Spontaneous Architecture: Dérive

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3/23/2014

Sound in the garden . 7 a.m

https://soundcloud.com/emmanuelle-cassot/d-rive-in-the-triangle-garden

Dérive in the Garden.

During the derive we supposed to did, YES.A slept in the triangle Garden … Atypical night !

3/10/2014

3/18/2013

Dérive by Tuvia the dog- s.a.p

Thoughts before the Derive:

Dogs act differently from us humans. Following a dog will lead us to different places.

It might be attracted to humans, food, things that are buried.

It might go to places we can not follow him.

We will have no control where Tuvya goes.

Rules

We must follow tuvya even if it walks in circles.

When tuvya stops – we stop.

If tuvya is interested in something we have to photograph it.

We must keep track of our location at all times in the map.

Derive #1

This is Tuvya, he is a Canaan Dog.

We decided to follow him wherever he may go in the park area.

Dogs are dichromats and have color vision equivalent to red-green color blindness in humans. While a dog's Visual acuity is poor, The frequency range of hearing is approximately 40 Hz to 60,000 Hz, which means that dogs can detect sounds far beyond the upper limit of the auditory spectrum. In addition, dogs have ear mobility, which allows them to rapidly pinpoint the exact location of a sound.

It has been estimated that dogs, in general, have an olfactory sense ranging from one

hundred thousand to one million times more sensitive than a human's.

-Wikipedia-

Derive #1 report:

As we expected Tuvya walked freely and we followed.

It wasn’t hard to follow Tuvya most of the time, it ran and stopped and looked back to see if we are coming. Other times it ran really fast and went to places that we could hardly walk.

He was very interested in manure and garbage that were left in the

fields. Things that were left behind by visitors.

We started to take photos of the garbage.

Tuvya even lead us to Pirate dumps of building materials.

Conclusions:

By using a dog we found objects that are strange to the Environment.

We discovered places of human activities (in the past or present), and animal presents.

We found pieces of recent events who can shed a light on the past.

We walked in a way we have never done before : back and forwarded, in circles, in the bush…

הכלב טוביה

Finding areas with pirate junk

Conclusions that arose from the interpretation of junk

Finding architectural program in leftover junk

Derive #2

Sound surrounds us all the time. You can not choose not to hear. We decided to follow special sounds in the park area and let the sound dictate our derive.

Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing. Sound also travels through plasma.

-Wikipedia-

Thoughts before the Derive:

We might hear animal sounds ,they will probably be hard to follow.

strong sound may carry us far from our location.

There is a possibility we will be dragged towards roads and cars all the time.

There is a possibility that there will be no unique sounds to follow.

Rules

We must follow a strong or special sound and walk in it’s direction.

When we find the source of the sound we stop and photograph it and try to record it.

If we located the source of the sound we stop paying attention to, it, so that we can continue the derive.

We must keep track of our location at all times in the map.

Derive #2 report:

We expected this derive to be difficult and we taught there will be problems on the way. But we where surprised.

The sounds that surrounded us Led us to crowded, wild and

gathering places.

We found young kids riding their Bicycles in the middle of the park.

We found the wind.

Conclusions:

By using sound as a guide we walked around listening.

we discovered the place by hearing.

We found different levels of “zooming” when passing throw quieter places and paying attention to smaller things.

We discovered the element of Interference: When one powerful sound cuts the environment.

2/28/2013

Guy Debord / Theory of the Dérive

"ONE OF THE BASIC situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll."
( Guy Debord / Theory of the Dérive / Translated by Ken Knabb / situationist international online)

Guy Debord, "Naked City" - a Psychogeographical map of Paris, 1957

10/31/2012

A Mustache Dérive in Ahmedabad

"עם בוקר הגענו להודו ויצאנו לרחוב. נכרים הינו, ולא ידענו כי זה רחוב סתם. בטוחים הינו, כי אותה שעה נסתיימה הצגה בששים רבוא בתי קולנוע, או התרחשה רעידת אדמה באחד הפרברים וכל תושביו יצאו במנוסה [...] תפסת מרובה - אמרנו לעצמנו - לא תפסת. להקיף את מלוא מחזה הרחוב הזה לא נוכל. לפי כך נאחז בפרט אחד. ראשים, למשל." ע. קרליבך, מתוך "הודו - יומן דרכים" / Azriel Carlebach, "India: Account of a Voyage"

A Mustache Dérive Map

Dérive Rules

1. Proceeding across town from one mustache to another, following the Mustache map (presented above).

1.1. The Derive starts when you see the first man with a mustache in the street. You search for his mustache type in the mustache map and continue from there.

1.2. Once you find the required mustache - you move on to look for the next one on the map.

1.3. In case you didn't find the mustache after a 30 minute walk, you should board a Rickshaw (only such one which is driven by a mustached driver) and tell the driver the name of the mustache as the destination address. At the end of the journey you should continue to the next mustache, following rule number 1.

2. Breaks may be taken whenever needed, only after you identified a mustached person in that place.

An Additional Rule Added During the Dérive

3. When raining - The Dérive is carried out via bus, provided you stay on that bus until you have identified 10 different mustaches (or till the last stop). After getting off that bus, board a different line in order to continue the Dérive.

