TReC takes part in the EU commissioned project ‘Europe from the Bottom Up?’ with other 12 representatives from Brussels, London, Barcelona, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Berlin, Continue reading ‘EUROPE FROM THE BOTTOM-UP?’
TReC’s exhibition Eurasian Informality: A Future Vision for Gulensu; an informal settlement in the Asian Wing of Istanbul travels to Paris to take part in the IABR Continue reading ‘PROJECTS FOR THE OPEN CITY’
PLAY THE CITY is a multi-agent urban design game and adopts a responsive design approach Continue reading ‘PLAY THE CITY’
TReCairo [Marwan Fayed and Diana Ibáñez López] are mapping the dynamics of urban densification in Cairo, a city whose population estimates vary wildly between an “official” 16m and a popularly assumed 30m. This extraordinary margin of error is in fact a reflection of a very real margin of unofficial growth; the city attracts hundreds of people daily. Despite an overloaded infrastructure and lack of housing, Cairo continues to densify and expand, improvising an adaptive urbanism of need-driven layering.
“Peripheral” actions [legally, socially and spatially] represent a creative drive which offers solutions, albeit sometimes wobbly ones, to an officially unsustainable speed of amalgamation. TRCairo is focusing on the diverse nature of this alternative urbanisation; cumulative, additive, corrosive, competitive, absorptive…in order to distill innovative or popular approaches to using and developing the city.
These observations will prepare the groundwork for a Mapping Workshop in/of Istanbul, April 2010. TReC will trigger the discussion of Istanbul’s densification potential by drawing parallels, inspiration and experience from Cairo.
Currently we are busy setting up a research and real-time act project for July and August 2010. Continue reading ‘ISTANBUL 2010′
TReC is invited to exhibit EURASIAN INFORMALITY research for International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam-IABR 09. Continue reading ‘EURASIAN INFORMALITY’