Workshop Barcelona: Housing Reagents - Day 3

Group Presentation. Critical reflections from teachers and students.

Day 3: December 16h, 2011

Program

09.00h Work in groups

13.30h Lunch

14.30h Conclusions. Each group presents their work uploaded on the Workspaces

18.00h End of the workshop

Students explained in an oral presentation the strategies that they had designed in teams. They presented new perspectives and ideas to transform the Plus Ultra neighborhood.

In this way, the final oral presentation allowed the exchange of views between students and teachers. Critical reflection of teachers was also useful for highlighting the positive and negative aspects of the work done and to encourage students to continue with this task in the courses and seminars in their respective universities.

Finally, the work done at the joint workshop was integrated into the sequence of tasks carried out within the learning activities. Thus, the results of it will feed the activities to be done afterwards.

(To see the task: http://www.oikodomos.org/workspaces/)

Group presenting the strategies for improving the Plus Ultra neighbourhood.

Workshop Barcelona : Housing Reagents - Day 2

At the end of the afternoon, students made an oral presentation to assess the work done

Day 2: December 15h, 2011

Program

09.00h Work in groups

13.30h Lunch

14.30h Work in groups

16.30h Pin-up Projects Exhibition Preparation

(related to presentation of Integration

Outcomes)

Students worked in international teams carrying out one task: designing strategies to improve the Plus Ultra neighborhood. Using the concept of Housing Reagents, all participants read and mapped the site and its direct environment to propose new architectural and urban alternatives.

International teams were formed.

Prof. Angel Martin assessing groups.

Workshop Barcelona: Housing Reagents - Day 1

Introductory presentation by Prof. Dr. Leandro Madrazo 

Day 1: December 14th, 2011

Program

09.00h Welcome: Prof. Dr. Leandro Madrazo
09.10h Plus Ultra: Case study for Housing Reagents: Prof. Angel Martin Cojo
09.30h Identifying Reagents in Plus Ultra. Task 9. Part I. Introduction general theme by La Salle’s group
10.30h Tea / Coffee break
11.00h Identifying Reagents in Plus Ultra. Task 9. Part II. Introduction general theme by La Salle’s group
12.00h First working meeting in groups
13.30h Lunch
14.30h Site visit

The teachers dr. Leandro Madrazo and Angel Martin gave two presentations to integrate the Workshop Housing Reagents with Learning Activities previously carried out in the OIKODOMOS virtual campus and to guide students in their next task. 

Professor dr. Leandro Madrazo explained the structure and pedagogical objectives of the virtual campus Oikodomos to show how the joint workshop is part of learning activities designed around the theme Housing Reagents. These Learning Activities are:

LA39 Dwelling: Reflections on the meaning of dwelling in contemporary societies.

LA40 Housing: Identifying and explaining Housing Reagents.

LA41 Case Studies and mapping exercises.

LA48 Design Strategy: Application of Reagents as a strategy to design a project.

Prof. Ángel Martin presenting the task.

Next, professor Angel Martin presented the task. He outlined the place (Plus Ultra neighborhood): its historical, urban and social conditions. 

As a starting point of the workshop, students commented the tasks that they had previously done in the virtual campus. Afterwards they visited the Plus Ultra neighborhood to gather information on site.

Student presenting work previously done in the virtual campus.

FORMS OF COLLECTIVE HOUSING

Going from the most general point to the most concrete to transform Plus Ultra in a Form of collective housing,
What can we think about?
1- The neighbourhood
2- The public space (streets and squares)
3- Activities developed in the neighborhood 
4- Forms of collective housing
To think about a form of collective housing, we first have to think about the possibilities of the public spaces that will affect the houses and their uses.
The goal would be to have a range of possibilities in each point to create a range of projects that could work and make people from the city come to the neighborhood. 
Here are three different examples that could work.


