Thursday, January 31, 2008

C.V. Juan Carlos Sánchez Tappan

Teaches at the Center for International Studies in Architecture, and since Jan 2001
has been structuring and coordinating the collaboration and exchange programs between UIA School of architecture and the UPC/FPC. Awarded with a scholarship from CONACYT México (1998), he is currently pursuing doctoral research at the U.P.C. about the influence of mediation, multilinear incubation, and transport interfacing on architectural and urban design.

He attained his professional architectural training at Universidad Iberoamericana (1990-1994) in México City, where he graduated with special mention on his thesis work: “Development of an Urban Sub-center and Market Project in Aguascalientes”.
Received in Jan 2000, the Master in Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association in London; after completing the Graduate Design DRL Master program, engaged with the investigation and design of large scale urban interiors, multi-programmed spaces, and new “corporate fields”: highly fluid, interactive office spaces.

Teaching experience includes: Iberoamericana University, UIA (1995-1998), as design studio and Urbanism professor; subjects: “Housing and Surroundings, Introduction to Urbanism & Digital Tools.
At ETSAB, UPC in Barcelona, as an invited teacher within the intercampus program ALE’97 collaborating within the department of Architectural Projects. Subject: “Interventions in the Built Environment”. And more recently U. Internacional, ESARQ, teaching a vertical studio part of a design competition related with Bernard Cache Objectile.

Recent publications include “INFRA-NETS.ORG” in New Blood, Architectural Design Magazine 2001; co-author of “Transport systems, Environmental and Social Sciences and their Project” as the first prize essay in the World Road Association Competition; “Mediating Incubators” in the AA Projects Review.
Other works: the AA DRL Summer 1999 INSTALLATION and exhibition of the first year of design proposals for alternative forms of architectural and urban working spaces, London.

In parallel with the academic field, he has worked for well-recognized offices in México, London and Barcelona; and as member of a young group of architects, has invested part of his time on design competitions and writings.


C.V. Hubertus Pöppinghaus

ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS, FORMACIÓN y DOCENCIA
Bachillerato (Maturität) en Zürich, Suiza
Estudios de Historia del Arte en New Academy for Art Studies y en Sotheby´s, Londres
Inicio de estudios de Arquitectura en la ETH, Escuela Técnica Superior de Zürich, Suiza
Asistencia al seminario “Concepción de la iluminación interior con luz artificial”
de la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín
Continuación de estudios de Arquitectura en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Barcelona (ETSAB)
Asistencia al seminario “Construcciones Textiles” de la Universidad de Stuttgart
Realización del Proyecto Final de Carrera (calificación notable, 8) en el Instituto de Estructuras Ligeras (IL) de la Universidad de Stuttgart con el tema „Vivienda Experimental“

Título de Arquitecto por la ETSAB en la especialidad de Edificación / Instalaciones
Asistencia al curso ”Encargado de obras” organizado por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya (COAC)
Asistencia a las Jornadas de Edificios de Alta Calidad Medioambiental (FORUM ECOMED) y a la Jornada Técnica de Integración de Componentes Solares en Edificios (COAC)
Asistencia al curso “Life” de la unión europea : formación de técnicos en medioambiente-edificación

Curso de aplicación del programa informático EASY de diseño, cálculo y patronaje para estructuras atirantadas y arquitectura textil, organizado por
la empresa alemana de software Technet en Stuttgart
Asistencia al 4º congreso “Textile Roofs ‘99” organizado por la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín y la empresa de software Technet
Asistencia al 40º congreso de IASS (International Association for spatial structures) en Madrid
Durante el curso 1999/2000 Profesor en la Escola Superior d' Arquitectura de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya en la asignatura "Las nuevas estratégias energéticas y las energias renovables en la arquitecura"
Conferencia en Milán sobre las recientes transformaciones de Ciutat Vella dentro del proyecto EUROPOLIS („Planning instruments and prodedures for land use management: cooperation for a common training in view of land recovery and urban requalification“)
Profesor asociado de la facultad de arquitectura e ingeniería de la Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck en la catédra del Profesor. Dr. Rainer Graefe del departamento de Historia de la Construcción y de la Protección del Patrimonio
Profesor invitado en el 3er Workshop Internacional de verano de la ciudad de Würzburg (R.F.A.) "A new urban sign for the modern hill"

Asistencia al 6º congreso “Textile Roofs ‘2001” organizado por la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín y la empresa de software Technet
Profesor invitado en el 4º Workshop Internacional de verano de la ciudad de Würzburg (R.F.A.) "Microstructure/Megastructure/GrowingStructurel"

Profesor en EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art) para diseñadores de interiores en la asignatura "Materials i Tecnologias"

Profesor en ELISAVA de Barcelona en la asignatura “Medioambiente" para la formación de arquitectos técnicos
Participación en las jornadas “Urbanismo y Participación Ciudadana” organizado por el Colegio Territorial de Valencia y articulo en el libro “Participación Ciudadana para el urbanismo del siglo XXI”

Conferencia en la Universidad de Innsbruck (Austria) con el titulo „Wölbschalen de katalanischen Moderne“
Conferencia en Florencia (Italia) „Il barrio gótico de Barcellona“ dentro del Master del Dipartimento di Restauro e Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici de Firenze

Participación en el Simposio Techtextil 2005 de la feria internacional de Frankfurt con la conferencia „Bifid Tension Dome for the Forum 2004, Barcelona“

Profesor en EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art) para diseñadores de interiores en la asignatura "Arquitectura Textil"

Profesor en ELISAVA de Barcelona en la asignatura “Arquitectura amb calitat ambiental" para la formación de arquitectos técnicos

Profesor en el Postgraduado “Diseño de la vivienda ecoeficiente, el caso de Barcelona” de ELISAVA

EXPERIENCIA LABORAL
Prácticas sobre arquitectura solar en el estudio de Pierre Robert Sabady en Zürich
Primer Premio “Faci d´Alcalde” de la ciudad de Barcelona para el proyecto “Parque-Ecoestación” en colaboración con Feliciano Pla
Colaboración en obras de interiorismo con el diseñador Tristán Mur
Prácticas en el despacho de J. Briz y J.L. Fumadó, arqs. Sobre instalaciones técnicas de edificios
Colaboración en el estudio de arquitectura de Enric Miralles en diversos concursos y proyectos:
- concurso urbanístico de Reordenación de la antigua mina de carbón “Graf Bismarck” en Gelsenkirchen, Alemania (accésit)
- concursos: Nuevo Cementerio de Gijón (segundo premio), y Plan Urbanístico para la “Feria Internacional de Jardines, Dresden” (accésit)
- proyectos: Parque en Mollet del Vallés (Barcelona) y Estación Marítima “Karabournaki” en Tesalónica (Grecia)

