Author: nuria.alva

Tutorials on Friday 4th of March will be as follows,
10 Luca
10.30 laura
11 romy
11.30 antje
12 eylul
12.30 Somia
2 Zoe
2.30 Teodora
3 Sindi
3.30 Yasemin
4 Vasco
4.30 Dila

Next Tuesday 1st of March we will have tutorials as usual and a lecture online from the Housing Department of Barcelona Municipality under the following schedule
10 laura
10.30 romy
11 antje
11.30 eylul
12 Somia
12.30 luca
2 Teodora
2.30 Sindi
3 Lecture by Barcelona Municipality
4 Yasemin
4.30 Vasco
5 Dila
5.30 Zoe

Tutorials at unit space next Friday 25th of February will be as follows,

10 Romy
10.30 Antje
11 Eylul
11.30 Somia
12 luca
12.30 Laura

2 Sindi
2.30 Vasco
3 Yasemin
3.30 Dila
4 Zoe
4.30 Teodora

Next Tuesday 22nd of February we will have our Mid Term Jury in the Lecture Hall from 10 to 1 and 32 FFF from 2 to 6pm. Our guest critcs are Sylvie Taher (AA Exp-11), Pol Esteve (AA First Year) , John Ng (AA First Year, RCA), Mark Breeze (Exp), Nacho Martin (AA First Year-ETS) and Elias Tamer (Collective for Architecture Lebanon- AA Alumnus)

Tutorials on Friday 18th of February at unit space as follows,

10 Vasco
10.30 Luca
11 Eylul
11.30 Zoe
12 Teodora
12.30 Antje
2 Dila
2.30 somia
3 Sindu
3.30 Romy
4 Yasemin
4.30 Laura

Tutorials on Tuesday 15th of February at unit space as follows,

10 Vasco
10.30 antje
11 Teodora
11.30 Romy
12 dila
12.30 somia
2 zoe
2.30 Luca
3 sindi
3.30 yasemin
4 Eylul
4.30 Laura

This Friday 4th of February we will have a pin-up at unit space starting at 10.30am. For that, you need to bring a digital or physical file with your individual research so far that help you explain your argument, research, and site decision in 5-6 minutes, and a printed A2 or A1 with drawings ( Plan-section and elevation- and axonometry. ) of your site with information of building/s where your proposal will intervene. Please prepare your files to be show in the screen and the printed page/s to be on the main unit table.

Tutorials will be on Friday 28th of January as follows,
10.30 Yasemin
11 Teodora
11.30 Antje
12 Sindi
12.30 dila
2Vasco
2.30 Zoe
3 Somia
3.30 luca
4Eylül
4.30 laura
5 romy

Tutorials on Friday 21st of January will be as follows,
10.30 Teodora
11 Yasemin
11.30 Luca
12 Lecture Dr. Carles Crossas- Barcelona

2 Zoe
2.30 Sindi
3 Dila
3.30 Antje
4 Somia
4.30 Laura
5 Romy
5.30 Eylül

Tutorials on Tuesday 18th of January
10 Zoe
10.30 Vasco
11 Teodora
11.30 Luca
12 Laura
12.30 Romy
2 Eylül
2.30 Sindi
3 Somia
3.30 Antje
4 Yasemin
4.30 Portfolio presentation by Nikitas Papadopoulos

Tutorials on Friday 14th of January will be as follows,
10 Zoe
10.30 Laura
11 Eylül
11.30 Yasemin
12 Presentation of research pages samples
12.30 Antje
2 Dila
2.30 Sindi
3 somia
3.30 Vasco
4 Teodora
4.30 Romy
5 Luca

Tutorials on Tuesday 11th of January will be as follows,
10 Eylul
10.30 Antje
11 Somia
11.30 Zoe
12 Romy
12,30 Luca
2 Vasco
2.30 Sindi
3 Teodora
3.30 Yasemin
4 Laura
4.30 Dila

Before deeping into block transformations, the unit will familiarize with the different formal aspects of Barcelona Eixample area. In groups, the unit will create an archive of drawings in different scales analysing key information about its urban grain, void, density and grid. A special attention will be given to find urban gaps in the grid or redundant buildings in blocks to possibly insert the different artefacts of disorder. Readings on Barcelona history and an understanding of its urban fabric configuration and evolution will be also conducted.

Readings:

– Ildefons Cerdá, 2019, General theory of urbanization 1867, Barcelona, Actar.

– Joan Busquets, 2005, Barcelona the urban evolution of a compact city, Nicolodi, Milán. – Joan Busquets & Carles Crossas, 2015, Metròpolis Barcelona, Area Metropolitana de Barcelona.

– Manuel Gausa, Marta, Cervelló, Maurici Pla , 2002, Barcelona : a guide to its modern architecture 1860-2002, Bcn : Actar.

– Tim Marshall, 2004, Transforming Barcelona, London: Routledge. – Peter G Rowe, 2006, Building Barcelona, a second renaixenca, Barcelona: Actar.

– Josep Maria Montaner, 2013, Reader modelo Barcelona 1973-2013, Barcelona: Comanegra. – Gary W. McDonogh, 2018, Barcelona. Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity.

– Ross Exo Adams, 2018, Circulation and Urbanization (society and Space), SAGE

– Manuel Delgado and Anna Juan, 2012, Barcelona rooftops : between earth and sky, Barcelona : Ajuntament de Barcelona.

