TOLEDO

Toledo

Escalares by Elias Torres, Toledo Cathedral, Islamic Mosque of Bib Mardum

MADRID

Madrid:
Airport, Metro, Parque Retiro, San Gines Chocolateria, Reina Sophia Extension by Jean Nouvel, Placio Real, Plaza Mayor

FIELD TRIP 1

01. 26 Barcelona to Madrid

08.15 - 09.25 Barcelona-Madrid (Iberian Airlines No 2635Q Terminal B BCN Airport)
11.30 - 01.00 Discussion and sketching in Plaza Mayor
01.00 - 02.00 Lunch
02:00 - 07:00 Historic Madrid Walk,Plaza Mayor. Mercado de San Miguel, Plaza de la Villa,
08.30 Meet in hotel lobby for dinner
09.00 - 11.00 Dinner at La Bola
11.00 - 12.00 Churros and chocolate at Chocolateria de San Gines
12.00 Out in Plaza Santa Anna and Plaza de Jesus

Hotel: Preciados Hotel. Preciados Street, 37, 28013, Madrid, Spain
Tel 34 91 454 44 00

01.27 Madrid

10.00 Meet in hotel lobby
10.30 – 12.30 Hotel Puerta America by Jean Nouvel and Atocha train station extension
12:30 - 01.30 Lunch
02.00 - 03.30 Museo del Prado extension by Raphael Moneo
04.00 - 06.00 Museo Reina Sophia extension by Jean Nouvel
06:00 - 07:00 Evening walk back to the hotel by the many plaza fountains

01. 28 Madrid to Toledo to Madrid

08:00 Meet in hotel lobby
09.20 - 09.50 Madrid-Toledo (Antoncha Train Station No. A9518)
10:30 - 12.00 Mosque of Bib Mardum
12.30 - 01.30 Sinagoga Del Transito
01.30 - 02.30 Lunch
03.00 - 03.30 Visigoda Escaleras de la Granja by Elias Torres
04.00 - 05.00 Cathedral sketching
05.15 - 06.15 Look out point near the Alcazar
07.25 - 07.55 Toledo-Madrid (Toledo Train Station No. A9539)

01. 29 Madrid to Cordoba

08.30 Meet in hotel lobby
10.00 - 11.42 Madrid-Cordoba (Antocha Train Station No. A9620)
01.00 - 01.30 Lunch
02.00 - 04.00 Discussion and sketching at the Mezquita
04.30 - 05.00 Walk through Callejon de Las Flores
05.00 - 05.30 Sinagoga
06.00 - 8.00 Hamman Banos Arabes - Arab Thermal Baths
10.00 Dinner at Taberna Salinas

Hotel: Eurostars Maimonides Torrijos No. 4, 14003 Cordoba, SpainTel 34.957.47.15.00

01.30 Cordoba to Granada

09.00 Meet in the hotel lobby
10.00 - 11.00 Placio de Viana
11.30 - 12.30 Lunch
12.30 Meet at hotel lobby
02.00 - 04.35 Cordoba to Granada (Estacion Autobus Cordoba No. 1)
06.00 - 07.30 Watch the sunset over the Alhambra at San Miguel Mirador
10.00 Kasbah Teteria (optional)

Hotel: Acera Del Darro 24, 18005, Granada Spain Tel 958 52 11

01.31 Granada

09.30 Meet in lobby
10.00 - 05.00 Alhambra and General life (lunch at the Alhambra or bring)
05.00 Walking tour Albaicin Plaza Santa Ana, Calle Santa Isabel la real, Plaza de San Miguel bajo, Calle San Jose-Alminar de San Jose
10.00 Dinner at Restaurante Arrayanes

02.01 Granada to Seville

10.00 Meet in hotel lobby
11.33 - 2.40 Granada to Seville (Tren Station Granada No. 3943)
03.30 - 05.30 Alcazar
08.00 - 09.30 Walking tour of Santa Cruz (Jewish Quarter)
09.30 Dinner at La Escobas
11.00 - 12.00 Out at Antiguedades
12.00 Out at Alameda de Hercules

