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EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
Order & Disorder in
Brasilia & Chandigarh
Frederico de Holanda
Valério Medeiros
Santiago – Chile
3dr-6th January, 2012
Introduction - contents
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Brasilia and Chandigarh differ in the domains global and local
Their global order
Their local order
The cities as they exist today
Focus on the founding nuclei
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Overview at the global scale
Chandigarh: whole axial map
Overview at the global scale
Chandigarh: structural axes’ map
Overview at the global scale
Pilot Plan: whole axial map
Overview at the global scale
Pilot Plan: structural axes’ map
Overview at the global scale: some statistics
Variation coefficients
Global integration (whole axial map)
Line length (whole axial map)
Line length (only structural axes)
Difference factor (structural axes' length)
Chandigarh
0.17
1.23
1.07
- 0.03
Brasilia
0.19
1.68
1.53
- 0.95
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Brasilia
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Brasilia
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Brasilia
SITE
VARIABLE
Cohesion
Isovist area
N. isovist segments
Capitolio
29%
0,59 k2
11
Plaza
42%
0,16 k2
27
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Brasilia
The difference in legibility (sense of place) is clear
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Brasilia
Typical view of a housing sector from outside
The cities’ parts
Chandigarh
Typical view of a housing sector from inside
Brasilia
The cities’ parts
Order in Chandigarh’s central sector: well-defined
public plazas (but in introverted schemes)
The cities’ parts
Disorder in superblocks’ road patterns in Brasilia
(labyrinthine schemes)
The cities’ parts
Disorder in superblocks’ road patterns in Brasilia
(labyrinthine schemes)
Conclusion
• Promenade architecturale is a myth, not a reality, in
Chandigarh
• Redundancy and fragmentation are dominant themes
• Differentiations obtain in Brasilia, despite its “baroqueism”
• Chandigarh is highly redundant at the global level
• Brasilia is highly informative at the global level
• Fissures of order happen in Chandigarh at the local level
• Fissures of disorder happen in Brasilia at the local level
THANK YOU
Frederico de Holanda
[email protected]
htpp://www.fredericodeholanda.com.br
Valério Medeiros
[email protected]