OBRAS Y PROYECTOS PROPIOS
Creación de Arqintegral, Estudio de Arquitectura Integral, junto con Charo García Diego, dedicado a desarrollar la arquitectura ecológica y bioclimática y la arquitectura textil:
www.arqintegral.com

Desde verano 1999 colaboración de Arqintegral con el catedrático Dr. Josep de Llorens de la Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

SPRING 08

Syllabus Seminar I
ARC SP TOPICS ARCHITECTURE OF SPAIN - HISTORY
Instructor: Candid Rogers

Architecture requires: …effort, pain and suffering…. Jose Antonio Coderch

Description:
This is a lecture/discussion seminar as a survey of Spanish Architecture and Culture from the first settlements of the Iberian Peninsula through contemporary architectural design.
The first two weeks 1-2 will briefly touch on the history and geography of Spain,
weeks 3- 4 will study modernism in Barcelona architecture, 5- 6 will study contemporary architecture the following weeks will be for student presentations and class discussion.
Note: Schdeule is an outline and subject to change.
Studies will present examples of: Roman
Visigoth
Moorish
Romanesque
Gothic
Renaissance
Baroque
Neoclassical
Modern
Contemporary
Methods:

The class will consist of reading assignments, a series of lectures, class discussions, and presentations by the students

Project:

Each student will be responsible for one in-depth research paper (5 pages)
(10 pages Graduate) on one architect and a class presentation.

Travel:

The class will engage in multiple fieldtrips to site locations in and around Barcelona which will include project research.

In addition there will be local field trips in Barcelona to include: architectural tours, film screenings and cultural events.

Evaluation:
50% attendance - participation and 50 % research paper and presentation
Punctual and regular attendance is mandatory

Required Readings: Reference:

The Eyes of the Skin The Architecture of Spain, Juhani Pallasmaa Alejandro Lapunzina
Architect Publications

Syllabus Seminar II

ARC VIS COM SPAIN A DRAWING AS PRACTICE
Faculty: Candid Rogers

Many artists, writers and designers absorb the world through ‘notes’ whether image or text, that are made from their experiences.
This course will make a practice of drawing – a series of repetitive explorations examining the cultural landscape of Barcelona Spain moving across scales, materials and time to study through note, sketch, drawing and image with the intention of exposing the dynamic between man and the environment.
A range of hand drawing techniques will be explored extensively to enable an active dialogue of the context of the urban fabric of Barcelona.

The semester will be divided into 3 parts, each containing a series of drawing exercises,
With a concluding exercise of one drawing or series of multiple drawings which serve as a translation of the semesters experiences. This will consist of a digital translation of the semesters notes, sketches, drawings, ideas.
The course will focus on line, space, form and color. A variety of tools will be explored including: perspective, sections, landscape, figure/ground, tonal studies, color, etc.
Media: graphite, ink, ink wash, watercolor, pencil, digital etc.

Set one: Delineations (class exercises)
Set two: Notes (visual observations)
Set three: Translations (conclusions) digital print as final output

During each set we will review the work you have done with pin – ups and discussions
This course is designed as a study of Drawing and perhaps more importantly looking.

Evaluation:

Evaluation will be based on your rigor and development over the entire semester. Equal measurement will be given to each set of exercises.
Attendance and participation is mandatory

Final work (translations) will be exhibited at the UTSA COA in the fall semester
Translations may take the form of posters, book, portfolio, art
Due: April (TBA)

Materials Required:

Sketch book, drawing media and tools


Travel:

The class will engage in multiple local fieldtrips

Friday, January 25, 2008

calendar SPRING 2008

Syllabus Studio I




SPRING 08

SYLLABUS SEMINAR I
Themes in Contemporary European Architecture
Suzanne Strum


This course is designed as a series of thematic lectures on current European architecture that are complemented by site visits in Barcelona and environs to illustrative works. . This class begins by posing the question: If American and European architects now occupy the same intellectual space, in international journals, schools, forums and competitions, then how can we define European architecture today? Issues of urban history and politics, density, center vs. periphery, public space, transportation networks and public housing are some aspects of European architecture that are markedly different from their US counterparts and that will be explored. At the same time, European architecture now approaches an Americanized urbanism and building with globalized sites, enormous cultural containers, enclaves of consumption and theme parking. The selection of weekly readings assignments will explore these issues.

Meeting time: The 11 classes will meet 4 hours weekly during the semester, with lectures sometimes alternating with site visits. The last hour of each in class session will be used to meet with students individually in order to develop their project and presentation topic.

Evaluation: Students will be asked to develop a visual analysis and 7page research paper and presentation on a work or works of architecture in Barcelona. Evaluation will be based on attendance, participation in class discussions and the development and presentation of the project. All projects must be handed in bound hard copy form.


Session 1::Modernisme::Monday Jan. 14
The theoretical framework for turn of the century architecture and its manifestation and variations across Europe (Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Secessionism). Special focus will be given to the work of Antoni Gaudi and other exponents of modernisme in Barcelona as well as the urban and social context. Analysis of Gaudi´s exploration of complex geometries, ruled surfaces, and cantenary arches realized with traditional construction.

Reading: William Curtis Chapter 3. The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament. Pages 53-71. Modern Architecture since 1900 . Phaidon 3rd edition 1996

Session 2:Old City Visit::Monday Jan. 21
Raval, Gothic, and Ribera Areas to Ciutadella and Pompeu Fabra University. The aim of this visit is to underscore the public programs that have regenerated the area and the creation of new institutions within historic and new buildings.

Session 3::The German Pavilion ::Monday Jan. 28
Presentation Topics Due
Exploration of Mies' formation, influences and early work with their climax in the Barcelona pavilion’s classical allusions and supremacist space. Mies´s reputation as a modern master was based on five seminal projects created in the 1920´s that in fact were never built and the pavilion which was dismantled after six months. Focus on the building's reconstruction and its context. The work will be seen as a culmination of Mies´early career. What makes a work canonical?

