Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Gastdozentur E. Prats

Typ 

Gastdozentur Entwurf

Standort 

HIL H 46.1

Webseite 

www.doz.arch.ethz.ch/gastdoz

Assistierende 

Annina Meier, Guillaume Guisan

Kontakt E-Mail 

guisan@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Building Communities: Rehabilitation and Housing in Barcelona

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Building communities implies creating relationships that hold together people and things from different backgrounds and different times, a community between new and old neighbors, between new and old fragments of a built city in which, in the end, everyone, people and things, live in a new unity. When we talk about building communities we are thinking about the community that is built with the city that exists, adding to the as-found, inviting new neighbors to interact with those who already live there. The challenge of architecture today is to work in disarticulated or abandoned contexts within cities, valuing the social and physical structures that we find as the basis with which to work. We understand urban rehabilitation as the balance between the recovery of a physical fabric and a social fabric. To recover the social fabric of a neighborhood is to recover the memory of hundreds of civic, cultural or personal relationships that the neighborhood had built over time and still remain invisible but latent. Not only people contain the memory of a neighborhood, the buildings are also loaded with memories of the uses of the place: we are interested in the observation of the built fabric as the reflection of a social behavior. Although broken, it speaks of a way of using the ground, the sky, of a way of inhabiting, because it contains the gaps, the courtyards, the distances, the meeting spaces, the volumes… The rehabilitation of the physical fabric of the neighborhood will help the recovery of a social fabric, both complement each other and work at the same time. To read the memory contained in buildings and in people is to think about a future that counts on that past. With the aim of building a community, we propose to work with a collective housing program but also with a community centre or small theatre, which will help to make a change of scale to a larger community, where more people now enter. The new program should be inserted in this place in the way that each student thinks is most useful, and therefore used as an argument to act in the place by interacting with it. The studio proposes a workshop in Barcelona from the evening of 2nd to 4th March to walk the city and to collect data by drawing the existing and meeting the neighbors on site. Studio website: www.buildingcommunities.ch

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Staedtebau, Modellbau, Hand-drawing, Graphic Thinking, Reading of Historical Maps, Use of film to document, Work at various scales

Lernziele 

1. To recognize the qualities of the built fabric. The exercise will focus in recuperating existing urban structures, and therefore a key aspect will be to observe carefully its physical and spatial qualities, beyond the use for which they were built. Themes to reflect in the studio will be: the reuse of existing buildings as a possibility to incorporate new occupancies; the definition of sustainability criterias, based on the obsolescence of certain structures and programs; the consideration of the design process as an action that can be both additive and subtractive at the same time. 2. To intensify the city. Considering collective housing as an activator, an intensifier of the city and trusting in its capacity of adaptation, this program will be incorporated into existing urban systems in order to prevent social exclusion and be absorbed into the actual dynamics of the city. 3. To understand the project as research. The studio investigates and questions on the basis of the design, considering this as a research and experimentation tool to recognize the limits and possibilities of the material with which we work. 4. To study the program of housing. Study which are the limits of housing, considered not only as the area that is within the house itself, but in the sequence of spaces that joins it with the city. 5. Assess collective housing with its ability to generate community. Taking this aspect into account will allow the design of meeting and social areas, understanding the community as the place that will help its members to gain confidence. 6. The typology is always specific. Housing typology and its variations are always linked to the urban, social and historical form of the urban context in which it is inserted. Understand the ability of variation of the housing typologies according to urban, solar or social orientation, the size and relationship with the common spaces, is the basis of the project of collective housing which creates community. 7. The limits of the project. Define the area of influence of the project, its scale, limits and position, always in relation to the conditions that we find and that we want to care. The quality of the future project is implicit both on the selection of a working area and the way of occupying it.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1138-20

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Individual and group work, thereof 5 or more weeks group work

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

Tuesday 24th March, Tuesday 28th April

Datum Schlusskritik 

Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th May

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

Tuesday 18th February at 10am, HIL D15

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 300 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

24

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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