Gynie process journal report compilation

Content:
1. A City
2. Investigation on Better City Guidelines and
3. Investigation & Data Collection: Ancient and old
4. Investigation & Data Collection: The present city/cities
5. Investigation & Data Collection: The future city/cities
6. Information about the city location and
7. All about The New “X” City / Or the new name
8. All about The Pamphlet
9. References list
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A CITY [sit-ee]
Definition :
• highest forms of social organization
• an inhabited place of greater size and population.
• Large, important, permanent human settlement
Examples :
• London
• Tokyo
• Rome
Origin :
Middle English citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval Latin civitat-,
civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, city of Rome, from civis citizen. First Known Use: 13th
century
Components :
• road systems
• transportation
• building
• laws
• markets
• business center
• sports events
• food distribution
• educational systems
• sanitation
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• utilities
• land usage
• housing area
• public space
3 critical aspects of cities :
• Economy
• Environment
• community
Sustainable City
• efficient transportation systems that encourage use of public roads, minimizing
energy consumption for transportation
• well-developed infrastructure that include water supply systems, sewage treatment,
waste recycling, health care facilities, education, and energy supplies, maintaining
high qualities of life
• maximized alternative energy sources, including solar and wind power, reducing
dependencies on fossil fuels
• mixes of land uses that put workplaces near homes, minimizing commuting and
higher densities
• heterogeneous mixes of housing types, from affordable to luxury, meeting the
needs of community members
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• high qualities of life through the development of civic amenities, such as green
spaces and cultural centres.
Comparison between more sustainable & less sustainable cities
More Sustainable Less Sustainable
Compact forms of residential
Development.
Low-density, spread-out residential
development.
Mixed land use; homes, jobs and
shopping in close proximity/TD.
Segregation of land uses: homes, jobs and
shopping separated into uniform tracts or
concentrations.
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high qualities of
life through the
development of
civic amenities
heterogeneous
mixes of
housing types
mixes of
land uses
maximized
alternative
energy
sources
well-
developed
infrastructure
Effective
transportation
system
Sustainable
City

Employment based primarily on
education and skills.
Employment based primarily on
environment polluting or non-renewable
resource based industry.
Movement on foot and by bicycle and transit. Heavy dependence on private cars.
Wind and solar energy. Thermal and nuclear energy.
Tertiary treatment of sewage; use of natural
means of sewage treatment.
Discharge of sewage into water bodies or water-
courses untreated or with low level of
treatment.
Protection and use of natural hydrologic
systems.
Hard surfaces preventing infiltration;
channeling natural water-courses.
Natural open space; protection of
wetlands, woodlands, stream valleys, habitat,
etc.; use of manure, compost, integrated pest
management, etc.
Destruction of natural landscape;
"manicured" parkland with exotic
species; heavy use of chemical
fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides.
Reduction of waste; recovery, re-use and
recycling of waste materials.
Landfills, incinerators.
Investigation on
Better City Guidelines and Issues
An attractive city includes :
• Variety and order – Bulidings should be uniform in appearance and layout – to
a degree.
• Visible life – “There are streets that are dead and streets that are alive. And in general, we
crave the live ones.”
• Compactness – “All the most beautiful compact cities have squares… The ideal square
must offer a sense of containment not claustrophobia.”
• Orientation and mystery – “By definition, cities are HUGE. But the cities that a lot of
people love also have lots of little backstreets and small lanes where you can feel cozy and
get a bit lost.”
• Scale – “Modern cities are all about BIG things. Joseph Campbell once wrote, ‘If you want to
see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are
dedicated too…’ The ideal height for any city block is 5 stories high – no more… Of course,
occasionally there can be a huge building, but lets keep that for something really special –
something all of humanity can love.”
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• A sense of the local – “Buildings shouldn’t look all the same because their cultural and
geographic qualities are different.”
A good city to walk in and to stay in for a while includes:
• room to walk with dignity, integrity and without overcrowding
• comfortable climatic conditions – sun and shade depending on the season and protection
from the wind
• pleasant facades at street level to stroll alongside and observe
• good conditions for people with disabilities and people with prams
• clear structure in the pedestrian system – it should be easy to find your way around
• a pedestrian system that connects important destinations
• ability to promenade through the city
• good walking rhythm with few interruptions
• few and short waiting times at intersections
• many well-placed benches
• widespread secondary seating – such as steps and edges of planter boxes
• well-situated cafes and outdoor restaurants
• beautiful and effective lighting.
A good city for social and cultural exchanges includes:
• space for cultural activities and communication
• space for street theatre, clowns and jesters, music and small-scale commercial activities
• democratic public spaces for all.
A good city for talking, watching and experiencing includes:
• low level of noise and few disturbances
• intimate public spaces
• fine views and good details
• interesting facades, window displays and exhibits
• a lively, diverse and safe city to move around in
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• a wide variety of uses both day and night
• residences to ensure a 24 hour city
• educational institutions to ensure life and vitality
• open in the evenings with lit window displays
• safe places and streets day and night.
