fragmenting urbanism

Fragmenting Urbanism is an attempt to take architectural practices of the past and embed them today’s world. The famous Tower of Shadows by Le Corbusier was set as a starting point. By extracting the shadow and panel lines and tracing the axes the form creates, the resultant image below was used to computationally derive endless techniques and impose them on a fully embedded system that can be used today, in any place, and any space. Through a dense variety of optimization processes in a programmatically chosen site in Barcelona, elements like plot selection, building height, program, and floor rotation have been computationally adjusted to match eco-friendly goals in relation to the site’s surroundings, as well as the climate and radiation levels of the area.

The results of these processes differ greatly between different spaces, places, and climates they are manipulated in. The test result at hand curated a library, gallery and archival space that connects surrounding nodes and unites exterior and interior spaces through the generation of accessible outdoor spaces. In this case, function precedes form as the computational processes guided the design process to generate a space based on user comfort and sustainability.