Click here for the animated documentation of the Dérive: http://vimeo.com/52452111

Dérive map

cover photo: Spontaneous Architecture farewell project

Spontaneous Architecture farewell project in 1 of January 2016 was a temporary tent erected with the inhabitants of historical Beduin village of Al Araqeeb. This pavilion was built for the book launch of the Hebrew edition of Eyal Weizman's book "The Conflict Shoreline" (the beautiful English Steidl edition of this book, in collaboration of artist Fazal Sheikh, can be found here). The book documents and analyses the tragic case of this Beduin village, which so far has been demolished by the Israeli authorities and rebuilt by its inhabitants over 100 times.

The structure was planned with Aziz Al-Touri, erected in few hours by the local community aided by volunteers and was to be removed within 48 hours. Materials were to be reused for further doomed-to-be-demolished new reconstructions.

The publication of the book, as well as the organization of the project and the events, were the initiative of Zochrot, an NGO working since 2002 to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.

More about this venue, titled "Ground Truth: Records of Dispossession, Destruction and Return in the Naqab/Negev"

Toward a non-violent architecture: Summer 2014 in India

‪In summer 2014, between September 11th and October 23rd, Spontaneous Architecture returned to India for an International studio held in collaboration with CARE school of Architecture in Trichy.

‪The program combined a 3-week intensive traveling seminar in 3 very different Indian Cities (New Delhi, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad) with a 3-week spontaneous architecture workshop at the KVK research agricultural farm in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.‬

‪During this workshop, Israeli and Indian students worked together and designed and built 6 small structures that would serve for farmers' markets and exhibitions.‬

Black Water, Grey Water: Spring 2014 at OCCUPYTLV Tent City

In summer 2011 Tel Aviv experienced a huge wave of protest, mainly due to the housing prices. The protest occupied the city's center during all the summer, From July 14th, when young Dafni Leaf spontaneously erected a tent in Rothschild Boulevard to the September 3rd "One Million Demonstration" in Kikar Hanedina [State Piazza). Soon later, most of the protesters packed their tents and went back to their too expensive homes, leaving behind only those who insisted to stay and many others, who did not have anywhere else to go.

On November 27th 2012, in accordance to an agreement originally made between the activist Tamir Hajaj and the Tel Aviv Municipality, the remains of the summer 2011 Tel Aviv protest Tent City were removed from Rothschild Boulevard and exiled to the Volovelsky-Karney park. Situated in the Tel Aviv's north eastern margins, the park was a green island surrounded by one of Israel's heaviest traffic, Tel Aviv's Central railway Station, Namir Road, Petach Tikva Road, Ayalon Freeway (hence its most common name, "Tsomet Parachat Drahim" - Crossroads Junction). The location was chosen because it was one of the only parks in Tel Aviv with public toilettes.

In 2013, a large portion of the park, about a third, was fenced to become the construction site of the "Loop", a new, gigantic infrastructural project which is to add a new connection to the Ayalon freeway and maybe one day would become a new station of Tel Aviv's mysterious Metropolitan train system. Tent-dwellers residing in the fenced area where asked to move to the unfenced area. The public toilettes was demolished; chemical toilettes offered and maintained by a private subcontractor of the project 's contractor were placed instead.

Today, OCCUPYTLV Tent City oscillates between a protest sit-in, a homeless shelter and a favela, and is occupied by few dozens of individuals . Each one of the occupiers has his own reasons to be there, they all protest either by protesting or by their mere survival in this place. However, apart sharing the shrinking space and infrastructures, the only thing they have in common is that none of them wishes to form a community with the others, and they do not form any organized community.

During spring 2014 SABA worked at OCCUPYTLV Tent City.

Summer 2013, Mitzpe Ramon

Located almost in the middle of route 40 from Beer-Sheva to Eilat and situated on the edge of the Ramon Makhtesh - the world's largest makhtesh (erosion cirque in the form of crater), Mitzpe Ramon was first settled in 1951 for a brief period of time by the asphalt workers of the route.

Few years later, in 1956, it was founded as a cooperative settlement for the mineral mining workers. A year later the cooperative was dismantled and the state took over: the small settlement soon became a tiny "development town" designed according the state planning apparatus of the late fifties, stacking new immigrants from Morocco in public housing projects.

In the following decades few more populations moved in:

During the Eighties, with IDF's redeployment in the Negev after the retreat from Sinai, Mitzpe Ramon absorbed a new population of Military professionals' families; in the Nineties new immigrants from former USSR; from the end of the 20th century few religious communities as well as a massive wave of young population of professionals and artists attracted to the spectacular landscapes of the desert.

Mitzpe Ramon is toady a local Council surrounded by the Har Hanegev Regional Council. Mitzpe's population counts some 5000 inhabitants. In the last decade Mitzpe Ramon tries shifting from the industrial and mining uses originally planned to eco-tourism: The hangars industrial zone has been transformed into an arts and crafts quarter, the stone quarries have been closed down and are about to be restored, a new luxury hotel, "Bereshit", was built near the Makhtesh's cliffs.

SABA will be working in Mitzpe Ramon from August 25th 2013 to October 2nd.

Spring 2013: Spring in Hirya

In spring 2013 SABA arrived at Park Ariel Sharon in Hiriya. Initiated by Dr. Martin Weyl and planned by Latz+Partner, this project strives to rehabilitate the garbage mountain that has been sprawling in this place since the end of the Independence War, to develop 8000 Dunums of open areas, fields, streams and ponds and to re-use them for various cultural, natural and leisure activities.

During the semester, the students studied the park and its environmental challenges; they had to plan and to build 4 structures that cast shadows of 25 sqm each. The budget was fixed to zero. The structures will stand in the park from June 24th for 10 days.

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