UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Annual Report 2014 2015 english by ArchitectureUIC

Annual Report 2014-2015

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Universitat Internacional de Catalunya School of Architecture

Annual Report 2014-2015

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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 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

“Washitecture. Water architecture for schools in Marrakech” “According to the latest estimates by the Joint Monitoring Program WHO / UNICEF for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) (collected in 2011), in early 2013 36 percent of the world’s population - 2.5 billion people - lacked improved sanitation facilities, and 768 million people were still using unsafe water sources. Inadequate access to drinking water and sanitation, along with poor hygiene practices, means that thousands of children become ill or die every day, and leads to impoverishment and reduced opportunities for thousands more.” This project aims to search for solutions for access to water in schools, setting out the idea thatcareful design can lead to the achievement of ambitious goals; such as the eradication of disease, increased school enrolment, awareness of the value of water as a scarce commodity and acquiring better hygiene habits that are then transferred to the family.

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

Vertical Workshop

Projects from the 2014 edtion of the Vertical Workshop were presented at the Roca Barcelona Gallery.

Vertical Workshop

This year’s Vertical Workshop had an exceptional jury consisting of designers Martin Azúa and Curro Claret, architects Javier GarcíaGermán and Borja Ferrater, and the director of the We Are Water Foundation, Xavier Torras. The jury highlighted the ability of the “Zill” project to resolve the objectives outlined in this edition with simplicity, efficiency and beauty. This solution is based on the use of local materials and techniques to create an area of shadethat revolves around visibility and understanding of the full water cycle: capture, filtering and recycling. Meanwhile, the “Barro” project wasawarded the Audience Award. Those attending the opening ceremony and ceremony awards had the opportunity to vote in situ for the solution which in their opinion provided the best response to this year’s theme. The designer Martin Azúa highlighted the high quality of the proposals and said: “It’s amazing how all six proposals have divided up roles very well and showed us that there is not only one way to deal with a project of this type.”

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 2015 edition of Foros featured the following speakers: Francesc Muñoz is currently working on the project designs for landscape intervention and management in different types of urban and nonurbanized spaces. He is the director of the Urban Planning Observatory and of different master’s and postgraduate programmes, such as the Master’s Degree in Landscape and Heritage Intervention and Management at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His publications include the books urBANALización: Paisajes Comunes, Lugares Globales (UrBANALization: Common Landscapes, Global Places) (Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2008) and Estrategias hacia la ciudad de baja densidad: de la contención a la gestión (Strategies for the Low-Density City: From Containment to Management) (Diputació de Barcelona, 2011). Raphael Zuber studied at ETH Zurich and opened his own studio in 2003. With his first project, the Grono schoolhouse, he won the 2012 Swiss Earthquake Award from the Foundation for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, as well as the Graubünden Good Building Award. Zuber’s schoolhouse project is a testament to how his precise work with the formal language of geometric simplicity, the building’s structural and programmatic solution has turned a modest project in terms of size and budget into a highly sophisticated building. MAIO is a new architectural studio made up of Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner. It aims to merge professional practice with academic activities such as research and publishing. Since 2011 it has managed the COACArchitecture Institute of Catalonia’s journal Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme. The architects at MAIO also teach at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. For MAIO, working in architecture means forming relationships and setting up adaptable systems. Ultimately, architecture is used to establish an order in which things happen. Pier Vittorio Aureli, from Dogma, PhD in Architecture from the Berlage Institute, teaches at renowned architecture schools, including the AA School of Architecture in London and Yale University. His research focuses on the relationship between architectural form, political theory and urban history. Pier Vittorio founded Dogma with Martino Tattara in 2002. In 2006, Dogma was awarded the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation’s first-ever Iakov

