[ecosistema urbano] will be lecturing in Rome next friday october 17th 18:00 University of Waterloo Rome Program (Piazza Santa Apollonia 3 )
more info: www.romeprogram.uwaterloo.ca
architecture
October 12, 2008
[ecosistema urbano] will be in Istambul next thursday october 16th 11:30 due to a series of lectures organized for the international event ARKIPARC 08.
This day we will be happy to share auditorium with Rem Koolhas.
more info: www.arkiparc.com.
October 9, 2008
[Ludic-Tree. EcoBoulevard, Vallecas]
September 30, 2008
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Madrid/Spain – September 26, 2008 – Winners of the second European Holcim Awards competition for projects and visions in sustainable construction were announced at a ceremony in Madrid. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to ten projects that demonstrate the latest in eco-friendly and sustainable approaches from the building and construction industry.
Abri n. 177 by OzCollective
Category: architecture+art+events+⚐ EN
Enormous and reasoned assembling of umbrellas, wood, cables and nets. Composite structure supporting the machine, the installation, the shelter. Compartment that can be reconfigured and can host a user/person. Without any fixation, structurally autonomous, therefore able to move in the space of the yard according to the visitors’/users’ (inside or outside the compartment) desires and interactions. From the inside, the user can make the composition of the surface vary, defining its degree of opacity and privacy.
September 29, 2008
Work in progress 26-09-08
Category: architecture+design+⚐ EN
Here we show captures of some graphics we have been working on for the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. It is part of the design we did for a new staircase that is now almost finished.
September 26, 2008
Creative recycling
Category: architecture+art+design+⚐ EN
I was reading this great article about creative recycled art, architecture and design in www.weburbanist.com. What if we think further and recycle all the buildingmaterials, and use it for new buildings or urban spaces?
fisheye sessions #2
Category: architecture+proyectos+⚐ EN
this time I’ll show an unprecedented picture of Vallecas Eco-Boulevard, in particular a “media tree” top view
September 17, 2008
[ecosistema urbano] has been invited to the Biennale. We are participating with two installations entitled “TEN THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE CITY”.
The first one is at the Italian Pavilion, it consists of a mural in which we show these 10 principles associated to different projects and actions of [ecosistema urbano]. We have used anaglyph techniques to allow the public to expirience the installation in different ways.
The second one is an audio installation. In it we mix sounds from the city with our own voices, discusing these ten concepts. It makes part of the Novissimo events.
Megastructure Reloaded
Category: architecture+events+⚐ EN
Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision.
September 10, 2008
As we know, the natural sunlight is an indispensable source of life for the living organisms; for the man,
however, it plays various roles with remarkable psychological effects not exclusively bound to the quality of the vision of individuals, but for their well-being as well: the feeling of a well aired place, the perception of the true natural colours, the regulation of the biological cycles. The abstention from its benefits for long periods is the principal cause of some depressing pathologies.
September 5, 2008
The Morning Line
Matthew Ritchie in collaboration with Aranda/Lasch and Arup AGU
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
September 4, 2008
Lecture by the architect of the national aquatics centre Beijing
05 September 2008 at 7 pm
at Taut Saal
www.daz.de
August 13, 2008
Jantar Mantar – Jaipur, India
I’d be surprised if Giorgio de Chirico , and the other Metaphysical landscapers had not seen or been influenced by the huge celestial instruments of the surreal Jantar Mantar.
August 5, 2008
Volume is an independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for design. With going beyond architecture’s definition of ‘making buildings’ it reaches out for global views on designing environments, advocates broader attitudes to social structures, and reclaims the cultural and political significance of architecture. Created as a global idea platform to voice architecture any way, anywhere, anytime, it represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design.
July 30, 2008
Ever thought about buying your own country?
July 15, 2008
July 10, 2008
The Passive House (www.passivhauskurs.de) is the world’s leading standard in energy efficient construction: Energy saved on heating is 80% compared to conventional standards of new buildings. The energy requirement for heating is lower than 10 to 20 kWh/(m²a) (depending on climate), adding up to a low cost of 10 to 25 € per month. Therefore high energy prices are no longer a threat to Passive House occupants.
