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Juan Carlos Uribe

Juan Carlos Uribe

New York, NY, US

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urban acupuncture
urban acupuncture
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Revitalization of Santa Croce Area of Florence, Italy.

M.Arch II Program - Urban Planning - Fall 2005

Syracuse University - Professor Francisco Sanin

I approached the site as an "urban acupuncturist" intent on generating the best use of spaces by implementing the least amount of intervention in order to attain the highest spatial impact.

The key idea is to implement design by analyzing individual programs that exist, their relationship to one another, the collective memory of the site, patterns of circulation, relationships between different spaces and foremost the people that inhabit these spaces, their needs and consistent patterns.

The new projects balance and compliment the space that they occupy as well as allow the possibility to adjust to future programmatic changes.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Florence, IT

 
winter garden
winter garden
roof sculpture garden
roof sculpture garden
winter garden developed
winter garden developed
outdoor cinema
outdoor cinema
linking piazzas 'sky walk'
linking piazzas 'sky walk'
landmark analysis
landmark analysis
fishbone analysis
fishbone analysis
exterior vs. interior
exterior vs. interior
business, residential and occupied space analysis
business, residential and occupied space analysis
programatic analysis
programatic analysis
new projects threaded together in context to there surrounding site
new projects threaded together in context to there surrounding site
color code juxtaposition
color code juxtaposition