Case Study: Sao Paulo An analysis of informal slum developments (favelas) in Sao Paulo culminates in algorithms describing the ruleset for favela growth and development. The growth and differentiation of sample favela communities is documented to account for their emergent logic. The analysis has two components. The first is a ruleset governing the generative logic of the favela from initial growth points along roadways and other urban edges to duplication of units, proximity logics, and circulatory logics. A second ruleset pertaining to differentiation, permeability, accessibility, internal hierarchy, circulatory versus public gathering negative space, orientation, and other evaluative conditions is used to map social organizations, security, and pirated municipal infrastructures and their distribution relative to the geometric logics of the favela?s form. A new set of regulatory mechanisms and logics is conceived to explore alternate social organization, means of legitimization and incorporation, as well as forms of resistance are developed. Work by: Heidi Jandris and Sebastian Misiurek |
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