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Final Presentation _ Studio 01

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 made a zoning map of the neighborhood. Trying to be specific enough to tackle the problems and at the same time as general as possible to apply this strategy to the rest of Barcelona.

It came down to three main zones which we named the RED, BLUE and GREEN zone. The RED ZONE – Has a relatively low density and a very high level of visible parking. The reasons include the lack of regulated parking spaces and as a result of overcrowding in other zones people leave their car here as it is a cheap (or free) alternative to an indoor car park. Proposal – Make it a low emission zone for hybrid or electric cars to park, build new car parks for inhabitants and force out all cars that do not belong in the area.

The BLUE ZONE – Has a medium density for both inhabitants and cars. However street parking is at full capacity as there is a lack of space on the small streets. Therefore many people park their cars in other zones such as the overcrowded red zone. Proposal –There are plenty of parking garages with vacant spaces, so the strategy would be to move all excess cars into the vacant parking spaces in the car parks / garages to ensure all cars have a permanent location. Although in several circumstances we want to use sensors to efficiently allocate parking, it would be preferred that everyone with a car has a fixed and private location, this is an optimal way to organize parking.

The GREEN ZONE – Has a high density and medium to high level of parking. This zone is similar to the Blue Zone as there are many free parking spaces available in the car parks. The difference is in the level of use and density, as in a great deal of the “Cerda Plan”, the ground floor is used for commercial purposes like small scale local shops.Proposal – Again remove permanent parking into car parks and leave the street parking during the week for short term parking only as to promote local shops and at the same time the local economy

After this we implemented the strategy onto the entire city, in which we found that there would need to be several extra zones (for example the industrial area to the west). However, for the majority we believe this could be a great strategy to make parking more efficient in Barcelona.

(Click here for PDF of the presentation)

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studio 1 project:

Antigoni Anastasopoulous, Gamze Gunduz, Laura Molina, Harshad Sutar, Julian Hildebrand

Concept and Analysis:

Our studio project analyses the density of tourists in Barcelonas center in order to deduce a strategy for transforming tourism into a sustainable cultural and energetic exchange.

Currently areas of touristic interest ( so called attractors ) and the places tourists stay at ( emitters ) tend to be located in direct vicinity generating very high touristic densities which occasionally overwhelm the city.

Proposal:

Our proposal suggests new areas of development for the location of a super hotel type; these hotels would be located at equal distance in-between main sights in order to separate emitters and attractors locally and reduce density. This will generate new touristic main roads which in combination with new transportation and energy concepts will contribute to saving and generating energy for a more sustainable concept of tourism in Barcelona.

Please view the complete presentation by clicking on the following link:

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0 Emission Proposal – Kibbutz Network

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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 a percentage of our total needs.
-Less consumption, low prices: With the Net.working strategies project and temporal use
of free terrains, costs are kept low.
-Produce energy: With the waste managment, we amass biomass in order to produce
energy. The revenue from its sales are intended to amortize the first investment.
-Reduce CO2 emissions: Making our own products avoids our part in the polution caused
by big industry production. Our products need not be transported from other regions or
countries.
-Community activity: Our gardens are places to join and meet friends.
-Employment Creation: We used the last technologies combined with the managment of
consultors and gardeners

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Proposals in the area of Sant Gervasi for a carbon neutral BCN

In order to see the booklet of the whole research and proposal cick on the following link

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Urban Spaces and its Emissions: the Map of an [Un]Balanced Equation

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 of transportation and buildings, and the CO2 consumption from vegetation. The outcomes of this research exposed the current giant pollution problem of Barcelona; the overall amount of CO2 emission are extreme (99.7%), whilst the relevant absorption is poor (0.30%).

Conclusions-Proposals: 1.Green areas are not enough to compensate CO2 emissions inside the urban area. Vegetation should be used as a strategy to improve insulation of buildings and to promote the psychological effect of a greener city. 2.Neighborhoods cannot be monofunctional. To avoid daily displacement of people going to work, neighborhoods should be, at the same time, a place of housing and work. 3.Design “Smart Buildings”. Buildings are responsible for a big part of the emissions CO2 inside urban areas. The emissions come from energy usage, such us electricity and natural gas. Buildings should be resource-efficient and well insulated.

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Urban Spaces and its Emissions: the Map of an [Un]Balanced Equation

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 of transportation and buildings, and the CO2 consumption from vegetation. The outcomes of this research exposed the current giant pollution problem of Barcelona; the overall amount of CO2 emission are extreme (99.7%), whilst the relevant absorption is poor (0.30%).

Conclusions-Proposals: 1.Green areas are not enough to compensate CO2 emissions inside the urban area. Vegetation should be used as a strategy to improve insulation of buildings and to promote the psychological effect of a greener city. 2.Neighborhoods cannot be monofunctional. To avoid daily displacement of people going to work, neighborhoods should be, at the same time, a place of housing and work. 3.Design “Smart Buildings”. Buildings are responsible for a big part of the emissions CO2 inside urban areas. The emissions come from energy usage, such us electricity and natural gas. Buildings should be resource-efficient and well insulated.

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Digital Spaces – Sants, Poblesec. Andrea Debilio

PUBLIC SPACES STUDIO

I analyzed public spaces per categories, non places, municipal markets, parks, plazas and ramblas establishing relations and connections by an analysis of 10 minutes walking distance from each subject.

After that I checked a large horizontal surface such as the Gran Via de Carles III and performed an analysis about solar insolation at different heights, 3,9,12 meters.

PROPOSALS

My proposal is to create self-sufficient spaces and share this energy with the places nearby the area using high density open spaces like parks and ramblas.

To do this I want to create a next-generation solar panel structure that changes size depending on the values of solar radiation and integrate it with the selected places creating a new digital network.

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la prosperitat- verdum- les roquetes- la guineueta [board 3] hybrid urbanism

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From social layer mapping to Community Farming zones – Horta Nou Barris La clota

From social layer mapping to Community Farming zones – Horta Nou Barris La clota

The Process

The zone assigned to us consists of parts of two barrios Horta-guinardo, Nou barris and covers the neighbourhoods of Horta, la Guineueta, Can Reguera, El Turo de la peira, Porta, Vilapicina I la Torre Llobeta, La font d’en Fargues.

The main factor which affects all the factors in our zone is the Topography. The topography is moderately complex due to the presence of two hills[...]

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From social layer mapping to Community Farming zone – Horta Nou Barris La clota

http://legacy.iaacblog.com/barcelona0emision/2010/12/01/from-social-layer-mapping-to-community-farming-zones-horta-nou-barris-la-clota/

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