UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Annual Report 2015 2016 english by ArchitectureUIC

Annual Report 2015-2016

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Universitat Internacional de Catalunya School of Architecture

Annual Report 2015-2016

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Universitat Internacional de Catalunya School of Architecture Campus Barcelona Alfa Building Immaculada, 22 08017 Barcelona T. +34 932 541 800 uic.es/architecture

Index The School

Double Degree & Mobility Programmes

Vertical Workshop

Foros

Cooperation

Accessibility

Sustainability â&#x20AC;˘ CEIM

Barcelona Ceramics Chair

Exhibitions

Open House Days

Awards

News

Credits

The School

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture was founded in 1997 —initially known as ESARQ-UIC—, and its DNA, identity and distinctive model have been evolving from that moment onwards. By DNA, we refer to subjects that belong to the School’s own specific model, subjects that define and reaffirm its spirit and philosophy, based on three cornerstones: individual attention, innovation and contact with the industry, and also commitment. In other words, innovation at the service of the people. Amongst these subjects, workshops and courses we highlight the compulsory subjects of Cooperation, Accessibility and Sustainability, this last subject instigated by the CEIM Chair; the Vertical Workshop, which consists of a week-long wokshop at the beginning of the course where all the students work together on a project intended to benefit the community; and lastly, the Foros cycle, a series of conferences that offer students the chance to gain first-hand knowledge of the different methods and philosophies in every facet of the field of architecture.

The School

Committed to Society with Compulsory Classes on Cooperation, Sustainability and Accessibility The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture aims to train architects to know and care about the needs of society, the environment and people in general. It is the only architecture school in Spain that teaches compulsory modules on cooperation, sustainability and accessibility. It offers students a holistic approach to architectural education, improving competitiveness by encouraging multiple skill sets, teamwork, responsibility, and entrepreneurship. Individual Attention, Guidance and Coaching Individual attention for students and a holistic approach with a focus on social impact are considered key elements of this programme. The university has a unique teaching method, Integrated Project-based Teaching (DIP), where each student is tasked with undertaking a project at every step of the process. The subjects are taught in a cross-disciplinary way in order to ensure that projects are worked on at all different levels: therefore students learn to work on a project starting from a territorial level all the way down to the construction details. Cultural Activities with International Lecturers and Renowned Architects The academic format is enriched by several workshops and lectures. During the Foros series, students attend various lectures delivered by prestigious national and international architects. During the week-long and intense Vertical Workshop, students from all five years of the programme are divided into teams. These teams create socially-oriented projects using models built on a real scale, under the supervision of renowned Spanish architects.

The School

Cutting-Edge Technology The School has a modelling studio filled with all types of analogical and digital machinery (lasers, numerical control machines and rapid prototyping 3D machines) that are operated by an expert who guides the work processes. Architectural prizes Students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture won first prize in the latest editions of the Muestra de Proyectos Final de Carrera (Final Degree Projects Show) at the Spanish Bienniale on Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) as well as various prizes at the Cevisama Lab international architectural competition. Classes Taught in English Having an international outlook, mobility and exchange programmes with universities abroad are some of the School of Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main priorities. Our degree programmes are eligible for recognition in any European Union country and many of the subjects are taught in English. Work Placements at Internationally Prestigious Architectural Firms, with an Employability Rate of 85% The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture has an active work placement programme that helps recent graduates find employment in the field of architecture. In recent years, 85% of our students have found a job after they graduated. The fact we have three Company-Sponsored University Chairs means there are more opportunities to work at companies in different fields of architecture.

Double Degree & Mobility Programmes Belgium Hogeschool Voor Wetenschap en Kunst / Sint-Lucas Université Libre de Bruxelles Université de Liège Université de Mons France École d’Architecture de Normandie École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais Université Pierre-Mendès-France, UPMF Finland Oulun Yliopisto Germany Technische Universität Darmstadt Italy Politécnico di Milano Politécnico di Torino Lithuania Vilnius Academy of Arts United Kingdom University for the Creative Arts, UCA Canterbury

Argentina Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, UCSF Universidad de Belgrano Brazil Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, FAAD Universidade Católica de Goiás, UCG Universidade Católica do Rio Grande Do Sul, PUCRS Chile Universidad del Desarrollo Colombia San Buenaventura Seccional Cali Universidad Nacional de Colombia Mexico Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Universidad de Monterrey, UDEM Universidad Valle Tlaxcala Panama Universidad Sta. María La Antigua, USMA United States University of California, Berkeley University of Texas at San Antonio

Doble Degree & Mobility Programmes

Thanks to the agreement signed between the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Belgrano (Argentina), students from both universities will be able to study a Double Degree Mobility Programme (PMDT) and they will obtain two degrees that will enable them to work both in Argentina and in Spain. In addition, the qualification from the University of Belgrano is accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the most prestigious international architecture institute in the world. This accreditation will ensure that students are eligible to continue to study at a postgraduate level or work in the United Kingdom. The School also holds mobility programmes agreements with several universities worldwide.

Australia Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT Kazakhstan Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering, KazGASA Korea Seoul Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s University United Arab Emirates Manipal University Dubai

Vertical Workshop

The UIC Barcelona School of Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vertical Workshop, is a workshop held over approximately ten days, undertaken during the first week of the academic year. It has been one of the most important and emblematic events held by the School since it was founded in 1997. The Vertical Workshop in the School of Architecture brings together students from first through to fifth year who are mixed up into different teams, each led by a couple of renowned national young architects, who together create a real architecture project based on social aims.