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Investigation & Data Collection:
Ancient and old cities
Derinkuyu('Deep Well'): Melagobia, Malakopi.
The largest of the Cappadocia underground complexes is multi-storey (18 storeys, 85m
deep), with fresh flowing water, ventilation shafts and individually separated
living quarters or 'apartments', shops, communal rooms, wells, tombs, arsenals
and escape routes.It has the potential to house up to 20,000 people. The complex was
air conditioned throughout, with 52 air shafts discovered so far, one of which is 55m
deep.. some wells were not connected with the surface, presumably in order to protect
the dwellers from poisoning during raids.
Underground City Features
• Deepest of the discovered underground cities with eight floors – reaching depths of 280
feet (85m)
• Excavation is incomplete but archaeologists estimate Derinkuyu could contain up to 18
subterranean levels.
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• Miles of tunnels are blackened from centuries of burning torches. They were strategically
carved narrow to force would-be invaders to crawl single-file.
• Eventually the tunnels reach hundreds of caves large enough to shelter tens of thousands
of people.
• churches, food stores, livestock stalls, wine cellars, and schools, temporary graveyards, an
ironic twist, bodies were stored underground until it was safe to return them the surface.
• Over one hundred unique entrances to Derinkuyu are hidden behind bushes, walls, and
courtyards of surface dwellings. Access points were blocked by large circular stone doors,
up to 5 feet (1.5m) in diameter and weighing up to 1,100 lbs (500 kilos).
• The stone doors protected the underground city from surface threats, and were installed so
each level could be sealed individually. The tunneling architects included thousands of
ventilation shafts varying in size up to 100 feet deep (30m).
circular stones would seal access to the passageways (courtesy thingshappendownhere)
An underground river filled wells while a rudimentary irrigation system transported drinking water.
Derinkuyu was more than just residences, storage, and tunnels. When residents fled underground,
business continued as usual. Commercial spaces included communal meeting areas, dining rooms,
grocers, religious places for worship – even shopping.
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Arsenals stored weapon caches while hidden escape routes offered residents a last-chance for a
getaway.
*
Unique to Derinkuyu
On the second floor a barrel-vaulted ceiling tops a spacious room believed to have been a religious
school. Rooms to the left provided individual studies.
A staircase between the third and fourth levels takes visitors to a cruciform church measuring
approximately 65 x 30 ft (20m x 9m) in size.
A large 180-ft
(55m) shaft (pictured above) was likely used as the primary well – both for residents underground
and on the surface. To prevent any surface aggressor attempt to poison drinking water, control of
the water supply originated from the lower floors and moved upward, with lower floors able to cut-
off supply to upper levels.
On the third level a 3 mile-long (5 km) tunnel connected Derinkuyu to nearby underground
city Kaymakli – although it is no longer functioning as parts of this tunnel have collapsed.
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The present city/cities
Tokyo City, Japan.
Greater Tokyo is the world's most populous metropolitan area and is the center of Japanese culture,
finance, and government. A bustling cosmopolitan city, Tokyo is also a major transportation hub and a
world economic and industrial center. The city boasts a large number of world-class institutions of
higher education, the highest concentration of universities in Japan. Tokyo was known as Edo until
1868, when the Japanese imperial family was moved there from Kyoto. Metropolitan Tokyo is
generally defined as the four prefectures of Tokyo, Saitaima, Kanagawa, and Chiba, while the city of
Tokyo proper usually refers to the 23 wards in Tokyo prefecture itself. The metropolitan area includes
the major cities of Yokohama (the second largest city in Japan), Kawasaki, and Chiba, as well as rural
mountain regions west of the city, the Izu Islands outside Tokyo Bay, and the Bonin Islands to the
southeast in the Pacific Ocean.
City Proper
Population: 11,781,000
Area: 2,820 sq km (1,090 sq mi)
Ethnic composition: 98% Japanese; Others<1% (Korean; Chinese; Southeast Asian; British;
American; Brazilian; Peruvian)
Metropolitan Area
Population: 28,025,000
Description: comprised of the four prefectures of the Kanto region: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and
Chiba
World population rank 1
: 1
Percentage of national population 2
: 22.2%
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Average yearly growth rate: 0.8%
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The future city/cities
The Earthscraper, designed by BNKR Arquitectura, is the Skyscraper’s antagonist in the historic
urban landscape of Mexico City where the latter is condemned and the preservation of the built
environment is the paramount ambition. It preserves the iconic presence of the city square and the
existing hierarchy of the buildings that surround it. More images and architects’ description after the
break.
aerial view
The Historic Center of Mexico City is composed of different layers of cities superimposed on top of
each other. When the Aztecs first came into the Valley of Mexico they built their pyramids on the lake
they found there. When a new and bigger pyramid was conceived and the Aztec Empire grew in size
and power, they did not search for a new site, they just built on it and around the existing one. In this
manner, the pyramids are composed of different layers of historical periods.