-Alexander Doerr: “Behind Four Walls: Barcelona’s Lost Utopia” https://failedarchitecture.com/behind-four-walls-barcelonas-lost-utopia/

This Tuesday 13th of December, you will present your group investigations in the unit space in order from Large to Small starting at 11am. Please prepare your pdfs and send them to us to upload as part of the unit srchive that everyone can check. Some tutorials will be provided int he afternoon.

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In the next Tutorials on Friday 10th we will debrief with you the Jury feedback following your notes to set up new work to be done to complete portfolio and review any new or finalized piece of work not presented at the Jury. We will see you in the following order,
11 Teodora
11.30 Dila
12 Luca
12.30 Antje

2 Vasco
2.30 Sindi
3 Romy
3.30 Laura
4 Somia
4.30 Eylul
5 Yasemin
5.30 Zoe

Our End of Term Jury will be at the Lecture Hall on Monday 6th of December from 10 to 1 and from 2 to 6pm. Please bring all your models and printed drawings to the room. Morning session models should be firstly placed over the central table, for later being replaced by the afternoon ones. You need also to bring a digital presentation that will be shown from the screen. Our guest critics will be Pablo Guijarro Eguinoa (Prior and Partners), Nacho Martí (AA First Year), Delfina Bocca (AA First Year), Xristina Argyros (AA EXP15), Yota Adilenidou (University of Westminster), Clara Asperillas Arias (AA Projective Cities).

 

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Tutorials on Friday 3rd of December will be as follows,
10.30 Yasemin
11 Antje
11.30 Laura
12 Teodora
12.30 ZOe

2 Eylul
2.30 Sindi
3 Somia
3.30 Luca
4 Romy
4.30 Vasco
5 Dila

This is the last tutorial before the Jury

Tutorials on Tuesday 30th of November will be as follows,
10 Teodora
10.30 Dila
11 Somia
11.30 Yasemin
12 Antje
12.30 Eylul

2 Zoe
2.30 Romy
3 Laura
3.30 Sindi
4 Luca
4.30 Vasco

Please bring your work in progress to check.

Tutorials next week Tuesday 23rd of November will be as follows,
10.30 Vasco
11 Somia
11.30 Romy
12 Antje
12.30 Eylul

2.30 Zoe
3 Laura
3.30 Dila
4 Yasemin
4.30 Teodora
5 Sindi
5.30 Luca

Following previous shape explorations, the unit will continue scrutinizing initial artefacts design. General formal aspects designing each individual proposal – such as voids, modularity, porosity, repetition and circulation – will be explored through diagrams. This exploration will give special attention to different architectural elements such as thresholds, courtyards, terraces and patios, as they are sustainable spatial strategies that promote optimum environmental conditions for domestic and social life between inhabitants in Mediterranean culture. Transition and in-between inside and outside space conditions that blur domestic boundaries and promote communal relations will be part of this investigation. For helping this investigation, the unit will analyse spatial configurations of collective housing models by Catalan architects, such as Ricardo Bofill, J.A. Coderch, Flores & Prats, Cierto Studio and H Arquitectes, among others, understanding the relation between their specific space organisation and communal life. Findings will open up other options to be tested in previously considered artefacts spatial organisations.

Consequent findings of these explorations will allow to generate some iterations and a “glossary” of artefacts that will be applied into a generic block proposal and expressed through compositional diagrams, models and collages. In this manner, the block distorted formal intricacy will be defined.

Lectures suggested to watch:
-HArquitectes: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/the-nature-of-building
-Cierto Studio: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/domesticity-from-the-floor-plan

This Friday 19th of November we will have tutorials with a Lecture on Bofill and his early work in Taller de Arquitectura. The schedule will be as follows,
10.30 Romy
11 Antje
11.30 Luca
12 Somia
12.30 Eylul
1 Sindi

2.30 Zoe
3 Lecture on Taller de Arquitectura_Ricardo Bofill by Pedro García Hernández
4.30 Laura
5 Yasemin
5.30 Dila
6 Teodora
6.30 Vasco

 

This Tuesday 16th of November, we will have tutorials and an online portfolio presentation. The schedule will be as follows:
10 Teodora
10.30 Somia
11 Yasemin
11.30 Antje
12 Sindi
12.30 Eylul

2 Zoe
2.30 Laura
3 Romy
3.30 Luca
4 Dila
4.30 Vasco

5.30 Presentation online portfolio 2020-21 by Lucia Martinez-Botas

This Friday 12th of November we will have tutorials and a lecture by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales about form. This will be the schedule:
10.30 Teodora
11 Antje
11.30 Yasemin
12 Somia
12.30 Lecture on Form by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
2.30 Zoe
3 Dila
3.30 Eylul
4 Luca
4.30 Romy
5 Laura
5.30 Sindi
6 Vasco

Tutorials on Tuesday 9th of November will be as follows,
10.30 Vasco
11 Dila
11.30 Teodora
12 Eylul
12.30 Yasemin
1 Zoe

2.30 Somia
3 Laura
3.30 Anje
4 Luca
4.30 Sindi
5 Romy

5.30 Portfolio presentation by Lana Nsouli

Following previous shape explorations, the unit will continue scrutinizing initial artefacts design. As these formal speculations will need to be grounded, some readings on form and typology will be reviewed in a seminar/lecture to understand the concept of artefact and the relationship between architectural form and the city. Once these theories are covered, the unit will analyse the features and historical evolution of Barcelona block where artefacts will be inserted. For that, a seminar will be organise to reflect on some readings and volumetric analysis on a generic Barcelona block will be done to understand this typology.