Chernikhov International Prize for best emerging architecture studio. TEd’A is young Mallorcan studio, made up of Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol, was recognized early on through the Mallorcan Architecture Awards, which granted first prize in 2014 to the studio’s Can Lluís i n’Eulàlia single-family home, which encapsulates the firm’s values. In 2013, the same project was selected for the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and the FAD Awards for Architecture. The home is designed to fit into and be fitting for the setting through existing materials: a stone structure and the façade of local mares sandstone. Architects Piovenefabi presented “Triangles”, an overview of their work covering projects of different scales and contexts. Amba Fabi studied at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and the École Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Belleville. She worked as art director and project leader at Architekturbüro Peter Zumthor (2007-2010). Giovanni Piovene studied at the Università IUAV di Venezia and the École Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Belleville. After working for the Shrinking Cities Office in Berlin, he co-founded Salottobuono in Venice (2007). He is currently collaborating with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Bosshard Vaquer founded in 2001 in Switzerland by Daniel Bosshard, graduated in architecture from the ETH, and Meritxell Vaquer i Fernández, graduated in architecture from the ETSAB. They have worked in various protected buildings and monuments in projects that require careful handling, as restructuring awarded Sihlfeld Cemetery and the music room of St Gallen. The project for the Instituto Svizzero in Rome belongs to the same series of projects that work and develop from the existing. Their project for a new residential building in Zurich Europaallee also follows the same philosophy. De Vylder Vinck Taillieu (DVVT) founded in 2009 by Jan de Vylder, Inge Vink and Jo Taillieu in Ghent, Belgium, which is currently one of the most interesting countries in terms of architecture. Their work has awarded with the Belgian Building Award several times. They were nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for their projects Les Ballets C de la B & Lod and Rot-Ellen-Berg and Twiggy. In 2015, they were shortlisted again for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. dvvt’s work has been on exhibition at locations such as the Architecture Biennale in Venice, the Design Biennial in Istanbul and New York’s New Museum. 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

“Development by Design: Dialogues in Architecture, Equity and Development” The Master of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, along with Roca Barcelona Gallery, presented a lecture series entitled: “Development by Design: Dialogue in Architecture, Equity and Development”. The aim of the series was to encourage debate on issues related to the practice of architecture and design, particularly in the field of development and construction in cities in general. The advent of rapid urbanization has led to large-scale problems that present great challenges and opportunities for progress towards a just and sustainable future. Resilience, sustainable urban development, the impact of mass migration to cities, community participation, disaster response and post-disaster risk reduction are key areas within the main programme that deserve to be highlighted further in the classroom and have special resonance with professionals and even the general public today.

Cooperation

Students from the School of Architecture Present Proposals to Improve Accessibility of Housing in Bellvitge Students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture presented a series of proposals at Bellvitge Cultural Centre to improve the accessibility of a number of buildings in the district of Bellvitge. The students have been working on this project over the course of the academic year as part of the Cooperation subject, which is taught by Sandra Bestraten and Emili HormĂas. Mayor NĂşria MarĂn, District Councillor Antonio Bermudo, the Assistant Director of the School of Architecture, Marta Benages, and various municipal officers attended the presentation, which formed part of the activities to mark the 50th anniversary of the district of Bellvitge. The Bellvitge apartment blocks have some common characteristics that hinder the daily lives of people in terms of accessibility: the lifts stop between floors and residents have to climb a flight of stairs from the ground floor to reach the lift. The solutions involve providing lift access to every floor and from street level. The aim of the event was to allow students to present residents with their proposals for improving 14 different buildings that pose a range of accessibility problems, primarily involving access. The students created models of each proposal to provide more insight into the solutions.

Cooperation

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

Sixth Edition of Pioneering UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Accessibility Course Now Under Way This year, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is offering the 6th 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. This commitment was ratified on Thursday, 23 October 2014, during the signing of the renewal of the agreement in the presence of UIC Barcelona Rector Dr. Pere Alavedra, Francisco Mesonero, the General Director of the Adecco Foundation, and Isabel Sánchez, the Director of Personnel Management and Development at Caixa d’Enginyers savings bank. 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.

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”. 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.

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.

Sustainability â&#x20AC;˘ CEIM

Students taking the sustainability subjectvisited 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.

