URBAN HACKERDESIGNERS WITHOUT BORDERS

Urban hacker is a legacy, created by thinkers who would be the reason for change where change is needed the most. We would question all the “given” problems and find the hidden links between mat-ters in different scales and disciplines. Our work might vary from a scale of an information stand in the street to planning a whole city. We collaborate with many different disciplines and organizations. For us the local communities are an important assets and we want them to be involve in all process-es. Most urban projects that are initiated by a client, are result of developers having economic bene-fits in mind, urban hacker’s responsibility is to take advantage of these situations to create profits for the ones that have no control over the process and yet are most influenced by it.

Precedents :COMMON GROUND, http://www.commonground.org/our-buildings/the-lee/#.Uq_zXhZ1K2wOPEN ARCHITECTURE NETWORK,http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/aboutARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY, http://architectureforhumanity.orgTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE NYC, http://archleague.org

CURRENT PRACTICE:Where is the Urban Designer, where is the design?where is the Community?

In many countries, commercial projects in big scale, are controlled by the market (Developers).

SITE PLANNING,MASTER PLANS

URBAN DESIGNER

COMPETITION,COMMISSIONED

THE CITY

FINANCING,MARKETING

DEVELOPER DESIGN,ARCHITECT

LANDSCAPE. ARCH CONSTRUCTION,CONTRACTOR

MARKETING,REAL ESTATES

OCCUPYING,COMMUNITY

URBAN HACKER ;Maximizing the benefits for people

Designing for the ones who are the most influenced and the least involved and collaboratingwith a bigger circle of professionals for morediversity in the type of the projects.

MARKETING,REAL ESTATES

SITE PLANNING,MASTER PLANS

URBAN DESIGNER

COMPETITION,COMMISSIONED

THE CITY

FINANCING,MARKETING

DEVELOPER

DESIGN,ARCHITECT

LANDSCAPE. ARCH

CONSTRUCTION,CONTRACTOR

CONSTRUCTION,LOCALS

INFRASTRUCTURE,CIVIL ENGINEERS

CONSULTANT,SPECIALIZED

OCCUPYING, PARTICIPATINGCOMMUNITY

A new ModelTHE TARGETS

- Project briefs are being defined based on limited factors, economic mostly.

- The benefits are limited to financial gains for few.

- The area of progress is limited to the main site of the project.

- Individuals in the city, influenced the most, have very little or no voice over the projects.

What are our Goals?Old model cs. New Model of development

- Generating Solutions and identifying Problems.

- More involvement of the community.

- Collaboration between the Design team and the Planning team and Contractor.

- Having a much bigger area of influence and benefits.

BID+

Brief

A ProjectDESIGN

TACTICALCOLLABORATIVE

DESIGN

A Project+

More Users+

Job opportunities

BID+

RE-EVALUATED Brief+

New PARTNERS(Professionals & Community)

+More FINANCIAL

support

PRECEDENTS ;Models of collaboration

All these organizations are non-profit and they finance their process through financial sup-ports of private and public organization.

COMMON GROUND OPEN ARCHITECTURENETWORK

The ARCHITECTURALLEAGUE

STRENGTH FINANCING their projects NETWORKING withservice providers

ACADEMIC &INTELLECTUAL

connection

CREATIVE FINANCINGCO-BRANDING

OUTSOURCING ADVOCACY,SPONSORSHIP

MEDIA, WEBSITE,EVENTS

MEDIA, WEBSITE EVENTSTOOLS

METHOD

FINDING THE CLOSEMEMBERS

...

FINA

L AD

JUST

MEN

T o

f the group

Interesting! Nice...

I’m not sure...

Additional Disciplines

SENDIN

G OUT the ideas, exhibition or publication

FIRST PROJECT as a potential future group

FIRST INPUT in an IDEA as a potential future group CONN

ECTI

NG to

the others

THE

EVEN

TS, t

he Pl

ace

FULL-TIME MEMBERS

THE CORE of IDEAS

PART-TIME MEMBERS

Interviews

Media Search

Workshop

Socializing

Exhi

bitio

n

Research

Mapping

Traveling

WHO WE ARE?WHAT ROLES WE TAKE?

Urban Hackers

Architects, Urban Designer

Design team

Tech-Design team

LandscapeDesigners

Finance Consultant

Planners

MarketingSpecialists

DataSpecialists

BIM Designer

ITSpecialists

Animator,Media Director

HOW DO WE WORK?WORK-FLOW

MAIN BODY ;Process Organization

CROWD-SOURCINGOUTSOURCING

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTPUBLIC EDUCATION

AND AWARENESS

IDENTIFYING COMPLEX RELATIONS & OVERLAYSFINDING OPPORTUNITIES, COMMON INTEREST &COMMON PROBLEMS,FASTER PROCESS

COLLABORATIVE DESIGNPOLYLITHIC OUTCOME

ADMINISTRATIVE/DESIGN

THE TEAM

Animator,Media DirectorMarketingSpecialists

Locals following up on a project Are you a designer, planner

RAW data, Charlotte, Interviews

non-

Nt &

BLT

En

N

t & B

lt En

RAW data, Exhibitions,

Workshops, Publication

PROCESSED data

PROCESSED data

You want to donate

Are you a professional, you have skills

You have a concern

Online Q & A onany subject elated to the city, facilities,regulations

Locals requesting a projectApplying for a job

Easy Access and upload of Drawings, Movies, Images, Project concernsDocumentation of Legal Rights

