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Infrastructural Voids in congested cities [New York]_Photography
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Infrastructural Voidsin congested cities [New York]
joaquin mosqueraphotographs and text bywww.impresionesdearquitectura.com
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Exhibition dates
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid COAMJanuary-February, 2011
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Photographs by Joaquin Mosquera
Cover Illustration
Red frame - Greenpoint Avenue, John Jay Byrne Bridge, Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, November 2010
Contents
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THE RESEARCH: ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
This publication is about some specific spaces. Architecture and photography work in paralell to give different visions of their possibilities and sometimes, they coincide. In the case of Infrastructural Voids, the goal has been working together, ar-chitecture and photography, to provide a better understanding of their reality, spatial and projectual, making a research about present and future, about complexities and possibilities.
This part of the research is the representational, using photo-graphy as a way to talk about a reality, being conciouss of its importance and wishing to cause a public discussion.
1. WHAT’S AN INFRASTRUCTURAL VOID?
Infrastructural voids are empty spaces inside city congestion that have the peculiarity of having enough scale and proximity with dense city to be extremely relevant and, at the same time, that are completely underused as places of chaos, disorder and general infrastructures. They are the symbols of present con-gestion, precisely because they are some of the only existing remaining free spaces in high-dense cities.
This paradox is used as the tool for working, and their most important characteristics are:
-their intermediate scale between architecture and urbanism.
-their position within a network that affects many fields outside architecture.
The representation of these elements is then fundamental for understanding their complexities and common characteristics.
This work, then, will become a study of the uncertainty of urban forms, being about looking inside cities, and unders-tanding that even the cities that seem congested are not completed.
It’s no more about architecture but about what architects or urban planners haven’t usually thought about.
Forewordjoaquin mosquera
“Where there is nothing, everything is possi-ble. Where there is architecture, nothing (else) is possible”
Rem Koolhaas, S,M,L,XL
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2 miles (3220 m)
2 miles (3220 m)
0.7 miles (1150 m)
1.3 miles (2,000 m)
0.5 miles (830 m)
1,5 miles (2,400 m)
NORTH DUMBOSURFACE - 132 ha
GOWANUSSURFACE - 190 ha
GREENPOINTSURFACE - 116 ha
QUEENSBORO AREASURFACE - 100 ha
HUDSON RAIL YARDSSURFACE - 72 ha
ATLANTIC RAILYARDSSURFACE - 6.75 ha
Map showing estimated surfaces of closest Infrastructural Voids to Manhattan
Almost twice the surface of Central Park is occupied in New York by Infrastructural Voids
TOTAL ESTIMATED: 617 ha
CENTRAL PARK: 341 ha
2. WHERE ARE THEY?
The two most relevant things about their situation is the proxi-mity or even their insertion in city centers and the surprising surface that they affect to the city.
This research is focused in the study of New York. Last big voids are placed in situations where infrastructures, mainly transpor-tation, plays a fundamental role.
Once the city is congested, and growth seems impossible, the market seeks new spaces for opportunity. These spaces will be-come, sooner or later, the object of development. These spaces are being right now the Infrastructural Voids.
12Greenpoint Avenue, John Jay Byrne Bridge, Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, November 2010
25Greenpoint Avenue, John Jay Byrne Bridge, Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, November 2010