March 9, 2010
posted by domenico
CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS, ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGNERS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS & IMAGINATIVE OTHERS:
Goal of the challenge is to design and build units of a model arts village in Ghana with a budget of $42,000-$62,000 and earth under the feet. The competition is a part of the Foundation’s ongoing project: tapping local resources for sustainable development in the African settings in the 21st century. We are interested in design solutions that integrate art into architecture for a more sustainable future. Join us! A grand prize winner and twenty top finalists and will be chosen. Show the world how to re-invent the African semi-suburb! Establish your name, and contribute your ideas and designs to a real need.
March 1, 2010
posted by domenico
MAG LAB (Syria-Spain) in collaboration with Ebdaat Magazine (Architectural Creations), ALFA 301 (Spain) and Stardust* (Spain-Italy-Brazil-USA) is organizing the 2010 International Architectural Competition.
February 27, 2010
posted by domenico
Mine the Gap: “An international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan shore that was to have been—and may yet be—the foundation for a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned Spanish architect, a tower which was to have become a new icon for the city and region. What to do with the gap?” Submissions due: “anytime between March 22, 2010 and May 3, 2010.”
web: http://chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/
February 24, 2010
posted by domenico
Within the IAAC Thesis projects series we started last year, we continue today by presenting the work by Gawel Tyrala, an architect from Wroclaw, Poland. As a thesis project he developed a project to enter a competition on Vistula River banks. Permanent activities around Vistula River banks forced the need to create temporary infrastructure for going on events.
February 4, 2010
posted by domenico
Every friday, Twitter’s users have got into the habit of selecting and suggesting someone interesting to follow. This action has become a weekly international event and it is called #followfriday.
[Ecosistema Urbano] has been inspired by this to create a new section known as #followarch. It is focused on recomending architecture offices who are worth following.
If you are interested in being part of this section please send us completed our contact form.
We are pelased to present you this week the Portuguese office: ON OFFICE.
January 26, 2010
posted by admin
[ecosistema urbano] open calls for admission of candidates for a vacancy with fellow European mobility program Leonardo da Vinci.
Each year we support one or two trainees, and this year we have decided to make the call through the blog.
Date: From February to August 2010
Deadline for submissions: 03/02/10
Format: original presentation in pdf (no more than 5MB).
Send documents to michael@ecosistemaurbano.com
Leonardo Grants:
Since 1 January 2007 the Leonardo da Vinci is part of the Lifelong Learning Program, in conjunction with the Comenius, Erasmus and Grundtvig. Will be addressing the needs of teaching and learning of all participants in education and training, excluding tertiary level.
These are grants for placements in enterprises or in training institutions in other European Union country. They are addressed to students of Middle Level Training Cycles and people in the labour market (people who follow vocational training courses, recent graduates: college or vocational training background and degree courses, etc.).
The Leonardo da Vinci provides financial assistance to organizations that promote mobility projects.
To obtain a scholarship within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci, you should contact one of these organizations witch have approved mobility projects (the Ministry of Education of your community, your University, your Institute, Chamber of Commerce, City Councils. ..).
Good Luck.
November 27, 2009
posted by domenico
The Barcelona Institute of Architecture present its forthcoming BIArch Dialogues “Reviewing Architectural Knowledge Formats” to which I am invited.
As the title suggests, the dialogues will focus on issues regarding the generation and dissemination of architectural knowledge and content, through print and digital media, institutions and curatorial practices, and the establishment of pedagogical agendas. This way, BIArch hopes to open a field of inquiry that complements the Institute’s fundamental theoretical, technical and academic concerns. Through the shared reflection of scholars, critics, independent publishers, digital media entrepreneurs, curators, and cultural activists, the dialogues hope to establish a framework that might provide some of the answers to a context in which knowledge is permanently evolving.
Where: Barcelona, Spain – Passeig de Gràcia, 92
When: Saturday, November 28, 2009
November 22, 2009
posted by Leonie
This post is by you.
Hi,
I am an architecture student from Germany and would like to share my last semester\’s urban design project with you. It was a group work focusing on the revitalization of a city quarter in the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Damascus, Syria. We proposed up-to-date housing in the traditional courtyard houses and a new cultural center on what has been urban wasteland for centuries.
