Sunday, June 24, 2012

El sueño del mirlo

Documentary about two community gardens in Barcelona, Hort del Xino and el Forat,by Klaus Jack.


watch video 

Friday, April 27, 2012

TRIP TO OLOT

Visit to Les Cols Restaurant and Hotel
Picnic 
Visit to Parc de la Pedra Tosca




                                               (photos by Maria Solé)

Group picture (by David de la Peña)

Thursday, April 26, 2012

DESIGN STUDIO FINAL PRESENTATION

Guest Jury:
Ferran Grau (XNF)
Josep Bohigas (BOPBAA)
David de la Peña (Berkeley)
Maite Bravo (IAAC)

Congratulations!!


Monday, April 16, 2012

STORAGE CONSTRUCTION- PHASE 2 . B SIDE

Fixing the module to the base (Photo by Shan Jin)
Module vs wall. (Photo by Shan Jin)
First module completed. Curra, our first guest.(Photo by Maria Solé)
Potencial shelves (Photo by Shan Jin)
Perspective (Photo by Shan Jin)
Giving the "final touch" to the module.(Photo by Candid Rogers)
Checking the module's resistance (Photo by Shan Jin)

Friday, April 13, 2012

TRIP TO THE NORTH OF SPAIN

BILBAO- SAN SEBASTIAN- LA RIOJA- LAS BÁRDENAS

    Photos by Leticia Esponda




    Photos by Alicia Baihui Li







    Photos by Shan Jin






Tuesday, April 10, 2012

STORAGE CONSTRUCTION- PHASE 1. B SIDE

Getting ready
Jacob planing stone's disposition

Team work
Lunch break

Siesta mood

Cement, stones and more cement
Cleaned wall
Celebrating the work done
Photos by Nora Arias

Saturday, April 7, 2012

BOTERO'S CAT

STREET ART at Rambla del Raval
Botero's Cat gets dressed up. 
Photo by Maria Solé

Photo by Maria Solé. Unknown artist

Thursday, April 5, 2012

CITY MAPPING SEMINAR

22@ CITY MAPPING
By Nacho López and Ferran Grau

The aim of the Barcelona City Mapping seminar is to introduce the student into the complexity and the mixture of the Europe-Mediterranean Cities’ urban fabric.

The city is vectorized and tensed by the dynamic and the changes of private and public uses, and fluxes.  On the other hand, we can also detect the resilience of sediments in terms of materiality, property and social behaviours. In this in between lies the essence of the City.

This extensive understanding of the context could also give a double reading in different scales, from the joints and contacts of different urban fabrics, or from its gaps to the understanding of time-dependent urban landscapes. Under these principles, the work in different scales should pass through the urban fabric interface, including intermediate elements as doors and floor rooms or block chamfers as a space and use generators. Being contemporary architects nowadays means being confronted to a built world where we wonder how we can think new cities where already exist other ones.
Students will analyze an urban city fragment full of complexity. This piece of the city, which is a portion of Pallars street in the 22@ district, is the result of a historical overlap:  the old industrial district from the end of the XIX Century and the new “Catalan Silicon Valley” (22@). The superposition is architectonic, programmatic and socio-economic and happens in all directions demanding a three-dimensional approach to information.

From West to East (o vice versa) (1) we propose to catch urban biopsies regarding four gazes: urban landscapes, chamfers, ground floors and architectonic joints. Simultaneously we suggest to cross the first four approaches with a transversal look (North to South o vice versa) (2) organized in four issues: public spaces, activities, fluxes and sediments.

We will re-visit the same places during four different moments during the day (morning, midday, afternoon and night)
Exercise:
The exercise consists in the production of a personal and collective booklet as a result of three different tasks:
-        Recollection of information
-        Management of information
-        Representation of information.
The recollection of data will take place in four moments during one day by groups of two people.
The book will have two sides:
(1)  In the first one a scanner made with pictures taken by the students will show the mapping of the street during the different scheduled moments organized in four rows:
-        Urban landscapes.
-        Chamfers.
-        Ground floors.
-        Architectonic joints.
       (2) The reverse side will contain four maps drawn from the public spaces, activities, fluxes and sediments linked with some pictures coming from the other side.
The booklet is going to be a blend of some A3, which will be folded in A5 format.

    MARCH 20th: Introduction

    MARCH 23rd: Data registration. Exploring the city.

    MARCH 27th: Information management and representation


    APRIL 3rd: Booklet production
      APRIL 4th: Presentation at the Agencia de Apoyo a la Arquitectura
                           Guest Jury: Ivan Blasi and Irma Arribas
Sergio Duran
Jacob LeMieux and Maria Trevino 
Tristan Magnuson and Leticia Esponda
Shan Jin and Alicia Baihui Li




Mission Accomplished.  Congratulations to all participants!