SELF-SUFFICIENCY DRAWINGS BY VICENTE GUALLART

Below are some different diagrams used to explore scale and self-sufficiency in cities. Notice they all work in black and white!  line weights, line type…

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ASSIGNMENT 01 GRACIA:  SUPERILLES = GRACIA **ASSIGNED VISIT FRIDAY, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT

ASSIGNMENT 01 GRACIA: SUPERILLES = GRACIA **ASSIGNED VISIT FRIDAY, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT

  We did a lot of walking this week. In an age of Google street view there is still a different sensory experience walking in a…

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ASSIGNMENT: 01B MAPPING SYSTEMS

ASSIGNMENT: 01B MAPPING SYSTEMS

Today at the Plaça de Vicenç Martorell we will observed and map, in LINES, qualities of the urban experience: inhabitation light/shadow surveillance degree of inebriation…

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ASSIGNMENTS: 01C WRITING

ASSIGNMENTS: 01C WRITING

“Urban Processes and the Human-Scale: Measuring social interaction at pedestrian-scaled Superilles in Barcelona, Portland and Eugene,”  //  writing assignment,  3 paragraphs 1. Describe the general theoretical framework…

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ASSIGNMENT: 00B Elk Gotico

ASSIGNMENT: 00B Elk Gotico

Use ELK and OpenStreetMap.org to extract geometry for urban room diagram. Use the Google My Maps I shared “Maritime Metropolis 1.1a” for help locating plazas. Try…

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Outdoor Cinema

Outdoor Cinema

www.salamontjuic.org 01/07 – PULP FICTION CONCERT The Sey Sisters 04/07 – BELFAST CONCERT Los Stompers 06/07 – GREASE CONCERT Enma Fernández 08/07 – LICORICE PIZZA…

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Barcelona City Protocol

Barcelona City Protocol

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGFdYihdsM?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Link here to the Protocol with Cisco.  Maybe Portland can be a partner city?

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Drawing Systems

Drawing Systems

Vicente Guallart, from the book Geo-Logics Louis Kahn

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TOWARDS A SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT, BY VICENTE GAULLART, HEAD OF URBANISM, CITY OF BARCELONA

TOWARDS A SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT, BY VICENTE GAULLART, HEAD OF URBANISM, CITY OF BARCELONA

Towards a self-sufficient habitat, by Vicente Gaullart, Head of Urbanism, City of Barcelona http://elpais.com/diario/2009/03/28/opinion/1238194813_850215.html This economic crisis is a fantastic starting point to physically change…

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Welcome and Week 01

Welcome and Week 01

The program will be organized into three concurrent investigations this first week: 1) Neighborhood typology: Orientation in Barcelona and starting with neighborhood typology 1) Maritime…

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