http://hdl.handle.net/2117/2566 2013-05-21T22:53:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19312 Title: Introducción a una arquitectura cronotópica y alogarítmica Authors: Saura Carulla, Magdalena 2013-05-16T14:15:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18747 Title: La inversión del paradigma poché. El desarrollo poché en el sistema Dom-Inó de Le Corbusier Authors: Such Sanmartín, Roger Abstract: Tomando como punto de partida el ensayo del arquitecto y crítico británico Alan Colquhoun “Desplazamiento de conceptos en la obra de Le Corbusier”, el presente artículo explora la investigación espacial que aconteció alrededor de la planta libre de la modernidad. Le Corbusier incorporó en el Sistema Dom-Inó una serie de principios formales que provenían de las tradiciones murarías de las Beaux-Arts y que a priori, parecían contradecir los dictámenes de la planta libre. Así, en la estructura de sus casas de los años veinte se introdujeron los espacios de naturaleza poché y de presentarse como un problema o una contradicción, Le Corbusier reactivó ambos principios en un vibrante y contrarios, de integración de principios opuestos en una nueva síntesis dialéctica estaba en el germen de su pensamiento y nos acerca a un modo de concebir la investigación sobre el proyecto de arquitectura. 2013-04-09T17:41:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18656 Title: Conocimiento y espacio arquitectónico Authors: Díez Barreñada, Rafael Abstract: El debate sobre el carácter propio de la arquitectura es necesario situarlo en su contexto, el conocimiento humano. Éste tiene un carácter instrumental y necesariamente limitado, lo que da lugar a que se divida en distintas áreas, sin renunciar a su unidad. Un estudio de la arquitectura debe ocuparse de lo que le es propio, de cómo un proyecto utiliza unos medios dados para dar coherencia a las diversas demandas de su contexto. La buena arquitectura significa arquitectura, porque a los arquitectos nos habla de nuestra disciplina, de cómo ordenar una materia dada de manera que, al cualificar su uso, signifique un espacio arquitectónico, sea un utensilio espacial, una herramienta concreta y específica del habitar humano. Es de esa concreción, ligada a las particularidades de cada obra y situación, de lo que debería tratar todo análisis de una obra de arquitectura, de aquello que puede mostrarse, comprobarse. La obra de José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat, que incluye arquitectura y diseño, permite ejemplificar las complejas relaciones entre estas áreas de conocimiento y de cómo es necesario partir de cuestiones concretas y limitadas para ser capaz de llegar formulaciones más generales, para generar conocimiento. 2013-04-05T15:58:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18547 Title: Build Our Nation international project: an innovative educational model for systems thinking in design Authors: Bassanese, Silvia; Espanyol, Aida; Rodeghiero, Benedetha Abstract: Ethical decision-making models grounded in ethical frameworks comprehend elements of systems thinking such as holistic language and value-guided systems. This paper proposes an innovative educational model for systems thinking in architectural design. Academic members, students, and future users work together as an international architectural design studio team to improve specific real-world living conditions. The model of Build Our Nation aims at reconsidering the whole design process by focusing on rethinking design and rethinking construction. In response to the current global crisis in designing and building, the paper argues that more than a responsible behaviour has become necessary. Starting from the educational stage an ethic of resilience should be pursued and that represents the core of the model proposed by Build Our Nation. 2013-04-02T16:01:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18503 Title: A Cultural Heritage, Preservation Master Plan: Postoccupancy of Emporion to Evaluate Theme Park versus Environmental Design Authors: Saura Carulla, Magdalena Abstract: In spite of market pragmatics, the urban, architectural and environmental protection and conservation ideas of the Emporion master plan were quickly implemented in actual planning. (1) Previous research conducted at Technical University of Catalonia set the design requirements for policy-making required in any sort of master plan. One of the goals was to predict a successful use of space through a natural and historic lanscapes. Social and cultural factors determined one set of parameters for environmental programming and evaluation; namely, how people use both recreational and tourist infrastructure through historic places. University research was sponsored at that time by the Getty Grant Program. University research today develops further through a longitudinal study which started once the plan was executed and partly built in 1992. Data gathering is currently being sponsored with funds of the government of Spain: Proyecto I+D: Arquitectura, educación y evaluació ambiental. 2013-03-22T14:15:50Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18177 Title: Recycling Authors: Coll López, Jaime; Jover Fontanals, Cristina 2013-03-11T14:34:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18045 Title: Autonomía / Heteronomía Authors: Armesto Aira, Antonio 2013-03-04T15:13:50Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17989 Title: Filling the Gap. Urban Occupation as a Resilient Form of Architecture Authors: Rodeghiero, Benedetha Abstract: Our cities are full, but our pockets are empty. Spain is facing the worst economic crisis of the democratic era. A huge urban emergency is claiming for attention: there is an urgent need of soil and a chronic lack of resources. Recently, we have observed a new raising phenomenon in our cities: the occupation of urban voids. Urban occupation is not only an illegal practice in our cities, it is also a new building form. The urban occupation practice is modifying the layout of large areas in our cities. Actually, now there is a list of exhibitions, competitions and even public financed programs focused on temporary projects. Temporary architecture is a cheap, sustainable and easily removable way to empty urban voids (abandoned spaces or spaces waiting for a new function). Temporary architecture is also a new opportunity for a social construction of the city. It empowers communities to build their future. Can the urban occupation practice be considered as a new resilient form of architecture? The aim of this paper is to respond to this question analysing the phenomenon of the urban occupation in Spain, through a qualitative perspective. 