Reading: Kenneth Frampton . Modernism and Tradition in the Work of Mies van der Rohe
1920-1968

Session 4::Visit to Colonia Güell::Monday Feb. 4
Meeting Point: Plaça Espanya Metros L3 L1 and L8
(Looking up the mountain from the Plaza you will see two brick towers. Sit to the right of the towers on the steps.) We will be taking a train to Colonia Güell from here. ) The train leaves at 10:09 but we will have to buy tickets first from the vending machines.
Cost: 2.80 euros entry to Colonia Güell Crypt and visitor center. Train costs 1.75 euros each way.
This factory town, located on the Llobregat River was modeled on English urban precedents. The urbanistic project, housing, school and collective structures were designed by Gaudí´s followers, while the master labored for eight years on the design for a church. Finally only the tiny but magnificent and experimental crypt was realized.
Discussion of Gaudi´s unusual experiential working method.

Session 5::Visit to Montjuic and public spaces in Sants::Monday Feb. 11
Meeting Point: The Olympic Stadium by the torch. Av de L´Estadi
Cost: 1.80 euros entry to Botanical Garden. 1.80 euros entry to Mies Pavillion
The itinerary will include the German Pavilion, Caixa Forum, the Botanical Garden, and three of the first public space making projects in Barcelona´s recent past.

Session 6::Visit to Diagonal Mar Park and the Forum Area::Monday Feb. 18
Meeting point: Metro Exit Selva del Mar Yellow Line L4
Works by EMBT. The office of EMBT, formed by the late architect Enric Miralles, and his partner Benedetta Tagliabue, have recently completed some major projects in Barcelona that exemplify the expanded notion of landscape.

TRAVEL WEEK

Session 7::Spanish Architecture::Monday March 3
Survey of Spanish architecture as seen through important figures and their works. Themes include the situation in Spain before and after the Civil War, the influence of Italian Realism and Rationalism, and the interplay of vernacular building methods, international currents, memory and construction. The work of Josep Lluís Sert and the GATEPAC, Coderch, Alejandro de la Sota, and Saez de Oiza will be discussed followed by the “Weak” architecture of Rafael Moneo. Discussion of the ideas of Ignasi de Sola Morales¨ “Weak architecture” vs Kenneth Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.
Readings: Kenneth Frampton Towards a Critical Regionalsm: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance Pages 16-31. Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster Pluto
Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Weak Architecture 1987Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by Michael Hays MIT Press

Session 8::Urban triggers 1:Containers,Events and Infrastructures::Mon. March 10
Paper Outlines Due
In the last 20 years Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and other European cities have experienced major urban transformations in relation to political programs. An examination of architectural works as generators of redevelopment: the proliferation of cultural containers, the building of modern transportation networks, the redefinition of industrial areas, the creation of new satellite towns and housing. Special focus of the relation of architectural works and urbanism. The importance of the Olympics and other ephemeral events. A comparison between different approaches to Europe´s second period of modernization and post-industrial cities. The Barcelona Model vs the Guggenheim Effect.

Urban Triggers 2 New Monuments: commemorating the past.
This session examines the proliferation of sites that act as memory markers and their importance in urban centers. The counter-monument movement in Germany

Reading : Ignasi de Solà-Morales Introduction. Present and Futures ACTAR 1996

James E. Young Memory and Counter-Memory. Available on line Harvard Design Magazine. Constructions of Memory. Fall 1999 Number 9
HYPERLINK "http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/9young.html" www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/9young.html

EASTER WEEK

Session 9::Contemporary themes and figures::Mon. March 31
Explores some of the major European practitioners today and the theoretical and constructive basis of their work. The present architectural scene is marked by a pluralism of approaches and attitudes. The session examines current strategies, debates and operations in the work of some of the major figures today such as Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog and de Meuron.
Reading: Rem Koolhaas Life in the Metropolis or the Culture of Congestion, 1977 Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by Michael Hays MIT Press

Bigness or the Problem of Large pages 495-516 SMLXL with Bruce Mau

Session 10::The expanding definition of landscape::Mon. April 7
In the last decade the definition of landscape and building have merged. Exploration of the affinities between land art, earth works and architecture and the tendency to use landscape, green zones and open space as integral design elements. Examination of some of the massive brownfield redevelopment projects across Europe.


Reading: Charles Waldheim. “Landscape Urbanism” in Praxis 4.

James Corner, “Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes,” in Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, ed. James Corner (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 153–169,


Session 11::Presentations::Monday April 14
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Project and Presentation Topics:
Themes in European architecture

Suzanne Strum

You are asked to choose a building or to compare works of architecture that are found in Barcelona and to develop both a graphic visual analysis complimented by a written text of approximately 7 pages. You should determine the best form of documentation and analysis that can be developed for the work or works that you have chosen. This visual analysis should include any of the following medium: photography, video, sketching, diagrams, building drawings, analytical details of the building. Since each building suggests a different mode of representation and analysis, and presents a different set of urban and architecturally formal issues, I will work with you at the end of the class sessions to develop the project.

Below are a list of historic and contemporary projects in Barcelona and some suggestions of references and orientation. You may also propose your own project, should you prefer. Bear in mind that the list below is just a point of departure.


1. Historic Buildings and their structural systems:
In Spain there is a tradition of buildings that extend a single structural system throughout. The Great mosque in Cordoba is an early example. In Barcelona the Drassanes shipbuilding yard, now the maritime museum is an example dating back to the middle ages. During the middle ages, Catalan builders developed their own massive version of Gothic architecture. The Santa Maria del Mar Church was constructed in only 50 years.
One of Gaudi´s teachers, the master builder Josep Fontsere created some unusual structures worthy of investigation. These include the Reservoir Building Carrer Wellington 50, now part of the Pompeu Fabra Ciutadella Campus Library.1874-1880Josep Fontserè i Mestres with Josep M. Cornet i Mas 1998-2000 renovation Lluís Clotet and Ignacio Paricio ; the shade house or umbracle in the Ciutadella Park and the Borne Market in Passeig del Borne.

2. The Working Methods and geometries of Gaudi
Gaudi developed an experiential working method and developed complex designs with hanging models and unusual complex geometries, sometimes inverting the lines of force of Gothic structures. Yet his buildings could be carried out with traditional building techniques from Catalunya. Study his working methods, construction methods such as the Catalan vault, develop and analysis representational techniques for one of his buildings or elements from different structures.

References: Gaudí Universe : CCCB, Zeta 2002.
Gaudí : exploring form : space, geometry, srtucture and construction. Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura 2002.
See the exhibition in the Sagrada Familia School.

