IAAC MAA 2010: Design Studio I, Barcelona O Emissions BLOG
Taking advantage of the topography of the crowns in Barcelona, we are proposing hydro-electric power plants that use a loop system where turbines generate energy as water flows down, and pumps the water to reservoirs at low peak hours. These would be placed in the existing sewers and drains at three different scales: the building [...]
Team Members: Carlo Caltabiano http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/author/carlocaltabiano/ Amay Gurkar http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/author/amayudaygurkar/ J. Antonio Tamez. http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/2010/12/03/noise-mapping-torre-baro-ciutat-meridiana-vallbona/ The area comprising Torre Baró, Ciutat Meridiana and Vallbona, located in the northeast of Barcelona, because of its location and history, is a zone that shows very distinct characteristics proper to the site, ranging from very different building typologies (from single family housing [...]
Studio 1 – Proposal for rejuvenating rio Besos Design Group : Viraat Kumar, Xiomara Armijo The besos is a channelized and a neglected stream which quietly flows through barcelona. Our design initiative is to rejuvenate and replenish the river through passive techniques. The river snakes its way through the basin allowing vital sediments and minerals [...]
Transforming An Existing City into 0 emissions The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is involved in a research project to transform the city of Barcelona in a Zero Emission city. To make that possible, the students were asked to map the city from an energetic point of view, and then propose strategies to make [...]
For mobility our main objective was to find strategies to reduce the CO2 emission produced by cars circulating searching for a parking space.Our first step was to map street parking and garage parking (both private and public), and compared this to the building usage and density of the area. Then based on the mapping we [...]
MGuerrero 0Emission Kibbutz Network is a collection of communities that share common resources in order to produce its own food, thus reducing consumption and CO2 emissions, producing energy and jobs, saving costs, and developing common activities. Main purposes: -Better food: Producing our own food via harvesting and farms, obtaining quality products, in order to produce [...]
In order to see the booklet of the whole research and proposal cick on the following link Open publication – Free publishing – More zero emission
Team members: Andrena Papantoniou, Carolina Libardi, Erina Filipovska In order to achieve environmental improvements and propose changes on the pollution issue of Barcelona, it was very important to understand the main generators of CO2 emissions and the roll of the urban vegetation. For this reason, we focused on the calculation of the overall CO2 emissions [...]
Team members: Andrena Papantoniou, Carolina Libardi, Erina Filipovska In order to achieve environmental improvements and propose changes on the pollution issue of Barcelona, it was very important to understand the main generators of CO2 emissions and the roll of the urban vegetation. For this reason, we focused on the calculation of the overall CO2 emissions [...]