PHOTOS ...

THE DAY AFTER...LOST AND FOUND

Well done everyone on some very interesting final presentations, and thank you for all your hard work!

Back at the faculty, we are laying into the post-workshop clear-up, in the course of which we are coming across some forgotten items. If you want to recover the following please get in touch...

Someone from Cork has left a pendrive together with a key to something. They are with 2 key fobbs, one from the sanovitae health spa

Then there's a second pendrive, a 4GB retractable one (black), don't know if you'll want it back

And the mystery shawl with purple flowers on...

FINAL PRESTATION, DIGITAL HAND-IN AND ALL...

1. Ok, so on Thursday everyone needs to start hanging their work at 3pm straight after lunch so that the presentations can start a 4pm on the dot. Note that the session will be preceded by perusal of the work and general questions then the presentations will be quick-fire, 10 mins each group so prepare yourselves for high-speed responses.

2. Each group has an area of wall 270cm long by 180cm high for the presentation. (Plus space in front of that for horizontal models.)

3. Please do not leave all the printing to the last minute! Bear in mind that most of you still have money left in your copy shop accounts so you can send sheets to print there if need be (formats PDF, DWF, JPG).

4. HAND-IN: Before going to lunch (at 1.30) on Thurs, I will collect off each group 1 folder containing the final versions of whatever work you have in digital formats. This is not optional! We will not go to lunch until I have the files off all groups!

The folder will include a copy of the presentation sheets in PDF or JPG (300dpi) but also the working files in their original formats- DWG, PSD or others. Remember to include in the same folder all the files that are linked to the master files as external references.

The title of the folder will be the team name together with the slogan of your project.

it will contain two sub-folders- PDFs/JPGs presentation sheets
- working files (see above) please hand-in the files in as orderly a state as possible,
with explicatative, logical titles and only the final versions of proposals.

- it will also contain a word / txt file with the names of all the members of the group.

eooooooo
sorry the final presentation is at 15.00 on thursday!!!!!

FINAL PRESENTATION BROUGHT FORWARD!

Please note that the time of the final presentation will be at 15.00 hours on Friday, not 17.00 as it says in the programme.

WORKING HOURS, FINAL SPRINT!

The final sprint is on to resolve everything for Thursday!

With that in mind we've arranged with the school doormen that anyone participating in the workshop can, on showing their workshop ID card, take out the key to room CB12 at any time of the day or night! There is a 'but' to this which is that whoever opens the room out of hours or stays after Valeria or I have gone at night is fully responsible for everything within the room be that personal possesions, work or school possesions.

I would advise that generally you take your valuables home with you at night and furthermore that people do not stay on their own working at night, it wouldn't be the first time that a computer has been stolen from someone's side whilst they sleep! Please do not leave the room unattended whilst open, not even for 5 minutes!!

Good luck everyone!!

For tomorow :
the terrace lecture will be at 9:00 at "Travesera de Gracia 199, 2ºpis"
please look it up on google maps

see you then!

For tomorow thursday:

as you all know the halfway presentation is on friday. The format will be:
1. a powerpoint each group
2. 3 din_A1

since there will be a lot of posters to print we will have to start with the printing on thursday. On friday morning each group will just be allowed to print 1 poster !!!

thusday we will stay a bit longer so you can finish as much as you can.

After the halfway presentation:

1. we will put a list were you can sign in your preferences for the room opening time during the weekend so you can print or work on a model or ... , choose between:
a) the whole saturday from 10h-19h
b) or saturday & sunday morning 10h-14h
in any case you all have computers and can do things back home if you need to.

2. the terrace lecture will start at 21H , we'll post the exact adress tomorow

TUESDAY: VISIT TO CAN FRAMIS

NOTE: Change of time for tomorrow's visit!!

WE WILL MEET AT CAN FRAMIS MUSEUM AT 5pm.

The address is C/ Roc Boronat 116-126

it is near the project site (SEE MAP)

BIKE TOUR SATURDAY

Hey everybody,

About the bike tour tomorow:

-the meeting point is at the top of Rambla de Catalunya where it meets Diagonal Ave.. don't mix it up with the Rambla !!!!!

- bring enough water and something to cover your head etc... , it will be hot!

-and we will be finishing the tour at the beach,so if anybody wants to stay there bring your bathing suit.

AND if it all goes wrong...

As always on these days out, if you do get terribly lost or for some other reason are not going to make it to the meeting point on time, please get a message to someone who will be there so they can inform whoever's in charge (Karin, Jordi, Valeria or Naomi). In the case of weekday outings if you don´t have a contact number for anyone in the group you can call the school on (+34) 93 401 6345 [up until 2pm].