Hotel: Hostal Picasso San Gregorio, 1, 41004 Seville, Spain Tel 954.21.08.64

02.02 Seville

09:30 - 11:00 Tentative: Presentation: Historical Overview of Seville’s Architecture Javier Rodríguez Barberán, Professor Architecture U. of
11:30 - 01:00 Walking Tour Centro Plaza San Francisco, Calle Sierpes, Plaza Salvado
01.00 - 02.00 Lunch
02:00 - 03:00 Cathedral and La Giralda
03:00 - 05:00 Walking tour of El Arenal Toro Del Oro, Plaza De Toros De La Real
08.00 Casa Carmen Arte Flamenco
10.00 Dinner
12.00 Out at Nu Yor or La Otra Orilla

02.03 Seville

Free day with plaza sketching assignment
08.00 Meet at hotel lobby
08.30 Night time views of cathedral from nearby terrace

02.04 Seville to Barcelona

10.30 Meet at hotel lobby
11.00 Breakfast and trip re-cap discussion (bring sketch books)
02.00 Meet at hotel lobby
03.40 - 05.10 Seville to Barcelona (Iberian Airlines No 5661T Seville Airport)

CASA BATLLO

Casa Batllo
Tour of the Batllo family residence by Antoni Gaudi

EMBT

Office visit to Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue
Model Shop and bench for Parque Diagonal Mar

SOCIAL FRIDAY

Dinner at La-Veronica Pizzeria in the Bari Gotic

THE FORUM

Tour of the Placa del Forum

PROJECT ONE

URBAN ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS PUBLIC PLACAS

Probably the most significant urban expression of Barcelona is the Eixample, a model of high density city which is able to support now a very interesting and complex mixture of uses and extreme changes in the past.

For these reasons the design studio proposes to work in the Glories Square in the Eixample. A site with a new request but that is strongly related, in a morphological and structural way, to the preexistences of the city.

In the Glories Square, the City Hall is preparing to transform the present crossing of motorways in a very important center of the city.

The students, before developing the architectonical project, must study and propose the new urban design for the 6 Cerda blocks to establish a new urban front to relate to a very important future center of the city.

The goal is to incorporate the architecture in the city and at the same time explain the possibility/need to design the city as a social and cultural frame of our activity.

The aim of the studio is to design a building. This building must be integrated into a global strategy for the new Plaça de les Glòries. Students will be provided with the legal parameters and digital drawings define in the official document “Modificació del PGM a la Plaça de les Glories i el seu entorn” in order to work in a real context.

SECTIONS AND SCHEDULE OF THE EXERCISE.

Section 1: Analysis
09 January-25 January

Students will be asked to develop diverse analyses at different levels.
To understand the structure of the most singular urban spaces in Barcelona. It consists of analyzing the different spaces:


January 10 The Eixample’s border.
Plaça Universitat, related to a public building (Universitat de Barcelona)
Plaça Catalunya, commercial and finance center.

January 11 The Old City.
Plaça de Sant Jaume, governmental space.
Plaça de la Catedral, urban void
Plaça Real, architectural triumph.
Rambla del Raval,the multiracial space.

January 15 The new urban borders.
Plaça de la Palmera, monumentalize the periphery.
Plaça del Forum.New spaces,new escale.

Students should interpret how the space “works”; how it is used by citizens. The aim is to understand the genius loci of these places, to ask oneself what facilitates and what complicates its functionality. Psycchogeography.Situations,moments,zones of ambiance.Forces of attraction and repulsion.Create a psycchogeographyc mapping of your route.

In the plant you must explain the dynamic and static areas. Description of static areas ; fornitures,trees,water,etc.Situation of the positive elements ; shops, monuments.The mouvements of cars and pedestrians,problems with this. Visual percepction of the space.The rol of the architecture and other elements in the definitón of the urban space.The best visuals of the squre analized.Explain your perception throug the pictures or small films.