timeline and stages of intervention

We are identifying the condition of the buildings in our region, spotting the empty lots and the empty interiors so that we know where we can place our intervention. In a selected area we are “scanning” the houses, so to have a clear view of the total living condition of the region. We are:

1. transforming vans, vending machines or containers found in the site so that they can be used to host people or activities,

2. re-making the empty interiors and in some cases extending (altering the wooden structure of the houses) them towards an empty lot or a street or merging two nearby buildings,

3. And newly creating shapes and forms out of reusedmaterial mentioned above that will successfully accompany our other interventions.

The structures we are creating are either fixed (case 2 from the above) or mobile (case 1) and they can be used as residences, workspaces or public spaces.

In our attempt to show this we created this diagram which is actually an evolution of our previous manual. In this diagram we want to show the timeline of our intervention taking into consideration incoming population percentages, time people tend to spend in the region, salary, education levels and employment. Currently it goes up to 18 months and describes three basic stages of our intervention.

STAGES

Stage01: 1-3 months

Vans, containers and trucks occupied by new coming immigrants who also in this period learn a certain local skill which the will be using in the next stage.

Stage 02: 4-9 months

During this stage the vans and trucks became vacant from the previous inhabitants and so that the circle can continue. Previous inhabitants start using the skill they have learned in order to make extensions on the existing wooden houses and new constructions on their rooftops or the ground level gaps.

Stage 03: 9 -18 months

Those constructions are being used, so people start to make some profit out of them. Also public spaces start to be more organised and active as a whole. They are mainly consisted of the urban elements as defined in our initial glossary.

e.g. immigrants start running some of those new spaces as workshops

Owners are able of renting those new spaces

Public spaces can be operated by the municipality

We always bear in mind that we aim to sustain the local character and identity of Fener so we are about to establish some borders to our mechanism so that we will ensure that our intervention wont damage the historical aspect of the area. We also want extend our timeline to 10 or 20 years so that we can establish our attitude towards such interventions in historically preserved areas.

layering information

Our objective is to compose the mechanism in which we can establish small interventions inside the existing buildings or in the in-between spaces. We intend to base our overall design proposal on a self-sustained mechanism. This mechanism will be consisted of a number of interrelated factors that will be defined by specific social, economic and structural rules.

Our approach is bottom up. We are using two base drawings, section and plan, in which we intend to layer all the information that came out of our research. This information will include:

·        Social networks

·         Ethnicity

·         Materiality of the structure

·         Levels of decay

·         Vacancy of the houses

·         Demographics

·         Uses