2013-02-26T19:02:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17891 Title: Structural Analysis of Tile Vaulting: Method and Variables Authors: Domènech Rodríguez, Marta; López López, David Abstract: Although the interest in tile vaulting -Guastavino vaulting- is growing worldwide both in the academic and professional field, there are not few unknowns that remain unresolved regarding their structural behavior. Despite the publications concerning this issue -including the one by Guastavino-, there is still an open debate in the academic domain about the treatment of these vaults in their structural assessment and the decision of the structural analysis method. 2013-02-19T19:29:41Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17888 Title: Berlin: Rebuilding Memories in the Contemporary City Authors: Domènech Rodríguez, Marta; López López, David Abstract: The current discourse of the city as image or spectacle is what the municipal authorities, developers and politicians in Berlin are trying to encourage in order to increase the incomes from tourism, office or commercial rents. This kind of urban politics are spaces for cultural consumption, megastores, festivals and spectacles of all kinds, all intended to attract new tourism, urban travelers or metropolitan explorers. The issue in this city is how best to decorate the city to attract better international attention: not the city as an opportunity to be filled with life by its inhabitants and visitants but the city as image in the service of power and profit. 2013-02-19T15:58:48Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17886 Title: Recycling No-man’s-land Authors: Domènech Rodríguez, Marta; López López, David; Palumbo Fernández, Mariana Abstract: La cultura del usar y tirar ha imperado en los últimos tiempos y el culto a lo nuevo ha también la arquitectura. Del mismo modo en que se descartan productos de consumo que todavía por los nuevos modelos, se planifican barrios completamente nuevos sobre suelos no urbanizados que provocan la expansión de las ciudades en forma de mancha de aceite, ignorando la de espacios ya urbanizados que se rechazan por ser tejidos industriales o socialmente marginales. Pero,¿No debería ser imperativo reciclar el residuo antes de continuar con una expansión en una ciudad con “agujeros negros”? Proponemos cuestionar la concepción del reciclaje como un bien en sí mismo y enfocar el discurso desde la óptica de Braungart y McDonough que en « Cradle to Cradle » sugieren un diseño capaz ya no de reciclar los residuos existentes sino de eliminar el concepto de residuo en sí. El diseño arquitectónico debe ir más allá del objeto en sí y centrarse en la formulación de sistemas cerrados de materias, energías y espacios donde el concepto de reciclaje pierde su significado por la inexistencia de residuos que deben ser reciclados. 2013-02-19T15:32:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17880 Title: Autonomía y libertad proyectual en los proyectos de Álvaro Siza para la SAAL Authors: Domènech Rodríguez, Marta; López López, David Abstract: Este estudio parte de la actuación del arquitecto Alvaro Siza en los proyectos de vivienda social durante la Revolución de los Claveles de 1974 que formaron parte del proceso de regeneración urbana á la Siedlungen alemana de los años veinte, pero con participación vecinal, de los barrios degradados de las periferias urbanas de las ciudades lusas. Se trata de unas intervenciones críticas a los debates que revisaban las ideas derivadas del movimiento moderno librados en el último tercio del siglo XX. 2013-02-19T13:34:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17847 Title: Pathways to reach the net zero energy building: The waste treatment centre in Mercabarna. Barcelona. Case study Authors: Usón Guardiola, Ezequiel; Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís; Vives Rego, Josep Abstract: Mercabarna is Barcelona’s central market, supplies fresh food to the metropolitan area and generates economic activity in all Catalonia, and other European markets. The seventy percent of solid waste generated in Mercabarna is nowadays recycled in the treatment centre called “Punt verd,” that consumes lots of water and energy and causes at the same time trouble and foul smell in its surroundings. Our project works by designing a new roof to cover the existing installation, which would try to reduce the environmental impact caused by its activity, while improving its surrounding conditions: generate shadow that decrease the external temperature, improve the air quality by greenering with aromatic plants, use and accumulate the rainwater which would be used in irrigation and cleaning, could be capable to produce enough electricity from the solar radiation that would balance the actual purchase of grid energy. This paper moreover will report how this new skin would turn the existing industrial factory into a hybrid building that will have the capacity to supply, in total, the annual operating energy requirements of their industrial process, and would as well, reach the net zero energy building goal. 2013-02-18T15:09:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17361 Title: Tile Vaulting as an alternative Authors: López López, David; Domènech Rodríguez, Marta 2013-01-14T19:39:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16939 Title: Jorn Utzon y el concurso para el Teatro Nacional de la Ópera de Madrid Authors: Ferrer Forés, Jaime Jose 2012-11-16T16:21:07Z