Vertical Workshop

“Urban Making, Public Space Elements for Inclusion” For “Urban Making, Public Space Elements for Inclusion”, the 18th edition of the Vertical Workshop, students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture presented six prototypes they had created with the aim of facilitating interaction between citizens through the use of urban elements to promote social, cultural, environmental and economic wellbeing within the city. The prototype Park(ing) Birds, developed by a group of students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture (namely, Julia Annie Barnoin, Cristina Prada, Juan Francisco Uría, Arantxa de Alfonso, Guillermo Marfà, Nieves Blakstad, Roberto Darvoy, Carles Raiteri, Monika Rovira, Inés Casals, Richard Tam, Jennifer Vilà, Inés Ladera, Baptiste Langlais and Juan Torres, who were supervised by the UIC lecturers Jordi Mansilla and Laia Mestre), has won first prize in this year’s Vertical Workshop, which goes by the title of “Urban Making, Public Space Elements for Inclusion”. “Park(ing) Birds is an ecological icon that can also exist in an urban setting. The intelligent approach of moving from an individual element to a collective one made up of small objects shows that the piece is very well thought out in both formal and constructive terms”. Such was the conclusion of the panel of judges, which comprised the architect Carme Fiol from Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes, Enric Pericas from Escofet, and the product designer Jordi Canudas.

The Vertical Workshop has always been an important event that represents the spirit of the school, so much so that over the years, it has consolidated ans extended its innovative nature. 12

18ed. Taller Vertical 2015

03-10.09 | 18.09 School of Architecture

directores: Raquel Colacios, Ivan Llach coordinadores: Marta Garcia Orte, Alex F. Azofra profesores:

organitza:

Ana Bach + Eugeni Bach Eva Damià + Jaume Batlle Adrian Jurado + Albert Guerra/Jaime Fernández Laia Mestre + Jordi Mansilla Recooperar Straddle 3 + Makea

patrocina:

amb el suport:

Vertical Workshop

All the prototypes have been exhibited at various locations around Barcelona in order to celebrate Parking Day.

Vertical Workshop

In the words of the creators of Park(ing) Birds: “Barcelona has a complex ecological infrastructure with a wide variety of different types of natural space. We can ensure the stability of these public, semi-public and private natural spaces and green spaces within the city if we prevent them becoming isolated and try to forge connections that increase their complexity through exchanges of information, energy and materials. “From spring to autumn, the biotope we have designed will provide nesting areas for small birds that are able to live in colonies, such as sparrows. From autumn to spring, the biotope will provide food for winter birds in the form of herbaceous plants and winter-flowering pulses that attract certain insect species. The birds will be able to feed on both the seeds and the insects.” “Urban Making” also saw the presentation of the prototypes El empatizador, Let ‘s park people, Human Parking, Encajados and Pit Box. This year the UIC Barcelona’s Vertical Workshop celebrated its 18th anniversary with “Urban Making, Public Space Elements for Inclusion”, which was sponsored by BCN Ecologia and the Barcelona Urban Environment Agency.

Foros

The Foros subject is part of the academic teaching programme in the School. It is a subject that involves debating and reflecting on the reality of architecture and consists of a series of conferences that are open to the public. The main objective of this subject is to exchange knowledge, approaches and contrasting views between students and teachers, it represents a tool toapproach and perceive the discipline of architecture, as well as a platform for events relating to the theory and criticism of the work of architects. Our Foros series, through open lectures given by nationally and internationally renowned guest lecturers, aims to provoke questions and talk about topical issues as well as reflect and debate matters of vital importance to architects.

With the collaboration of:

Foros

The 2016 edition of Foros featured the following speakers: Christoph Hölsher, Professor of Cognitive Science at the ETH Zürich, together with Victor Schinazi, will be showing, through their research, the reaction of the human brain to different environments and the way it is able to orient itself and find its way around a given space. Among other projects, they will be presenting reflections on their analysis of Seattle Central Public Library by OMA, showing how the design of space prompts different neuronal reactions that determine the mobility of individuals.

Baukuh is a firm based in Milan and Genoa, founded in 2004 by Paolo Carpi, Silvia Lupi, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Giacomo Summa, Andrea Zanderigo and Pier Paolo Tamburelli. Tamburelli has been nominated for the 2016 Wheelwright Prize, awarded by the Harvard GSD, a platform to promote new forms of research based on cross-cultural engagement, past winners of which include foremost names such as I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph and Eliot Noyes, as well as José Ahedo, alumnus of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture.

Luis Martínez Santa-María combines teaching and editorial work with his ongoing activity in the studio as integral parts of his commitment to architecture. He has lectured in Projects at the ETSAM since 1990, and his doctoral thesis “Tierra espaciada: el árbol, el camino, el estanque ante la casa” was awarded the UPM’s Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2000. Since 2005 he has been director of La Cimbra, the book collection of Fundación Caja de Arquitectos. His body of architecture work reflects his interest in the floor plan, which, according to Martínez SantaMaría, generates architecture and concentrates the intellectual capacity of the architect.

Pascal Flammer after working together with the renowned Swiss architect Valerio Oligati (1998-2005), and teaching at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, Flammer now lectures at the ETH in Zurich and, since 2005, has had his own studio.