CEIM • Sustainability

Proposal from the schools of architecture in Barcelona for a self-sufficient building in Torre Baró Architecture schools and centres in Barcelona this academic year designed five draft projects aimed at promoting quality design, the principles and values of energy self-sufficiency and regeneration within the “Prototypes of Architecture-Barcelona” Programme. A jury was in charge of evaluating these five draft projects and then a single executive project was drafted. This competition was undertaken at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture in coordination with the Barcelona Ceramics Chair and the CEIM Chair to respond to the proposal made by the City Council to develop a prototype for a self-sufficient building using constructive principles and technological, environmental and social solutions for buildings and entire blocks in the city, based on self-reliance and local manufacturing. Students participating in each of the subjects related to the two Chairs at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture worked together to offer solutions for this commission in direct competition with other schools of architecture in Barcelona.

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

Barcelona Ceramics An exhibition entitled “Barcelona Ceramics” at the Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) opened on 6 November 2015. It contained a sample of twenty ceramic pieces via which the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Barcelona Ceramics Chair, which was set up as an initiative of the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association and Pavements (ASCER). The twenty proposals displayed at this exhibition were made by students at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and supervised by professors from the Chair. These twenty new formats designed for new applications in the field of architecture combine rigorous techniques and creative excitement. In addition, some of the designs are protected by patents and utility models.

Barcelona Ceramics Chair

The students from the Barcelona Ceramics Chair won the Cevisama Award for the eleventh consecutive year Four students from the Barcelona Ceramics Chair at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture won first prize in the International Design Competition for Ceramics Pieces at the Cevisama Fair. Specifically, they won two first prizes, one second prize and also a distinction. This is the eleventh consecutive year that students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture have been awarded prizes at the Cevisama Fair.

Originality, versatility and functionality were the primary criteria to select the winners of these awards, which were recognised by a jury of renowned professionals from the fields of design, architecture, journalism and business.

The winners were Angel Garcia —first prize for an extruded piece— Basile Ribas —first prize for a compressed piece—, Joan Garcés Marc —second prize for an extruded piece— and William Diaz -a distinction for an extruded piece.

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 • Cutting-edge Landscapes

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture on Exhibition at National Art Museum of Catalonia For the second consecutive year, the final degree projects by students in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture have be on display in the Oval Room of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya as part of the event “Rethinking Metropolitan Barcelona: Research and Design, Between the City and the River”, which took place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 23 July 2015. The visiting lecturer for the 2011-2015 graduating class was renowned architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg, the winner of Spain’s National Architecture Award in 2014, who gave a lecture entitled, “The Limits of the City”. The exhibition, “Cutting-edge Landscapes”, was presented within the framework of the agreement signed between the Catalan government and the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and consists of the final degree projects of 30 students under the direction of architects and lecturers Alberto Estévez, Miquel Lacasta, Juan Trías de Bes, Álvaro Cuéllar and Pere Vall, along with the lecturers in technical areas. The project involved reflecting on the area around the Riera de Caldes Sur, a part of the city with large, independent, residual and largely inaccessible periurbanized spaces. The students developed a single project that responds to the problems of the location at all levels, including the landscape, specific constructions, neighbourhoods and public spaces. The proposals specifically address three main topics: first, giving structure and drawing attention to independent peri-urbanized areas that have been fragmented by the strong presence of road and rail infrastructure in the area; second, the environmental recovery of the lower part of the Riera de Caldes as a new river park; and third, highlighting the positive aspects of the urban limits of Mollet Sur.

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.

Cutting-edge Landscapes â&#x20AC;¢ Exhibitions

Exhibitions • Cutting-edge Landscapes

The publication includes the work done during the 2014-2015 course at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture in the workshops of projects by final year students. It analyzes the concept of “Cutting -edge Landscapes”. Teachers: Miquel Lacasta, Juan Trias de Bes, Alberto T. Estévez.

