazil, dealing with the topic of satellite cities around its capital Brasilia.
The main focus for the site in Brasilia will be on the organisation and creation of multiply centralities.
On one hand related to the use and introduction of transportations systems, as an alternative to the use of cars, on the other hand linked to the idea of zoning to establish networks to open up possibilities for a richer urban life, a mix of program and a more complex, divers urbanity.
Mobility—the goal is here to use and trace ‘hard’ infrastructure (street, pathways,..) as a starting point by installing facilities and ecological transportation systems, to activate the spaces and free them from the conventional image of the street scapes.
Creating dispersed centralities through modification of the relations between the private and the public / common spaces. Challenging the tendency to segreation of the existing urban fabric in the satellites, it is attempted to distribute functions in a way to mobilize the area in the scale of the neighbourhood as well as in a regional scale. The proposed centralities are meant to achieve a degree of autonomy and at the same time, to structure an urban layout that works as a whole.