CUA Barcelona 2007

READING BARCELONA

2007-05-03T03:23:00.000-07:00

PLACA DE LES GLORIES: FINAL PROPOSAL

2007-05-03T02:22:00.000-07:00

2007-04-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

BILBAO

2007-04-18T04:45:00.000-07:00

ROME

2007-04-04T04:41:00.000-07:00

GIRONA

2007-04-04T04:26:00.000-07:00

FIELD TRIP TWO

2007-03-11T14:42:00.000-07:00

FIELD TRIP TWO: Girona, Rome, Bilbao

04. 14 barcelona to girona

07.25 Meet at Sants Estacion
08.25 - 10.00 Barcelona a Girona (Sants Estation)
11.30 - 12.30 Early Lunch
01.00 - 02.00 Bus to Figueres
02:00 - 06:00 Salvador Dali Museum
06.00 - 06.45 Bus back to Girona
10.00 - 11.00 Dinner

Hotel: Peninsular Girona, Carrer Nou 13 Avda Sant Francesc Spain 17001Tel 93-302-31-38

04.15 girona to rome

10.00 - 11.00 Esglesia de Sant Pere de Galligants
11:00 - 12:30 Banys Arabs
12:45 Meet at hotel
02:45 - 04:15 Girona a Rome (RyanAir 9184) Confirm M1LFCV
06:15 - 08:00 Piazza Navonna
09:00 Dinner and Trevi Fountain following

Assignment:

Esglesia de Sant Pere de Galligants: Understand the fundamental components of Romanesque architecture.

Piazza Novanna (or other defined space) in relation to “carving” and communication of interior and exterior spaces. You can use an axon or plan to describe this. As you walk through Rome, notice two things: 1) How spaces are “carved” from mass and 2) how the interior spaces mesh with or at least communicate to exterior spaces. These are two important aspects that the Nolli plan describes (see attached Nolli).

Hotel:

Eurostars Maimonides Torrijos No. 4, 14003 Cordoba, SpainTel 34.957.47.15.00 http://www.eurostarshotels.com/en/hotels-in-spain-cordoba-eurostars-maimonides.html

04. 16 rome (contemporary)

10:00 Tour of Renzo Piano auditorium with Rome students
Richard Meier’s Jubillee Church Via F. Tovaglieri, Tor Tre Teste
09.00 Dinner with Rome students

Assignment:

Jubillee Church - diagram light and tectonics

04. 17 rome (ancient)

09.30 Meet in hotel lobby
10.00 - 11.42 Coliseum
12.00 - 01.30 Pantheon
01.30 - 02.30 lunch
02.30 - 04.00 Forum

Assignment:

The Pantheon - please describe the salient features of the building. What are the architectural facts (dimension, function, etc.) and then the underlying meaning or interpretations of the building (precedents, importance to architects, etc.). Please note the following: The gridded floor is slightly arched and the grid “slides under” the edges of the walls…why do you think this occurs? Are all niches the same? Note that the coffers are not symmetrical but each step moves to one edge of the coffer…why do you think this occurs?

Apartments:

Piazza Campo de Fiore 46Appartamento Piano Secondo Int. 4 + Appartamento Piano Terzo Int. 600186 Roma, Italia011.39.066.880.2297 [Apt. 4]011.39.066.880.5611 [Apt. 6]

04.18 rome (renaissance and renaissance/baroque)

09.00 Meet in the hotel lobby
10.00 - 12.00 Tempieto of S. Pietro in Montorio (Bramante)
12.30 - 01.30 Lunch
02.00 - 3..30 Piazza del Campidoglio
03.30 - 5.30 Piazza del Popolo

Assignment:

The Campidoglio: Urban Renewal Renaissance Style
Reading: Edmund Bacon, highlights from pages 13-148 from Design of Cities Before going into the Roman Fora, start at the Capitoline Hill and Michelangelo’s Campidoglio.Diagram the façade of one of the two facing Capitoline Hill museums. Diagram the plan of the piazza. How do the buildings shape space? What is happening with the “floor” of the Piazza

04.19 rome (baroque)

10.00 - 12.00 Basilica S. Pietro
12.00 - 02.00 Vatican Museums
02.00 - 03.00 lunch
03.00 - 04.00 Spanish Steps

Assignment:

From St. Pietro in Vaticano to St. Pietro in Montorio
How do these buildings resolve the “ideal” of centralized plan with the “reality” of function and liturgy? You can use an axon or plan to explore these questions.