Cutting-edge Landscapes â&#x20AC;¢ Exhibitions

Exhibitions • Piso Piloto

School of Architecture Students Create Proposals for CCCB “Piso Piloto” Exhibition Barcelona and Medellín share common features, including a geography that defines the landscape, acts as a boundary and prevents expansion. Both are also the second-largest city in their respective countries and share a marked industrial character that has allowed them to expand rapidly and has attracted many emigrant workers. This exhibition demonstrates what international cooperation can mean today: in this case, the exchange of pilot experiences that provide useful knowledge for any city in the world. The “Piso Piloto” exhibition is curated by architects Josep Bohigas, David Bravo and Alex Giménez, UIC alumni Guillen Augé and Anna Vergés, and Museum of Antioquía curator Nydia Gutiérrez. It is divided into three sections: The Housing Problem, Housing as a Solution and Challenges. The event is sponsored by the cooperation departments at the Medellín and Barcelona City Councils, together with the Museum of Antioquia and the CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Students of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture’s Master International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture worked in the context of the Torre Baró neighbourhood of Barcelona, while fourth-year students produced proposals for the Ciutat Meridiana area of the city in the subjects Projects V and VI.

Piso Piloto • Exhibitions

The objective of the Project V and VI subjects was to allow students to learn how to take a broad, crosscutting approach to a project and explore its interactions with different disciplines and areas of knowledge. The resulting strategies successfully addressed the neighbourhood’s principal deficiencies through urban planning proposals that reinterpreted the architecture and its relationship to the public and private space. Lecturers and students came up with four urban strategies: projects relating to mobility, projects that create public spaces, projects that highlight cross-sections and building types, and projects relating to the balance between activities, the landscape and the scale of the city.

Students of the Master International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the School of Architecture presented the conclusions from the #meflipatorrebaró workshop (crazy about Torre Baró) held in December 2014 in the Torre Baró neighbourhood. During the workshop, students carried out an analysis of the area’s socio-spatial climate in order to provide real solutions that met locals’ actual needs in terms of housing, public space, services, mobility and the commercial fabric. The method proposed by the master’s programme involved identifying current social and spatial values to guide regeneration and using place-making activities as the main driver of the process.

Exhibitions • The House I Dream Of

The House I Dream Of “The House I Dream Of” is a cultural project designed to highlight the role that architects play in our daily lives, encouraging reflection about the professionals who designed the homes we live in. Through this project high school students can learn about the process of thinking about a house, the variables that influence this process and how these can change depending on the country, culture or environment it is being designed for. It is an introduction for students planning to take this degree programme. Young people without any prior knowledge of architecture can participate in this project. This means that they are able to create a space for dreaming about all their ideas that may not yet be viable architecturally, but where they can still express their own concept of the house they dream of.

This initiative, which encouraged international participation, was presented at the Saló de l’Ensenyament and formed part of the of the Final Degree Projects (TFG) exhibition in the Oval Hall in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

The House I Dream Of â&#x20AC;¢ Exhibitions

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

MIQUEL LACASTA

FELIPE PICH-AGUILERA

JUDITH URBANO

Miquel Lacasta Wins First Prize at 2014 Futurs Possibles Competition

Felipe Pich-Aguilera Wins Competition on Sustainable Third Millennium Housing

Judith Urbano Publishes Book on “Eclectic Barcelona”

Miquel Lacasta, a lecturer in Projects at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, together with the rest of the Archikubik team and the French company SADEV94, won first prize at the 2014 Futurs Possibles competition for his project, ZAC Rouget de Lisle. The prizes were handed out on Thursday, 20 November 2014, at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, an information, documentation and exhibition centre on urban planning and architecture in Paris.

Felipe Pich-Aguilera, a professor who teaches the subject Sustainability and the Director of the UIC Barcelona Chair of Industrial Construction and the Environment (CEIM), has won the competition “Le Logement du 3ème Millénaire au Service du Développement Durable” (“Third Millennium Housing for Sustainable Development”) in the Construction Systems category, along with the rest of the team at Pich Architects and in collaboration with W-ATS Architects and INGÉROP. The competition is organized by Toulouse City Council’s housing authority.

Lacasta’s project, ZAC Rouget de Lisle, is located in the area of Vitry-sur-Seine in the Paris suburbs. In the words of the prestigious panel of French judges, who included influential figures from the fields of urban planning, architecture and the technical press, his project was awarded first prize for the quality and value of its innovative underpinnings and its contribution to the positive overall management of future urban developments in the area.

