MODEL WORKSHOP II

Some images from the last model workshop...very useful for the students as an exploration tool!!!

MODEL WORKSHOP

Next class we'll focus on a model workshop and try at least 10 variations on each proposal. We can bring some drinks or even food for the models and celebrate an architectural party. I remember quite well models made with cheese or candy...but do not forget your cameras...they suddenly disappear!!!

SUPERCYCLES

Next class we'll talk about "Supercycles", take a look at this diagrams and try to associate each element of a column with all the rest!!!

POROUS SPACE

Next class we'll talk about "Poruos Space"

LAYERS VS FILTERS

Next class we'll talk about "Layers vs Filters"

ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS: TRANSITIONS

Nature is presented to us like a huge and continuous outer space, the place inhabited by primitive man. Dwelling the cave or tree, it means only the temporary appropriation of a previous infrastructure that exist apart from any function, scale or representation of the human being. As man builds his own structure, the origin of architecture as artifice, begins also a story of transitions between the living space and the outside: “The architecture should be conceived as a set of clearly defined intermediate places. The interspace provides the common ground where conflicting polarities can be twin phenomena”

Aldo van Eyck, Architectural Design 12, Vol. XXXII, 1962 December.

In this sense, transitions result an interesting topic for their great capacity for synthesis between antagonistic categories: natural-artificial / indoor-outdoor / free-programmed / walk-wander / property-dominion / housing-producing ...

Some transitions categories and study cases:

-Porosity: “Tokio housing”, Hiroshi Kuno, 2006.

-Connected interspaces: “casa Guzmán”, Alejandro de la Sota, 1972.

-Telescopic Nesting: “House N”, Oita, Sou Fujimoto, 2008.

-Nettings: “Santander Dwellings”, Alejandro de la Sota, 1967.

-Extreme natures: drawings by Junya Ishigami, 2008.

-Freaks & Mutations: City in Sky, Mu Wei; Sam Cho; Yu Hui, Wuhan (China), 2013. 

URBAN PLANNING: THE GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD.

City as edible infraestructure.

“So the food situation is totally mad. The mindset seemed to be that cities are for people to live and work in and the countryside is for growing food. However, things are changing fast, […] planners and architects are starting to accord for food systems the same priority as transport or housing”.

                   

John  Thackara, “Low Entropy Urbanism”, MEGACITIES,

010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010

Keywords: food culture, food production, urban agriculture, urban design, water collection, research and educational programs, resources management, citizen initiatives, social cohesion, entertainment, creative business, healthy cooking, etc.

The development of all these urban strategies, designed through cartographies and geographical, urban, climatic, ecological or social maps, will lead to a new edible city concept: the geography of food.

STAVANGER

Stavanger is the third largest urban zone and metropolitan area in Norway. Today the oil business is a key industry in the Stavanger region and the city is widely referred to as the Oil Capital of Norway. Stavanger East is currently undergoing an extensive urban transformation: nearly 600daa old industrial sites are gradually turning its status from being the city backyard to becoming a valuable resource supporting the urban growth and extension of the City of Stavanger. The east part of Stavanger which was one of the selected projects in the Ministry of Environment initiative generated a series of projects done in a collaborative partnership between the property owners which was manifested early in 2000 as a non-profit company called Urban Sjøfront.

The company has generated a progressive collaborative partnership between private and public sector, producing constructive and result oriented processes for how to realize the structural transformation of a run down district. Such development takes time and experiences frequently changes physically, judicially and mentally through new challenges and developed guidelines. These tendencies are similar processes found in other cities both nationally and internationally. Complex issues related to such urban transformations requires exchange of knowledge and experiences as a foundation for further strategies to be developed, processes and projects organized and methods to be used.

SUBJECT

Now we know each calorie we eat needs ten for the process of production, processing, transport and food management. In many cities around the world, “Food Systems” start having the same consideration as transportation, housing or even the environment, in urban development matters: food and cities give shape one to another. The workshop presents an approach on food systems planning as contemporary urban development tool, by studying the special case of the Norwegian city of Stavanger.