3. Comparison of Works between Modernista Architects.
This project could look at some of the works by other modernist architects. Some examples are Lluis Domenech I Montaner´s Hospital San Pau, or Palau de la Musica.
Or Josep Maria Jujol´s projects in San Joan Despi and Barcelona including Casa Negre.


4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Barcelona Pavillion
This is a canonical work of architecture. Why? Which architects have been influenced by the building and what structures are variations on it? What are the formal premises of the building. What is the importance of reflection and mirroring, of pinwheeling, etc.


5. Josep Lluis Sert: The Miro Foundation and the Maeght Foundation
Sert was committed to the idea of collaborations between architects and artists. These two buildings, one in Barcelona and the other in the south of France, are both material manifestations of that premise. The buildings are conceived as itineraries that highlight works of art. How was the Spanish Pavillion of 1937 a precedent for that. (this building has been recreated in Vall d´Hebron. What are the regional aspects of the building. What was Sert´s relation to Miro? Is the building a counterpoint to the works of art?

References: See the institutional websites. See monographs on Sert´s work and on the buildings. See: Sert, Josep Lluis, Ferdinand Leger, Sigfried Giedion. “Nine Points on Monumentality” pp. 14-16. In ed. Xavier Costa. Sert: Architect in New York. Barcelona MACBA ACTAR 1997.


6. Jose Antonio Coderch: Barceloneta, Ugalde House, Raset Housing,
Coderch was the most important architect of the post civil war period. His Ugalde House was a regional interpretation of the international style built into its site with organic lines. Catalan architects of the time were influenced by Alvar Aalto, the Finnish master. Coderch worked in various modalities. His urban projects deal with traditional materials and typologies reconsidered. Explore some of the projects by Coderch. Choose one or two for visual analysis.

7. Taller de Arquitectura. Ricardo Bofill: Walden 7, 1970-1975
This building was a utopian project, first conceived as The City in Space and influenced by both Team X and Archigram. Why? What are the formal ideas: the section, the massing, the modules.

References: Website Taller de Arquitectura, Walden 7: See Walden 7 : Taller de arquitectura / Fernando Marzá, Neus Moyano. — p. 18-53 : il. ; 27 cm. En: Quaderns No. 244 (Dic. 2004).

8. Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos: Archery Buildings at Vall de Hebron
These structures are premised on the formal investigation of the retaining wall as building.
As such they are related to Gaudi´s viaducts in Park Güell. These changing rooms and shower facilites are also designed around the idea of the movements of the body and were influenced by Peter and Alison Smithson. Why? The works are also more like landscape than architecture. In this they are connected to the more complex project from the same years: the Igualada cemetery.

References: Miralles, Pinós: obras y proyectos 1984-1987 in: El Croquis: Miralles/Pinos 1983-1990, 1987,


9. EMBT Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue: Santa Caterina Market
Markets are a very important part of neighborhood life in Barcelona. Many markets were created on the site of religious structures, that were demolished in the 1830´s. this is the case of the Boqueria market and Santa Caterina Markets. The San Antonio market was the only one built exactly according to Cerda. These buildings emerged just with the advent of cast iron structures. The recent renovation of the Santa Caterina Market was meant to try to leave the various levels of time that are to be found on the site. Compare Market types. Study the idea of reuse and time in the new market.

References: See city market websites: www.mercatsantacaterina.net www.mercatsbcn.com/ - HYPERLINK "http://www.boqueria.info/" www.boqueria.info/. Also see the architect´s website EMBT.
See El Croquis magazine no 100-101, 2000 on the work of EMBT.


10. Josep Llinas: Fort Pienç Community Center, Library, market, Daycare, School, and Assisted Living for the Elderly and Library Jaume Fuster.
This local architect, not widely known outside of Spain was trained by Coderch and has done a series of interesting community buildings in different parts of the city. The most recent are the Fort Pienç civic center, a community nodal point with a complex and varied program and the new library in Gracia at Plaza Lessesp. This is a chance to study mid scaled buildings with interesting premises of use, and massing. How can this work be traced back to regional precedents?


Address: Centre Civic Ateneu Fort Pienç C. de Ribes 2000-2003Josep Llinás

References: El Croquis 128

11. Richard Meier: MACBA
American architect, Richard Meier began as one of the New York Five, a group who looked back to the early purist works of Le Corbusier from the 1920´s but carried them out using balloon frame construction methods. He is also the author of many museums. How does this work compare to his other museum buildings. What is the relation of the atrium and ramp to the public plaza and to the galleries behind. What are the formal aspects of the building and what is the urban relation to the context?

12. Foster Tower and Calatrava telefonica Tower.
These structures became instant landmarks in the city. They are works of communication infrastructure. What is the concept and structural ideas of each. How have these architects dealt with the technological and symbolic aspects.

13. Reuse of existing buildings.
At a difference to other European cities, especially Italy, many buildings in Barcelona have been transformed over a period as long as 1000 years. This study looks at the reuse of historic exisiting buildings coinciding with the creation of new public institutions since the 1980´s. Some especially interesting cases are The Picasso Museum, (Garces y Soria) occupying 5 medieval urban palaces; the Pompeu University Ciutadella Campus in a series of old Army Barracks (MBM and Bonell Gill); the Center of Contemporary Culture in an old Orphanage (Viaplana I Piñon); the National Museum of Catalan Art, transformed in the interior (Gae Aulenti); the National library of Catalunya on the premises of the city´s first hospital from the middle ages; the Caixa Forum in a modernista textile factory (Brufau and Isozaki); and the Santa Monica Arts Center in an old monastery (Viaplana I Piñon).

References: Institutional web sites.

14. Rafael Moneo: L´Illa 1986-1993
Conceived of as a horizontal skyscraper, with a mixed program, including a shopping mall, offices, hotel and apartments, the building occupies a site equivalent to three Eixample blocks. The project responds to two urban modalities present over the length of the Diagonal: the traditional closed edification of the older Eixample implantations and the object building zoning of the new Diagonal. The building has been treated with a multiplicity of scales and readings. Moneo is an architect interested in typologies and context.

Address: Av. Diagonal, 555-559

References: El Croquis no. 20, 64 and 98


15. Carlos Ferrater. Botanical Garden and or Hotel Juan Carlos.
This Botanical Garden has an interesting conceptual premise and formal resolution. How do these two aspects work together? How does the layout and organization differ from traditional botanical gardens. How does this architect work with geometry. Compare this notion with other projects by the architects such as the Hotel Juan Carlos, an atrium hotel, or some of his urban housing schemes.

