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tracery | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNoWangleTag tracery July 27, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (2) Turning alleyways into zippy pedestrian passages |UnshutShore Project Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+design+ecosistema urbano+urbanism+work in progress Tags: architecture+banyan hub+competition+ecosistema urbano+Miami+renaturalize+shore to core+Strategies+sustainabililty+Van Alen Institute+waterfront+West PalmWaterfrontPart of theUnshutShore Project was to create a lively urban ecosystem nearby the shore of West Palm Beach, and one of the things that interested us the most was a visionless and dirty pathway near the Banyan Hub. When a municipality lacks public spaces, every corner, shore or plane an pathway can wilt a part of the urban ecosystem. These secondary narrow streets are unique opportunities for transformation. This is how we proposed to vivify this space: The passageways From Service Alleyways to Surprising Passageways The alleyways will undergo a rapid vivification process ranging from temporary interventions to the minutiae of permanent structures and spaces to host new programs. Walkability, security, and repletion will be the first priorities to be addressed by ways of zippy and passive climatic mitigation, new waste disposal and lighting systems, etc. Activities will disperse later into proximal public spaces and buildings and these revamped ‘passageways’ will wilt thematic routes connecting variegated parts of the city. alimony reading well-nigh the passageways! July 10, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Banyan Hub: A new urban ecosystem for West PalmWaterfront|UnshutShore Project Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+design+ecosistema urbano+urbanism+work in progress Tags: architecture+banyan hub+competition+ecosistema urbano+Miami+renaturalize+shore to core+Strategies+sustainabililty+Van Alen Institute+waterfront+West PalmWaterfrontThe Banyan garage is envisioned as a new steer for activities in downtown. This hybrid and flexible towers will be unshut to the public all day long and will be an zippy presence in the city, producing culture, knowledge, and goods, while attracting businesses, talent, and innovation with its attractions. Its configuration allows many variegated uses to coexist, which moreover makes it flexible to permit future changes in use. It is a permeable building, open, and wieldy to all citizens, a true part of the municipality from the ground floor to the public roof terrace. Its bioclimatic design, based on a untried permeable facade and two big thematic courtyards -natural and digital- will provide pleasant internal climate moderation throughout the year while reducing environmental impact and management costs. The Banyan Hub is, not only tightly unfluctuating to the street: it takes the street and its energy inside and makes it one of its cadre features. Folding, twisting and ramping up towards the unshut terrace on the roof, this new kind of street provides a unique urban-like wits inside the building, but moreover retains many of the features of an ordinary street. Section of Banyan Hub, an Urban Ecosistem in the Heart of West PalmWaterfrontAreas of the towers will be unshut to the public at anytime. The towers may be accessed by many modes of transportation such as pedestrians, cyclists, skaters, and light vehicles. It connects variegated uses withal its path — from businesses to cultural spaces to public plazas. Prioritizing public serviceability is integral in ensuring that this project has a landmark presence in West Palm Beach. Banyan Hub is envisioned as an urban ecosystem where users can satisfy their wants and needs without overly having to leave the building. Banyan Hub is sure to set the tone for the future of West PalmWaterfrontas a collaborative, sustainable, and creative city. The Banyan Hub includes a series of public spaces located at variegated levels unfluctuating by a re-envisioned parking ramp which provides wangle to variegated spaces and twists virtually the courtyards.   +A flexible square at ground level which consists of an unshut hall unfluctuating to the surrounding streets and to the passageway at the when of the building. +A covered but unshut air plaza at an intermediate level of the building, right where the two courtyards begin. This space is the heart of the Hub and plays a crucial role in its climatic workout and cultural activity.  +A top terrace, overlooking the lagoon which offers a panoramic view of the natural environment and of the whole downtown. Relaxing and informal like the decks of a trip ship, it is and an platonic place to uncork a stroll through the towers and withal the waterfront.   