Arquitectura-G, a studio set up by students of the School of Architecture, is one of the young Catalan practices with the highest international profile. Today, its members and founders combine work in the studio with teaching projects and construction at the School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona. In 2008, they created Escritos-G, a tool to construct a critical discourse and generate debate about contemporary architecture, and started directing the architecture section of Apartamento magazine. In keeping with their interest in design and made-to-measure solutions, in 2012 they set up Indoors, a brand that publishes, produces and sells domestic objects designed by them and other creators.

Smiljan Radic is a member of Chile’s “golden generation”, who, along with names such as Mathias Klotz, Cecilia Puga and Alejandro Aravena, started to make a name for himself in the nineties, when Chile began to open up to the world and to democracy, with the invitation to take part in the Venice Biennale and the country’s leading role in the Congress of the International Union of Architects in Barcelona in 1996. Radic set up his practice in 1995 in Chile, after postgraduate studies at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and winning the competition for Iraklio Square in Crete. In 2001, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile awarded him the prize to the best Chilean architect under the age of 35 for his project for the civic neighbourhood of Concepción and, in 2009, he was named honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. His work has been shown in prestigious galleries such as the Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum and TOTO·Gallery MA in Tokyo.

Harquitectes is an architecture studio in Sabadell (Barcelona) that was founded in the year 2000 and is managed by four associated architects: David Lorente Ibáñez (Granollers, 1972), Josep Ricart Ulldemolins (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1973), Xavier Ros Majó (Sabadell, 1972) and Roger Tudó Galí (Terrassa, 1973). Each holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Vallès Higher Technical School of Architecture (1998-2000), where Josep and Roger are currently lecturers in Projects and Building Construction, respectively. Xavier Ros is a lecturer in Projects at ETSA Barcelona. 19

Cooperation

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture aims to offer subjects that are engaged with society both in the degree in architecture and in the master’s programmes; that is why we offer our compulsory Cooperation I and Cooperation II subjects in fourth year. The Master International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture, which is a member of the Erasmus Mundus Urbano consortium, is an advanced master’s degree programme that specialises in international cooperation and urban development. It is delivered jointly by four European universities: TechnischeUniversität Darmstadt (TU-Darmstadt) —as the coordinating university for the consortium—, Université Pierre Mendès France (UPMF), the Università degli Studi Roma Tor Vergata and the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture.

Cooperation

“Food Banking: an emergency response to crisis in developed countries” The joint urban action and workshop assisted the Food Bank of Barcelona (Fundació Banc dels Aliments Barcelona) in their current efforts to improve the logistics and quality of its operations in response to the needs of the city’s poorest residents who are still suffering grave side-effects of the economic crisis in Spain. The food banking concept reached Spain in 1987, two decades after the first food bank was founded in Phoenix, Arizona by John Arnold van Hengel. Today, the Food Bank of Barcelona is making significant changes to the configuration of its network, distribution centers and their online platform. They plan to create clusters of micro-distribution centers throughout the city to improve logistics and increase their cold storage capacity to make better use of fresh products. Students analyzed the impact of these changes by mapping their reconfigured network of distribution centers with data of the services they provide, and also proposed alternative internal layouts of the buildings themselves to increase efficiency. The workshop featured presentations by university professors, international experts and NGO workers and represented an opportunity for all those involved to listen to real-life stories from victims of poverty and learn about dealing with poverty as an emergency in developed contexts, managing basic food resources, and measuring the impact of food banking. Hosted this year at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, it brought together students from the four universities of the Mundus Urbano consortium: Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), Université Pierre Mendès Grenoble (France), Universitá Tor Vergata Rome (Italy), and our own Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona).

Cooperation

Students present Mobile Health Clinic models to the Vicente Ferrer Foundation Architecture, when building without resources, is only architecture in essence, as it becomes necessary to work with local materials and at low costs, bridge construction systems and think up ways to ensure adequate climate performance. As a result, the main objective of this subject is to introduce students to the context of cooperation through architecture. Architectural cooperation involves bringing the project to a successful conclusion despite extreme climate conditions and a lack of habitual building materials. Research and fieldwork in development cooperation must be carried out to avoid an increase in social inequality. We seek to provide students the tools and knowledge necessary for working in this field and creating a space in which to reflect on social issues. Not only does working with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation (RDT-FVF) provide a framework for understanding how to carry out comprehensive cooperation projects, but also an opportunity to develop a year-long project that will be considered for use by the Foundation itself. These projects consist of designing a Mobile Health Clinic to support and provide greater connectivity throughout the health network established by RDT-FVF in the remote regions of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Accessibility

One of the subjects we teach that iscommitted to society is Accessibility. The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is a pioneer nationally in terms of the incorporation of this subject into the curriculum of the Degree in Architecture as a compulsory subject in third year and as a working area for studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Final Projects. This initiative is led by renowned architect Enrique Rovira-Beleta, who also directs the Postgraduate Degree in Accessibility and Design for All (online). This course is the first formal academic initiative that looks at Accessibility from a global perspective and within a cross-disciplinary framework.

Accessibility

Students discover the abilities of people with disabilities and understand that accessibility is not only necessary for people with disabilities, but is in fact an advantage for all citizens.

Accessibility

Seventh Edition of Pioneering Accessibility Course Now Under Way This year, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is offering the 7th edition of the Accessibility course as a core, compulsory subject in its undergraduate programmes, thanks to support from the Adecco Foundation and Caixa d’Enginyers savings bank. These sponsors support the programme as part of their commitment to integrate disabled people in the workplace and to promote training to increase their skills. The aim of this pioneering subject in Spain is to raise the awareness of future architects and give them training about the barriers faced by people with reduced mobility, and to discover the advantages for everyone of accessible designs and products. With this knowledge, architects can plan their buildings from the very beginning so they are accessible for everyone.