Readings:
-Aldo Rossi, 1984, “The Structure of Urban Artifacts”, in The Architecture of the City, MIT Press.
-John Hejduk, 1986, Victims : a work, London : Architectural Association.
-Rafael Moneo, 1998, “On Typology”, in Oppositions reader : selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism
in architecture, 1973-1984, New York : Princeton Arch Press.
-Rafael Moneo & Francisco Gonzalez de Canales , 2015, “Form” & “ The Life of Buildings” in Rafael Moneo.Building, Teaching, Writing. London and New York: Yale University Press.
-Fernando Marzá, Francesc Magrinyà , 2017, Cerdà : 150 years of modernity, Barcelona : Fundación Agbar. New York: ACTAR Publishers.
-Joan Busquets, 2005, Barcelona the urban evolution of a compact city, Nicolodi, Milán.

Next week Monday 1st of November, we will have our first Mid-Term Jury

Our guest critics are Conrad Koslowsky , Mira Oktay, Marina Gubbins & Alexandros Kallegias. Please prepare you digital file to share. This time we will do the Jury online for Covid reasons, but from the AA. Lecture Hall. Please bring all the models to there, we will prepare a camera to show models in the Jury.

Tutorials on Friday 29th of October will be as follows,
10.30 Vasco
11 Dila
11.30 Luca
12 Eylul
12.30 Yasemin
1 Zoe

2.30 Somia
3 Laura
3.30 Anje
4 Romy
4.30 Sindi
5 Teodora

Tutorials on Tuesday 26th of October will be as follows,
10 Teodora
10.30 Zoe
11 Luca
11.30 Dila
12 Somia
12.30 Laura

2 Yasemin
2.30 Eylul
3 Sindi
3.30 Romy
4 Vasco
4.30 Antje

 

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Tutorials on Friday 22nd of October will be as follows,

10.30 Dila
11 Luca
11.30 Teodora
12 Somia
12.30 Vasco
1 Laura

2.30 Yasemine
3 Eylul
3.30 Romy
4 Sindi
4.30 Zoe
5 Antje

After a critical analysis of these first models to find the new intrinsic principles, an individual investigation on local sustainable material possibilities, such as wood, brick, adobe or others, will be conducted. This investigation will take the shape of a booklet with research evidences and some real tests of the materials at a closer scale, at 1/10, 1/5 or even 1/1, that will be further expanded throughout the year. Later, different variations of previously explored fragments will be tested at 1/250 or 1/100 scale with materials that have equivalent behaviour and effects to those tested at a closer
scale, like plywood, terracotta, plaster or others. Students are invited to feel comfortable with these materials, and learn rules and modelling criteria out of their manipulation. Finally, photography will be use as a technique to study all these fragment models experimenting with light, texture and colour effects in space related to material and local climate conditions. These explorations will open-up some possibilities to further develop the individual glossary of artefacts.

Mid Term Jury- Monday 1st of November

Reference Books:

-Bjorn Berge, 2009, The Ecology of Building Materials, Architectural Press.
-Chris Lefteri, 2013, Materials for Design, London: Laurence King Publishing.
-Victoria Ballard Bell & Patrick Rand, 2014, Materials for Design 2, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
-Christopher Pierce (ed.), 2013, Ceramica Cumella : shaping ideas, Madrid : Prometeo.
-Anna Heringer, 2019, Upscaling Earth : Material, Process, Catalyst, Zurich : gta Verlag.
-William Hall, 2015 & 2017, Wood/Brick, London : Phaidon Press.
Michael Dickson, 2015, Sustainable timber design, London : Routledge

Tutorials on Tuesday 19th of October will be as follows:

10 Teodora
10.30 Vasco
11 Sindi
11.30 Meeting with ETS tutors
12 Dila
12.30 Zoe
1.00 Yasemin
1.30 Director´s Search Committee Students meeting (online)

2.30 Luca
3 Somia
3.30 Laura
4 Anje
4.30 Eylul
5 Romy
6 Masterclass Model Making Photography (online)

Next Friday 15th of October we will have tutorials to check WIP and a Masterclass Model Making on Wood, this will be the schedule:
10.30 Teodora
11 Vasco
11.30 Sindi
12 Zoe
12.30 Dila
1 Antje

2.30 Romy
3 Somia
3.30 Laura
4 Yasemine
4.30 Eylul
5 Luca
6 Masterclass Model Making Casting (online)

Next Tuesday 12th of October we will have tutorials to check WIP and a Masterclass Model Making on Wood, this will be the schedule:
10 Laura
10.30 Vasco
11 Sindi
11.30 Zoe
12 Dila
12.30 Antje

1.30 Director´s Search Committee Students meeting (online)

2 Romy
2.30 Somia
3 Teodora
3.30 Yasemine
4 Eylul
4.30 Luca
6 Masterclass Model Making Wood (online)

This Friday 8th of October, we will have our first pin-up at unit space. We will divide the unit into two groups of six for two sessions (10-1 and 2-6pm). Please leave your models on the central table, and pin-up drawings (if so). You can also use the screen to show them.

