Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Brillembourg / H. Klumpner

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Städtebau

Standort 

ONA J 17

Webseite 

www.brillembourg-klumpner.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Hannes Gutberlet, Katerina Kourkoula, Danny Wills

Kontakt E-Mail 

wills@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Fábrica de Cultura

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

This studio’s aim is to develop individually designed buildings for performance and cultural education in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. We will ask if architecture integrated in an urban context can change the lives of underprivileged people by developing building-types and programs developed out of a particular local context. Cases in Medellin and Bogota show successful examples for investigating local cultures and translating the findings into physical spaces. Through an analysis of the urban context and an exploration of cultural, educational and recreational building typologies, students will design their own architectural proposals for a city facing great dynamics and transition. Taken together, these projects will form the overall strategic vision – a network of houses of culture to transform the city of Barranquilla into a “Fábrica de Cultura,” a cultural factory. The Brillembourg & Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), will address the problems and identify the potentials of Barranquilla in order to propose sustainable architectural solutions to the challenges that face this emerging city in transition. Barranquilla, Colombia – a city founded in 1620 – is quite exceptionally neither a pre-Colombian settlement nor a colonial city. The city emerged as a point of entry to the Americas and a hub of trade and commerce, strategically situated on the Caribbean coast and Magdalena River. An influx of immigrants from Europe and the Middle East created a culturally diverse cosmopolitan setting and the only immigrant city in Colombia. By the Second World War Barranquilla was a thriving, cosmopolitan city. The opening of the Panama Canal in 1919 marked the beginning of Barranquilla’s decline. National protectionist policies further weakened the city’s position, which became renowned for corruption, poor management of local finances, unemployment, poverty and violence associated with drug trafficking. Throughout the armed conflict a large number of “desplazados” (internal refugees) have fled rural violence to seek security and shelter in Barranquilla. Today the historical center is in a state of decay while a majority of the city is made up of low-income barrios. In a city where the economic divide is at its sharpest, residents must face inadequate public services and public space, poor education standards and heightened vulnerability to environmental risks such as arroyos (flash rivers due to lack of drainage) erosion, and landslides. After years of urban decline, the city of Barranquilla is nonetheless experiencing a revival, following a rehaul of local finances, public policy, and foreign donor aid. At the 2013 bicentenary of the city, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos declared that Barranquilla was a city at the “right place at the right time.” Barranquilla has opened its markets to overseas trade, combining zonas francas, concessions to multinationals and free trade agreements with the United States and the European Union. The node of the problem: After a period of decline Barranquilla is now attracting vast sums of foreign investment – can this spark more sustainable and social development or will it reinforce current discrepancies? The city must now respond to the influx of funds and multiplication of urban projects if it wishes to produce sustainable and equitable growth. The Semester The students will be dealing with practical issues of urban design and architecture that involve real sites, programs, clients and stakeholders. The initial analysis will be developed in groups, followed by individual design projects throughout the semester. The integrated discipline urban design is also offered as part of the course. The design studio will be supported through a series of discussions and lectures focused on specific cultural case studies. Readings on architecture in the urban context and pre-existing research on Barranquilla will be provided. Regular workshops will train the students on how to effectively represent ideas through architectural drawing and modeling – teaching how to use and move between varied techniques like mapping, diagramming, orthographic drawing, as well as computer programs like Rhino 3D, VRay, and the Adobe Creative Suite. The design studio is run in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The design studio will also be held in collaboration with the Universidad del Norte in Baranquilla and the Universidad del Javeriana in Bogota with architect Giancarlo Mazzanti. The design studio is also planned in conjunction with the Seminar Week trip to Barranquilla through the Brillembourg & Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design. Enrollment in the Barranquilla seminar week is NOT required but is highly recommended as it forms an essential part of the studio and maximizes design output. Travel grants are available.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Staedtebau

Lernziele 

To develop an urban proposal, the design studio will investigate the city from a cultural point of view – exploring the architecture of the city as a “Fábrica de Cultura,” a cultural factory. Students will propose architectural solutions that formally and programmatically foster cultural heritage and provide social, educational, and economic opportunities for the community. Life in Barranquilla revolves around Carnival, the largest cultural celebration in Colombia which is now recognized as UNESCO heritage. The event’s preparation is monumental in itself as the city becomes a creative industry, producing costumes, masks and floats while the neighborhood troops rehearse specially prepared choreography and song in the street. In a troubled context, Carnaval is recognized as a parenthesis of equality. It can be read as a moment of diversity and tolerance where people from all walks of life appropriate the city. Carnaval is well established, with support from the private sector, active foundations and cultural facilities. However the city is currently lacking facilities and buildings for cultural activities in the barrios in order to provide low-income communities with new opportunities. A network of cultural centers and arts schools already exists, but is in dire lack of appropriate infrastructure – the Mayor has asked us to provide them with solutions. The design studio will reassess the paradigm of the cultural city through the reading of a wide range of cultural, educational and recreational typologies. The design studio will transform the city into a multi-scalar cultural factory where people learn, interact, exchange, work, relax, and create. This urban network will be built up by individual architectural prototypes that respond to cultural practices of the 21st century, and have the the ambition of being both sustainable and equitable. Throughout the semester, students will focus on developing transferable and practical skills – such as: - Developing drawing and modeling techniques across a variety of media to represent architectural and urban ideas - Responding to the complexity of urban problems through architectural solutions in a real life context - Analyzing the various layers that shape a city (social, economic, political, infrastructural) - Anticipating the positions of urban actors from local, national and international levels of activity - Bridging top-down policy with bottom-up practices - Addressing the rapidly changing context of emerging cities in developing countries and the global south

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

051-1140-14

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Urban Design

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Group (analysis) - Individual (Design)

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

Datum Schlusskritik 

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

18 February 2014, 10 am, ONA

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

26

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

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