References: monographs and books by and about architects. Architects website. Jardi Botanic de Barcelona Website.

16. European Skyscraper
Recent European experimentation in high rise buildings has dealt with the problem differently than in the North American context. For one thing, these skyscrapers are of moderate height and do not compete against each other. They are generally more contextual, establishing relationships with their surroundings. They also raise specific technical problems in relation to structure, skin and climactic conditions. Historical precedents for the these buildings come from Torre Velasca and the Pirelli Building, both built in Italy in the 1960´s as well as the Smithsons´ Economist building, in London, 1961. In Barcelona there are also interesting examples from this period, including the Colon Tower, the Urquinaona tower, Atalya Tower, and Banco Atlantico.

Recent New examples, including some that are built and some that are proposed include Jean Nouvel´s Torre Agbar, Dominique Perrault´s Hotel, Rafael Soriano and Dolores Palacio Eco tower for Plaça de les Glories, EMBT Catalana Gas Building in the Barceloneta neighborhood, Josep Lluis Mateo Towers as part of the Congress Center at Forum 2004, Clotet and Paricio Residential Tower at Diagonal Mar Park and Richard Rogers Hotel in Hospitalet.

References: Josep Lluis Mateo. IV European Skyscraper. Pages 76-77, 130-157. Big Scale Grossform. Architectural Papers 2 and Nicolai Ouroussoff. Why Are They Greener Than We Are? Find on line On line New York Times Magazine May 20, 2007. Architects web sites and web site of Torre Agbar. MAP architects. El Croquis 112-113 on Jean Nouvel. El Croquis 104 on Dominique Perrault. Quderns 248 Clotet and Paricio Illa del Llum.


17. Aranda, Pigem, Vilalta RCR Arquitectes
Sant Antoni Library, Senior Citizens Centre & Block Inner Space
Carrer del Comte Borrell, 44-46 (Sant Antoni Barcelona)

The Eixample was not constructed according to Cerda´s original vision. Most of the interiors of the block were privatized. The Proeixample group has been buying back some partial areas of block interiors in order to provide public space. This is one of the most interesting recent examples and the most developed architecturally. The architects are from outside of Barcelona and are known for their highly abstract buildings. Look at the urban issue and compare this project with other recovered blocks. Look also at the architects´other works and develop an analysis.

References: Proeixample website. El Croquis 115-116 +18 In Progress 2002-2003


18. Roig i Batlle: Nus de la Trinitat and Parc del Garraf
These architects have developed unusual public spaces and landscape projects, related to infrastructural issues. In the case of the Nus de la Trinitat, this is a public park built within a highway interchange and related to other public projects over the Rondas. In the case of the parc del Garraf, this is a garbage infill project that has been transformed into an earth work.

References: Garraf park website: www.diba.es/parcsn/parcs/index.asp?Parc=10
Quaderns 243 Rondas and Nus de la Trinitat Quaderns 193.


19. Herzog and De Meuron Forum building.
What is the urban condiditon of the building. How does the building relate to the ground. What about surface and skin. How can it be compared with other recent buildings by Herzog and De Meuron, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco?

References: El Croquis 129-130


20. Public Space and urban Furnishings.
Each public space has its own identity with designed elements from street banners, kiosks, paving to lighting and benches. This project could be an analysis of historic and contemporary public spaces and their furnishings. Some examples might be Park Guell, the Parc Central of Nou Barris, Diagonal Mar Park, or public spaces in the Barceloneta. How are public spaces and their outfitting different from in the US? How is public space used and appropriated? Recently several companies have been involved in producing specially designed furniture: examples include BD´s banco Catalana, a wire mesh bench by Oscar Tusquets, as well a Escofet, a traditional family company of ceramic tiles that has collaborated with Enric Miralles and other architects to create urban furniture. The city even has a municipal department of urban furnishings that commissioned Norman Foster to create a bus stop shelter.

References: Barcelona 1979-2004

SPRING 08

SYLLABUS SEMNINAR II
The Contemporary City
Dr. KATHRIN GOLDA-PONGRATZ
Dr. XAVIER COSTA

Objectives
This seminar aims to offer an introduction to the phenomenon of the contemporary city from an architectural and urbanistic viewpoint. The first series of sessions focus on to the case of Barcelona, starting from the present state and recent projects, gradually going back into history, giving a complete perspective of its urban development.

Term Exercise
The seminar offers a series of lectures to be complemented with a paper that should cover a given topic by developing the necessary research and documentation together with a personal interpretation of the topic.

The paper should be based on research conducted at the library through on-site documentation, and through other sources that should be properly acknowledged. Its extension should not exceed 15 pages and should include the necessary images to accompany the text. The paperwork includes a public presentation in class. At the end of the course, a printed version and a copy on CD has to be handed in.

Grading
Class attendance and participation is mandatory. It accounts for 30% of the final grade.
Paper development, tutorials and oral presentation account for 30% of the final grade.
The final paper accounts for 40% of the grade.


Session 1
Contemporary Barcelona: 2004 – 2008
The first session starts from the present, giving an insight into the contemporary Catalan capital, which is considered as an urban model.
At the beginning of the 21st century, it has to cope with the effects of mass tourism and the definition of its role as a city of “social inclusion” and “proximity” and as a potent European business and service metropolis. Large scale urban transformations mark Barcelona’s western and eastern edges.


Session 2
The Post-Franco years and the democratic renewal: 1979-2004
With the first democratic city government after the war, the city undertakes an ambitious urban transformation that brings together political, cultural, and design parameters into a unique experience that deserves to be observed in detail. Transformative events change the city profile decisively and accompany the shift into the post-industrial era.


Session 3 (outdoor)
A walk through the city
Walking and by metro and tram some emblematic areas and public spaces will be visited that have been presented in the first two sessions.


Session 4
From Cerdà to Le Corbusier
The industrialization of Barcelona is reflected in Ildefons Cerdà’s extension plan, developed in the mid-nineteenth century. The architecture of “modernisme” resulted from this urban transformation. The early twentieth century saw the arrival of Modern urbanism in the form of Le Corbusier’s Macià Plan.