04.20 rome to bcn to bilbao

10.30 - 11.30 San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Borromini)
11.30 - 12.30 St. Ivo Della Sapenza
12.00 - 02.00 Lunch and pack
02.00 Meet at Hotel
16.40 - 18.20 Rome a Girona (Ryanair 9185)
21.10 - 22.20 BCN a Bilbao (Vueling Airlines VY1244)

Hotel:

Hotel Zabalburu
C/ Pedro Martínez Artola, 8 (Plaza Zabálburu), 48012 Bilbao, Spain
Tel - 944.437.100
http://www.hotelzabalburu.com/ingles/index.htm

Assignment:

Quattro Fontane -Please diagram the underlying geometries (ovals, circles, etc.) of the church plans. How are these overlaps resolved to help form the space?

St. Ivo alla Sapienza: Diagram the overlapping geometries of the Church’s plan. Also, diagram, illustrate and discuss the relationship of the interior space to the exterior courtyard.

04.21 bilbao

10.00 - 12:00 Guggenheim Museum
12:00 - 01:00 Walking tour of old city Santiago Cathedral (Baroque)
01.00 - 02.00 Lunch
02:00 - 03:00 Calatrava Bridge

04.22 bilbao a barcelona

Free day
20.00 Meet at Hotel
22.00 Overnight Train to Barcelona

04.23 arrive barcelona

* attendance is mandatory at all scheduled actvities unless they are listed as optional

PLAZA GLORIES URBAN PROPOSAL

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CORDOBA

2007-02-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

Cordoba
Sinagoga, Restoration of the Roman Bridge, The Mezquita, Casa Arabes, Banos Arabes and Teteria

TOLEDO

2007-01-28T15:21:00.000-08:00

Toledo

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

MADRID

2007-01-28T14:26:00.000-08:00

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

FIELD TRIP 1

2007-01-28T13:58:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-28T13:51:00.000-08:00

Casa Batllo
Tour of the Batllo family residence by Antoni Gaudi

EMBT

2007-01-18T03:35:00.000-08:00

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

SOCIAL FRIDAY

2007-01-17T04:39:00.000-08:00

Dinner at La-Veronica Pizzeria in the Bari Gotic

THE FORUM

2007-01-17T04:06:00.000-08:00

Tour of the Placa del Forum

PROJECT ONE

2007-01-17T04:05:00.000-08:00

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.

CIUTAT VELLA

2007-01-17T03:23:00.000-08:00

Tour of the Old City
MACAB, CCCB, Roman Cemetery, Academy of Architects (mural by Picasso)

ARRIVAL DAY

2007-01-15T09:38:00.000-08:00

'Tres Reyes':Celebration of the 3 Kings
Celebrating like Barcelonaian's eating the traditional King Cake

CONTACT INFORMATION

2007-01-15T09:13:00.000-08:00

Studio:
Passatage Sant Bernat No.8
08001 Barcelona, Spain
93.317.9055

Faculty Apartment:
Christina Cole
2 Nou de San Fransecs No. 5
08002 Barcelona, Spain
93.628.214.197

Student Apartments:
516 Gran Via No.3 No.2
08002 Barcelona Spain

12 Aldana Pral No. 2
08015 Barcelona, Spain

MBM Arquitectes
18 Plaza Reial Pral.
08002 Barceloan Spain
93.317.00.61

2006-11-26T09:38:00.000-08:00