One of the most important qualities of a municipality is the worthiness to evolve by waffly its uses and its physical configuration equal to the needs of the society that lives in it. The Banyan Hub materializes these principles as it stuff conceived in a way in which changeability is the only constant. It will remain unshut to transformation by its managers and users, embracing incubation as a way to stay useful and relevant. This will be achieved by introducing workalike programs and spaces between stock-still elements, and designing movable physical delimitations and reconfigurable technical infrastructure.Transpirationis the only unvarying The rich mix of variegated uses in tropical proximity helps create situations where activities can complement and goody each other. This moreover gives a special weft to each part of the building, enabling interactions that would not take place in a conventional building. In order to wilt the everbeating heart of West Palm Beach, Banyan Hub will include a diverse and complementary set of programs, balancing the type of activities, desired level of comfort, need for equipment, and profile of the participants throughout the day. The scale of the Hub allows the coexistence of various uses, bringing together diverse age groups, interests, and communities. Management & Stakeholders The Banyan Hub operational model could be ripened as a public-private partnership. The main partners could be comprised of the City, private companies, non-profits, sturdy associations, and other organizations. This would beg the megacosm of a managing workbench which would share the funding, ownership, and visualization making responsibilities of the building. This workbench would take superintendency of the construction and later lease spaces and equipment to other urban stakeholders. It would moreover create working committees for logistics and maintenance, programming, communication, and participation. It would serve as a mediation entity between institutions, the unstipulated public, entrepreneurs, and other potential partners. November 21, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Atmospheres for Social Interaction | Workshop and lecture in Helsinki Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+events+news Tags: Aalto University+architecture+atmosphere+ecosistema urbano+Helsinki+josé luis vallejo+lecture+social+Workshop Next Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th José Luis Vallejo will be giving an unshut lecture and leading a workshop at the Aalto University Department of Architecture. The workshop will develop the topic “Atmospheres for Social Interaction”. How can we, as architects or urban planners, support the minutiae of the social speciality of urban life? Location: Lecture Hall A1 at the Lecture Graduate Centre, Aalto University Lecture: November 23rd, 17:00h Workshop: November 24th, 10:00-18:00h Original call: www.groupxaalto.fi May 25, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Concurso internacional Santiago Ecologías Emergentes | Santiago de Chile 2016 Category: ⚐ ES+concursos+paisaje+sostenibilidad Tags: architecture+comunidad+concurso+diseño participativo+gestión+landscape+sustainabililty Desde el 1 de mayo están abiertas las inscripciones para participar en el Concurso internacional de ideas SEE / Santiago Ecologías Emergentes. El Comité Científico contará entre sus miembros con Belinda Tato y José Luis Vallejo. protract reading April 26, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1)MunicipalitySplash! for Copa Cagrana Neue | ecosistema urbano + transform.city proposal for Vienna Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+ecosistema urbano+landscape+news+sustainability+technologies+urbanism Tags: architecture+copa cagrana+ecosistema urbano+sustainability+transform.city+urban design+wien Last November we were selected, in collaboration with Transform.city, to participate in the Neue Copa Cagrana International shortlisted competition in Vienna (Austria). The telescopic of the competition was the urban revitalization and definition of the Master Plan in the zone Neue Copa Cagrana defining an urban proposal and the relationship of this part of the municipality with the river. We were selected withal with other 8 teams, including renowned firms such as Dominique Perrault, AZPML, or West 8. The context: Donau City, Vienna The study zone is located next to Donau City, on the left wall of the new Danube Canal, Neue Donau, passing through the municipality of Vienna. It is a neighborhood of mainly tertiary weft with office buildings of unconfined height, ripened in the last 20 years, including the Vienna International Centre. Copa Cagrana – the intervention area, between the Danube and the new urban zone with the D. Perrault’s tower Despite the good connection with the municipality center, the large number of buildings and the spanking-new existing natural qualities, the zone is scrutinizingly deserted during day and night. This is mainly due to the lack of variety of uses, commercial facilities and recreational areas. The proposal develops a series of strategies to revitalize