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main
section
When the Spanish arrived in America and ultimately conquered the Aztecs, they erected their
Christian temples atop their pyramids. Eventually their whole colonial city was built on top of the Aztec
one. In the 20th century, many colonial buildings were demolished and modern structures raised on
the existing historic foundations. So in a way, Mexico City is like a massive layered cake: a modern
metropolis built on the foundations of a colonial city that was erected on top of the ancient pyramids
that were constructed on the lake.
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empty
plaza
The main square of Mexico City, known as the “Zocalo”, is 57,600 m2 (240m x 240m), making it one
of the largest in the world. It is bordered by the Cathedral, the National Palace and the City
Government buildings. A flagpole stands at its center with an enormous Mexican flag ceremoniously
raised and lowered each day. This proved as the ideal site for the Earthscraper: an inverted
skyscraper that digs down through the layers of cities to uncover our roots.
communal
space
The design is an inverted pyramid with a central void to allow all habitable spaces to enjoy natural
lighting and ventilation. To conserve the numerous activities that take place on the city square year
round (concerts, political manifestations, open-air exhibitions, cultural gatherings, military parades.),
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the massive hole will be covered with a glass floor that allows the life of the Earthscraper to blend with
everything happening on top.
Architect: BNKR Arquitectura
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Partners: Esteban Suárez (Founding Partner), Sebastián Suárez
Project Leader: Arief Budiman
Project Team: Arief Budiman, Diego Eumir, Guillermo Bastian, Adrian Aguilar
Collaborators: Jorge Arteaga, Zaida Montañana, Santiago Becerra
Area: 775,000 m2
Status: Competition
Photography: Sebastian Suárez
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Information about the
City location and site
1. site (what are the characteristic, condition and what will be the
consideration to build at this area? And some inspirational images or
research – do you have a site for your city.. do u have a drawing plan?)
Underground city :
Characteristics :
Conditions :
Consideration :
Inspiration : Mexico
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All about The New Vin-City
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All about The Pamphlet
pamphlet
A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a
single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called
a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease
to make a simple book. Its purposes are:
• business communications.
• To educate, inform, persuade, or entertain your intended audience.
• To mobilize people to support your cause.
• To advertise a meeting or specific event.
• To popularize your slogans and messages.
What makes a good pamphlet/ brochure?
1. Appropriate format
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right medium for the message and type of product
2. White space
well-balanced white space - aesthetics and readability.
3. Quality printing
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- physical product that people will hold in their hands.
- Letterpress: the inked (or not inked) parts are pressed into the paper, thus creating a
nice look and feel.
- Die Cut: irregular shapes created by cutting in the paper
- Varnish: a varnish layer that adds a glossy effectAppropriate format - easy to hand
out / creative / artistic
4. Wise choice of colors
colors - first thing that people will see on brochure designs
5. Typographic details
using ligatures, using thin spaces where appropriate, avoiding dumb quotes, avoiding
widows and orphans.
6. Choose the right paper
Some of the high-end paper providers are:
• Gmund
• Conqueror.
• Neenah paper
Inspirational pamphlet design :
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References
Sustainable and Better City:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/city
http://www.archdaily.com/604984/what-makes-an-attractive-city-try-these-6-points/
http://www.dpcdsb.org/nr/rdonlyres/f611447e-cd04-463c-b373-
4ae1d483fa97/70258/creating_a_sustainable_action_plan_characteristics.pdf
http://www.activehealthycommunities.com.au/content/case-study-characteristics-good-city
http://www.dpcdsb.org/nr/rdonlyres/f611447e-cd04-463c-b373-
4ae1d483fa97/70258/creating_a_sustainable_action_plan_characteristics.pdf
Underground City (Plan 1):
http://listverse.com/2013/01/22/10-amazing-underground-cities/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048395/Earth-scraper-Architects-design-65-storey-
building-300-metres-ground.html
http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-first-earthscraper-75-story-inverted-pyramid-mexico-
city/22909
http://www.archdaily.com/156357/the-earthscraper-bnkr-arquitectura/
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/27/tech/innovation/earthscraper-mexico-fantasy-reality/
Remote Skylight:
http://www.core77.com/posts/22088/The-LowLine-How-Do-the-Remote-Skylights-Work
http://www.coolhunting.com/design/the-lowline-nyc-remote-skylight
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lowline-park-green-space-nyc/
Cave City (Plan 2- FINAL):
http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/08/16/gua-madu-draws-tourists-to-gua-musang/
http://www.kesedar.gov.my/en/gua-madu
Ventilation Shaft
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-ventilation-shaft.htm
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Metrail
http://www.metrail.com/
Brochure :
http://www.aart.us.com/marketing-materials.html
http://www.designer-daily.com/the-elements-of-a-good-brochure-design-24048?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DailyDesignerNews+
%28Daily+design+news%29
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048395/Earth-scraper-Architects-design-65-storey-
building-300-metres-ground.html
http://nvision-that.com/design-from-all-angles/what-makes-a-good-brochure-design
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