Mixed-Use Urban Project in Design Studios. A Research by Design Pedagogical Experience at the Barcelona School of Architecture
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Abstract
This article presents an innovative “research by design” experience in the framework on an on-going investigation on Urban Mixticity within the Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory-LUB. In parallel, during six consecutive academic years, the Design Studio "Urban Project. Ideas and Praxis" of the master's program "Contemporary Project" has applied the analysis methodology developed in the research while reviewing the evolution of the idea of Urban Project in recent decades. In accordance with the tradition started at the LUB in 1980s, Urban Projects are an instrument of mediation between the city and architecture, and at the same time, constitute a way of acting and doing research. A design tool that is different either from the conventional planning or the macro-architecture, and that is driven to conceiving projects for operative fragments of the city well delimited in space and time. The Urban Design Studio held on Spring 2020 researched on Urban Mixticity in one of the most paradigmatic transformation tissues in the South of Europe: 22@-District Barcelona, taking its northern part as main laboratory. The course participated in a recently launched municipal debate that seek to set up new urban conditions for the non-redeveloped areas, “Towards a Poblenou with a more inclusive and more sustainable 22@ district". The Studio depicted new scenarios for this area taking into consideration the new demands for more housing, social and innovation activities, the balance between heritage and new facilities, ecology and sustainability, among other factors. Analysis and proposals both at the block and superblock scale were tested, exploring quantities and qualities of urban mixticity over the layout of the Cerdà’s grid.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".