Searching for Sugar Land │Archi
Searching for Sugar Land
Jaime Castilla
Project / 项目
Searching for Sugar Land is the result of an extensive and complex research that seeks alternatives to understand and intervene in the reality that Detroit lives today.
This city has been shrinking since the 1950s. This particular urban phenomenon has left a unique landscape composed by more than 105,000 empty lots, 50,000 abandoned houses, and more than 30 square kilometers of underutilized land.
The main purpose of this project is to reorient Detroit’s future by reconnecting the urban fabric and boosting the city’s own identity through the interaction with its citizens. The project pretends to offer a global intervention in the territory according to the context of emergency and precariousness that suffers.
Searching for Sugar Land是一项广阔而复杂的研究的结果，该研究寻求一种替代或干预底特律今天的状况。自上世纪50年代以来，这座城市一直在萎缩。这一特殊的城市现象已经留下了一个独特的景观，由超过105000个空地，5万个废弃房屋，以及30多平方公里的未充分利用土地组成。
这个项目的主要目的是重新定位底特律的未来，通过重新连接城市的结构，通过与市民的互动来提升城市本身的身份。该项目根据偶写紧急情况和不稳定的情况在领土上进行介入设计
Hypercity/ 超级城市
The city is living an important series of urban changes that are transforming the way we work and intervene on it. The new technologies are increasing our experience of the city as an amplification of our capacities to perceive and inhabit the physical and virtual environment.
The city should be connected to its citizens trough technology, making them part of the transformative process and decision making.
The project understands architecture as part of a global purpose for the city. In order to understand the architectural intervention it is necessary to adopt a multiscalar vision of the city.
This new perspective allows us to analyze different pixels of the city that coexist at different scales. As a result, we obtain an hyper-connected network of Detroit that give us a transversal view of the interventions that are taking place in the whole territory.
城市正在经历一系列重要的城市变革，正在改变并介入我们的工作方式。新技术增加了我们对城市的体验，作为我们所感知和生活在物质和虚拟环境内放大。
城市应该与通过技术与公民相联系，使他们成为变革过程中决策的一部分。
该项目把建筑作为城市全球目标的一部分。为了理解建筑的介入，采用城市的大尺度视觉。
这个新视角让我们能够分析不同尺度下共存的城市的不同区域。最后我们得到了一个底特律的多方式连接关系网，它给我们的设计提供了竖向与横向的观点。
Mapping Detroit/ 底特律Mapping
One of the first step of the project was to develop a map that shows the future landscapes that will exist in Detroit. In order to make this map it was necessary to collect all the cartographic information and digital mapping available on the internet so we could understand the real panorama of the current territory.
The final map is made by a matrix of 500×500 meters, based on the matrix of “the square mile” already used in other territorial mappings of America. Each of these “pixels” is classified according to 3 categories that determine the landscape that the “pixel” aspires to develop. (Habitability & Culture, Production & Innovation, Vegetation & Energy)
The purpose of this matrix is to obtain an accurate and flexible information about the landscape prevailing in each area. This cartographic system generates a new urban framework open and dynamic that bets on the diversity of uses and the recovery of the preexistence.6 types of landscapes are defined for Detroit, these typologies approach the recovery of industrial zones, the reforestation of uninhabited areas or the improvement of consolidated neighborhoods among others.
项目的第一步是设计出一幅地图，展示底特律未来的景观。为了制作这张地图，我们需要收集互联网上所有的地图信息和数字地图，这样我们才能了解当前土地的真实全景。
最后的mapping是由500×500米的矩阵,比例尺为“一平方英里”\矩阵可以在美国的其他地方映射使用。每一个“矩阵”都有3个类别分类，以分类“矩阵”希望发展的景观。(可居住性与文化、生产与创新、植被与能源)
这个矩阵的目的是获得一个准确而灵活的信息，关于每个地区的景观。这个地图系统产生了一个新的城市开放框架和动态，在多样性的使用和修复的前提下。为底特律设置了6种景观类型，这些类型学研究了工业区的恢复、无人居住地区的重新造林或改善了其他地区的综合社区。
Based on the division of districts made by the City Council in 2013, the project proposed the incorporation of a decentralized network for management, exchange and distribution of the resources of the city, in favor to the local needs of each neighborhood.
You will be the King of your “Hood”
Our job as professional planners has been transformed, we must act as interlocutors between the inhabitants and the city. We must create the platforms for communication between agents. We must promote the local empowerment of users to take control to evaluate and develop their space in the city.
Thanks to the advances in the field of technology, it is possible to establish this communication channels. “Apps” will become the way to evaluate the space surround us. The user will surf trough a virtual network of the environment to connect with the physical space and other users.
When the user takes part of this developing, the city becomes a collective place in continuous planning.
根据2013年市政府划分的区域，该项目提议建立一个分散的网络，用于管理、交换和分配城市资源，以满足每个社区的当地需求。
我们作为专业规划者的工作已经改变，我们必须在居民和城市之间充当对话者。我们必须建立代理人之间的沟通平台。我们必须增加当地的居民的权力，让用户在城市中对空间进行参与与设计。
由于技术领域的进步，建立这种交流渠道是可能的。“应用软件”将成为评估我们周围空间的方式。用户将在一个虚拟的环境网络上漫游，然后以连接物理空间和其他用户。
当用户参与到这个开发过程中，城市就成为了一个持续规划的集合体。
Imprimir Architecture/ 印刷建筑
The architectural proposal is marked by the inefficiency of finding a unique answer to solve the problem of the city. For this reason the “catalog” format is proposed as a flexible solution that allows activating different strategies of transformation and improvement of the urban space.
A progressive reactivation of the spaces in Detroit, according to the real needs of each neighborhood, will avoid that they become “ruins” and therefore, in obsoleted spaces, so we will give them a second chance to resurface.
建筑任务书特点是缺乏解决城市问题的独特解决办法。因此，“目录”格式被提出作为一种灵活的解决方案，它允许激活不同的策略来转换和改善城市空间。
根据每个社区的实际需要，底特律的空间的逐步重新激活，将避免它们成为“废墟”，因此，在废弃的空间中，我们将给他们第二次机会重新出现。
About/关于作者
Jaime is an architect and designer based in Madrid. He studied architecture at Escuela Politécnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid and the Illinoins Institute of Technology in Chicago. He works in a young architecture studio and as a freelance design on his free time. He is also the co-founder of a design brand call Zoogling where he develop illustrations and designs for different projects.
Jaime是马德里的建筑师和设计师。他在马德里的Escuela Politecnica建筑师事务所和芝加哥的伊利诺斯理工学院学习建筑专业。他现在在一个年轻的建筑工作室工作，在空闲时间做自由设计。他也是一个设计品牌Zoogling的联合创始人，为着不同的项目开发与插图设计。
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