S1: Designing Associativity » rashasukkarieh

A.3 Retrofitting of Iaac Roof

rashasukkarieh — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:37:02 +0000

Iaac’s roof top is currently not used and infact is a source of heat-island effect as there are no measure taken to use the roof as a terrace/ garden or as a source to generate energy. One of the projects proposed was bcn URBAN TERRACES 2012, yet it was a temoporaty project. After research about new technologies for materials and light structures, the new porposal is to define a shading devise and a source of energy at the same time. In order to achieve that, a study was made about the materials and firstly, and the location/positioning of this structure. Using Geco + Galapagos+ grasshopper, a study was performed about the optimal position of the shading material to provide the highest amount of daylight factor.

Geco plugin was used to calculate the total radiation analysis from Ecotect and import the data to the surface creacted in grasshopper. The idea was to optimize the position of the textile hence locate the PV panels to optimize there efficiency. After several attempt over galapagos, this position was the optimal.

A.2 Self Tracking

rashasukkarieh — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:45:50 +0000

Using the GPX file downloaded from the Open GPS tracker, the track of my movement is visualized through grasshopper definition (size and color of bubbles assigned to stops and speed respectively)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.sogeti.android.gpstracker&hl=en

According to the analysis done on the frequency of the tracking points, the type of activity can be determined. After a long day in iaac, I took a bike for some fresh air, walked along the beach, and biked back home.

Visualization of a street view

A.1 Barcelona Case Study

rashasukkarieh — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:23:07 +0000

63.9% was the employment rate in Barcelona for the year 2013, 8% higher than that of Spain. More than half of the job opportunities are knowledge intensive, and the city is a hub for these jobs in Catalonia. Is there a link between the higher education employment and the specific districts of Barcelona?

Brief Study about Barcelona’s condition

On the other hand, the Scorcard on the Prosperity 2013- which compares 24 large, competitive world ciites- puts Barcelona as the fourth most attractive city for workers, and the 16th in global prosperity. So where does this put Barcelona on the level of investing this attractiveness in the education field, and how does this vary between districts? These information raise several questions such as: what is the correlation between the micro-economy of each district with the employment rate and eventually the education level.

Here is the data visualization of the districts, employment rate and population.

Highest population (represented by scale): Sant Androu District

Highest unemployment among districts (represented by color range): Nou Barris District