an zone that once has the optimal conditions to wilt a landmark for the municipality of Vienna: FOUR OBJECTIVES 1 – Increase density and urban mixture The proposal aims to incorporate urban, commercial and leisure life at a time when Vienna is starting to squint for other forms of identity for the river area. It is important to bring new residents to help to create urban worriedness throughout day and night, summer and winter seasons by permanent and temporary uses. The mixed-use and residential functions in the first row, including the urban boulevard, have the potential to well-constructed and complement the existing urban fabric and establish, for the first time, the necessary connections to make DonauMunicipalitya functioning and heady neighbourhood.Worriednessdiagram for the variegated seasons The project proposes a upper density urban prosthesis, combining housing, office, commercial and public space, in order to create an zippy urban spot unfluctuating to the surrounding, improving its identity and multiplying the possibilities of use. The proposal seeks to make DonauMunicipalityeasier to be understood and perceived, with a well-spoken connection to Danube river and its waterfront. Therefore, the proposal is the missing link to the completion of the Donaustadt and is, at the same time, the necessary impetus to enable the urban regeneration in the area. 2 – Create new urban spots Copa Cagrana will be an heady new urban spot in Wien, which is perfectly unfluctuating to the municipality network thanks to the transport connectivity and subway line. Through the physical proximity with existing Donau City, Donau Insel and surrounding neighborhoods, the zone will increase popularity and will offer increasingly attractions to the users. The newly created waterfront will be an urban catalyser with a variety of urban functions, with uses equal to the seasons and day and night time: The FILTER ZONE is a increasingly quiet zone self-ruling of commercial activities. The TEMPORARY ZONE changes equal the variegated seasons, with waterfront bars in the summer, pop-up restaurants, terraces and platforms, etc. The WATERFRONT is an enjoyable walkable strip with piers and heady water activities for summer and winter. The FILTER ZONE 3 – Renaturing (urban+nature landscape) A new urban and natural environment intrinsically unfluctuating with surrounding nature. It will be the connecting environment between Donauinsel and Donau Park but moreover extending its limits over the water landscape of Neue Donau to create a vibrant and diverse waterscape.   Masterplan 1:1000 4 – Digital Identity – web app strategy It is important to create the liaison channels in order to ventilate and share information well-nigh the ongoing activities and as a way to share potential ideas to be implemented. This web APP is thought to work as a social network that provides information for the citizens of Copa Cagrana on what kind of activities they can do on this renewed urban area. Users will be worldly-wise to register and create a user profile, with this, they will have the opportunity of proposing activities that will make use of the trappy surroundings and installations of this urban space. The commercial sector will moreover have their own space. They will have the possibility of creating a profile which will indulge them to publicize their products and business, as well as invite and inform citizens well-nigh special deals, offers, events and other celebrations.   FIVE NEW URBAN ZONES Cross Section Seeking to unzip these four objectives, the proposal creates 5 zones vicarial together and related to each other: Zone C+: Infiltration municipality The energy of municipality life will splash towards DonauMunicipalityand the urban plinth will proffer its limits to bring worriedness and reconfigure the public spaces virtually the corporative and residential buildings. These urban tentacles will proffer urban plinth limits with linear and small scale pavilions, pop-up stores and cafes, etc. reconnecting and renewing the pedestrian pathways of the Donau city. Elevation Zone C: Social life municipality Zone C proposal is the most powerful urban energy boost, as it provides a large value of overlapped new programs and public spaces hands wieldy at variegated levels. Areas: Urban plinth: fragmented construction from 1 to 4 stories high, multiple programs with predominance of commercial spaces overlapped with public spaces at variegated levels. Vertical ecosystems: housing towers with a myriad of variegated typologies to create a diverse neighbourhood. The housing units help to create a dumbo neighbourhood with urban life throughout the day. Urban bridge: On the tenth floor, same level as the top terrace of the existing linear towers of social housing, a underpass is creating connections between semi public spaces, with diverse programs within the vertical ecosystems. Public peaks: the top floor of the variegated towers is moreover part