July 7, 2008
June 30, 2008
June 26, 2008
iaac summer workshop
Category: architecture+events+⚐ EN
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia launches the digital fabrication summer workshop. The aim is to produce the Venice Biennale installation that Guallart Architects (www.guallart.com), IaaC (www.iaac.net) and the Bcn Fab Lab (www.fablab.es), with the collaboration of Bestiario, will present during the Venice Biennale, based on digital fabrication procedures.
WATERCUBE: The Book
Category: architecture+⚐ EN
is a complete monographic publication about the National Swimming Center for the Beijing Olympics 2008. With an exhaustive description about the Watercube we present a detailed study of the project. The book makes an holistic approach to the project that starts with a brief description of urban and social changes that China has been experienced in the last decade. These facts have encouraged the construction boom that made possible these kind of projects occur in cities like Beijing.
June 24, 2008
For many, ecoskyscrapers are synonymous with Ken Yeang. In more than three decades of practice, Ken Yeang has almost single-handedly pioneered and developed this building genre.
June 20, 2008
June 30 – July 3, 2008 Architektonika_Oval_Lingotto_Turin
International Exhibition of Products, Projects and Processes for Architecture, Construction and Design plug_in – laboratorio di architettura e arti multimediali
plug_in is a cultural association founded in 2003. It operates as an experimental workshop used by members Emanuele Piccardo, Luisa Siotto and Alessandro Lanzetta to promote the propagation of architecture and contemporary visual arts by inviting the community to actively participate in events and workshops organised in various locations.
June 5, 2008
The London Festival of Architecture 2008, is a celebration and exploration of the city’s buildings, streets and spaces – with over 600 exhibitions, lectures, public space installations, guided walks, bicycle rides, boat tours, parties, design workshops and debates.
June 2, 2008
“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.” Friedrich Schiller
The destruction of the natural bases for our lives and the consequences of this represents one of the greatest challenges for the 21st century. Given the fact that none of this is new, but has been debated for a long time, we have to wonder whether fresh disasters really are needed to cause a genuine change in our approach? Unfortunately history teaches us that human being really are not long-term planners, but respond almost exclusively to crises.
May 29, 2008
El proyecto del skate-park de Ursulines, en el corazón de Bruselas, es el resultado de un proceso participativo y reinvidicativo muy interesante. Se inicia en el año 2003 con la petición de un colectivo de skaters BRUSK que tienen como objetivo dinamizar un espacio urbano y apropiárselo.
May 26, 2008
Hoy os presentamos esta estructura francesa que lleva ya 10 años trabajando juntos. En el mundo de los colectivos, es un logro importante conseguir ser longevos. No perder la frescura y sobre todo el amor por lo que se hace. Stany estuvo con nosotros en los talleres urbanaccion en La Casa Encendida, y fue todo un placer conocerle.
May 23, 2008
Building Futures is the future studies programme of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Its activities include undertaking research, producing publications, and holding lectures, debates and seminar events. Building Futures promotes and encourages interaction between researchers, developers, architects, clients and the public.
Building Futures was established to create space for discussion about the needs of society from our built environment and, consequently, the built environment professions in 20 years and beyond.
The group aims to address the big picture. How and where will we be living in 50 or 100 years’ time, when the climate has changed and cities are bigger than ever? What technologies will architects be using to design buildings and what new materials will they be specifying? How will the inevitable new technologies affect the buildings we all use every day?
May 18, 2008
The objective of the workshop is to analyze the physical challenges and problems of the housing area. Though the problems of the area consist of social, economic and physical aspects, this workshop will only focus on the physical aspects.
The intention of the workshop is not to develop solutions but to define the key problems regarding the physical environment: architecture, outdoor spaces and urban planning.
May 13, 2008
will alsop – ricky burdett - bill gething – cj lim – ken yeang – alejandro zaera
in a recent trip to london, i had the great pleasure to interview some of the city’s most relevant names in architecture and sustainability for our internet tv channel EUTV. you will soon be able to see these interviews on the web.
will alsop – one of UK’s most prominent architects. founder of smc alsop, responsible for projects such as the sharp centre for design (canada) or peckham library and media centre (UK). he is also a recognised artist and has been a tutor of sculpture at central st martins college of art & design (london).