Tutorials this Tuesday 5th of October will in the unit space as follows:
10 Teodora Boskovic
10.30 Romy Faisal
11 Zoe Mirkovic
11.30 Laura Faloughi
12 Vasco Giovannoni
12.30 Somia An

2 Dila Cakmak
2.30 Eylul Ece Aksoy
3 Sindi Dojaka
3.30 Antje Hoeg
4 Yasemin Cengic
4.30 Luca Luporini

As a starting point, the unit will explore through mainly two models the shape of 113,3 x 113,3 metres Barcelona block plan (12.837 m² aprox.) in a purely intuitive manner to envision a new configuration. Different malleable materials, such as paper, cardboard, cloth, foam, metal cables, wood sticks and others, will be initially use to let go your imagination constructing various possibilities. An initial critical reflection of the current block configuration and its consequences in the city space will be an important part of this exercise opening possibilities for disruptions, mismatching and transgressions of its present configuration.

After this overall exploration, the unit will inspect a fragment of the whole block that will be maximum a third of the block summarising the finding of previous exercise. Both exercises will generate a range of schematic shapes that will be the beginning of further material and formal explorations.

Pin-up- Friday 8th of October 2021.

Forms for Collective Living: Artefacts for Block Disorder
In recent years, we have witnessed the decay of compact and dense urban areas across the world. This process began through the appropriation and transformation of residential central areas towards the service economy by real estate speculation, and has been accelerated through the widespread urban exodus that the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked.

This phenomenon compromises the liveability of our cities by reconfiguring the once-fundamental areas of social relation within which everyday life unfolds. The gridded area of Eixample in Barcelona epitomises this situation: each inherited block configuration functions as a collection of autonomous, unrelated lots, ready for private investment. The resulting development of these lots often takes place with no consideration for the potential interactions between residents and neighbours, and no provision for the minutiae of collective living.

Under these circumstances, EXP8 proposes to reinvent this existing city block by infiltrating or inserting strategic artefacts of disorder. These artefacts will act as catalysts for collective relations, while resignifying the block as the basic unit through which to facilitate social engagement at the city-scale. Addressing at least a third of the overall volume of the block, these interventions will introduce residential programmes for sectors of the population that cannot access housing or property, in contraposition to the pressing market forces in the area. We will consider supportive models such as co-operatives and social housing to boost affordable schemes and networks of mutual care among the block’s inhabitants.

Finally, the unit will investigate Mediterranean domestic cultures as essential for sustainable collective inhabitation. Outdoor living, transitional and in-between spaces and the rituals they generate will be considered in relation to environ-mental strategies on light and material. Research into local materials and traditional construction techniques will also be conducted within the regional environmental conditions, alongside an exploration of sustainable passive strategies to promote ventilation and the filtering, screening and modulation of light.
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/experimental/8

Congratulations to all our students for the good results and great work. Very proud of our BArch students graduating. We wish you all the best in the future. You can check our year work in:
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/programmes/experimental-8
Here our year work booklet.
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/natalia-miskelly
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/banu-gaffari
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/tatiana-suzanne-watrelot
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/maria-alejandra-bigott-picasso
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/mia-aoun
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/daphne-esin
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/ghita-zahid
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/michal-klonecki
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/sara-khalil-layoun
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/diana-dulina
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/asli-sezer
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/anastasia-papaspyrou
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/guinevere-winesa
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/lucia-martinez-botas

And here you can check our short unit video
https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/programmes/experimental-8#film

Tutorials Next Tuesday 9th of June will be as follows,

9.30 Banu
10 Lucia
2 Mia
2.30 Michal
3 Ghita
3.30 Diana
4 Natalia
4.30 Alejandra
5 Sara
5.15 Aslı
5.30 Gwen
5.45 Tatiana
6 Anastasia
6.15 Daphne

9 Gwen
9.45 -Daphne
10.30 – Asli
11.15 – Anastasia
12 .00 -Sara
12.45-Alejandra
2.30 -Mia
3.00 Tatiana
3.45 Banu
4.15 Ghita
4.45 Diana
5.15 Lucia
5.45 Natalia
6.00 Michal

10 Gwen
10.30 Daphne
11 Aslı
11.30 Banu
12 tatiana
12.30 lucia
1 Mia
2.30 Natalia
3 Meeting all unit together-Projects Review Film
3.30 Michal
4 Sara
4.30 Ghita
5 Diana
5.30 Alejandra
6 Anastasia

Our End of Year Jury will be on Wednesday 26th of May from 9.30am to 6.30pm (UK time) in zoom. Our guest critics to review whole year work will be: Platon Isaias (Projective Cities), ALberto Peñín (ETSB Polytechnic  University of Catalonia), Manuel COllado (ETSAl Univesity of Alcalá de Henares) Marie-Isabel de Monseignat Lavrov (AA Semester Programme), Gabriela García de Cortazar ( Universidad de Chile), Eugenie Bach (Anna & Eugeni Bach, ETSAB Polytechnic  University of Catalonia), Diego Ricalde (Estudio MMX, Ibersomerican University), and Winston Hampel ( AA Experimental 10).