To this end, students not only gain technical, practical knowledge on how regulations on accessibility and universal design are applied, but they also face real situations, take field trips to examine environments and buildings with architectural barriers, and receive visits from disabled teachers and technical personnel. The ultimate aim is to ensure that students learn about the difficulties faced by the disabled on a daily basis and are also able to apply architectural solutions to guarantee that all contexts are accessible to people with reduced mobility and communication capacities, so these places are much more convenient and safe for everyone.

The subject is taught by UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Prof. Enrique Rovira-Beleta, an accessibility specialist and the Head of the UIC Barcelona Service for the Disabled, who transmits to students the philosophy that “including accessibility criteria does not reduce the architectural quality, design or aesthetics, but it does produce benefits for everyone, whether you’re disabled or not”.

Sustainability CEIM

CEIM â&#x20AC;˘ Sustainability

Another compulsory subject in our architecture programmes, and which responds to the philosophy of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, is Sustainability. This subject brings together acommitment to the environment and a connection between universities and companies, since it puts students in contact with companies from different sectors of sustainable construction. The area of Sustainability is supported by the CEIM Chair. In this sense, the School has created the CEIM Chair in order to provide a cross-disciplinary dimension and the transfer of knowledge. It is cross-disciplinary in terms of the fact it involves representatives of each of the stakeholders from the building sector. Knowledge transfer is undertaken through interaction between companies and the University as well as different companies between each other.

Visit at the Rockwool factory and the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) During a visit to the Rockwool factory in Caparroso, Navarra, the students, led by Miguel Angel Paris and Jordi Guivernau from the technical department, listened to a description of how the factory works, the products manufactured and the respective applications in the field of sustainability and construction.

2016 CEIM Awards During the event held to inaugurate the exhibition of Final Degree Projects by students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, the Chair in Industrial Construction and the Environment (CEIM) presented a series of awards. The panel, which included Teresa Batlle, founding partner at Pich Architects, Jordi Bolea, head of institutional relations for Rockwool Peninsular, and Núria Pedrals, president of the Architecture and Sustainability Group (AuS) of the Association of Architects of Catalonia, awarded prizes to the best projects with the most innovative solutions in the area of sustainability. This time, awards were given to Josep Maria Valls, for his project “IAG Headquarters”, and Olga Beltrán, for “Joncs Metropol”. The School of Architecture is a pioneer in making sustainability a mandatory and cross-disciplinary subject within the curriculum. With the CEIM Chair, which is supported by Pich Architects and sponsored by Rockwool, the School aims to respond to markets demands and cooperate scientifically and technologically in R&D projects. It has three clear areas for action: training, the generation of knowledge and the transfer of technology and knowledge. The purpose of the CEIM is to establish means of joint collaboration and development between UIC Barcelona and building-sector companies and entities with a view to achieving substantial results in the area of sustainability and environmental friendliness. 31

Barcelona Ceramics Chair

The Barcelona Ceramics Chair at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture offers a Ceramics Chair subject, which is optional. It offers an opportunity for meetings and engagement between architecture students and ceramics manufacturers. The goal is to undertake a research project in which students deliver an innovative ceramic material that is applied to the field of architecture. At the end of the year, a jury of four prestigious architects and a representative of ASCER will award three prizes to the best projects of the year. Meanwhile, students are also encouraged to present their work at the Indistile CEVISAMA (Feria Valencia), international competition where our School has always managed to be represented among the winners. Every year the Barcelona Ceramics Chair creates a publication containing a compilation of our studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work.

Barcelona Ceramics Chair

Opening of the Barcelona Ceramics exhibition at the Granada School of Architecture The Granada School of Architecture recently opened the “Barcelona Ceramics” exhibition, which was a finalist for the I XIII BEAU Research Call on 6 April. This was part of a series of activities organised for the First “Architecture and Industry Innovating through Ceramics” Seminar. The exhibition shows projects undertaken by students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and tutored by the professors from the ASCER Ceramics Chair, and was set up based on an initiative from the Spanish Association of Tile and Ceramic Pavement Manufacturers (ASCER). The exhibition contained a sample of 20 ceramic pieces based on which the Chair was commemorating its tenth anniversary. The aim of the seminar is to provide future architects with greater technical knowledge of ceramics, as well as discover the enormous possibilities that the creative work of architects can bring to this industry. The session aimed to invite students to steer their architectural proposals towards the use of ceramic materials, and be innovative in relation to already existing formats or develop new applications. 34

Barcelona Ceramics Chair

Students from the Barcelona Ceramics Chair have been given an award at the 2016 Cevisama Lab International Competition in Valencia On 26 January, the following students from the School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona: Basile Ribas, Mariona Mayol and Albert Jové won the Cevisama Lab 2016 Ceramic Design Competition, at the Cevisma ideas lab. The jury for this edition consisted of Mariano Bolant, President of the Professional Association of Architects of Valencia; Juan Ferrero, Vice-Dean of the Professional Association of Interior Designers of Valencia; María Álvaro, Product Director at Peronda; and Raimon Castells, a representative for the Nuevo Azulejo and Técnica Cerámica specialised materials.