Session 5 (Prof. Dr. Xavier Costa)
Barcelona’ s urban, architectural, and cultural roots
This session is directed at providing a general outline of the city’s history from a contemporary perspective. An introduction to the city’s Roman, Medieval, and Modern periods as they are experienced nowadays.


Session 6
The European city: From 19th to 20thC
I. An introduction to the European context during the period of the large transformations. The European capital cities become metropolis through the operations of Haussmann in Paris, Hobrecht in Berlin, Cerdà in Barcelona, the Vienna Ringstrasse, the and other cases of urban transformation. Art Nouveau as the first independent artistic intent to repond to the changing living conditions in the cities.

II. The European city in the first half of the 20th Century: From Patrick Geddes’ “Survey before plan” to Camillo Sitte’s principles of urban design and the garden city movement to the Corbuserian ville radieuse. The early CIAMs and the culture of the avantgarde. The German and Italian fascist cities.
III. The debate on the city after the Second World War: A renewed interest in public space, collective memory and a profound revision of avantgarde urbanism. Sert, Léger and Giedion on new monumentality, the reconstruction and the urban leitbilder of the 1950s, the emergence of TEAM X as led by the Smithsons. Participation and social criticism in urbanism.


Session 7
Contemporary Utopias
The International Situationist as a group that approximates urbanism, cultural criticism, political activism and artwork. Their proposals for the European city, from Debord’s writings to Constant’s New Babylon project, the Situationist ideas became a diversified basis for new ideas during the 1960s and 70s.
The 1960s is a decade of extraordinary optimism and full of proposals and ideas for the transformation of existing cities: Archigram, Yona Friedman, Haus-Rucker-Co and Coop Himmelblau are among the most radical proposals, contrasting with an emerging historicism in the work of the Italian tendenza, that also focused on the existing city as its main referent.


Session 8
Contemporary sculpture as generator of new public spaces in European metropolitan areas
The session intents to interpret public art according to twelve categories: Experimenting on limits: space – body; Experimenting on limits: space – body – architecture; Experimenting on limits: space – body – landscape; Experimenting on limits: widening the perception by means of reflection; Experimenting on limits: space – built mass; Working on the voids of history; Transforming memory into urban space with political symbolism; Modelling historic space; Rearticulating non-spaces and urban voids; Transforming emptiness into a surface of vibration; Articulating the imagined emptiness between earth and sky.


Session 9
Mapping Cities
Mapping as a tool of urban and territorial analysis is examined and examples presented that go from world maps to maps of small scale urban environments. Particular examples of cartography, anamorphotic, sound mapping and mental mapping are presented, in order to show how the determination of space by social, political and economical processes can be visualized.



Session 10
European Urban Landscapes
Urban landscapes and territorial transformations: The present day situation offers a new complexity that results from less clear distinctions between what is urban and what is non-urban. Categories such as landscape and territorial expansion have become part of the urban discourse.
This session aims at examining the IBA Emscherpark and other examples of large reconversions of industrial areas, as well as other experiences and proposals that reflect this recent shift in approaching the urban phenomenon. Also it focuses on European city networks as large scale territorial proposals.


Session 11
Final presentations
Students work throughout the seminar on a given topic. In addition to some previous discussions and presentations, this session is dedicated to the full presentation of their work.



BIBLIOGRAPHY / COURSE READER

1 Barcelona

Oriol Bohigas, “Architecture in the Emerging Metropolis”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 101-109.

Oriol Bohigas, “The Facilities of the Eighties”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, p. 211.

Joan Busquets, “Barcelona, a European city. Another change of scale?”. In: Barcelona. The urban evolution of a compact city. Rovereto: Nicolodi, 2005, pp. 413-444.

Manuel Gausa, “A Lap in Scale: From Urban to Metropolitan Barcelona”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 225-237.

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, “Retracing a relation: Barcelona’s role as urban model for Ibero-American metropolis.” In Renate Bornberg, Antje Wemhöner, eds. Imposing European Urban Structures. Trialog N° 93, Darmstadt: Trialog, 2007, pp. 4-11.

Francesc Roca, “From Montjuïc to the World”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 133-139.

Peter G. Rowe, “Collective possessions”. In Peter G. Rowe. Building Barcelona. A Second Renaixença: ACTAR, 2006, pp.48-69.

Dietmar Steiner, “Politics or Power”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 215-218.


2 The European City

Giorgio Agamben, “Baudelaire; or, the Absolute Commodity”. In Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minesotta Press, 1993, pp. 41-46.

Tom Avermate, “Urban modernization and vanishing architectural dimensions”. In Another modern. The post-war architecture and urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2005, pp. 198-202.

Constant, “The Principle of Disorientation”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 86-87.

Kenneth Frampton. “Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse, 1928-46”. In Modern Architecture: A Critical History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 178-185.

Thomas McDonough, “The Dérive and Situationist Paris”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 54-66.

Jochen Schneider, “A Discussion of the Indivisual in the City as Landscape”. In Eduard Bru & Xavier Costa, eds. New Landscapes, New Territories. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 170-187.

Josep Lluís Sert, Fernand Léger and Sigfried Giedion, “Nine Points on Monumentality”. In Xavier Costa, ed. Sert: Architect in New York. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 14-16.

Alison & Peter Smithson, “Contributions to a fragmentary Utopia”. In Chuihua Judy Chung ed., The charged Void: Urbanism. Alison and Peter Smithson. New York: Monacelli Press, 2005, p. 100.

Peter Zlonicky, “Strategies for Extreme Conditions: The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition”. In Deborah Gans and Claire Weisz, eds. Extreme Sites: The Greening of Brownfield. AD Vol 74 N° 2 March/ April 2004: London: Wiley, 2004, pp. 54-60.

SPRING 08 European CitiesTour



calendario 2008

programa PROYECTOS (click on it)

programa HISTORIA


THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
FACULTY:
Dr. KATHRIN GOLDA-PONGRATZ

Dr. XAVIER COSTA

Objectives
This seminar aims to offer an introduction to the phenomenon of the contemporary city from an architectural and urbanistic viewpoint. The first series of sessions focus on to the case of Barcelona, starting from the present state and recent projects, gradually going back into history, giving a complete perspective of its urban development.


Term Exercise
The seminar offers a series of lectures to be complemented with a paper that should cover a given topic by developing the necessary research and documentation together with a personal interpretation of the topic.