Link to existing networks, FB,TR, yelp,Linkdin INTERACTVE/OPEN DATABASE DATA PROCESSOR

DESIGN WORKSHOP

BIM Designers,IT Specialist,

Data Specialists

Design team

Framework

Street furniture

Landscape

Building

Infrastructure

Guidelines

Digital Model

Ex: MIT senseablelab

Updating Patterns SponsorsCorporation

Social NetworksPublic authoritiesTechnology part-

ners, Public sectors

SchoolsGeo organizations,

Gov agenciesHealthcare org,

Educators,

PR team

Creative FinanceTeam

Guest local team

Externalspecialist

Fabrication Team

EXAMPLE ;Landscape projectphase I. Project clarification

RAW data, Exhibitions,

Workshops, Publication

ADMINISTRATIVE/DESIGN

THE TEAM

Animator,Media DirectorMarketingSpecialists

Locals following up on a project Are you a designer, planner

RAW data, Charlotte, Interviews

non-

Nt &

BLT

En

N

t & B

lt En

PROCESSED data

PROCESSED data

You want to donate

Are you a professional, you have skills

You have a concern

Online Q & A onany subject elated to the city, facilities,regulations

Locals requesting a projectApplying for a job

INTERACTIVE/OPEN DATABASE DATA PROCESSOR

WORKSHOP

BIM Designers,IT Specialist,

Data Specialists

Design team

Digital Model

ex: MIT senseablelab

Updating Patterns SponsorsCorporation

Social NetworksPublic authoritiesTechnology part-

ners, Public sectors

SchoolsGeo organizations,

Gov agenciesHealthcare org,

Educators,

PR team

Creative FinanceTeam

Guest local team

Externalspecialist

Fabrication TeamCOMPETITION,

COMMISSIONED THE CITY

Problem ( !rst identi!cation)Creating the Brief

Reassessment of the Brief

Brief sent with Info-graph to be

accessed

Brief discussed& commented on

EXAMPLE ;Landscape projectphase II. Design

RAW data, Exhibitions,

Workshops, Publication

ADMINISTRATIVE/DESIGN

THE TEAM

Animator,Media DirectorMarketingSpecialists

Locals following up on a project Are you a designer, planner

RAW data, Charlotte, Interviews

non-

Nt &

BLT

En

N

t & B

lt En

PROCESSED data

PROCESSED data

You want to donate

Are you a professional, you have skills

You have a concern

Online Q & A onany subject elated to the city, facilities,regulations

Locals requesting a projectApplying for a job

INTERACTIVE/OPEN DATABASE DATA PROCESSOR

WORKSHOP

BIM Designers,IT Specialist,

Data Specialists

Design team

Digital Model

ex: MIT senseablelab

Updating Patterns SponsorsCorporation

Social NetworksPublic authoritiesTechnology part-

ners, Public sectors

SchoolsGeo organizations,

Gov agenciesHealthcare org,

PR team

Creative FinanceTeam

Guest local team

Plantspecialist

Fabrication Team

Educators

COMPETITION,COMMISSIONED

THE CITY

What is the Brief for us

Feedback

Design ProcessStarts

Information fromPrevious Projects

Reassessment of the Design

An overlappingcase has been identi!ed

Images, Movie,Description of the Design in progress

Design discussed& commented on

Workshops, Events for more hearings

Feedback

EXAMPLE ;Landscape projectphase III. Construction

RAW data, Exhibitions,

Workshops, Publication

ADMINISTRATIVE/DESIGN

THE TEAM

Animator,Media DirectorMarketingSpecialists

Locals following up on a project Are you a designer, planner

RAW data, Charlotte, Interviews

non-

Nt &

BLT

En

N

t & B

lt En

PROCESSED data

PROCESSED data

You want to donate

Are you a professional, you have skills

You have a concern

Online Q & A onany subject elated to the city, facilities,regulations

Locals requesting a projectApplying for a job

INTERACTIVE/OPEN DATABASE DATA PROCESSOR

WORKSHOP

BIM Designers,IT Specialist,

Data Specialists

Design team

Digital Model

ex: MIT senseablelab

Updateing Patterns SponsorsCorporation

Social NetworksPublic authoritiesTechnology part-

ners, Public sectors

SchoolsGeo organizations,

Gov agenciesHealthcare org,

PR team

Creative FinanceTeam

Guest local team

Plantspecialist

Fabrication Team

Educators

Support

Maintenance

Goes back to the catalogue

COMPETITION,COMMISSIONED

THE CITY

TO BE MASSPRODUCEDMARKET

Final Design Fabrication Starts

Some of the small scale products

Contractor

Reassessment of the Design

Images, Movie,Description of the Design in progress

Locals participating in the construction