Basile Ribas Steiner won first prize in Category A Ceramic products created using a semidry pressing method with her project entitled “Origami”. This prize was awarded “due to the product’s application in architecture and also due to the specific nature of the product since it allows enamelling on both sides”. The project entitled “(L)ONA” by Mariona Mayol Batlle received first prize in Category B - Ceramic products created via other means. The jury highlighted the fact that it was “a unique piece with a clear application that resolves a problem, based on an original idea”. Albert Francesc Jové won second prize in this category, for his project entitled “Ladrillo Hestia”. It involved setting out various construction-related solutions based on one basic element.

Exhibitions

Throughout the year, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture participates and even organises exhibitions in well-known venues in the city, promoting the social transfer of architecture to wider cultural environments and open to society. Through projects developed in classrooms and then exhibited, this institution supports the central role played by schools of architecture in reflection on cities and contemporary landscapes. This also confirms the commitment of the School to disseminate its studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; projects beyond the realm of academia.

With the collaboration of:

Exhibitions • R_Urban Hubs

“R_Urban Hubs: Questioning the Limits of Barcelona in the 21st Century” The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture opens, for the fifth consecutive year, its end-of-degree project exhibition. The exhibition is to showcase the 30 projects put forward to regenerate and strengthen the Delta de Llobregat as a productive area and urban innovation hub, as opposed to the speculative growth of the territory, while maintaining its agricultural character. A butterfly farm, a productive city square, an intergenerational learning centre, the hall of residence and teaching area at the new CAR (High Performance Sports Centre), an agricultural school and a cultural market are just some of the unique projects being put forward by future architects taking part in the show: “R_Urban Hubs: Questioning the Limits of Barcelona in the 21st Century”. During the academic year 2015-16 TFG (end-of-degree projects) students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture have worked in an area of exceptional ecological, economic and social value: the limits of the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park in the Delta. The aim is to ensure the viability of agriculture in serving the metropolitan area of Barcelona. An intervention created to give a critical response to unlimited speculative growth proposals where the territory loses its identity and becomes a commodity in the hands of the global market. The show represents the School’s fulfilment of its obligation as part of the collaboration agreement signed with the General Directorate of Urban Planning, part of the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Territory and Sustainability, by which the educational institution commits to contributing to the regeneration of strategic areas of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

Once again, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture has assumed the role of schools of architecture to reflect on the contemporary city and landscape and has confirmed its commitment to display the work of its students outside academic circles.

R_Urban Hubs â&#x20AC;¢ Exhibitions

Exhibitions • R_Urban Hubs

The publication includes the work done during the 2015-2016 course at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture in the workshops of projects by final year students. It analyzes the concept of “R_Urban Hubs: Questioning the Limits of Barcelona in the 21st Century”. Teachers: Miquel Lacasta, Rosa Rull, Alberto T. Estévez, Álvaro Cuéllar and Pere Vall.

R_Urban Hubs â&#x20AC;¢ Exhibitions

Exhibitions • La Manzana de la Discordia

“La Manzana de la Discordia. El modernismo como transgresión a la regularidad del Eixample” The History, Architecture and Design Research Group (GRHAD) from UIC Barcelona presented the book La Manzana de la Discòrdia (in reference to Barcelona’s “Block of Discord”), a compilation of presentations delivered last year at Casa Lleó Morera, edited by UIC Barcelona’s Dr Judith Urbano. The book presentation was carried out by the architect Lluís Domènech Girbau and then the “La Manzana de la Discordia. El modernismo como transgresión a la regularidad del Eixample” was inaugurated at the Casa Lleó Morera. The “La Mansana de la Discòrdia” project, undertaken by UIC Barcelona’s GRHAD, comprises an interdisciplinary group of architects and historians. They include: Manuel Arenas Vidal, José Juan Barba, Mariola Borrell Escudé, Dr Guillem Carabí Bescós,

María José Diez Chueca, Dr Fàtima López Pérez and Dr Judith Urbano, all of whom researched the houses, the owners and the master builders of this block on Passeig de Gràcia between Calle Aragó and Calle Consell de Cent. The GRHAD research group was sure from the beggining that it wanted to study not only the three Modernist properties, but also the other five houses in this block (Casa Lleó Morera, Casa Mulleras, Casa Bonet, Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló), since they were all in discord with each other, due to their formal and ornamental differences. These were the results of the projects presented by their architects and subsequently accepted by clients.

Urban Plaunge • Exhibitions

“Urban Plunge” The project undertaken by students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture won first prize of the “Urban Plunge: New designs for natural swimming in our cities ” interuniversity competition. Students from the Catalan universities that participated in the competition (the Higher Technical School of Architecture at La Salle University URL, and the Barcelona School of Architecture at the UPC (ETSAB), and the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture) presented each of their projects at the Roca Barcelona Gallery, at an event that was open to members of the public. Subsequently, the jury, consisting of Jane Withers, the exhibition curator, the architect Félix Arranz, the architect Carme Pinós, and Ariadna Miquel, an architect who was representing Barcelona City Council, publically announced the names of the winners during the prize-giving ceremony. The “Floating Water” project, created by Oriol Anglada Carbonell, Nieves Blackstad, Marta Esqueu Casals, Albert Jové Cespedes, Alexandre Martínez Llapart, Júlia Rocaspana, Monika Rovira, Laura Vall Sagarra and Sergi Viñals, won first prize. Due to its potential and demographic significance, these UIC Barcelona School of Architecture students chose the Besòs River for their project.

Open House Days

Throughout the year the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture organises various open days during which all the work that students have created during the semester is exhibited. In this way we can demonstrate the work carried out at the school and the teaching methods that have been used. Also, the last Friday in May is the Alumni Day at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and includes a special celebration for those who graduated ten years ago.