Pich-Aguilera’s winning project, submitted under the name “Une infrastructure pour la diversité – le sens de l’industrialisation vers le développement durable” (“Infrastructure for diversity: driving industrialization towards sustainable development”), proposes a type of infrastructure using versatile systems that can be applied in low-, medium- and high-density construction, and even renovations.

Dr. Judith Urbano, a lecturer at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and a member of its History, Architecture and Design research group, has written a new book on August Font i Carreras (1845-1924), which went on sale this week. La Barcelona Eclèctica (Eclectic Barcelona) was published by Dux Editorial with support from Barcelona City Council. The book aims to do justice to one of the city’s least-known architects. August Font i Carreras was very well known during his lifetime and had a glittering professional career. His major works included the façade and dome of Barcelona Cathedral, the Church of Santa María de Montalegre, Las Arenas bullring, the Palau de las Heures (originally a private home, now part of the Universitat de Barcelona), the Maison Dorée restaurant, the Palau de Belles Arts (a grand pavilion for the 1888 Universal Exposition), several branches of La Caixa d’Estalvis savings bank and charitable foundation, and much more.

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PERE VALL AND MARTA BENAGES

DAVID BAENA

ENRIQUE ROVIRA BELETA

Pere Vall and Marta Benages Sit on Organizing and Scientific Committees for International Conference on Urban Fringe Landscapes

David Baena to Turn Bridge in Barcelona into Green City Square

Enrique Rovira-Beleta Outlines Keys to Accessible Tourism at Third Gran Canaria Accessibility Fair

Pere Vall, the Director of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and Marta Benages, the School’s Assistant Director of Students and Head of Studies, formed part of the organizing and scientific committees for one of the workshops at Describing, Inhabiting and Governing Urban Fringe Landscapes, an international conference that took place at the Palais des Archevêques in Narbonne, France, from Wednesday to Friday, 5-7 November 2014. The two academics from the UIC Barcelona presided over the workshop on Urban Fringes: Space for Development, which was held on Wednesday, 5 November 2014. Speakers included Laurène Wiesztort, who gave a talk on Urban Fringes: Between Rezoning and City Redevelopment Projects, and Céline Loudier-Magouyres and Perrine Michon, who presented the New Report on Public Space in the Urban Fringes.

David Baena, professor of construction at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, will join the rest of the BCQ architecture studio in revamping Barcelona’s Sarajevo Bridge and turning it into a new green city square. The Sarajevo Bridge crosses Avinguda Meridiana and joins both sides of la Trinitat at the northern access to the city. This new green gate will provide shade and make it easier for pedestrians and vehicles to share the space. The project will be energy self-sufficient, thanks to solar panels that will generate enough power to illuminate the area. The pavement will make use of phosphorescent elements that absorb pollutants.

Enrique Rovira-Beleta Cuyás, a lecturer in Accessibility at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, gave a talk and attended a roundtable discussion at the third edition of the Gran Canaria Accessibility Fair. The event was held at the Canary Islands Trade Fair Institute (INFECAR) from 16 to 18 April 2015. In his talk, Accessible Tourism: The Great Business Initiative of the 21st Century, Rovira-Beleta shone a light on various ways to plan for the future while adapting to suit the requirements of all, without the need for special designs. He gave examples of how disabled people and wheelchair users have been able to visit different cities and destinations around the world without any difficulty.

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GUILLEM CARABÍ

FREDY MASSAD

ARQUITECTURA-G

Guillem Carabí Compares Two Visions of Barcelona’s Plaça de Catalunya at “Culture and the City” International Conference

Criticism as Instrument for Change in Fredy Massad’s Latest Book

Arquitectura-G Studio, Made Up of UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Lecturers and Alumni, Awarded Mies van der Rohe 2015 Emerging Architect Special Mention

Guillem Carabí, a professor of Composition and Graphic Expression at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, spoke at the international conference “Culture and the City: Images and Representations of the Urban, Historic Cities and Cultural Events”, which took place from Wednesday to Friday, 15-17 April 2015, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada. In his talk “Disagreements: Two Drawings of the Same Square by Puig i Cadafalch”, Guillem Carabí compared two visions of the same subject, Barcelona’s main city square, Plaça de Catalunya. The first vision was photographer Lucien Roisin’s view of the square from a panoramic perspective, in keeping with his documentary approach, while the second approach comes from the perspective drawings of Puig i Cadafalch’s, which were adapted based on his approach to the city’s urban development.

On Tuesday, 14 April 2015, Fredy Massad’s new book La viga en el ojo (The Beam in Your Own Eye), published by Ediciones Asimétricas, was presented at the Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture (CCCB). Massad is a lecturer on theory and criticism at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. Architects Josep Lluís Mateo, Miquel Lacasta Codorniu, Emiliano López and Juan García Millán were present at the event. Juan García Millán is an editor at Ediciones Asimétricas. “La viga is a combative book that speaks with uncommon freedom and sincerity that can sometimes verge on rudeness. Massad applies this sincerity in his well thoughtout and ethical approach to issues he finds both interesting and worrisome. In my view, the book’s main goal is to use criticism as an instrument for change”, said Millán.

On Friday, 8 May 2015, Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes and Igor Urdampilleta, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture alumni and lecturers who make up the Catalan Arquitectura-G studio, received the prestigious Mies van der Rohe 2015 Emerging Architect Special Mention for “Luz House”. They received the awards at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. Cino Zucchi, president of the jury, highlighted the simplicity and clarity of Luz House’s spaces, as well as its high environmental quality and the colour palette that can be seen in the building. “This project shows that good architecture needn’t necessarily be prohibitively expensive”, he said.

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ALBERTO T. ESTÉVEZ

FELIPE PICH-AGUILERA

PEDRO CASARIEGO

Alberto T. Estévez Participates in Gaudí 1st World Congress

Felipe Pich Aguilera Inaugurates Latest Project: Fondo Library

Pedro Casariego Takes Part in EUROSTEEL 2014 Conference

Alberto T. Estévez, a professor in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, gave a lecture on Gaudí titled «Lessons from the Arts» at the Schools of the Sagrada Família. He also read a paper at the Gaudí 1st World Congress, which was held in Barcelona from Monday to Friday, 6-10 October 2014.

On Thursday, 11 September 2014, Felipe Pich-Aguilera, a professor of Projects and the Director of the CEIM Chair at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, inaugurated Fondo Library in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, his latest project. This multipurpose public building is in the city centre of Santa Coloma and its aim is not only to equip the neighbourhood with public services, but also to fit into the city’s multicultural urban environment. The project highlights concepts such as urban sustainability and the advantages of a dense, compact structure.

Pedro Casariego, who lectures on Structures at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, took part in the seventh edition of the EUROSTEEL conference. The event was held in Naples, Italy, from Wednesday to Friday, 1012 September 2014. Casariego contributed to the section on cold-formed steel with the presentation of his project, Experimental Tests on Trapezoidal Steel Sheeting: An Investigation into the Effect of Transverse Corrugations, which he wrote in collaboration with the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB).

The building is located in a very densely occupied urban area with few streets and little free space. The public services in the area are housed in buildings that were formerly residential apartments, so they do not enjoy the benefits of purpose-built structures.

The EUROSTEEL conference is the largest European forum on steel and mixed structures. The seventh edition of this popular event was organized by the Department of Structural Engineering and Architecture at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Estévez’s lecture “Lessons from the Arts” was organized by IESE and Essentiabcn and held on Tuesday, 23 September 2014, at the Schools of the Sagrada Família designed by Gaudí. During the lecture, Estévez spoke on topics such as Gaudí’s faith in his mission, the hope he placed in architecture and his love of work. A group of world leaders from UNICEF attended the lecture. Estévez also participated in the Gaudí 1st World Congress, which was held in Barcelona from Monday to Friday, 6-10 October 2014, where he presented the paper “An Evolution in Gaudí’s Legacy Towards Biodigital Organicism”.

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JUAN TRIAS DE BES

ALBERTO T. ESTÉVEZ

FREDY MASSAD

Juan Trias de Bes Presents Two Projects at Offices Rethink Barcelona Conference

Alberto T. Estévez Participates in «What’s the Matter?» International Conference

Juan Trias de Bes, a professor of Projects at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, read a paper on Tuesday, 30 September 2014, at the Offices Rethink Barcelona conference organized by the company Grupo Vía at the Ofita Showroom in Barcelona.

Alberto T. Estévez, a professor in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, participated in the conference entitled “What’s the Matter?: Materiality and Materialism at the Age of Computation”, held by the European Network of Heads’ of Schools of Architecture (ENHSA) at the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC) on Thursday to Saturday, 4-6 September 2014.

Fredy Massad Gives Talk on Key to Social Architecture at Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The paper, Valuable Architecture for Global Brands: From Grífols and ESADE to a New Office Building in Barcelona, Trias de Bes spoke about two projects that his professional firm, TDB Architecture, is working on: an office building on the B-30 motorway and a new office complex in Plaça d’Europa. Grupo Vía organized the conference about professional office space to analyse the transformation taking place in office buildings as a result of technological developments, cultural changes and today’s more flexible, decentralized business structures. To this end, the conference included six papers from members of leading architecture studios who presented some of the latest projects in progress in this sector.

On Friday, 5 September 2014, Estévez presided over the conference’s first session and roundtable discussion. The conference was attended by numerous renowned architects, including Kas Oosterhuis, Lars Spuybroek, Bob Sheil, Marcos Cruz, Manuel De Landa and Mark Burry. After being introduced, the speakers discussed subjects related to the conference’s focus. This was followed by a discussion on the challenges of materialization in computer design and digital manufacturing.

On Friday, 24 October 2014, the critic Fredy Massad, who is also a lecturer in Architecture and Criticism at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, gave a talk on «Social Construction in the Era of Spectacle» to the School of Architecture at the Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Massad spoke about how the concept of social architecture has begun to enjoy increasing levels of support in recent years. He took a critical perspective and offered insight into how and why this increased support has arisen and examined the supposed change in objectives, ideological paradigms, rhetoric and aesthetic considerations that this implies.

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GERARD ARIAS

SANTIAGO CIRUCEGA

UIC Barcelona Student, Gerard Arias, Wins Competition to Design New Andorra Telecom Building

Alumnus Santiago Cirugeda Becomes First Spaniard to Win Global Award for Sustainable Architecture

Gerard Arias, a student from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, has won a competition to design the new offices of the telecommunications company Andorra Telecom. The project, titled “The Cloud”, will incorporate the company’s current premises and the old fire station on Avinguda Meritxell in Andorra La Vella. Arias’s winning project, “The Cloud”, is a 14-storey building featuring a glass façade and an open-air ground floor. On the fourth floor, commercial and cultural spaces, the Andorra Telecom offices, and restaurant and leisure facilities will be organized around a large atrium. The plan involves covering the entire main building with a glass structure. The design reflects Andorra Telecom’s status as the country’s pioneering telecommunications company, a position emphasized by the building’s high-tech appearance. It will feature a total of 11,200 square metres of floor space and the public spaces will provide a link between Avinguda Meritxell, Prada Ramon and the Fener neighbourhood. The members of the judging panel were able to reach a consensus on the winning project. Eight different criteria were considered, including cost, sustainability and maintenance.

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Alumnus Santiago Cirugeda recently became the first Spaniard ever to be honoured with the LOCUS Foundation’s Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. For 15 years, Cirugeda had been raising legal, urban and social questions from the Recetas Urbanas collective. After receiving the award, he said that “this will serve as a reminder to those who want to keep me from carrying out certain kinds of projects in Spain that in other places, on a global level, those same kinds of projects are valued. Thank you very much, we’re going to use this the best we can.” Marie-Hélène Contal, director of the French Institute of Architecture, one of the institutes associated with La Cité, discussed how Cirugeda has transformed the profession since 2007. She also highlighted his history of activism, along with his strategy for sharing experiences and confronting economic transition, which is centred on the environment and equipment, as well as on cheap architecture, something already considered extraordinary. Contal explained that Cirugeda puts on performances, encourages collectives, associates with lawyers and computer scientists, publishes manuals and makes sure that the process he has put in motion can be passed on to other architects and other people.

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