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Tutorials on Friday 7th of May as follows,
9.30 Gwen
10 Tatiana
10.30 Daphne
11 Sara
11.30 Asli
12 Anastasia
12.30 Mia
3 Ghita
3.30 Michal
4 Banu
4.30 Alejandra
5 Natalia
5.30 Lucia
6 Diana

Tutorials this Tuesday 4th of May will be as follows,
9.30 Gwen
10 Tatiana
10.30 Daphne
11 Sara
11.30 Anastasia
12 Asli
2 Mia
2.30 Ghita
3 Michal
3.30 Natalia
4 Banu
4.30 Lucia
5 Diana
5.30 Alejandra

Tutorials at the end of the week on Friday 30th of April will be as follows:
9 Gwen
9.30 Tatiana
10 Daphne
10.30 Sara
11 Asli
11.30 Alejandra
2.30 Anastasia
3 Mia
3.30 Ghita
4 Banu
4.30 Michal
5 Natalia
5.30 Diana
6 Lucia
Please check case studies of housing and prepare your WIP.

We will start third term with tutorials for Second Years on Monday 26th of April to check WIP as follows,

9.30 Gwen
10 Tatiana
10.30 Daphne
11 Sara
11.30 Asli
12 Anastasia

On Wednesday 14th of April we will meet to check work in progress as follows,
10.30 Mia
11.00 Lucia
11.30 Alejandra
12.00 Natalia
12.30 Ghita
1.00 Banu

In recent years, we have witnessed as large-scale investment of global financial corporations increasingly dominates the real estate market, what avoids citizens, particularly younger demographics, to access affordable housing. The post-Covid-19 economic deceleration will worsen this situation, and therefore as architects we must consider alternative, even more affordable, models of inhabitation, such as co-operative and resilient residences.

Barcelona city is not unfamiliar to this problem, in fact it also suffers the consequences of an economy based on tourism with an exponential increase of residences transformed into touristic apartments reducing even more housing offer.

Under this question, a specific investigation on housing and new forms for living for future generations will be developed individually by students in EXP 8. This investigation will be developed in two ways: first, as social structures that are able to survive in the ever-changing contemporary city through networks of shared interests, association, co-operation, and care; and second, as urban artifacts that can articulate these relations in meaningful ways.

All documents will be compiled in a small booklet focus on how different intensities and times of usage can reshape the arrangement of the domestic realm that will define the programmatic brief of the block.

After defining the specific housing programmatic brief of the block, understanding it as the basic unit to provide interpersonal relations between temporary occupants, the proposal will be interrogated under various questions. Firstly, permeability, porosity and accessibility of the block in relation to the immediate context will be evaluated when looking to different time residents.

Then, relationships established between different spaces will be questioned by looking to interior connections, transits and different levels of privacy. These scenarios will be expressed through sections, views and conceptual drawings by taking into consideration different building users, interior environments, circulation main trajectories and sensual perceptions.

Workshop: VRay and Photoshop
Readings:
– Karel Teige & E Dluhosch: The minimum dwelling, Cambridge, Mass. : Chicago, Ill: MIT Press, 2002. Ebook.
– Robin Evans, 1997, “Figures, doors and Passages” in Translation from drawings to buildings and other essays, London : AA.
– Hannah Arendt, 1998, “The Public and the Private Realm” in The Human Condition, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
– Klaus Domer, Hans Drexler & Joachim Schultz-Granberg (Ed), 2014, Affordable living : housing for everyone, Berlin : Jovis.
– Richard Sennet, 2013, Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, London : Penguin.
– Richard Sennet, 2018, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, London: Allen Lane.
– Mateo Kries, 2017, Together: the new architecture of the collective, Ruby Press.
– Susanne Schmid, 2019, A history of collective living: forms of shared housing, Basel: Birkhauser Verlag. Ebook.

 

We will last meet on Monday 29 of March as follows,

10.30 Banu
11 Diana
11.30 Natalia
12 Meeting whole unit
2 Mia
2.30 Ghita
3 Michal
3.30 Lucia
4 Alejandra

Third year tables will take place next week as follows,
Monday 22nd March
10am Lucia Martinez-Botas
10.45am Banu Gaffari
11.30am Diana Dulina
12.15pm Alejandra Bigott Picasso

Tuesday 23rd March
10am Natalia Miskelly
10.45am Michal Klonecki
11.30am Mia Aoun
12.15pm Ghita Zahid

Tutorials on Friday 19th of March to review comments from previews will be as follows:
9.30 Gwen
10 Tatiana
10.30 Daphne
11 Asli
11.30 Sara
12 Anastasia

we will comment on next steps for working during the break

We will check work in progress as follows:

Wednesday 17th of March
10 Banu
10.30 Mia
11 Michal
11.30 Diana
12 Ghita
12.30 Natalia
1 Lucia
1.30 Alejandra

Monday 15th of March- afternoon- Panel 2

3.30 Tatiana
4.15 Daphne

Tuesday 16th of March- morning

10 Gwen
10.45 Asli
11.30 Sara
12.15 Anastasia

This Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of March we review all Second Year presentations  and all third years WIP  as follows:

Friday 12th
2 Tatiana
2.30 Daphne
3 Asli
3.30 Anastasia
4 Sara
5 Michal
5.30 Natalia

Saturday 13th of March
9.30 Gwen- Second year presentation
10 Banu
10.30 Ghita
11 Mia
11.30 Alejandra
12 Diana
12.30 Lucia

Next Tuesday 9th of March, third years will have their TS Prewviews. Please prepare your digital pdf to show your work so far for feedback.