of the network of semi public spaces within the vertical ecosystems. These spaces can hold multiple programs and part of their success will be the privileged point of view of the municipality (terraces, cafes, worldwide spaces,… ) Zone B: nature municipality This is a zone where nature is predominant and the urban plinth is melting its limits with the landscape. At the same time, the natural weft of this zone helps to make the transition between the bigger, urban scale of zone C and both the lower scale of zone B and the waterscape towards Donauinsel, combining natural areas with paths for soft mobility.Variegatedcross sections in zones A and B Zone A: Leisure municipality Leisure cityscape to indulge the transition between the formal municipality and the vibrant and overly waffly new waterscape of zone C+. It will hold multiple permanent uses but moreover temporary programs and seasonal activities. There are multiple temporary and permanent uses in small buildings with similar language, as well as a new riverside walk that will proffer to create a well-appointed linear space. The relationship with water and the elevation difference will be resolved with a wooden platform that will act as an urban sofa to relax and enjoy the presence and proximity of the river. Zone A+: Water municipality Vibrant and overly waffly waterscape in continuous evolution. It will proffer the activities of the new urban spot towards the water. Masterplan 1:2000 + water pier: permanent pier, water thematic. Light structure with indoor and outdoor spaces to indulge the megacosm of variegated bathing experiences. The use will transpiration seasonally, during the winter, outdoor and indoor climatized pools will indulge the user to be in connection with the surrounding natural landscape while having a pleasant bathing experience. The water pier for summer activities + ice pier: permanent pier, ice and climbing sports oriented. Light structure with a strong seasonal connection. During the winter, part of the structure will be a huge frozen and faceted vertical surface to practice ice climbing, while the lower platform will host variegated ice skating outdoor rinks to practice in connection with the water and natural landscape. During the summer the ice surface is transformed into a huge waterfall falling from the upper level into the river. The ice pier for winter climbing +The urban archipelago: big modular and floating overly waffly extension of the waterfront. The variegated seasons and uses will dramatically transform its configuration. This mutant landscape is built with modular floating platforms/barges that can be combined to create larger unappetizing surfaces if necessary. These platforms can be unfluctuating to the limit line of the waterfront to proffer its surface. If you want to know increasingly well-nigh the proposals you can download the competition panels here: Panel 1   Panel 2   Panel 3   Panel 4 January 19, 2016 posted by Antonella Milano Comment: (1) UABB Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale | experimentación detrás de la instalación Networked Urbanism Category: #followcreative+⚐ ES+arquitectura+arte+comunicación+creatividad+diseño+ecosistema urbano+investigaciones+networkedurbanism+open culture+proyectos+tecnologías+video Tags: architecture+china+ecosistema urbano+exhibition+hologram+networked urbanism+shenzhen+UABB 2015 Como os contamos anteriormente en este post, el pasado Diciembre realizamos la instalación Networked Urbanism en la UABB | Bi-city Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism en Shenzhen, en la sección Radical Urbanism, siendo invitados por Alfredo Brillembourg y Hubert Klumpner. Antes de llegar a la definición de la forma final de la instalación así como se presenta hoy —visitable en la antigua fábrica de harina Dacheng hasta el 4 de Marzo 2016— en ecosistema urbano tuvimos una efervescente fase de reuniones creativas y experimentaciones con diferentes formas de comunicación y representación de los proyectos. Desde el principio teníamos la idea de transformar el espacio a disposición para la instalación (7,30 x 2,50 m) en un ambiente muy visual, que atrajese a los visitantes desde distancias lejanas — diseño gráfico y colores brillantes — y también, una vez dentro del propio espacio, por algunos elementos más pequeños, emblemáticos y misteriosos, visibles a medias: dispositivos para generar curiosidad. El común denominador de todos los elementos que componen la instalación corresponde con 3+1 requisitos: 1. Ser low bulk, de poco peso y tamaño, para poder ser transportada por dos personas de España a China como equipaje facturable en cualquier compañía aérea. 2. Ser low maintenance, utilizando tecnologías simples y que no necesiten mantenimiento durante los cuatro meses de la Biennale. 3. Ser low cost, teniendo en cuenta el bajo presupuesto disponible. 