October 23, 2009
posted by domenico
This interview is in the framework of a Phd research about new technologies and hybrid cities. It aims to demonstrate how this new tools can revitalize public spaces at the city.
October 22, 2009
posted by michael
The exhibition What if…? cities is ongoing until the Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. Meanwhile the staff of Louisiana organise workshops with several schools from Denmark.
October 7, 2009
posted by michael
In a recent visit to Paris, I bought a French trade magazine that made references to “eco-neighbourhoods” built in northern Europe. Some, like BedZED, are already commented on this blog. Others were a total discovery for me. It is necessary disseminating these performances, some very good, so we can learn from these experiences. For a neighbourhood to convert into an “eco-district”, sometimes you only need a politician illuminated with appropriate buzzwords. Other times it is a collective work which has required joint efforts on the part of the public initiative, private, and of course some architects have responded to these concerns.
September 25, 2009
posted by belinda
Today we present the work by Pablo Rica: Compact – Fabric Forming Component .
Fabric is a flexible and adaptable material with a soft appearance. In combination with a fill in material, the properties change from supple to hard, gaining structural and thermal qualities. The hardened material turns to have a soft appearance in reverse. This is where the ambiguity and discrepancy from solid fabric to elastic stone becomes interesting. And in that process of changing condition is where new possibilities of design arise. Compact is a research project about examining the potential of fabric as a construction technique and developing a modular system, in which material properties and environmental aspects are involved.
September 18, 2009
posted by belinda
Today we present the work by Brynhildur Guðlaugs, an architect from Reikiavik, Iceland. Her proposal, called Sensual landscape, is a bathing facility for the hiking people who travel around the Torfajokull region in Iceland, an uninhabited area in the south and one of the most powerful thermal areas in the country, named after a glacier, Torfajokull. The structure of the facility is an adaptation of the already existing hot springs that are situated all around the area.
September 17, 2009
posted by domenico
Competition to Tap Global Design Community to Develop Sidewalk Shed of the Future
Finalists to Receive $25,000 in Awards and Winner to See Design Built in Lower Manhattan
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) today announced the launch of the urbanSHED International Design Competition with support from the Alliance for Downtown New York, ABNY Foundation, Illuminating Engineering
Society New York City Section (IESNYC), and the New York Building Congress.
September 15, 2009
posted by michael
Next 21th of Septembre [ecosistema urbano] will give a lecture in Paris, at 19.00 in Le Palais de Chaillot.
For more information see below.
August 26, 2009
posted by michael
Last July we presented a proposal for the new municipality of Eilat (South of Israel), invited by the Israeli architect Peter Keinan. It was very interesting to develop an office building with an open space in extreme weather conditions as South of Israel. We give you all the details of this project.
August 21, 2009
posted by belinda
Jose Luis Vallejo and Belinda Tato have been tutors of one of the thesis projects group at the IAAC last June. There were 16 different students from many different countries such as Russia, Poland, Colombia, Turkey, India and so on. It has been very interesting and exciting to work with architects with such different backgrounds. The topics were chosen by them and there is a whole range of different ones from a very small scale to a large one.
We will be presenting some of these thesis works in the following weeks. Today we present the work by Rodrigo Toledo, an architect from Medellín, Colombia. His proposal is for his home city Medellín and he deals with the economic and social issues related to public space scene.
July 28, 2009
posted by michael
A group of architects, engineers and constructors have started to think (and design) how to refurbish the Empire State into a modern and sustainable building. The initiative is led by a special person, Amory Lovins, co-founder of the “Rocky Mountain Institute” in 1982.
July 8, 2009
posted by domenico
L’Aquila – Italy, earthquake
Yes, we camp! It’s the cry to denounce the crazy conduct of the after earthquake emergency.
For the first time in the recent history of earthquakes, after three months, people are still living under tents and they will have to stay there for a long time, according to the Government’s plans.
July 4, 2009
posted by domenico
A few weeks ago we attended the opening of the exhibition “Green Architecture for the Future” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, an institution which is working since the fifties in Humlebaek (a charming town half an hour by train from Copenhagen) . This museum was a pioneer in its time to set off in a rural setting and maintain its activity for over half a century. We recommend a visit (at least virtual) if you have the chance, because the landscape and its relationship with the architecture of the museum is probably something to remember.