Tutorials next week Tuesday 2nd of March will be as follows:
1st session – 3rd years discuss jury feedback and next steps on TS
9.30 Banu
10 Mia
11.30 Ghita
11 Michal
11.30 Natalia
12 Alejandra
12.30 Lucia
1 Diana

2nd session – 2nd year portfolio Reviews and discuss about Jury feedback.
Gwen (Monday morning)
2.30 Asli
3.15 Tatiana
4 Daphne
4.45 Anastasia
5.30 Sara

Please check all notes from the Jury.

After researching Barcelona urban grid and complexity, a location or context of each individual proposal – vacant or not- is selected. Each interventions will redensify, infiltrate, rearticulate or totally redo a block in the city. Building on the conversation from first term on form, the politics generated by the block in the city fabric, after being placed in their location, will be assessed and discussed. Collages and short texts will define each proposal critical position.

In addition, block proposals will be interrogated regarding their relationships with its immediate context and the passer-by and their capability in specific locations to engage with the city public space. In this sense, the context is brought forward as an important part of each proposal design.

Readings
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, 2008, “Rossi: The Concept of the locus as a political category of the city”, in The Project of Autonomy, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, pp.53-69.
– David Harvey, 2012, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, London; New York : Verso, 2012.
On politics, economics and the city of Barcelona
– Ricard Gomà, 1994, Public participation in a decentralized city: the case of Barcelona, Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials.
– Marc Parés Franzi, 2017, Social innovation and democratic leadership : communities and social change from below. Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. (Barcelona and New York after 2008 crisis)
– Juris, Jeffrey S., 2008, Networking futures: the movements against corporate globalization, Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press / (chapter Barcelona grassroots movements).
– Frank Eckardt, Javier Ruiz Sanchez, 2015, City of crisis: the multiple contestation of southern European cities, Jstor.
– Angel Smith, 2002, Red Barcelona : social protest and labour mobilization in the twentieth century. London ; New York : Routledge.
– Edgar Illas, 2012, Thinking Barcelona: ideologies of a global city. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.
– George Joffe & Alvaro Vasconcelos, 2000, The Barcelona process : building a Euro-Mediterranean regional community, F. Cass.
– Francesc Solanellas, 2020, Barcelona 92: a legacy case study. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
– Antoni Vives, 2018, Smart city Barcelona: the Catalan quest to improve future urban living, Sussex Academic Press.

1.Increase the state housing budget

2.Moratorium on all evictions of people in a vulnerable situation

3.Mandatory mediation as a prerequisite for initiating any legal proceedings of eviction of vulnerable families

4.Tax reform to benefit sheltered rent and rehabilitation 

5.Expansion of affordable housing for rental , more support for cooperatives, promote public-private partnerships (PPP) and mobilization of private homes.

6.Promote energy rehabilitation, accessibility and adaptation of the housing. Guarantee energy rights. 

7.Protect accesibility to housing after Covid 19 situation.

8.Fight against Real Estate especulation

9.Gradually recover the residential use of a part of the tourist homes.

10.Modify the regulation of rents to make them stable and affordable .

https://www.barcelona.cat/infobarcelona/en/barcelona-ten-point-declaration-on-the-right-to-housing_982487.html

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/premsa/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4_5963291060879755319.pdf

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/premsa/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4_5963291060879755319.pdf

Tutorials on Friday 19th of February will be as follows,

9.30 Gwen
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Daphne
11.30 Sara
12 Anastasia
12.30 Meeting talk about next Jury

2 Banu
2.30 Mia
3 Michal
3.30 Lucia
4 Natalia
4.30 Ghita
5 Diana
5.30 Alejandra

Tutorials on Friday 12th of February will be as follows:

1.30 Diana
2 Sara
2.30 Banu
3 Lecture “Circulation and Urbanization” by Ross Exo Adams
4.30 Asli
5 Michal
5.30 Mia
6 Ghita

Coucil Website https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/mpgm22@/en/

https://www.22network.net/districte-22/?lang=en

https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/4/2/16/pdf

Tutorials this Friday 29th of January will be as follows,
9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Anastasia
11.30 Banu
12 Natalia
12.30 Sara

2.30Daphne
3 Alejandra
3.30Ghita
4 Michal
4.30 Mia
5 Diana
5.30 Lucia

Summary of sites:

EIXAMPLE: -Sagrada Familia-Natalia & Sara

-Nova Esquerra- Anastasia

-La Dreta- Banu

SAN MARTI -Poblenou- Daphne, Alejandra, Diana & Mia

-Provençals de Poblenou-Ghita, Michal & Tatiana

-La Vila Olimpica de Poblenou – Asli

-Diagonal Mar i Front Maritim – Lucia

HORTA_GUINARDO -Guinardó-Guinevere

WMS Geotècnic de Barcelona

https://www.instamaps.cat/instavisor/97402247/dfbb1548d6c8bb1376305b00e91b84a5/ICGC_Geoindex_-_Visualitzador_Geotecnic_Barcelona.html?3D=false#13/41.4090/2.1847

https://www.icgc.cat/es/Administracion-y-empresa/Servicios/Servicios-en-linea-Geoservicios/WMS-Geoindex/WMS-Geotecnic-de-Barcelona

Cartography: http://info.igme.es/cartografiadigital/datos/geologico200/jpgs/Editado35_G200.jpg

