Este artículo analiza el vacío urbano como síntoma de la falta de resiliencia de los planes de tr... more Este artículo analiza el vacío urbano como síntoma de la falta de resiliencia de los planes de transformación de antiguos tejidos industriales de la ciudad de Mataró (Barcelona). A través del análisis cronológico del proceso de transformación formal y funcional de dichos sectores industriales sujetos a planificación, el vacío aparece como el síntoma de la aproximación lineal de la disciplina urbanística, incapaz de abordar la complejidad del fenómeno urbano. Edificios vacíos, solares vacíos, plantas bajas comerciales vacías, además de bifurcaciones inesperadas, son las distintas formas en que se manifiesta el desajuste entre la secuencia teórica ‘industria–planificación–transformación’ y la dinámica de la ciudad. En este contexto, la heurística de la resiliencia socioecológica y del ciclo adaptativo aporta un marco de análisis útil para, por una parte, caracterizar tipológica y cronológicamente dichos vacíos; y, por la otra, apuntar las dolencias de la planificación urbanística ante...
The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were mo... more The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were moved to covered spaces. Since then, market halls have adapted to many different scenarios: they have been the built form of public support for food sanitary control, a guarantee of quality and variety of edibles or a tool for the regeneration of urban fabrics. While in the second half of the twentieth-century comparable market systems in other European cities began to decline, half of the thirty-eight active markets at the end of the 2010s were built out of time in the city as a result of a public policy that accompanied urban expansion through the consolidation of small neighborhood centers. With the development of the so-called “Barcelona model” of regeneration of public space in the 1990s, markets became key pieces for urban transformation through food supply systems, a strategy still in force today.
Altres identificadors i accés: Monteys, X.; Crespo, I.; Fuertes, P. El Curs d'Introducció a ... more Altres identificadors i accés: Monteys, X.; Crespo, I.; Fuertes, P. El Curs d'Introducció a la Carrera d'Arquitectura: experiències i perspectives. A: Jornades sobre la reforma acadèmica a la UPC." Jornades sobre la reforma acadèmica a la UPC". Barcelona: Servei de ...
La ponencia se propone como medio para debatir sobre la progresiva desocupacion de los locales en... more La ponencia se propone como medio para debatir sobre la progresiva desocupacion de los locales en planta baja, a partir del ejemplo de Barcelona, y su relacion con la disminucion de la calidad ambiental de las calles que se ven afectadas por este proceso. La crisis actual no ha hecho mas que acentuar una marcada tendencia a la concentracion del comercio en determinadas areas y ejes, en detrimento de otros ambitos urbanos que pierden actividad vinculada a la calle y, con ello, asisten al deterioro del espacio publico en tanto que escenario de la sociabilidad, en una espiral que se retroalimenta. Un estudio realizado recientemente por el grupo de investigacion, sobre un area del casco antiguo de la ciudad, plantea una posible formula de recuperacion de la calle y las plantas bajas, considerando a ambas como parte de un mismo sistema simbiotico que solo puede llegar a transformarse con exito cuando se opera conjuntamente y por acuerdo mutuo. Esta podria ser una via para explorar soluci...
Reinhabitating means to stimulate a new attitude towards the use of dwellings and towards the nec... more Reinhabitating means to stimulate a new attitude towards the use of dwellings and towards the necessity and nature of refurbishing, thinking about a new or different use or just about extending the life cycle of that commonly considered old. Reflecting on the use of our houses from this point of view, turns out to be especially suitable in the actual economical time of crisis, and notably in a country dealing with an oversized housing development. A newspaper’s new allows us to enlighten this situation. In 2004, more houses were built in Spain than altogether in Germany, France and Italy. In other words, a country with a population of 44 million inhabitants built more houses than three countries whose population comes altogether to 204 million inhabitants, almost five times the amount of Spain inhabitants. Under these circumstances and considering the high amount of empty dwellings, secondary residences, as well as unoccupied industrial and services facilities in good conditions, a ...