Yendo del punto mas general al mas concreto para transformar el barrio de Plus Ultra en una forma de vivienda colectiva, ¿En que podemos pensar?
1- El vecindario
2- El espacio público (calles y plazas)
3- Actividades desarrolladas en el vecindario
4- Formas de viviendas colectivas
Para poder pensar en una forma de vivienda colectiva, primero debemos pensar en las posibilidades del espacio público que afectarían las casas y sus usos.
El objetivo sería tener una gran variedad de posibilidades de proyectos en cada punto estratégico para atraer las personas de la ciudad.
Aqui hay tres ejemplos que podrían funcionar.

Forms of collective housing: typology 3

Barrio Plus Ultra

  Para este edificio, en uno de los extremos del barrio, está enfrente de una de las tres plazas que se han señalado como poco frecuentadas. Una solución puede ser la construcción de una residencia.
La introducción de gente joven en el Plus Ultra daría mucha vida. Junto con las actividades que se hiciesen en el interior del barrio, la atracción para las demás personas de la ciudad sería mayor.

Este tipo de residencia debería ser de una altura similar a la de los edificios que tiene al lado, más o menos de Planta Baja + 7. 

Residencia en forma de torre, Mexico

For this building, located in one of the endings of the neighborhood, has one of the three squares that are not frequented. One solution could be the construction of a students' residence.

The introduction of young people in Plus Ultra would give life. Having young people plus new activities done in the neighborhood would attract more people. This kind of residence should have a similar height with the buildings next to it, such as Ground Floor +7.

Forms of collective housing: typology 2

Plus Ultra

   Para las viviendas situadas en este volumen, serían unas casas similares a las que ya hay, pero pensadas más a nivel de relaciones con los vecinos. Con este tipo de casas, los niños podrían jugar en la calle, mientras que los padres i los componentes de las familias podrían relacionarse entre ellos con las pasarelas que habría, conectando las casas entre sí en una planta superior. Un ejemplo son las viviendas Interbau.

Viviendas Interbau, Paul Baumgarten

Se puede ver como hay unas escaleras exteriores que conectan con un pasillo exterior a todas las casas.  La entrada de estas viviendas, se haría por el interior del barrio, dando le  más vida y relacionando a los vecinos entre ellos.

Como en el vecindario habíamos notado que no había muchas zonas verdes, poniendo en planta baja alguna zona de juego para los niños ayudaría a que más personas, no solo del Plus Ultra, viniesen a pasar el rato.

A nivel de plantas de los edificios, se podría decir que tendrían una altura similar a las casas: Planta Baja + 2 o incluso Planta Baja +3 creando de esta manera una transición entre los edificios de al lado, de unas alturas considerables, y las casas.

Alzado de los nuevos edificios de Plus Ultra

   For the dwellings in this volume, the idea is to place some houses similar to the typical house of the Plus Ultra neighborhood. Those new houses are thought to create good feeling between neighbors, to let the children play in the street. There would be a footbridge which connects the houses between them in an upper floor, like the Interbau Dwellings.

We can see how some exterior stairs connect with the footbridge. The entrance of those dwellings would be in the interior of the Plus Ultra, giving life and good feeling to the neighborhood. As there was not many green zones, on the ground floor would be a play ground with grass, not just for the neighbors, but also for the other citizens.

About the number of floors, we could say that these new houses would have a similar height to the old houses: Ground Floor + 2, or even Ground Floor + 3

Forms of collective housing: typology 1

Barrio Plus Ultra, edificio tratado

    Uno de los objetivos principales de Plus Ultra, es atraer a las personas de alrededor de la ciudad para que el barrio se vaya reconstruyendo poco a poco. Por eso, introduciendo un tipo de vivienda como la Peabody Terrace, que tiene una torre que sobresale por encima del resto de la volumetría, llamaría la atención como un faro. Encima, gracias a su orientación, no haría sombra a las casas que hay dentro de Plus Ultra, y su emplazamiento haría que destacase más de los otros edificios.

   One of the main objectives for Plus Ultra, is to attract people around the city to make this neighborhood be reconstructed little by little.
It is for that reason that introducing a new typology of house, such as the Peabody Terrace, that has a hight tower like a light house, would catch the attention of the citizens.
Apart from this, thanks to its orientation, it would not make any shadow to the houses that are in front, and it would really have the function of a light house.