June 30, 2009
posted by michael
En esta columna hablaremos de algunos momentos fuertes de proyectos en marcha, proyectos realizados o proyectos abandonados, que tendrán la suerte de renacer mediante estas líneas semanales.
June 26, 2009
posted by domenico
The European Urban Knowledge Network has published an interview with Belinda Tato (Ecosistema Urbano):
Many people, organisations and governmental bodies would agree that cities play an important role in reducing the negative effects of climate change. In the past few years, this role has been actively debated at conferences, summits and informal meetings. Some organisations have a very clear and progressive image of what cities can do to tackle climate change related issues and strongly believe in large-scale transformations. An example of such an organisation would be ‘Ecosistema Urbano’, a Madrid-based architectural research and design institute that is strongly committed towards ecology and sustainability. Belinda Tato, architect at Ecosistema Urbano, believes that far more can be done to make cities more sustainable. “In the last few decades cities have grown considerably, but nothing has been done to explore new urban models to improve their efficiency, especially in relation to the management of resources.” According to Ecosistema Urbano, the ideal sustainable city can become a reality if more creative and holistic solutions are sought.
May 24, 2009
posted by Jose
Today we present here a new initiative in which we have been working for the last months and we are asking for your participation.
We are trying to imagine what would happen if we were able to think about real solutions but…new / alternative / revolutionary … which together were capable of generating an alternative urbanity implemented over the contemporary city?
May 13, 2009
posted by dpr_barcelona
What do we think or talk when we refer to Sustain and Develop in the last years and for the forthcoming future? How can architects confront their work and ideas within the paradox that any new building, any new city will inevitably disrupt the natural ecology?
May 7, 2009
posted by michael
The intersection between the natural and the creative is subject of profound debate.
This places production at the crossroads of a pending reconfiguration that will invariably transform the way we formulate reproducible ideas, if giving consideration to material, cultural and environmental economies is that which can no longer be ignored.
Specific, collaborative revisions of existing productive practices may lead to visual and mechanical innovations that may foster these reconfigurations along.
April 21, 2009
posted by domenico
[ecosistema urbano] will be lecturing at Malmö (Sweden) next thursday 23rd.
The event will take place at Malmö University (Malmö Högskola in Swedish), Department of Urban Studies (Urbana Studier) in Ubåtshallen, Östra Varvsgatan 9A.
April 12, 2009
posted by domenico
El día 16 de abril, el equipo responsable del proyecto de difusión Freshmadrid presenta su nueva web fresh, con la que unifica las tres ediciones: freshmadrid, freshforward y re fresh. Se hará una presentación escaparate urbano, de los estudios refresh en el estudio banana a las 20 horas.
April 7, 2009
posted by urbanaccion
Podéis ver los primeros premios de las tres categorías del concurso de urbanaccion que hemos promovido conjuntamente a La Casa Encendida y la Oficina de Concursos de Arquitectura de Madrid. Enhorabuena a todos los participantes por la calidad de todas las propuestas.
Javier Arbona, Mark Jarzombek, and Kazys Varnelis
Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet
The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks
Between 14th and 18th of April we’ll be in Copenhagen for a lecture and workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts related to the event “Sustainable living”.
March 24, 2009
posted by Jose
Accomplished product designer, Peter J. Pearce has launched a beautiful new website featuring his work as a designer, author, researcher, and photographer.
March 16, 2009
posted by domenico
Editado por La Casa Encendida
Participan: Salvador Pérez Arroyo, arquitecto; José María Ezquiaga, arquitecto y sociólogo; Belinda Tato, arquitecta; Luis Arenas, filósofo; Andrés Jaque, arquitecto; Ariadna Cantis, arquitecta; Zuloark, colectivo de arquitectos y Pkmn, colectivo de arquitectos.
March 11, 2009
posted by domenico
Conferencia de [ecosistema urbano] para el Departamento de Planificación Urbana y Diseño de la Escuela de Arquitectura GSD Harvard.
7 de Abril de 2009 - 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall / Abierto al público.
Más información: Brooke King (bking@gsd.harvard.edu)
web: www.gsd.harvard.edu