The paper should be based on research conducted at the library through on-site documentation, and through other sources that should be properly acknowledged. Its extension should not exceed 15 pages and should include the necessary images to accompany the text. The paperwork includes a public presentation in class. At the end of the course, a printed version and a copy on CD has to be handed in.


Grading
Class attendance and participation is mandatory. It accounts for 30% of the final grade.
Paper development, tutorials and oral presentation account for 30% of the final grade.
The final paper accounts for 40% of the grade.


Session 1

Contemporary Barcelona: 2004 – 2008
The first session starts from the present, giving an insight into the contemporary Catalan capital, which is considered as an urban model.
At the beginning of the 21st century, it has to cope with the effects of mass tourism and the definition of its role as a city of “social inclusion” and “proximity” and as a potent European business and service metropolis. Large scale urban transformations mark Barcelona’s western and eastern edges.

Session 2
The Post-Franco years and the democratic renewal: 1979-2004
With the first democratic city government after the war, the city undertakes an ambitious urban transformation that brings together political, cultural, and design parameters into a unique experience that deserves to be observed in detail. Transformative events change the city profile decisively and accompany the shift into the post-industrial era.

Session 3 (outdoor)
A walk through the city
Walking and by metro and tram some emblematic areas and public spaces will be visited that have been presented in the first two sessions.

Session 4
From Cerdà to Le Corbusier
The industrialization of Barcelona is reflected in Ildefons Cerdà’s extension plan, developed in the mid-nineteenth century. The architecture of “modernisme” resulted from this urban transformation. The early twentieth century saw the arrival of Modern urbanism in the form of Le Corbusier’s Macià Plan.

Session 5 (Prof. Dr. Xavier Costa)
Barcelona’ s urban, architectural, and cultural roots
This session is directed at providing a general outline of the city’s history from a contemporary perspective. An introduction to the city’s Roman, Medieval, and Modern periods as they are experienced nowadays.

Session 6
The European city: From 19th to 20thC
I. An introduction to the European context during the period of the large transformations. The European capital cities become metropolis through the operations of Haussmann in Paris, Hobrecht in Berlin, Cerdà in Barcelona, the Vienna Ringstrasse, the and other cases of urban transformation. Art Nouveau as the first independent artistic intent to repond to the changing living conditions in the cities.

II. The European city in the first half of the 20th Century: From Patrick Geddes’ “Survey before plan” to Camillo Sitte’s principles of urban design and the garden city movement to the Corbuserian ville radieuse. The early CIAMs and the culture of the avantgarde. The German and Italian fascist cities.
III. The debate on the city after the Second World War: A renewed interest in public space, collective memory and a profound revision of avantgarde urbanism. Sert, Léger and Giedion on new monumentality, the reconstruction and the urban leitbilder of the 1950s, the emergence of TEAM X as led by the Smithsons. Participation and social criticism in urbanism.

Session 7
Contemporary Utopias
The International Situationist as a group that approximates urbanism, cultural criticism, political activism and artwork. Their proposals for the European city, from Debord’s writings to Constant’s New Babylon project, the Situationist ideas became a diversified basis for new ideas during the 1960s and 70s.
The 1960s is a decade of extraordinary optimism and full of proposals and ideas for the transformation of existing cities: Archigram, Yona Friedman, Haus-Rucker-Co and Coop Himmelblau are among the most radical proposals, contrasting with an emerging historicism in the work of the Italian tendenza, that also focused on the existing city as its main referent.

Session 8
Contemporary sculpture as generator of new public spaces in European metropolitan areas
The session intents to interpret public art according to twelve categories: Experimenting on limits: space – body; Experimenting on limits: space – body – architecture; Experimenting on limits: space – body – landscape; Experimenting on limits: widening the perception by means of reflection; Experimenting on limits: space – built mass; Working on the voids of history; Transforming memory into urban space with political symbolism; Modelling historic space; Rearticulating non-spaces and urban voids; Transforming emptiness into a surface of vibration; Articulating the imagined emptiness between earth and sky.

Session 9
Mapping Cities
Mapping as a tool of urban and territorial analysis is examined and examples presented that go from world maps to maps of small scale urban environments. Particular examples of cartography, anamorphotic, sound mapping and mental mapping are presented, in order to show how the determination of space by social, political and economical processes can be visualized.

Session 10
European Urban Landscapes
Urban landscapes and territorial transformations: The present day situation offers a new complexity that results from less clear distinctions between what is urban and what is non-urban. Categories such as landscape and territorial expansion have become part of the urban discourse.
This session aims at examining the IBA Emscherpark and other examples of large reconversions of industrial areas, as well as other experiences and proposals that reflect this recent shift in approaching the urban phenomenon. Also it focuses on European city networks as large scale territorial proposals.

Session 11
Final presentations
Students work throughout the seminar on a given topic. In addition to some previous discussions and presentations, this session is dedicated to the full presentation of their work.



BIBLIOGRAPHY / COURSE READER

1 Barcelona

Oriol Bohigas, “Architecture in the Emerging Metropolis”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 101-109.

Oriol Bohigas, “The Facilities of the Eighties”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, p. 211.

Joan Busquets, “Barcelona, a European city. Another change of scale?”. In: Barcelona. The urban evolution of a compact city. Rovereto: Nicolodi, 2005, pp. 413-444.

Manuel Gausa, “A Lap in Scale: From Urban to Metropolitan Barcelona”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 225-237.

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, “Retracing a relation: Barcelona’s role as urban model for Ibero-American metropolis.” In Renate Bornberg, Antje Wemhöner, eds. Imposing European Urban Structures. Trialog N° 93, Darmstadt: Trialog, 2007, pp. 4-11.

Francesc Roca, “From Montjuïc to the World”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 133-139.

Peter G. Rowe, “Collective possessions”. In Peter G. Rowe. Building Barcelona. A Second Renaixença: ACTAR, 2006, pp.48-69.

Dietmar Steiner, “Politics or Power”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 215-218.


2 The European City

Giorgio Agamben, “Baudelaire; or, the Absolute Commodity”. In Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minesotta Press, 1993, pp. 41-46.

Tom Avermate, “Urban modernization and vanishing architectural dimensions”. In Another modern. The post-war architecture and urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2005, pp. 198-202.

Constant, “The Principle of Disorientation”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 86-87.

Kenneth Frampton. “Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse, 1928-46”. In Modern Architecture: A Critical History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 178-185.

Thomas McDonough, “The Dérive and Situationist Paris”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 54-66.

