Josep Lluis Sert, el proyecto de Peabody Terrace (1964) - análisis gráfico de las escalas en un proyecto urbano arquitectónico

Abstract

This research focuses its interest on Harvard’s married student dormitories, Peabody Terrace, designed on 1962 by the spanish architect Josep Lluis Sert, who is also known as the creator of Urban Design. The study its built on a rigorous analysis of the different project scales, seeking to demonstrate the different relations at its formal, visual and urban complexities. Theoretically, the analysis was based on Sert’s speech of 1957 “The Human Scale: Key to the Measure of Cities”, that reveals certain keys of this project, using a photographic path that seeks to reveal the relationship of the city with the project, through an exploration of the different scales and the pedestrian axis (roads). The method is exposed on a graphic process that allows a decomposed analysis, and a revelation of its parts (main ordering axes, structural units, and resulting sets and groupings). The graphic information generated becomes a toolkit itself that can be used, or replied, on other cases of analysis if needed, since it clearly reveals, on taxonomic way, the parts of the project and how they interact with entire organization.