The citta diffusa defined and characterised by Francesco Indovina (1990) as an urbanized territor... more The citta diffusa defined and characterised by Francesco Indovina (1990) as an urbanized territory where a great variety of functions and dispersed services is present, differs essentially from other low-density settlements spread in rural areas by the urban condition that its own inhabitants can recognise. The citta diffusa is simultaneously diffuse and urban. Indovina describes the processes of transformation of the agricultural land into a citta diffusa but does not stop at the particularities that the coexistence of built areas with agricultural activity and, especially, with abandoned areas supposes for this specific urban model. At this stage, it may be stimulating to refer to the work of the French gardener Gilles Clement who names a Third Landscape (2004) to give meaning and substance to those ‘unattended’ spaces left behind, so they acquire a valuable role as promoters of biological diversity. The citta diffusa systematically generates those left behind sites identified as ...
Spazi non convenzionali di edifici abbandonati, obsoleti o senza uso appropriato delle nostre cit... more Spazi non convenzionali di edifici abbandonati, obsoleti o senza uso appropriato delle nostre citta sono delle opportunita per ridefinire l’abitabilita, incoraggiando altri modi di vivere e usare quegli spazi. Unconventional spaces of abandoned, obsolete or misused buildings in our cities are opportunities to redefine habitability, encouraging other ways to live and use those spaces.
Recerca sobre criteris de planificacio, programacio, disseny arquitectonic i factors de sostenibi... more Recerca sobre criteris de planificacio, programacio, disseny arquitectonic i factors de sostenibilitat dels centres d’allotjament d’empreses de referencia: tres casos a estudi: Barcelona Activa–Glories, Procornella, Tecnocampus Mataro–Maresme.
This paper addresses socio-ecological, community-led resilience as the ability of the urban syste... more This paper addresses socio-ecological, community-led resilience as the ability of the urban system to progress and adapt. This is based on the socio-cultural, self-organized case study of CanFugarolas in Mataró (Barcelona), for the recovery of a derelict industrial building and given the lack of attention to resilience emerging from grassroots. Facing rigidities (stagnation) observed under the provisions of urban regeneration policies (regulatory realm), evidenced in the proliferation of urban voids (infrastructural arena), the social subsystem stands as the enabler of urban progression. Under the heuristics of the Adaptive Cycle and Panarchy, the study embraces Fath’s model to analyze the transition along, and the interactions between, the adaptive cycles at each urban subsystem. The mixed method approach reveals the ability of the community to navigate all stages and overcome successive ailments, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles (traps) at the physical support (built sto...
Este artículo analiza el vacío urbano como síntoma de la falta de resiliencia de los planes de tr... more Este artículo analiza el vacío urbano como síntoma de la falta de resiliencia de los planes de transformación de antiguos tejidos industriales de la ciudad de Mataró (Barcelona). A través del análisis cronológico del proceso de transformación formal y funcional de dichos sectores industriales sujetos a planificación, el vacío aparece como el síntoma de la aproximación lineal de la disciplina urbanística, incapaz de abordar la complejidad del fenómeno urbano. Edificios vacíos, solares vacíos, plantas bajas comerciales vacías, además de bifurcaciones inesperadas, son las distintas formas en que se manifiesta el desajuste entre la secuencia teórica ‘industria–planificación–transformación’ y la dinámica de la ciudad. En este contexto, la heurística de la resiliencia socioecológica y del ciclo adaptativo aporta un marco de análisis útil para, por una parte, caracterizar tipológica y cronológicamente dichos vacíos; y, por la otra, apuntar las dolencias de la planificación urbanística ante...
The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were mo... more The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were moved to covered spaces. Since then, market halls have adapted to many different scenarios: they have been the built form of public support for food sanitary control, a guarantee of quality and variety of edibles or a tool for the regeneration of urban fabrics. While in the second half of the twentieth-century comparable market systems in other European cities began to decline, half of the thirty-eight active markets at the end of the 2010s were built out of time in the city as a result of a public policy that accompanied urban expansion through the consolidation of small neighborhood centers. With the development of the so-called “Barcelona model” of regeneration of public space in the 1990s, markets became key pieces for urban transformation through food supply systems, a strategy still in force today.
