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Self Sufficient Building 2011 - 2012

Facuty: Javier Peña and Rodrigo Rubio
Assistant: Oriol Carrasco
Technical Experts: Guillem Camprodon, Spyros Stravoravdis, Luis Fraguada

The self-sufficient buildings and blocks are the new paradigm for the cities construction. In Europe they will be mandatory from 2020. But for constructing buildings and blocks that are self sufficient we have to create new methods of architectural thinking in which the (metabolism) of the buildings (production and management of matter and energy cycles, water and waste, information, etc) is designed in a form that is intergraded with the natural structure and their function.

The objective of the Self-Sufficient Buildings Studio is to develop autonomous buildings, self-sufficient structures at a block scale following this metabolic idea. From the big numbers of the block energy balance until the small scale of the domestic strategies.

Each team will choose a different environmental research-line (higrothermics, geothermics, windflows or sunlight cycles) and a different BCN block to generate a network of specialized case-studies. Blocks will be chosen out of the 22@ neighborhood, area that is already in a process of transformation, so that we could work in real cases, both functionally and environmentally. We will develop a prototypes catalog of urban re-generation for dense cities.

Self Sufficient Building 2011 - 2012 Project Archive

Introductory Studio 2012-13

POBLENOU

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SELF MADE STREET

By Nuri Choi, Zeynep Birgunol, Elif Gongur, Roopa Sharma, and Youssef Hassan Rashdan.

The approach of the project focuses in a behavioral and sociological transformation; throughout a series of one-on-one surveys and live experiments, data was extracted from users to map out .activities and behaviors.

The thesis was based on how to provide the users with tools to reach their needs, how to design mechanisms to let the user choose rather than imposing a solution.

The current state of the street is a static place filled with readymade elements. If every user had the choice to create their own need the street would become a dynamic pulsating mesh of activities, a self-made street.

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Self Sufficient Building 2010 - 2011

Faculty: Vicente Guallart, Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio
Guest Tutors:
Josep Pique, Director 22@
Artur Serra, Anthropologist
Luis Gordo, Acciona

The objective of the Self Sufficient Buildings Studio is to develop projects of self-sufficient buildings and city blocks.

The self-sufficient buildings and blocks are the new paradigm for the cities construction. In Europe they will be obligatory from 2020. But for constructing buildings and blocks that are self-sufficient we have to create new methods of architectural design in which the "metabolism" of the buildings (including the production and management of energy, water etc) is designed in a form that is intergraded with the natural structure and their function.

In the case of Barcelona different blocks are chosen out of the neighborhood 22@, blocks that are already in the process of transformation, so that we could work in real cases, both functionally and environmentally, so that we can develop prototypes of urban re-generation for dense cities.

The design process includes:
-Environmental analysis – and analysis of the natural site
-Functional analysis "Environmental Design Solutions macro-micro design solutions using parametric software"

The final presentation will be a model of a building in 1:100, which will focus on the production efforts of the research done from the beginning of the studio. For the development of the studio, different experts related with urban buildings and especially with barrio 22@ are invited to be part of this studio.