Dupont Area of Martinez

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Dupont Area

Name	Dupont Area
Location	Martinez, Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Authors	Sonia Agosti de Landa
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Short Introduction to the Area of Study

This area is in Martinez in the outskirts of Buenos Aires . It’s located between the streets Hipolito Yrigoyen, Panama, Corrientes and Fleming Avenue. In the area you can find residential houses, a gas station, some commercial stores and offices. I named the project “Dupont area” because you can find here the offices of the company. It’s, no dough, an everyday landscape from Buenos Aires suburbs, since most of the suburbs have grown with not much urban design, regulation or planning. Damian, Buenos Aires coordinator, suggested the area to me. I visited the area and thought that it would be a challenging area to be studied. Although it’s a place I do not feel related to, it might be interesting to understand its evolution and think of a proposal for a change.

Exercise 1: Sketching the Landscape

Time frame: October 25 - November 15, 2011

Student activities:

• Creation of analytical drawings and sketches
• Presentation of results

Please upload a selection of your drawings/sketches/mental maps and add them to the image gallery

Sketches and Drawings

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  Santiago del Estero

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  Yrigoyen

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  Intersection Panama and Yrigoyen

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  Intersection Yrigoyen and Fleming

Exercise 2: Landscape Layers

Time frame: November 15 - 29, 2011

• time based changes and 'landscape biography', and/or:
• topography, open spaces, built, green, traffic and water structures on different layers. *Definition of zones with coherent character
• Description of this character.

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  Guarani Indians. Pampa. Very scares vegetation=grasses and small trees, ombu (Phytolacca dioica), tala (Celtis tala), spiny bushes. On the Rio de La Plata ceibos (Erithrina cristagalli) and sauces (Salix sp.)

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  First subdivision by Juan de Garay in1850. Farms to feed Buenos Aires city dwellers.

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  Watershed of Reconquista River and flood-plan. Green 2000 and orange 1995.

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  In 1930 The Jockey Club founded the Golf course and a race track= central rectangular green area

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  Traffic flow. Red, heavy= buses, cars,small trucks. Blue= residents car, bicycles

Please publish your findings here

Exercise 3: Behaviour Patterns

Time frame: December 6 - 20, 2011

• How do people behave in this area? How do they use the space? What is important for them? Interviews with local people.

This is a mix area and people behave in very different ways.

There is a commercial and an office area were people look busy, walking fast and with a very high interaction with the buildings. In this area you can also find some restaurants (pizza place, fast food stores) and small coffee shops were people take a break or have lunch. There are some bus stops that are usually crowded. There are some car replacements stores and people will park there car on the side walk to take a look to their cars with the shop assistant. In the intersection of Hipolito Yrigoyen Avenue and Sir Alexander Fleming Avenue there is a lot of traffic during the day. On Panama street and Hipolito Yrigoyen Avenue there is a gas station that is open 24 hs. To enter the Dupont offices on Hipolito Yrigoyen Avenue a security guard opens a security bar. The guard is very polite and told me that those were offices and the factory was somewhere else. In all its very hectic, noisy and polluted area during the daytime. At night it is calm and isolated. Probably not very safe.

There is a residential area. Some of the a houses are small especially on Corrientes and Santiago del Estero streets. On this streets the traffic is slow and the people are strolling or walking their dogs. For my surprise I found some kids with their bikes. I talked to them and said they lived in that block. It used to be very normal to play on the street with your neighbors in Buenos Aires but now security problems are a big issue and so it is quite unusual. It was a very nice surprise. There are some low condominiums, only 3 o 4 story high. You can see people coming in and out, I even found a grandma playing with her grandkids. There are some bus stops with little or no people waiting. On Hipolito Yrigoyen Avenue near Panama street there are 2 big houses, you can see the roof and the trees behind a wall. While I was taking some pictures the security guard with a big dog intercept me and told me I was nor aloud. In the residential area there is a personal interaction between the people and the buildings.

• Observation of study area and mapping of use patterns.

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  Interaction, people/building. Red=high interaction. Commercial/office area. Green=personal interaction. Residential area

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  STREETS Red=high traffic, Orange=slow traffic, DESTINATION Green=residential area, Blue= office area(Dupont), Yellow=commercial area

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  Red=standing, Green=sitting, Purple=fast walking, Turquoise=slow walking, Blue=biking

Please publish your findings here

Exercise 4: Communication Concepts

Time frame: December 19, 2011 - January 17, 2012

• Based on the different landscape assessment approaches students will develop a communication concept for their area of study
• Which measures would be necessary for enhancing the awareness for the area?
• Students are free to choose their method.

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Image Gallery

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  Intersection Hipolito Yrigoyen and Fleming Avenues

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  Restaurant (Parrilla) and Car replacements store (Lauro)

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  Gas station

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  Pubic transportation, bus.

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  Bus stop

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  Condominio

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  Residential area

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  Residential area

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  Pedestrian

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  Residential area

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  Pedestrian

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  Kids playing

References

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