StAP BCN 2012: Alicia Baihui Li

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Friday, April 13, 2012

TRIP TO THE NORTH OF SPAIN

BILBAO- SAN SEBASTIAN- LA RIOJA- LAS BÁRDENAS

Photos by Leticia Esponda

Photos by Alicia Baihui Li

Photos by Shan Jin

Thursday, April 5, 2012

22@ CITY MAPPING
By Nacho López and Ferran Grau

The aim of the Barcelona City Mapping seminar is to introduce the student into the complexity and the mixture of the Europe-Mediterranean Cities’ urban fabric.

The city is vectorized and tensed by the dynamic and the changes of private and public uses, and fluxes. On the other hand, we can also detect the resilience of sediments in terms of materiality, property and social behaviours. In this in between lies the essence of the City.

This extensive understanding of the context could also give a double reading in different scales, from the joints and contacts of different urban fabrics, or from its gaps to the understanding of time-dependent urban landscapes. Under these principles, the work in different scales should pass through the urban fabric interface, including intermediate elements as doors and floor rooms or block chamfers as a space and use generators. Being contemporary architects nowadays means being confronted to a built world where we wonder how we can think new cities where already exist other ones.

Students will analyze an urban city fragment full of complexity. This piece of the city, which is a portion of Pallars street in the 22@ district, is the result of a historical overlap: the old industrial district from the end of the XIX Century and the new “Catalan Silicon Valley” (22@). The superposition is architectonic, programmatic and socio-economic and happens in all directions demanding a three-dimensional approach to information.

From West to East (o vice versa) (1) we propose to catch urban biopsies regarding four gazes: urban landscapes, chamfers, ground floors and architectonic joints. Simultaneously we suggest to cross the first four approaches with a transversal look (North to South o vice versa) (2) organized in four issues: public spaces, activities, fluxes and sediments.

We will re-visit the same places during four different moments during the day (morning, midday, afternoon and night)

Exercise:

The exercise consists in the production of a personal and collective booklet as a result of three different tasks:

- Recollection of information

- Management of information

- Representation of information.

The recollection of data will take place in four moments during one day by groups of two people.

The book will have two sides:

(1) In the first one a scanner made with pictures taken by the students will show the mapping of the street during the different scheduled moments organized in four rows:

- Urban landscapes.

- Chamfers.

- Ground floors.

- Architectonic joints.

(2) The reverse side will contain four maps drawn from the public spaces, activities, fluxes and sediments linked with some pictures coming from the other side.

The booklet is going to be a blend of some A3, which will be folded in A5 format.

MARCH 20th: Introduction

MARCH 23rd: Data registration. Exploring the city.

MARCH 27th: Information management and representation

APRIL 3rd: Booklet production

APRIL 4th: Presentation at the Agencia de Apoyo a la Arquitectura

Guest Jury: Ivan Blasi and Irma Arribas

Sergio Duran

Jacob LeMieux and Maria Trevino

Tristan Magnuson and Leticia Esponda

Shan Jin and Alicia Baihui Li

Mission Accomplished. Congratulations to all participants!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

DIGITAL FABRICATION WORKSHOP - FABLAB IAAC

FURNITURE FABRICATION FOR CAN BATLLÓ'S POPULAR LIBRARY
workshop by Tomas Díez and Anastasia Pistofidou
OBJECTIVE: Design cardboard furniture using a digital fabrication process.
FURNITURE:
- Reception Desk
- Magazine rack
- Trolley
VISIT TO CAN BATLLÓ
THE PLACE: