ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTER COURSE IN CITY REGENERATION. DESIGN LAB 3. CITY AND HERITAGE. COURSE 2011-2012 FORMATIVE UNIT: City Integrated Ecosystems Management. DEPARTMENT: Architectural Projects - Continuous Medium Mechanics and Theory of Structures. TEACHING STAFF: Eva María Álvarez Isidro – Begoña Serrano Lanzarote. CREDITS: 3,5 LEARNING OUTCOMES: This formative unit is organized in two blocks with their inevitable crosscuts: Block A addressed to highlight comprehensive concepts (E. Álvarez) Block B addressed to highlight efficiency concepts (B. Serrano) Block A (20 hours): Theoretical approach based on work in case study. Outcomes when finishing the Block A, in order of importance: 1. Students should know and use a specific practical and theoretic index. 2. Students should understand the city and the human habitat as an overlapping ecosystem modeled by Forces, Functions and Forms. 3. Students are also expected to be able to argument their approach to design attending to gender and diversity mainstreaming in architecture and urbanism so as they should have solid notions on sustainable positions and participatory processes. 4. They should know how to express their arguments by means of graphic tools and 3D tools (models and renders)
Integrated urban regeneration. New strategies and smart models of management.
Block B (10 hours):
Outcomes when finishing the Block B. •
Understand the concept and opportunity of Integral Urban Regeneration in outdated and vulnerable areas • Assessing the environmental impact of building and urbanization • Know the concept Smart cities • Manage supplies designed to optimize the use and consumption of limited resources or renewable energy, water, … • Understand the generation and waste treatment and reversible construction procedures • Management processes to develop environmental quality • Evaluate and assess the sustainability of cities and buildings COURS MAIN CONTENT: This formative unit is organized in two blocks with their inevitable crosscuts: Block A addressed to highlight comprehensive concepts (E. Álvarez) Block B addressed to highlight efficiency concepts (B. Serrano) Block A (20 hours): Theoretical approach based on work in case study. Case study: Structured open spaces in Valencia around Turia old river bed and its interactions with historic heritage near it. Supported at UPV by: lectures (9 hours), reading seminar (2 hours), workshop reviews (5 hours), organized visits (4 hours) Complementary work: students are expected to employ extra 35 hours of work, organized from
UPV in aided workshop sessions, complementary visits, reading seminars. a) Lectures (9 hours): L 1: Introduction (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - Los Angeles. The architecture of four ecologies, Banham (1971) - Learning from Las Vegas, Scott Brown (1972) - The Oregon experiment, Alexander (1975) - The right to the city, Harvey (2008) - Social movements in the (post) neoliberal city, Mayer (2010) - Case study 01: FFF ( 20 min) L 2: Global Urbanism (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - The generic city, Koolhaas (1995) - The dialectic city, Ungers (1997) - Made in Tokyo, Atelier Bow Wow (2001) - Field guide to sprawl, Hayden (2004) - Harvard Ecological Urbanism Conference (2009) - Case study 02: FFF ( 20 min) L 3: Participation and Sustainability (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - Advocacy and pluralism in planning, Davidoff (1965) - The Oregon experiment, Alexander (1975) - Bruntland report “Our common future” (1989) - Sun Power, Behling (1996) - Case study 03: FFF ( 20 min) L 4: Gender and Diversity (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - Death and life of great American cities, Jacobs (1961) - Building suburbia, Hayden (2003) - Domesticity at war, Colomina (2007) - Cities and Gender, Jarvis (2009) - Case study 04: FFF ( 20 min) L 5: Built Examples (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - Social Urbanism, Medellín (Colombia) - Gender mainstreaming in Vienna (Austria) - Latin-American architecture: Brasil, Paraguay, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia - Onethousandsquare in Hamar, Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid (2011) - Case study 05: FFF ( 20 min) L 6: Theoretical Examples (1 hour 10 min + 20 min) - Investigations in collective form, Maki (1964) - Situationism: Constant, New Babylon (1967) - Made in Tokyo, Atelier Bow-Wow (2001) - AA Diplom 11: Shin Egashira and Radical remodelling (2011-2012) - Case study 06: FFF ( 20 min) b) Visits (4 hours) V1: Visit to Turia old river bed by bike (2 hours) V2: Visit to Valencia city around the River by bus (2 hours) c) Workshop sessions: 5 Collective Discussion Sessions (5 hours). Invited architects. d) Reading Seminar with invited professor: Collective Discussion on readings (2 hours)
Block B (10 hours): a) Lectures (4 hours): L 1: Efficient management of resources: energy, materials, waste, water and air. (2 hours) L 2: Vectors sustainable urban model: compactness, efficiency, complexity and stability (1 hour) L 3: Smart management and maintenance of the existing city. The role of information technology and communication. (1 hour) b) Workshop sessions: 3 Cases study of Integral Urban Regeneration (2 hours). c) Reading seminar with invited professor: Collective discussion on readings (2 hours) d) Visit to “Barrio de Ruzafa” in Valencia (2 hours)
TYPE OF EVALUATION: Attendance will be compulsory a) Contents Exam (25%): exam b) Workshop presentation (45 %): public presentation of panels (in groups) c) Diary Sessions Booklet (20 %): diary personal work register d) Personal interview (10%): public interview at class BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Los Angeles. The architecture of four ecologies, Banham (1971) - Learning from Las Vegas, Scott Brown (1972) - The Oregon experiment, Alexander (1975) - The right to the city, Harvey (2008) - Social movements in the (post) neoliberal city, Mayer (2010) - The generic city, Koolhaas (1995) - The dialectic city, Ungers (1997) - Made in Tokyo, Atelier Bow Wow (2001) - Field guide to sprawl, Hayden (2004) - Harvard Ecological Urbanism Conference (2009) - Advocacy and pluralism in planning, Davidoff (1965) - The Oregon experiment, Alexander (1975) - Bruntland report “Our common future” (1989) - Sun Power, Behling (1996) - Building suburbia, Hayden (2003) - Domesticity at war, Colomina (2007) - Cities and Gender, Jarvis (2009)