Explanation

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The semestral subject spins around investigation of the mat-building systems and how in the 60’s theorics as Christopher Alexander and J. Habraken, criticizing the Smithsons and Team X ideas trying to lead a different movement that put the foccus on humans. 

After the urban analysis and watching the difficulties of the area, we conclude that the lack of identity and disconnection of the area, have make La Punta a place where people don’t want to live, causing a depopulation in the area. 

The project was an essay of how to solve the systematization of the mat-buildings taking into account the considerations and critics that architecture history has made to this movement, try to find new proposals. 

The conclusion of the work was the incompatibility that modern systems way of thought have with human views, activities and necessities. Finnally, was really dificult find a sistematization of a city that don’t make the area a concrete desert even if we try to mix uses, make common areas and descentralizing information. 

The proposal that is shown here consists in three different systems that repeats the actions in 3 different scales. 

The main idea extracted from the analysis is to condense and regenerate the main street that La Punta conserves from de 50’s mixing the old existing houses and the new ones generated by the project to consolidate the area. The project also solve the 3 main points (the entrance form North, the entrance from south and the transition below the road, in the center of the street).