For Goole Earth:

http://mapas.igme.es/gis/rest/services/Cartografia_Geologica/IGME_MAGNA_50/MapServer/kml/mapImage.kmz

https://www.arxiuhistoricpoblenou.cat/static/mapas-recursos/#14/41.4046/2.2016

Poblenou in 1974 https://www.arxiuhistoricpoblenou.cat/static/1974-poblenou.html

Poblenou Bombing at the Civil War https://www.arxiuhistoricpoblenou.cat/static/bombardeig-refugis/#17/41.40716/2.20110

Photographs https://fotos.arxiuhistoricpoblenou.cat/main.php

History of Poblenou https://www.arxiuhistoricpoblenou.cat/coneixer-poblenou/historia-del-poblenou/

Tutorials this Friday 29th of January will be as follows,
9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Banu
11.30 Mia
12 Anastasia
12.30 Michal

1 Watch Documentary City for Sale

2.30Daphne
3 Sara
3.30 Ghita
4 Diana
4.30 Lucia
5 Natalia
5.30 Alejandra

This Tuesday 26th of January we will have tutorials for Second Years as follows,
2 Guinevere
2.30 Tatiana
3 Daphne
3.30 Asli
4 Sara
4.30 Anastasia

This coming Tuesday 26th of January we have a TS seminar for third years from 9 to 1pm with Kenny Fraser and Cirian Malik. please prepare a 10 minutes presentation explaining the overall design and possible TS thesis.

A research on Barcelona sociocultural, political and economical issues will be initially and individually planned at the end of the first term. Readings, visioning of documentaries and check of references will help in this process. This investigation will have a major focus on local ways of living, different cultural customs and spatial characteristics where everyday life takes place. Findings will be expressed in different analytical diagrams, video fragments, photographs and information maps that will be completed after the unit trip and edited in a booklet. The major aim of this exercise is to define each block context and content.

Reference books for diagrams:

Reference books for diagrams: – David McCandless, Knowledge is Beautiful, London: William Collins, 2014. – Steven Heller, Infographics Designers’ Sketchbooks, New York: Princeton Architectural Press , 2014.

Photography: Tino Soriano, Xavier Misetachs, José Porroche, Ignacio Loyola. – Tino Soriano, 2004, Catalans. Barcelona: Edicions 62. https://www.tinosoriano.com/es/portada – José Porroche, 2015, Keeping Barcelona Weird is Not a One Man Job. Barcelona: Clandestine.

Documentaries & Movies: City for Sale (2018), Waiting for Barcelona (2018), bye, Bye Barcelona, Biutiful by A.G. Iñarritu (2010), Vicky Cristina Barcelona by W. Allen (2008), En construcción by Guerín (2001), All about my mother by P.Almodovar (1999)

Readings: On Catalan Culture – Dominic Keown, 2011, A Companion to Catalan Culture, London: Tamesis Books. Google Books. – Davies, Lloyd H.; Walters D. Gareth &Hall, John B. (eds.), 2018, Catalan Culture: Experimentation, Creative Imagination and the Relationship with Spain. Swansea: University of Wales Press. Barcelona social, cultural political and anthropological studies – Helena Buffery & Carlota Caulfield, 2012, Barcelona : visual culture, space and power, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Jstor – Manuel Delgado & Anna Juan: Barcelona rooftops: between earth and sky, Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2012 – Joan Ramon Resina, 2008, Barcelona’s vocation of modernity : rise and decline of an urban image. Stanford University Press. – Chiara Ingrosso, 2011, Barcelona : architecture, city and society, 1975-2015. Milano: Skira.

Push (2020) https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pushthefilm

Solidarity Economy in Barcelona (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjTccAF7qZw&app=desktop&ab_channel=MiguelYasuyukiHirota

Si se puede (2018) – https://vimeo.com/323297000

City for Sale (2018) – https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/city-for-sale (2,95euros)

https://vimeo.com/89454294

Waiting for Barcelona (2018)- https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Barcelona-Juho-Pekka-Tanskanen/dp/B085PR2T2C (5.99$)

Bye, Bye Barcelona (2014) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXcFChRpmI&ab_channel=ByeByeBarcelona

En Construcción by Guerín (2001)

“To Green or not to Green: Four stories of urban (in)justice i n Barcelona” by BCNUEJ &

Alberto Bougleux, 2020. http://www.bcnuej.org/2020/10/20/to-green-or-not-to-green-four-stories-of-urban-injustice-in-barcelona

“Like an invisible giant: Can Batlló and the Imaginary Cities” [Com un Gegant I nvisible.

Can Batlló i l es Ciutats I maginàries]. Panóptica & Lacol, 2013. https://vimeo.com/82442928.