Open House Days

Awards

Over the years, students, alumni and professors and lecturers from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture have been honoured with numerous and prestigious awards from both the national and international scene. The School celebrates each of these achievements and regularly publishes projects that demonstrate the creativity and talent of its community.

Awards

Archikubik Depósit del Rei Martí

Arquitectura-G Empordà Masia

TdB Arquitectura CDS1 House

Blur Arquitectura Concéntrico 01 Caja Mágica

Pich-Architects Col·legi Teresianas de Gaudí

Mariona Mayol Batlle Ladrillo (L)Ona

BCQ Arquitectes Joan Maragall Library

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture XII BEAU Research Awards “Examinarse en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña”

Vicenç Sarrablo + Jaume Colom La Llena Horse Riding

Archikubik Parking Saint-Roch

Blur Arquitectura Catedral restaurant

Basile Ribas Steiner Origami

Awards

Flexo Arquitectura Existing Housing Pavilion

Barcelona Ceramics Chair “Barcelona Ceramics” exhibition

Arquitectura-G Luz House

Archikubik 253 Housing at Ivry-Sur-Seine

Agora Arquitectura Caballero House

Jorge Vidal + Victor Rahola + Marcos Catalán Alegre House

Victor Bergnes + Marcos Catalán Mariano House

Addenda Architects Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Albert F. Jové Hestia Brick

Viçents Serrablo Flexbrick

José Ahedo Wheelwright Prize 2014

Sergi Serrat Guillén + José Zabala Rojí Carmel Plaza Zone 0

BCQ Arquitectes Plaça de Madrid

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Urban Plunge: Floating Water

News

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is regularly a protagonist in today’s national and international architectural scene, thanks to its teaching body, its students and its alumni members. Exhibitions, projects and awards, lectures, interviews: all of this is reflected on a regular basis on the school’s website, containing a selection of the most significant news throughout the year. Follow @ArchitectureUIC for daily updates:      architecture.uic.es

News • Lecturers

CARMEN MENDOZA

AITOR ESTÉVEZ

GUILLEM CARABÍ

Carmen Mendoza participates as a speaker at the XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2016)

Opening of the exhibition “Industrial Landscapes: A Visual Approach to Industry”, with photographs by Aitor Estévez

Guillem Carabí, author of a book about architect Josep M. Jujol’s renovation of Casa Bofarull

Dr Carmen Mendoza, Assistant Director of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, Director of the Area of Urbanism and Co-Director of the Master’s Degree in Cooperation, gave a talk called “Open space privatization: the threat of urban regeneration. Comparing open space regeneration of Medellín and Barcelona”. This conference was part of a panel entitled “Frontiers of research on reform of urban public service provision I”, within the framework of the XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2016). The aim of the panel entitled “Frontiers of research on reform of urban public service provision I” was to generate an exchange between experts from the academic world in relation to urban privatisation trends in different cities and its consequences. For that reason, they analysed a large variety of cities and urban service sectors from different disciplinary perspectives.

On 7 June, the Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia opened the exhibition “Industrial Landscapes: A Visual Approach to Industry”. On display is a documentary project by Aitor Estévez Olaizola, architect, photographer and lecturer in Formal Analysis at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, together with Pau Fornt Baldrich. The project explores eleven archetypal contemporary industrial landscapes from Catalonia and seeks to depict them from a photographic, documentary and architectural perspective. Here, photography is used to document locations that are often unknown to most people and promote dialogue between industry and society, art and technology. The project also includes a book published in 2015 under the title “11 paisajes industriales en Cataluña” [11 Industrial Landscapes in Catalonia], by the authors of the exhibition.

Dr. Guillem Carabí, a lecturer in Composition and member of the History, Architecture and Design Research Group at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, has published a book entitled “La transformació com a procediment” (Transformation as a Procedure). The publication explores architect J. M. Jujol’s renovation of Casa Bofarull (1913-1933). In the words of professor Carabí: “Writing about Jujol’s architecture involves reflecting on architecture at the turn of the 20th century and questioning architecture in the 21st century. It means writing about visual explorations that have lost none of their relevance and enjoying a style of architecture that is amiable, honest and deeply connected to the region and land, yet also audacious, elusive and playful; a style that affectionately unsettles anyone who attempts to straitjacket it with ever confusing and dubious historical categories.

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FREDY MASSAD

ALBERTO T. ESTÉVEZ

ENRIQUE ROVIRA-BELETA

The conference series “Exchanging Critical Opinions: Architecture and Other Perspectives”, curated by Fredy Massad, opens

Alberto T. Estévez participates in the fourth edition of the Zinc Shower Meeting Show

Enrique Rovira-Beleta participates in the III International Forum on Disabilities in Higher Education

Opening of “Exchanging Critical Opinions: Architecture and Other Perspectives”, a conference series curated by Fredy Massad, a lecturer in Architecture Theory and Criticism at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and organised by Roca Barcelona Gallery. Each conference will feature an architect and an expert in another field whose work can provide interesting perspectives with a view to rethinking critical analysis in architecture. Together they will analyse the dimensions of critical thinking and the practice of criticism from their particular standpoints. This conference series was organised in response to a context marked by the gradual trivialisation of architectural discourse. This context, essentially a form of media merchandising, has often become reduced to ductile, exhibitionistic rhetoric, devoid of all will or commitment to thought.

