first site book

Granada Analysis

Kimberly WardLeo Jack Green

Helen DaviesGemma Walker

Harriet ShiresMatthew RileyMatthew Riley

Fran CullenAidan Lewis

Anna AthanasiouEleni Zorba

Contents01 Introduction to Granada

02 History of Granada

03 Cultural Impacts

04 Architectural Vocabulary

05 Urban Grain

06 Mapping of Granada

0707 Solar

08 Wind

09 Precipitation

10 Visit to Granada

11 Site Introduction

12 Views

13 Flora and Fauna

Contents14 Mapping on Site

15 Site Usage

16 Land Use

17 Geology

18 Massing

History of Granada

Cultural Impacts

Spanish

Languages most commonly spoken in Granada

French

English

German

Castilian Spanish Basque Spanish

Break down of Spanish dialects spoken in Granada

Catalan Spanish

Galician Spanish

Graffiti of Granada

Areas of strong Graffiti culture around the world

Popular graffiti locations around the world

Granada often referred to as a mecca for graffiti, with many of its streets adorned with murals and artists tags.

The images above are 4 examples of stencil art nearest to our site.

El Niño is a famous graffiti artist from Granada.

His amazing paintings and graffiti are extensively distributed all over the city (mainly in the old part of the town) and are actually part of the urban landscape and culture of Granada.

His graffiti sometimes involves the whole building itself, and have intelligent thought provoking sentences attached.

His artwork transcends that of the walls of Grananda and is a regular in exhibition spaces around the city, incuding His artwork transcends that of the walls of Grananda and is a regular in exhibition spaces around the city, incuding the Granada school of Architecture.

Artwork of Granada

Spain in the World.

Locations of El’nino graffiti in Europe, lighter shades indicate less pieces produced there

Locations in Europe El’nino has graffiti

REMOVAL - PREVENTION - THE LAW - EDUCATION

Graffiti in Granada offers an attraction for tourism with locals offering tours of the most astounding pieces, however the council has taken steps to control the art form.

Beginning with the removal of obscene pieces, then putting in place provisions to aide prevention such as making popular tagging sites harder to gain access to by planting cactus plants.

To aide prevention laws have been put in place to give offenders harsher fines if caught.

Several projects in Granada have recently taken place in an attempt to educate and direct the efforts of taggers Several projects in Granada have recently taken place in an attempt to educate and direct the efforts of taggers away from damaging buildings and property.

Graffiti prevention in Granada

Surrounding Church locations

Church Site location

Surrounding Cathedral locations

Cathedral Site location

Urban Grain from 1795 - 1894

The changes in the general and building landscape of the city are obvious when all layers of history are shown together

Buskers

Buskers occupied large areas of the city.

Street Artist

The caricature artist draws cartoon esc pictures of people.

National Christain Holiday. Parade

The 12th October is a National Christian Holiday celebrated throughout the country.

National Christain Holiday. Parade

View of the site from West side facing East.

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Boreholes in locations