4. Y además, claro, ser novedoso, divertido, sorprendente… Este cuádruple reto nos enganchó igual que otras veces en las que hemos intentado aplicarlo, como la instalación Jardín de Sueños en Bahamas o la exposición Formula X en el DAZ de Berlín. Comenzamos a desarrollar la idea de contener artefactos en una caja que motivase los visitantes a acercarse y explorar los micromundos contenidos en ella. Cada caja debía contener los elementos necesarios para describir de manera abstracta y al mismo tiempo comprensible, cada uno de los 11 proyectos que narran la filosofía del Networked Urbanism, tema de la instalación. Hicimos entonces un trabajo de exploración de referencias de diferentes técnicas, entre ellas: el vídeo, los libros pop-up, la superposición de capas transparentes impresas, las ilusiones ópticas del efecto Moiré, figuras efímeras como resultado de sombras de diferentes objetos, etc.º Os compartimos nuestro tablero de Pinterest con una buena colección de referencias sobre el tema. Referencias encontradas en la fase de investigación. Fuente: https://it.pinterest.com/ecourb/shenzhen-installation/ Particularmente inspiradora fue una visita al Museo del Cinema de Turín dentro de la imponente Mole Antonelliana; en este hay una amplia sección totalmente dedicada a las técnicas que permitían de crear animaciones en los siglos antes el nacimiento del cine. En el fascinante mundo precinematográfico se crearon una gran cantidad de dispositivos y objetos misteriosos, capaces de maravillar también al espectador contemporáneo. Entre estos extraños objetos se encuentran cajas ópticas, linternas mágicas, phenaquistiscopios, taumatropi y muchos más. Para los que quieren explorar más el tema del precinematografía, aquí dejamos un link de Wikipedia bastante exhaustivo. Vista interior de una caja óptica del siglo XVIII, con transición de luz de día/noche Diorama del siglo XVIII – Museo del Cinema, Torino y diorama contemporaneo creado por Harikrishnan Panicker y Deepti Nair Decidimos entonces crear dos tipos de cajas: un diorama y una caja que contuviese algo más que un vídeo, un holograma. La realización de la primera tipología de caja, el diorama, consistió en la descomposición de una representación en perspectiva del proyecto en 5 o 6 dibujos impresos en acetato transparente y dispuestos en secuencia, de manera que la correcta visión de la imagen fuese posible exclusivamente desde un único punto de vista. En el fondo de la caja, una pantalla proyecta ambientaciones, colores y fondos que animan el diorama y establecen un diálogo con los elementos impresos de las distintas capas. Diorama del proyecto Dreamhamar El segundo tipo de caja, el que contiene el holograma, requirió una fase de experimentación y pruebas más larga. En primer lugar hay que decir que probablemente crear estos hologramas sin Internet habría sido mucho más complicado para nosotros. Pero afortunadamente vivimos en la época del conocimiento compartido, y pudimos encontrar en Youtube una serie de tutoriales que explican cómo realizar un holograma casero de manera muy sencilla, con sólo una pantalla y una pirámide de plástico transparente. A continuación os dejamos uno de los varios vídeos que podréis encontrar por la red. Una vez aprendida la técnica (afinada y personalizada, a través de numerosos prototipos, para nuestras necesidades específicas) tuvimos que realizar los vídeos que cuentan los restantes 6 proyectos de Networked Urbanism, siguiendo el criterio de dejar el fondo negro e invertir/reflejar las imágenes para su correcta visualización. Hologramas | work in progress Caja con el holograma del Ecobulevar Los otros vídeos realizados para ser visualizados como hologramas están disponibles en estos links: Ecópolis Plaza, Air Tree Shanghai, Energy Carousel, Madrid Chair. ¡Construyendo una pirámide transparente, tu también puedes visualizar estos vídeos como hologramas! Las 11 cajas fueron diseñadas ad hoc para la instalación por ecosistema urbano y posteriormente realizadas a corte láser por EXarchitects. Para saber más sobre el resultado final, aquí dejamos el link a otro post y el teaser de Networked Urbanism. Enjoy! December 21, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) ecosistema urbano at 2015 Shenzhen — UABB bi-city biennale of urbanism and tracery Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+ecosistema urbano+events+networkedurbanism+news+research+technologies+urban social design+urbanism+video Tags: architecture+china+ecosistema urbano+exhibition+networked urbanism+shenzhen+uabb+UABB 2015 Between November and December 2015 we spent one week in Shenzhen on the occasion of the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, stuff invited by curators Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner to be part of the Radical Urbanism section of the exhibition. The brief of this edition of the Biennale is “Re-Living the city”, a reflection well-nigh reuse and rethinking existing buildings, the reimagination of our cities, and the remaking of our daily lives by design. The main location of the