Dr. Alberto T. Estévez, Projects Professor and Director of the Master’s Degree in Biodigital Architecture at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, gave a talk within the framework of the fourth edition of the Zinc Shower Meeting Show, which was held in the Official Society of Architects of Madrid (COAM). Entitled “Biodigital and genetic transformations”, Alberto Estévez talked about his work as an architect, historian, scientist and researcher. This work which covers everything from genes and bits to the city and territories with the aim of transforming and improving our environment. Zinc Shower is a professional international fair which supports entrepreneurship and creativity as the fundamental basis to transform the world and society. The event is based around a selection of projects, out of the 800 that were presented this year, and other activities such as talks, workshops, actions or networking events.

Enrique Rovira-Beleta, Professor of the Accessibility subject and of the Postgraduate degree in Accessibility and Design for All in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, gave a talk entitled “The fundamental issue: from accessibility to architecture” at the III International Forum on Disabilities in Higher Education (FIDES 2016), organised by the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico. Linked to the subject: “Access and empowerment for people with all types of abilities”, the aim of the forum was to harmonise, implement and disseminate the innovation and challenges that are being generated daily on inclusive policies in the international university community as well as in society as a whole. Likewise, within the framework of this meeting, Enrique Rovira-Beleta participated in a round table entitled “The universal principles of unnoticed accessibility ”, held in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, attended by more than 15.000 people, including teachers, students and university staff.

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ALFONS PUIGARNAU

JOAN MORENO

CARMEN MENDOZA, SANDRA BESTRATEN

Alfons Puigarnau participates in a Training Workshop for International Experts organised by the EQ-Arts Foundation

Joan Moreno took part as a speaker in the series of talks that form part of the 11th Course on Urbanism, “Refocusing on Planning”

Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and Sandra Bestraten are participating in the UN-Habitat global experts group meeting on “Urban Labs: A tool for integrated and participative urban planning.”

Dr. Alfons Puigarnau, Professor of Thought at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, was invited to participate in the 6th edition of the Training Workshop for International Experts. The workshop was organised by EQ-Arts Higher Education for the Arts International Quality Agency located in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Other people who participated in the session included John Butler (School of Art, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom), Robert Baker (independent consultant, Ireland/France), Paula Crabtree (Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden), Anthony Dean (Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, United Kingdom) and Maren Schmohl (Merz Akademie, Germany).

Joan Moreno, lecturer on the Urbanism III course at UIC Barcelona’s School of Architecture, gave a presentation entitled “Amsterdam between Bijlmer and IJburg: One city, two models” as part of the series of talks that form part of the 11th Course on Urbanism “Refocusing on Planning”, organised by the Basque-Navarra Association of Urban Architects (AVNAU), part of the Basque-Navarra Professional Association of Architects (COAVN), in Pamplona. During his talk, Moreno analysed modern urban planning in the Netherlands which started at the beginning of the 20th century. The purpose of the 11th AVNAU Course is to analyse the strategies for approaching and reengaging with urban planning at this time of incipient recovery.

Dr Carmen Mendoza Arroyo, Assistant Director of the School of Architecture, Director of the Area of Urbanism and CoDirector of the Master’s degree in Cooperation, and the architect Sandra Bestraten, also CoDirector of the Master’s degree in Cooperation,participated in a round table entitled “Labs within Academia” as part of the worldwide UN-Habitat meeting entitled “Urban Labs: A tool for integrated and participative urban planning” which took place in Barcelona. This objective of this “Labs within Academia” seminar was to generate an exchange of opinions between international experts on the role of researchers, academic institutions and urban laboratories, as well as the involvement of universities in urban planning and development problem.

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JUAN TRIAS DE BES

ANA COCHO-BERMEJO

VICENÇ SARRABLO

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and the VOPI 4 Group have set up a Chair based on a commitment to social welfare

Ana Cocho-Bermejo presented the CivicWise platform at the EME3 IX International Architecture Festival

Vicenç Sarrablo rep el Palmarès Architecture Aluminium Technal 2015

The new hAQRware Home Chair will promote research into collective housing models and natural systems for environmental control as a guiding principle to improve consumption habits and behaviour. The tools offered by the new information and communication technologies (ICT) lie at the heart of research and innovation related to tackling these objectives. The hARQware Home Chair was set up due to demand expressed by the international community on various occasions in relation to architecture’s commitment to and involvement in the development of the quality of the constructed environment in a world undergoing rapid transformation. For that reason, architectural disciplines must contribute to social balance and tackle needs when constructing cities and the urban habitat, as well as have the ability to provide affordable housing that offers a dignified and healthy lifestyle.

Dr Ana Cocho-Bermejo, a Professor in the School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona, presented CivicWise along with Domenico di Siena, the founder of the platform, at the IX International Architecture Festival EME3. The festival took place at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona. Civicwise is a community that promotes civic empowerment and participatory urbanism. One of the aims behind it is to manage to recover the experience and knowledge of the people who are transforming and improving their quality of life together without forming part of large private or state organisations. The aim of the EME3 International Architecture Festival is to discover, understand and share new forms of architecture and urbanism that are linked to reality in current societies, through reflection and exchanges between the participating professionals and their audience.

