Monthly Archives: December 2010

Publication here: The AfterMap: More Greenery + Green Production + Water ReUse PDF here: The AfterMap: More Greenery + Green Production + Water ReUse

Pdf presentation here: Open publication – Free publishing – More iaac 2010 Animation here: Archpoint Agents BCN from Morten Bülow on Vimeo.

Team: Daniela Quesada, Luz Michelle Lavayen and Yashaswini Apte. Building scale . Putxet blocks We propose to generate Hydroelectric power using the ‘Pico-hydroelectric system’ for the buildings in Putxet. Electricity will be generated by individual buildings using the rain water collected on the terraces. This system shall be installed in buildings having a water head [...]

Neighborhood: Barrio_2: La Pau, Besos, Provenca de Poble Nou Students:  Saiqa Iqbal,   Nidhi Shah MAA, 2010-2011 Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Interpreting the Map The mapping can be interpreted into dual purpose: _to visualize the volume of the pollution, _at the same time it is giving a potential design image emerging out of the [...]

Team Members: Andreana Papantoniou, Carolina Libardi, Erina Filipovska FROM MONOFUNCTIONAL TO YBRID: TRANSFORMING THE BARRIO INTO INDEPENDENT UNIT Upgrating / Connecting.  Idea of a multifunctional neighborhoods, which permits development of new functional units as working spaces, on the existing city formation. It is not a project but a strategy of upgrading, which proposes dynamic design [...]

The aim is to propose an interactive urban mesh which will work as a tool to measure the real time CO2 emission. The intension is to make a shift in the process of getting energy from a distant source to a locally producing energy source. One of our primary goal was to use the recent [...]

Contrary to our first opinion of Montjuic, the site does not absorb carbon emissions thanks to the abundant green spaces but in fact emits large quantities of these emissions from the museums and other public attractors. Thus it was necessary to transform the role that Montjuic played and help maintain the ecological balance. Given the location adjacent [...]