event was unfluctuating to the topic of the Biennale: the former Dacheng Flour Factory has been transformed into a massive container of thoughts and innovative practices in urbanism without hiding its recent past of industrial worriedness and its uncertain future. The Dacheng Flour Factory_ Image: UABB Our installation at the UABB Biennale, tabbed Networked Urbanism, displays a selection of pilot projects exploring physical and immaterial urban improvement, a hair-trigger catalogue of their urban contexts, the understanding of urban complexity and the new tools ripened to write it. The colourful multimedia exhibition displays 10 pilots projects, implemented during the past 10 years in variegated contexts virtually the world, but moreover displays 1 mockup, a real scale version of an urban furniture design. The Networked Urbanism Installation reflects the working method: an overall strategic vision that relies on short term punctual and powerful interventions in specific and typifying spots (pilot projects), rather than long term and upper resources urban strategies. Ecosistema Urbano’s projects empower people and engage citizens in the tangible transformation of the places where they live. The definition and final layout of the installation was an intense process of research and real scale experimentation to find interactions between graphic design, communication, animation and optical effects. We tried to show the worldwide philosophy overdue each project in a very visual and talky way. Each pilot project is communicated with a graphic slogan synthesizing the nature of the intervention and its message, a reference to the municipality where the project is implemented, and a unravelment of the overall urban strategy. 10 pilot projects Moreover, a digital layer of information is widow to the graphic display. 5 multimedia dioramas provide an intriguing representation of the pursuit pilot projects: Exuma Garden of Dreams, Dreamhamar, AsunciónUnshutLab,  Voronezh Sea Revitalization, and Encarnación SustainableMinutiaeTerritorial Plan. Diorama for the project Dreamhamar The other 5 pilot projects presented in Networked Urbanism installation are described throughout short movies displayed as holograms, thanks to a DIY fascinating technique. The videos of the projects Ecobulevard, Air Tree Shanghai, Ecópolis Plaza, Energy Carousel, Escuela Febres intervention in Cuenca , explain with 3d holograms the complexity of this interventions, showing the variegated layers and their several possible points of view and configurations. Hologram of Ecobulevar project 1 Mockup Well centered on the main wall of the space lays the message “Customize public space“, surrounded by drawings of the possible configurations of Madrid Chair. In the inside area of the exhibition there are 18 pieces of this flexible and multipurpose urban furniture in red and orange versions permitting visitors to interact and create their own favourite exhibition layout. Assembly phase of Madrid Chairs The UABB Biennale will be unshut until March 3rd 2016, if you are planning to visit Shenzhen, don’t miss it! October 20, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) What does it all midpoint for an architect? Geography, “soil and blood”, I mean. Is it destiny? Category: ⚐ EN+architecture Tags: architecture+danmark+Migration+nathan romero muelas Luigi Ghirri, Marina di Ravenna Today we publish an vendible written by Nathan Romero Muelas, a Spanish technie living in Denmark for increasingly than ten years now. The vendible has been published in the danish blog arkfo.dk Immigration is setting Europe in a defensive mode, a state of mind that politically ranges from reluctance to paying lip service to universal solidarity. At the same time, we architects, and not only in Denmark, are rented then with questions of national identity and cultural legacy. Within academia and other tracery institutions, vision are turning inwards to examine, for instance, all things “Nordic”. There are seminars galore on Nordic urbanism, or for example, on the possibility of a Nordic high-rise. I’m interested in the timing of these two phenomena. Introspection is important. I guess societies, like human beings, need periodic diving into the oracular “know thyself “ of the Greeks. It usually happens when they finger questioned, or under pressure. I would like to know if this insistence in what we are, (Nordic or whatever), shares this menaced condition. There have never been so many foreign architects and tracery students, working and living in Denmark. However, how variegated the situation, the mood, from not yet fifteen years ago, when I first arrived in Denmark. The Europan competition, the Erasmus program: Europe seemed unshut and enjoying, if I’m not mistaken, a moment of expansive optimism. Today foreigners populate our studios, working as interns mostly, in economic conditions at times worse than their Danish peers. They resemble increasingly the southern