Biutiful by A.G. Iñarritu (2010) https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Biutiful?gl=US&hl=en&id=J7Nk9a0u4IA (2.99$)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona by W. Allen (2008) Netflix & https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vicky-Cristina-Barcelona-Javier-Bardem/dp/B00ET1YGLK (3,49 £)

All about my mother by P.Almodovar (1999) Netflix & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1Vgwr__2w&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies (2.99euros)

Tutorials next Friday 22nd of January will be as follows,

9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Anastasia
11.30 Banu
12 Mia
12.30 Michal

2 Daphne
2.30 Sara
3 Ghita
3.30 Natalia
4 Alejandra
4.30 Diana
5 Lucia

Tutorials on Tuesday 19th of January will be as follows,

9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Anastasia
11.30 Banu
12 Lucia
12.30 Meeting whole unit for references of research pages

2 Daphne
2.30 Sara
3 Mia
3.30Michal
4 Ghita
4.30 Natalia
5 Alejandra
5.30 Diana

Urban Planning information – In English
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/informaciourbanistica/cerca/en/
Cartography
https://geo.bcn.cat/bcnpic
Reginal and city Statistics-Data- In English
Barcelona https://www.bcn.cat/estadistica/angles/index.htm
for 2020 – https://www.bcn.cat/estadistica/angles/calendari/anuari.htm
Catalunya https://www.idescat.cat/?lang=en
Geoportal- Geographic information in English
http://w133.bcn.cat/geoportalbcn/GeoPortal.aspx?lang=en
Districts Specific Information (in the EL distrito and sus barrios link you can find each neighbourhood in the district)
Ciutat Vella – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ciutatvella/es
Eixample – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/eixample/es
Sants-Montjuic – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/sants-montjuic/es
Les Corts – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lescorts/es/
Sarriá-Sant Gervasi – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/sarria-santgervasi/es/
Gràcia – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/gracia/es/
Horta-Guinardó – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/horta-guinardo/es/
Nou Barris – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/noubarris/es
Sant Andreu – https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/santandreu/es/
Sant Marti -https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/santmarti/es/

Tutorials on Friday 15th of January will be as follows,

9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Anastasia
11.30 Banu
12 Mia
12.30 Ghita

2 Daphne
2.30 Sara
3 Michal
3.30 Natalia
4 Alejandra
4.30 Diana
5 Lucia

This Tuesday 12th of January, we will meet for tutorials as follows,
9.30 Guinevere
10 Tatiana
10.30 Asli
11 Anastasia
11.30 Banu
12 Sara
12.30 Mia

2 Daphne
2.30 Natalia
3 Michal
3.30 Ghita
4 Alejandra
4.30 Diana
5 Lucia

we will check your work in progress for both the portfolio and the site invetsigation. Remember that you have to also produce two summary pages: the iterations and rules pages, for the portfolio.

Groups will present in this order:

9.30am L Group
10am M1 group
10.30am M2 group
11 M3 group
11.30 S group
Please send the pdfs when ending the presentation

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museuhistoria/cartahistorica/index.html?lang=en#map=14/242185/5070759/2010//0/0/0/0

We will have two lectures on Barcelona and Cerdá Grid;

Wednesday 16th of December
10am Lecture on Barcelona urban and architectural history by Dr. Carolina Garcia Estevez – Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya

Thursday 17th of December
11.30am Lecture Cerdá & l´Eixample by Dr Carles Crosas –
– Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya

This Tuesday 15th of December we will start with tutorials in groups as follows,

9.30First Team L – Diana Mia
10 Second Team M1 – Ghita, Michal Sara
10.30 Third Team M2 – Banu,Aslı, Guinevere
11 Fourth Team M3 – Daphne, Anastasia, Tatiana, Natalia
11.30 Fifth Team S – Lucia, Alejandra

BARCELONA URBAN GRID
Before deepening into material aspects of the block the unit should be familiarize with the different formal aspects of Barcelona City. In groups, the unit will create an archive of drawings in different scales (Large, Medium and Small) with information about its urban grain, voids, density, and specially, the urban grid. A special attention will be given to urban voids and gaps on the grid. Readings on Barcelona history and an understanding of its grid and social structure will be also conducted to learn about its evolution and urban fabric configuration.
Readings:

Ildefons Cerdá, 2019, General theory of urbanization 1867, Barcelona, Actar.

Joan Busquets, 2005, Barcelona the urban evolution of a compact city, Nicolodi, Milán.

Joan Busquets, 2015, Metròpolis Barcelona, Area Metropolitana de Barcelona.

Joan Busquets, 2019, Urban Grids: handbook for regular city design, California: ORO Editions.

Manuel Gausa, Marta, Cervelló, Maurici Pla , 2002, Barcelona : a guide to its modern architecture 1860-2002, Bcn : Actar.

Tim Marshall, 2004, Transforming Barcelona, London: Routledge.

Peter G Rowe, 2006, Building Barcelona, a second renaixenca, Barcelona: Actar.

Josep Maria Montaner, 2013, Reader modelo Barcelona 1973-2013, Barcelona: Comanegra.

Francesc Magrinya, Fernando Marzaa, 2017, Cerdà: 150 years of Modernity, Barcelona: Actar.

Gary W. McDonogh, 2018, Barcelona. Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity.

Ross Exo Adams, 2018, Circulation and Urbanization (society and Space), SAGE

Documentaries & Movies: City for Sale (2018), Waiting for Barcelona (2018), bye, Bye Barcelona, Biutiful by A.G. Iñarritu (2010), Vicky Cristina Barcelona by W. Allen (2008), En construcción by Guerín (2001), All about my mother by P.Almodovar (1999)

Next Tuesday 8th of December, we will have our end of first term Jury via Zoom. Our guest critics will be Alexandra Vougia (AA First Year), Pierandrea Angius (ZAHA, AA DRL), Naira Vegara (AA Semester Program), John Ng (AA First Year-elsewhere), Sebastian Andia (Zaha Hadid & AA MS), Alicia Nahmad (AA DRL), Pablo Guijarro.