Jochen Schneider, “A Discussion of the Indivisual in the City as Landscape”. In Eduard Bru & Xavier Costa, eds. New Landscapes, New Territories. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 170-187.

Josep Lluís Sert, Fernand Léger and Sigfried Giedion, “Nine Points on Monumentality”. In Xavier Costa, ed. Sert: Architect in New York. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 14-16.

Alison & Peter Smithson, “Contributions to a fragmentary Utopia”. In Chuihua Judy Chung ed., The charged Void: Urbanism. Alison and Peter Smithson. New York: Monacelli Press, 2005, p. 100.

Peter Zlonicky, “Strategies for Extreme Conditions: The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition”. In Deborah Gans and Claire Weisz, eds. Extreme Sites: The Greening of Brownfield. AD Vol 74 N° 2 March/ April 2004: London: Wiley, 2004, pp. 54-60.

programa SOSTENIBILIDAD

Arquitectura sostenible y saludable
Hubertus Poppinghaus

Tras la concienciación ante los problemas medioambientales, es hora de cambiar nuestros hábitos, dentro de esa tercera piel que son los edificios que habitamos.

Esta misma concienciación es la que nos ha de motivar, como arquitectos, a desarrollar una arquitectura saludable, considerándola como el entorno más cercano donde podemos empezar a mejorar la salud de las personas y la del medio ambiente. Este concepto abarca tres aspectos diferentes, pero relacionados entre sí.

El primero es una arquitectura respetuosa con el contexto propio del lugar, que atiende a sus peculiaridades del clima, paisaje y cultura, y que aprende de la arquitectura tradicional autóctona.

El siguiente aspecto es una arquitectura que responde a las necesidades de las personas que la habitan, necesidades de confort físico, emocional, de uso...

Y el último es una arquitectura basada en criterios ecológicos, para que desde su diseño se incorporen los sistemas, materiales y técnicas alternativas que respeten en todo lo posible el medio ambiente.

Siguiendo esta misma idea, el seminario asume la visión del desarrollo sostenible, tal como lo define la Unión Europea:

Mantener la calidad general de vida
Mantener el acceso continuo a los recursos naturales
Evitar daños duraderos en el medio ambiente
Considerar como desarrollo sostenible aquél que llega a satisfacer las necesidades del presente sin comprometer la capacidad de las generaciones futuras para satisfacer las suyas (fifth EC environment action programm)

PROGRAMA:

1) El impacto medioambiental de la construcción
Consecuencias globales de las actitudes personales
Compromisos y acuerdos (Kyoto, Agenda 21)

2) Conceptos básicos para el diseño y configuración de edificios bioclimáticos:
Arquitectura ligera y pesada
La forma exterior
Parámetros climáticos y confort

3) La rehabilitación con criterios bioclimáticos y eficiencia energética
Sistemas de ahorro de agua
Adaptación de la domótica al edificio

4) Control energético del edificio (I). Sistemas pasivos
Inercia térmica
Protección solar
Ventilación natural

5) Control energético del edificio (II). Sistemas activos
Colectores solares térmicos
Células fotovoltaicas
Calefacción / refrigeración solar

6) Construcción sostenible (I). Materiales y cerramientos opacos
Paneles prefabricados
Bloques aligerados
Aislamientos

7) Construcción sostenible (II). Cerramientos traslúcidos y transparentes
Vidrio con cámara
Sistemas para dirigir la luz diurna

8) Construcción sostenible (i III). Materiales reciclados y residuos
No recuperable, reutilizable y reciclable
Minimización y gestión de residuos en la obra


9) El síndrome del edifico enfermo
Contaminación biológica, química y física
Campos electromagnéticos
Electricidad estática

10) Ejemplos de arquitectura sostenible
Ejemplos europeos
Ejemplos catalanes
BIBLIOGRAFIA :

VIVIENDA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD EN ESPAÑA. Volumen 1: Unifamiliares
Toni Solanas
Edit. Gustavo Gili S.A. 2007

SOL POWER. La evolución de la arquitectura sostenible
Sophia y Stefan Behling
Edit. Gustavo Gili S.A. 2002

THE TECNOLOGY OF ECOLOGICAL BUILDING. Basic Principles and Measures, Examples and Ideas
Klaus Daniels
Edit. Birkhäuser 1997

LOW-TECH LIGHT-TECH HIGH-TECH. Buiding in the Information Society
Klaus Daniels
Edit. Birkhäuser 1998

LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA ARQUITECTURA Y DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE
Programa LIFE. Comisión Europea. Dirección General XI. Medio Ambiente
Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya 1997

Webs de interés:
HYPERLINK "http://www.coac.es/mediambient" www.coac.es/mediambient
Área del medio ambiente del Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya

HYPERLINK "http://www.csostenible.net/" www.csostenible.net
Agenda de la construcción sostenible promovida por el Col·legi d’Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona

HYPERLINK "http://www.itec.es/htm/projectes_ue/catala/LIFE/lifecat.htm" www.itec.es/htm/projectes_ue/catala/LIFE/lifecat.htm
Instituto de Tecnología de la Construcción de Catalunya. Programa LIFE

HYPERLINK "http://www.idae.es/" www.idae.es
Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

HYPERLINK "http://www.gencat.es/mediamb/index.htm" www.gencat.es/mediamb/index.htm
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departamento de Medio Ambiente

HYPERLINK "http://www.bcn.es/agenda21/index.htm" www.bcn.es/agenda21/index.htm
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Agenda 21 local

HYPERLINK "http://www.aperca.org" www.aperca.org
Asociación de profesionales de las energías renovables

HYPERLINK "http://www.biohaus.com" www.biohaus.com
Distribuidor de materiales ecológicos
Arquitectura Sostenible y Saludable, Seminario Tecnológico de Monterrey 2007

EUROPEANCITIESTOUR

BAC directors and staff

BAC Barcelona Architecture Center
Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya
C/ Nou de Sant Francesc, 4
08002 Barcelona, España
Tel. (0034) 93 301 61 53
arch.program@fundacio.upc.es
Sara Sender (BAC Coordinator)


Miguel Roldán (BAC Director)
Tel. 93 441 43 99
Mobile: 61 925 91 97
m.roldan@coac.es

Xavier Costa (BAC Director)
Tel. 93 417 47 00
Mobile: 63 932 68 85
costa@coac.es


To arrive at the BAC:
The nearest metro station (as indicated on map) is Drassanes L3