Dr Vicenç Sarrablo, architect and lecturer in the School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona, and Architect Jaume Colom were proclaimed winners at the most recent edition of the Architecture Aluminium Technal Iberia Awards. Their project, “Hipica La Llena, La Llacuna, Barcelona”, undertaken with the help of the installation company Aluminier Technal Taller Cañadas, took home first place in the Discovery category. The panel honoured this venture “due to its impressive layering of uses, using the cantilever roof as a means of integration. The use of durable, local and easyto-maintain materials is also particularly interesting”. This edition sought to acknowledge the ideas that best reflect the joint work of architects and industrial companies and share the brand’s core values: energy efficiency, environmental quality, innovation and accordance with current aesthetic trends.

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RESEARCH GROUP GRHAD

RESEARCH GROUP RIL

DOUBLE DEGREE

Inauguration of the exhibition ‘La Manzana de la Discordia. El modernismo como transgresión a la regularidad del Eixample’’

Recercaixa awards funding for two projects at UIC Barcelona, one in Architecture and one in Nursing

Double degree for UIC Barcelona School of Architecture students, due to a new agreement with the University of Belgrano

The History, Architecture and Design Research Group (GRHAD) from UIC Barcelona presented the book La Manzana de la Discòrdia (in reference to Barcelona’s “Block of Discord”), a compilation of presentations delivered last year at Casa Lleó Morera, edited by UIC Barcelona’s Dr Judith Urbano.

The Obra Social department at “la Caixa” and the Catalan Association of Public Universities recently awarded two of its 19 new funding packages for the 2015 call for the RecerCaixa programme to UIC Barcelona researchers. This programme awarded a total of 1.6 million euros to nineteen projects as part of a call which received 211 applications from 42 different centres.

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in the University of Belgrano (Argentina) signed a cooperation agreement. This agreement will make it possible to teach the first international double degree in the School of Architecture.

The book presentation was carried out by the architect Lluís Domènech Girbau and then the “La Manzana de la Discordia. El modernismo como transgresión a la regularidad del Eixample” was inaugurated at the Casa Lleó Morera. The GRHAD research group’s “La Manzana de la Discordia” project at UIC Barcelona won a research call for new researchers in 2013 which was awarded by the ViceRectorate for Research in the same university. The aim was to research the five houses which the block contains: Casa Lleó Morera, Casa Mulleras, Casa Bonet, Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló. The aim was not only to research the three Modernist properties, precisely to look at the differences (or discord) there is between them and the other buildings. 58

The Research Group on the Regeneration of Intermediate Territories (RIL) at the School of Architecture was one of the groups selected. This group is coordinated by Pere Vall, director of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and also includes Marta Benages, Raquel Colacios, Alvaro Cuellas, Xavier Gracia, Carmen Mendoza, David Pavón and Anna Ribas from the University of Girona. The scientific activity of the Research Group on the Regeneration of Intermediate Territories undertaken over the last three years has focused on creating the methodological grounding for repairing low profile countries, through the incorporation of socio-spatial analysis, the reevaluation of cultural heritage and supralocal development.

Based on this agreement, School of Architecture students who complete their fifth year and one semester of sixth year in the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Belgrano will graduate with two degrees: one taught at UIC Barcelona and one taught in the Argentinian university. The same will be the case with University of Belgrano students, who will have to study for the equivalent amount of time in Barcelona. Therefore, students who take this double degree that promotes mobility will obtain two degrees that will make them eligible to work both in Argentina and Spain by studying for an extra year and a half. The degree from the University of Belgrano will also provide accreditation from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

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ARQUITECTURA-G

JOSÉ ZABALA

Members of Arquitectura-G celebrate “almost 10 years” with a conference at the Cooper Union Architecture University and an exhibition in New York

José Zabala Awarded Joint First Place in Bauhaus Museum Design Competition

Members of Arquitectura-G, professors and alumni from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture gave a talk entitled “Almost 10 years” in The Cooper Union Architecture University in New York. This overview of their past history covered their beginnings when they rented a location to finish their final degree projects to when they received recognition from the Mies van der Rohe Foundation for their Casa Luz project. Through their projects, which include refurbishing apartments, exhibitions and window displays, they talked about the guiding principles behind their work, and the characteristics and strategies their different projects have shared, in terms of form, concept and materiality. This same talk was also given at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, in February, as part of this year’s Foros series. Likewise, they also held an event in conjunction with Apartamento Magazine, in the Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York, which involved an exhibition of the work they have undertaken over the past ten years.

Barcelona Architecture firm Gonzalez Hinz Zabala and New York-based Young & Ayata have been awarded joint first place in a competition to design the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. The proposed 3,500-m2 Bauhaus museum will hold and display the collection of pieces created by the Bauhaus school of art and design. It will have 2,100 m2 of exhibition space. Former UIC School of Architecture student José Zabala, along with Anne Katharina Hinz and Roberto González, teamed up with landscape architect Roser Vives de Delás to produce a design featuring a long rectangular form with an external structural frame. The opaque upper part of the structure contrasts with the transparent street-level floor. On the other hand, the competing team from New York, which includes Michael Young and Kutan Ayata, together with landscape designer Misako Murata, proposed a group of colourful conjoined pods that create walkways between the different shapes.

Credits Publication School of Architecture de UIC Barcelona Editors Anne-Sophie de Vargas Olga Sankova Alexandre M. Llapart Graphic design, editorial design and production management Anne-Sophie de Vargas Alexandre M. Llapart Translations and proofreading Bàrbara Serra Mhairi Fiona Bain Andrew James Rance Department of Culture & Publications at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Anne-Sophie de Vargas Olga Sankova Marta Benages Manuel Arenas Jordi Roviras Alexandre M. Llapart Guillermo Marfà

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