#7 Barcelona

Model of the Media-Tic Building, Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli

Time-based Barcelona
Barcelona is a typical example of a grid planned city that can adapt all kinds of changes over the years. In this issue of Time-based Architecture International we will also be focusing on new projects in Barcelona, Cerdà's grid plays an important role as an underlying structure of new development. In spite of the economical situation today in Catalonia, there is still a lot of building and planning activity in Barcelona. Especially in the north-eastern part of Cerdà’s grid in between the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and the Mediterranean coast, where a public-private organisation called 22@ is redeveloping a lot of the existing blocks. Beside this concentrated development, we also find a series of other interesting projects in which time plays an important role. Some of them are focusing on housing, some on renewing existing buildings, others aiming at improving the public space.

Introdution by Bernard Leupen, Kevin Penalva, Paul de Vroom


Bau Escola, Josep Boncompte foto Bernard Leupen

Projects

Housing Project in Londres-Villarroel street - Jaime Coll and Judith Leclerc

Edifici Mediatic - Cloud09, Enric Ruiz Geli
Text by Paul de Vroom

LIMA Project - SaAS- Joan Sabaté

Compact Hábit - Xavier Tragant Mestres

Bau Escola Suprior de disseny - Josep Boncompte and Guillermo Font
Text by Josep Boncompte and Guillermo Font

Museu Picasso - Jordi Garcés
Text by Jordi Garcés

The 22@development
Text by Rosina Vinyes i Ballbé

#6 Urban Edges Transformed

The Massena Quarter Paris, Christian de Portzamparc. One of the street with colourful houses, photo Bernard Leupen

Urban Edges Transformed

As an urban form, the metropolis is undergoing rapid changes, in particular at the edge of more established cities. The challenges of accommodating large scale infrastructure, while meeting the demands of contemporary economies, have yielded less than satisfactory results, especially when accounting for the toll on the environment. This issue examines projects and proposals that address these challenges, especially as they play themselves out at the edge of urban centers and in the suburbs. How, we ask, can we engage time as a means of redefining a transformed metropolis, one with a stronger and unique identity, closely tied to the dynamics of ecology, economy and place making?
Introductory Essay Author: Paul Lukez Images by: Peter Vanderwarker (photographer), Sarah McKenzie (painter), Paul Lukez (architect / artist)

Projects
Retrofitting Suburban Form: Incremental Metropolitanism at Belmar_Colorado, USA 2001-2012
Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects and Civitas
Text by June Williamson

Tangshan Urban Planning Museum_Tangshan, China 2008
Architect: URBANUS Architecture and Design
Text by Wang Hui

SOLARIS: Continuous Green_one-north, Singapore 2008-2010
Architect: T.R.Hamzah&Yeang
Text by Mitchell Gelber

Eco-City_Logroño, Spain 2007-2013
Architects: MVRDV and GRAS
Text by: Paul Lukez

Masterplan Ede East: a framework for future development_EdeEast, TheNetherlands 2004
Architect: Palmboom & van den Bout
Text by BernardLeupen

The Massena Quarter_Paris, France 1995-2007, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Text by: Bernard Leupen

Flight Forum_Eindhoven,The Netherlands 1998-2004
Architect: MVRDV
Text by Bernard Leupen

Burlington Mall Transformed_Burlington, MA, USA 2002-2006
Architect: Paul Lukez Architecture / Transform-X
Text by: PaulLukez