immigration of the sixties, a working gravity that for some threatens the professional establishment, the architectonic version of the very publicised Polish travelling construction workers in Denmark. COULD THERE BE, I WONDER, A RELATION BETWEEN THIS IMMIGRATION WAVE, MOTIVATED NOT ONLY BY CURIOSITY, BUT ALSO NECESSITY, AND THE URGE OF PROFILING AND BRANDING A NATIONAL OR REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE? BRANDING IN THE COMMERCIAL SENSE (ARCHITECTURE POLITICS) BUT ALSO IN THE ORIGINAL LIVESTOCK SENSE: TO TELL THIS CATTLE FROM THAT CATTLE. But home is best  In a refreshing essay, (“Drømmen om de smaa samfund”, 1977), Steen Eiler Rasmussen lucidly demolishes the myth of a well functioning small society. He remembers a priest during the German occupation of Denmark.Withouthaving spent some time at the Frøslev concentration camp, this priest praised emphatically the wits in the camp. It was a humane wits he wouldn’t have liked to miss: under a worldwide pressure, facing a worldwide enemy, solidarity, bilateral superintendency and….a unrepealable cosiness (“hygge”), flourished! The Biannual competition Europan, with all its limitations and flaws, is a visionary idea, the perfect remedy to nationalist architecture. In the next edition, Denmark has decided not to participate. I imagine there are well founded motives, and surely unrelated to my reasoning here. But let me propose a perverse motive, for argument´s sake: the outcome of Europan is uncontrollable, in principle everybody can win. There follows a compromise, (sadly a weak compromise, in some countries), to build the winning project. Now, let’s say a Chinese technie wins. Frankly folks, what can a Chinese technie possibly know well-nigh the ungraspable secrets of Nordic light? And increasingly importantly: where do we fit this Chinese in the promotion politics of Danish architecture?   Photo: Kim Høltermand Soil, thoroughbred and onionsOverlysince I arrived to Denmark I have had the unsettling words of the Spanish technie Jose Antonio Coderch at the when of my mind. In 1960 he wrote an essay-manifesto, which was interesting, coming from the most individualist of architects. Its title was It is not geniuses we need know. In it, he wrote: “Let architects work with a rope tied to one leg, to stop them from staying too far from the earth where they have their roots, and the people they know best”. It made then a lot of sense: facing the all pervasive international style, it was a undeniability for sustentation to the remainder of local towers traditions but moreover hints at the idea that the artist, the architect, should only talk well-nigh what he knows well. And that meant then his origin. Despite of his connections to the Smithson’s, his belonging to Team 10 and winning the Milan Triennale golden medal in 1951, Coderch never really left Barcelona. But today I would oppose that the exception is an technie that spends his unshortened life in the place he was born. I go when to Altea, the Mediterranean town where I was born. I haven’t been here for a long time.  Instantly upon arrival, I realize I’m home. That is, my soul does. It remembers. The pine trees, the agave, the hills. And, yes, the light, variegated from any other, and very dear to me. But then I realize that I have spent increasingly time in Copenhagen or Madrid than in Altea, which I left at thirteen. What does it all midpoint for an architect?  Geography, “soil and blood”, I mean. Is it destiny? I start thinking well-nigh notions like Mediterranean, and then Nordic. These are rich, multilayered concepts, and deserving all the scholarly sustentation they can get…provided we understand that we will not find a single valuable work of tracery that is pure, that isn’t changed, enlivened by the crossing of frontiers. Jacobsen, Aalto, Asplund, Utzon, siphon their Mediterranean wits all through their work.  Sota, Fisac, Moneo, (who worked for Utzon), were in turn transformed by the Nordic lesson. I GUESS I’M HINTING AT THE THOUGHT, FRIGHTENING POSSIBILITY, THAT IN AN INCREASING REFINING AND DEFINING OF A NATIONAL OR REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE, NOT JUST ACADEMICALLY BUT IN ORDER TO SELL IT, EXPORT IT, PROMOTE IT, BE IT BALKAN, TEUTONIC, MEDITERRANEAN, SOUTHERN OR NORDIC, WE MIGHT END UP WITH SOMETHING RATHER STERILE, OR ILL VENTILATED: IN SEARCH OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL IDENTITY, WE MIGHT FIND…REDNECK ARCHITECTURE. Because despite my minion Coderch and today’s pushers of national architectures, architects do segregate now the soil they live and work on. Unlike onions. May 21, 2015 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Archiprix International – ecosistema urbano takes part in the Awards recurrence Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+creativity+ecosistema urbano+events+urban social design+urbanism Tags: Archiprix+architecture+belinda tato+ecosistema urbano+josé luis