MAPA COLABORATIVO DE PARÍS

Mapa colaborativo de obras y edificios de arquitectura en París realizado por los alumnos de esta unidad como "guía de viaje" para el 11 y 12 de enero de 2013. Las obras están geolocalizadas y se indica de cada una al menos el nombre, dirección, autor y fecha de construcción. Mapa online aquí.

TEST MODELS #02

La próxima clase se dedicará a continuar la exploración con maquetas, pudiendo trabajar los dos grupos durante las 6 horas de sesión (9:00-15:00h). Además del trabajo de producción de modelos a escala como parte del proceso de exploración, deberá aportarse documentación gráfica E:1/500 elaborada en base a las maquetas realizadas durante la clase anterior, trabajando esta vez sobre planos y maquetas a la vez. Durante esta sesión se debe concretar la estrategia de proyecto a desarrollar durante la segunda parte del semestre, trasladando al día 24 de noviembre la entrega del 50% del curso, inicialmente prevista el 17, aunque igualmente sujeta a calificación.  

TEST MODELS & PFC SESSION #01

Como parte de la fase de exploración, la próxima clase la dedicaremos a taller de maquetas. Todos los alumnos de ambos grupos pueden participar de 9:00-15:00h. Se debe acudir con una base del entorno sobre la que se explorarán diferentes soluciones de intervención en base al análisis y estrategias definidas previamente por cada uno. Los materiales para operar sobre la maqueta "base" son libres, desde el alambre al algodón pasando por todo tipo de láminas de papel, filtros, hilos, etc. Las maquetas deben recoger el espíritu de ligereza y bricolage, la arquitectura por componentes o la relación con la naturaleza en la ciudad, pero sobre todo, deben servir para explorar, desde el divertimento, soluciones que de otra manera difícilmente hubiesen podido surgir de cada uno, recordando a Sota: "Me gustó siempre hablar de la arquitectura como divertimento".

Por otra parte iniciamos la serie PFC SESSIONS, con la visita de David Barbero Sastre, de la ESAYT, que entrega su PFC en noviembre y que sobre las 12:00h nos mostrará su propuesta  prácticamente acabada. En sesiones posteriores contaremos con la presencia de otros PFC de la ETSAM (Madrid) o de la UPSA UA (Alicante).

WINDFARM AT YPENBURG + TU DELFT

El próximo sábado 17 de marzo la unidad de Proyectos 7 Windfarm (ESAYT) aterriza en Delft. Se publican los horarios y la guía de visitas para que cada uno se pueda incorporar en función de su hora de llegada:

RUTA DE MAÑANA: TU DELFT

9:00h PLAZA MARKT (con bici)

9:30h TU DELFT: De Bouwkunde (Antigua Escuela de Arquitectura) a Bouwkunde City (Nueva Escuela de Arquitectura).

            -Octatube Steel Structures: Mick Eekhout + Braaksma & Roos

            -The Why Factory Tribune: MVRDV

10:30h Biblioteca TU Delft (Mecanoo) + Aula (Van der Broek + Bakema),

11:30h Residencia de estudiantes (M. de Jong, Mecanoo), Duwind (Delft University Wind Energy Research Institute), Pabellón (Kas Oosterhuisv - ONL), Academia de ingeniería (Haskoning Architects)...            

12:30h SOLAR EJERCICIO III (Rotterdamseweg).

13:30h Octatube International, Rotterdamseweg 200, Delft (Mick Eekhout)

RUTA DE TARDE: YPENBURG

16:00 PLAZA MARKT (con bici)

16:30h Laboratorio Theo Jansen + museo al aire libre

17:30h Ypenburg (Waterwijk): como paradigma de Vinex (política de nuevos distritos de vivienda)

            -Masterplan: MVRDV

-Patio eiland: MVRDV

            -Hagen eiland: MVRDV

            -Van der Wolfswater: MVRDV

            -Waterhoeve: Juan Bosch

19:30h Intersticios: Volkstuinen (aglomeraciones de huertas periurbanas) como apropiación reglada del paisaje intersticial.

  

UCJC, ESAYT. Curso 2011-12, 2º Semestre.
Asignatura: Proyectos Arquitectónicos 7
Profesor: Miguel Ángel Díaz Camacho
Profesor invitado: Enrique Krahe.