GROUPS LIST

FRIDAY SITE VISIT

We'll be meeting at 10 am at the Agbar Tower (the big cucumber-shaped one by Jean Nouvel in Plaça de Les Glories). The nearest metro station is Glories, line 1 [red].

Remember to bring your cameras and site plans, and to wear comfortable shoes, sun-tan lotion and sun-hats. Its sure to be a scorching day!

And, most importantly, we have a table reserved at a restaurant nearby for everyone to have lunch. And the workshop's paying!


See you there!

INFORMATION DOWNLOAD

Files now available at:

ftp://zona.upc.es/tetsab

The easiest way to get at the files is to copy the above address and paste it into the address bar of any folder in windows, click 'go' and the ftp opens like a normal folder. From there you can copy all the files you wish. Sorry, I don't know how it works in a Mac!

Note that you cannot upload anything to this folder, we have a separate ftp space for this during the workshop which is accessible only from within the faculty building. This space you can use it to upload, download and share files within your group.

WORKSHOP CALENDAR

ON ARRIVAL

Meeting at 10:00 am on Thursday 8^th July in the main lobby of the school.

The workshop will be held in two classrooms (CB11 - CB12), on the ground floor of Coderch Building “C”

It is recommended that students bring their own laptops.

At the arrival at the ETSAB, students and professors will get an acreditation card.

ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona is located at the South Campus of UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, at 649 Diagonal Av. (red dot on bottom of the map, buildings A and C).

There is a metro station very close, called Zona Universitària, on line number 3 (green line).

Welcome to Barcelona!!!

After a year of hard work and study in your home school it is time to take a breath and enjoy these days in Barcelona. For this reason there are so many essential things you may bring for the perfect stay in our city.

Things you shouldn’t forget at home:

- Comfortable shoes very important for those long site visits
- Hat or cap your brain needs to be protected from the sun outside
- Flip-flops it is so hot these days in Bcn! Let’s go to the beach after a long bike tour!
- Suntan cream special for those who get burned! We’ll walk outside for hours
- Towel beach time
- Swimsuit the perfect piece for a bath
- Sunglasses just in case you need them
- Laptop needed at workshop
- Camera tell your friends at home how amazing is Bcn!

We will be your guide during the workshop and will try to have fun all together.

See you next Thursday!

THE SITE

SITE

The specific site where we are going to work on will be a space-limit, a boundary where different traces meet or crash: the Eixample mesh, Meridiana Avenue and the still running railway coming from old Estació de França (France Station).

Being in the middle of the regular grid, this area has its own specificity. The grid is cut diagonally by a wide boulevard, Meridiana Avenue. A train track, with its own first circular, then diagonal geometry, cuts through several blocks, affecting their shape. A difference in ground level, something not present elsewhere in the Eixample with its regular up-sloping topography, opens an even sharper wound.

All these traces have to do with a change in the soil: we are on the border between solid ground and the Besòs riverbed. Actually the river is much further to the east, but geologically its influence reaches as far as here.

These irregularities in what is otherwise such a repetitive grid have kept the area partially free of buildings. In the last years on the west side of Meridiana Ave. two important public buildings have been built: the new Auditorium and the Catalan National Theatre. Both seem a bit lost, depending more on the orthogonal grid roads and failing to generate meaningful public space where they meet the avenue. On the east side the train first cuts through the above-mentioned buildings then through several lots that still stand free. More to the north, Meridiana Ave. meets two of Barcelona’s main axes, where we discover new building activity in front of a huge roundabout that only works as a traffic node.

Altogether the site is asking for a coherent space definition.

The workshop’s aim is to reflect on and develop one or several proposals. These proposals should take into account the existing situation with its particularities within the Eixample grid and should be able to give a proper identity to this part of the city.

The proposals will combine urban rehabilitation, public spaces and new construction, and will be based upon a mixed-use programme following 22@ as a model.

TOPIC

Exactly 150 years ago, Ildefons Cerdà designed an orthogonal grid, the Eixample, of 20 metre-wide streets defining 113x113 metre blocks…

Nowadays, Barcelona is transforming the old industrial zone sited in Poblenou neighbourhood into a modern mixed-use area called 22@. New housing, offices, museums, old people´s homes and kindergartens… new activities and new businesses are replacing the old industrial landscape.

22@ is a modern urban plan application overlaid on the old Cerdà grid, and it is becoming an opportunity to test the flexibility of the pattern created in 1860.

Now in 2010 we are celebrating in Barcelona “L’any Cerdà” (Cerdà Year), producing some reflections through exhibitions, lectures, discussions and essays about Barcelona’s most singular urban feature.

TE’TSAB.10 International Workshop wants to contribute to this celebration / reflection with a practical case study.