vallejo+lecture+madrid+sustainability+Workshop In the past two weeks, Madrid has been the wanted of the most innovative and vibrant ideas coming from the wonk environment worldwide. In fact, Madrid was chosen for the 2015 edition of Archiprix International, a biennial event that involves all schools worldwide in Architecture, UrbanDiamondand LandscapeTraceryto select their weightier graduation project. The event consisted of two sections: Towards a middle-out urbanism All participants were invited to participate in the Archiprix International workshop, that took place at ETSAM. These weightier graduates from virtually the world form a unique group of young talented designers. From surgical interventions to visionary statements: the weightier graduates from all over the world were invited to Madrid and challenged to develop plans and diamond proposals in a multidirectional tideway to the city. The workshop was conducted by DPA-ETSAM and Los Bandidos AG and tasks were led by emerging local practices. We were invited to be part of the jury to evaluate the projects resulted from the 7-day workshops and to present our overview and conclusions well-nigh this work during the final AwardRecurrencethat took place at Cine Callao on Friday May 8th. In our talk we reflected on the topics that emerged throughout the variegated proposals and groups. In wing to this, we presented our vision of how designers and architects need to equipe themselves to be worldly-wise to deal with trendy urban issues, what we understand is the new designer’s role and the importance of incorporating new tools in architecture. Belinda Tato talking well-nigh the variety of topics related to architecture Jose Luis Vallejo explaining the concept of “one-man band” in tracery Iñigo Cornago talking well-nigh the importance of marrow up deportment Four projects from the Archiprix workshops Archiprix International Madrid 2015 Extensive presentation of the world’s weightier graduation projects, selected by 351 schools from 87 countries. Map of participants in Archiprix 2015 The jury comprised Eduardo Arroyo, Luis Fernández-Galiano, technie and editor of Arquitectura Viva, Anupama Kundoo, technie with her own practice in Auroville (India) since 1990; Zhenyu Li; and French landscape technie Catherine Mosbach. The jury reviewed all submitted entries at the ETSAM | UPM – Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the co-organizer of the eighth edition of Archiprix International. The jury nominated 21 projects for the Hunter Douglas Awards and selected 7 winners out of these nominees. Winners of Archiprix International Here you can have a squint at all the selected projects and the seven winning projects. The 9th edition of Archiprix International -2017- will be held in Ahmedabad, India. It has been a unconfined pleasure to be part of this inspiring event and getting a endangerment to see and hear how the most talented architects are thinking throughout the world. We wish all of them the weightier luck for their trademark new careers!Increasinglyinfo well-nigh Archiprix  August 9, 2013 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Matthieu Darcourt | eu collaborators Category: ⚐ EN+colaboradores+ecosistema urbano Tags: architect+architecture+colaboradores+collaborator+france+Matthieu Darcourt+Strasbourg+travel Today we introduce Matthieu Darcourt, an tracery student who has been doing a short internship with us, bringing the French language when to the office without a couple of years… Here is what he tells us: Matthieu Darcourt I’m a student in tracery at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Strasbourg in France, and I will graduate in October 2014. I had the opportunity to travel a lot expressly during my Erasmus in Budapest and my internship here at ecositema urbano in Madrid. I believe there is no such thing as losing yourself in an unknown municipality in order to discover it’s deeper essence, culture and personality. As an technie and as a person, I am really interested in this wastefulness between big cities and traditional culture, and Madrid is a trappy example of it: a 21st century municipality with a village atmosphere. Matthieu Darcourt in Budapest During my internship at ecosistema urbano, I had the endangerment to think well-nigh it when writting an vendible well-nigh situationist theories and urban participation. Indeed, thanks to their blog, they take some time to think and research concerning urban social design, so it creates a stimulating and creative undercurrent and projects. I found really interesting the original project tideway they have, including social networks, technologies, and creative commons, questioning urban landscape and social life. Finally, I enjoyed the nice undercurrent of the studio, expressly during cooking time! Thanks again. Occupation:Tracerystudent Interests: Architecture, Anthropology, Sculpture, Cities City/country: Strasbourg, FR Web: Portfolio Page 1 of 912345...»Last »