Altres identificadors i accés: Monteys, X.; Crespo, I.; Fuertes, P. El Curs d'Introducció a ... more Altres identificadors i accés: Monteys, X.; Crespo, I.; Fuertes, P. El Curs d'Introducció a la Carrera d'Arquitectura: experiències i perspectives. A: Jornades sobre la reforma acadèmica a la UPC." Jornades sobre la reforma acadèmica a la UPC". Barcelona: Servei de ...
La ponencia se propone como medio para debatir sobre la progresiva desocupacion de los locales en... more La ponencia se propone como medio para debatir sobre la progresiva desocupacion de los locales en planta baja, a partir del ejemplo de Barcelona, y su relacion con la disminucion de la calidad ambiental de las calles que se ven afectadas por este proceso. La crisis actual no ha hecho mas que acentuar una marcada tendencia a la concentracion del comercio en determinadas areas y ejes, en detrimento de otros ambitos urbanos que pierden actividad vinculada a la calle y, con ello, asisten al deterioro del espacio publico en tanto que escenario de la sociabilidad, en una espiral que se retroalimenta. Un estudio realizado recientemente por el grupo de investigacion, sobre un area del casco antiguo de la ciudad, plantea una posible formula de recuperacion de la calle y las plantas bajas, considerando a ambas como parte de un mismo sistema simbiotico que solo puede llegar a transformarse con exito cuando se opera conjuntamente y por acuerdo mutuo. Esta podria ser una via para explorar soluci...
Reinhabitating means to stimulate a new attitude towards the use of dwellings and towards the nec... more Reinhabitating means to stimulate a new attitude towards the use of dwellings and towards the necessity and nature of refurbishing, thinking about a new or different use or just about extending the life cycle of that commonly considered old. Reflecting on the use of our houses from this point of view, turns out to be especially suitable in the actual economical time of crisis, and notably in a country dealing with an oversized housing development. A newspaper’s new allows us to enlighten this situation. In 2004, more houses were built in Spain than altogether in Germany, France and Italy. In other words, a country with a population of 44 million inhabitants built more houses than three countries whose population comes altogether to 204 million inhabitants, almost five times the amount of Spain inhabitants. Under these circumstances and considering the high amount of empty dwellings, secondary residences, as well as unoccupied industrial and services facilities in good conditions, a ...
The citta diffusa defined and characterised by Francesco Indovina (1990) as an urbanized territor... more The citta diffusa defined and characterised by Francesco Indovina (1990) as an urbanized territory where a great variety of functions and dispersed services is present, differs essentially from other low-density settlements spread in rural areas by the urban condition that its own inhabitants can recognise. The citta diffusa is simultaneously diffuse and urban. Indovina describes the processes of transformation of the agricultural land into a citta diffusa but does not stop at the particularities that the coexistence of built areas with agricultural activity and, especially, with abandoned areas supposes for this specific urban model. At this stage, it may be stimulating to refer to the work of the French gardener Gilles Clement who names a Third Landscape (2004) to give meaning and substance to those ‘unattended’ spaces left behind, so they acquire a valuable role as promoters of biological diversity. The citta diffusa systematically generates those left behind sites identified as ...
Spazi non convenzionali di edifici abbandonati, obsoleti o senza uso appropriato delle nostre cit... more Spazi non convenzionali di edifici abbandonati, obsoleti o senza uso appropriato delle nostre citta sono delle opportunita per ridefinire l’abitabilita, incoraggiando altri modi di vivere e usare quegli spazi. Unconventional spaces of abandoned, obsolete or misused buildings in our cities are opportunities to redefine habitability, encouraging other ways to live and use those spaces.
Recerca sobre criteris de planificacio, programacio, disseny arquitectonic i factors de sostenibi... more Recerca sobre criteris de planificacio, programacio, disseny arquitectonic i factors de sostenibilitat dels centres d’allotjament d’empreses de referencia: tres casos a estudi: Barcelona Activa–Glories, Procornella, Tecnocampus Mataro–Maresme.
This paper addresses socio-ecological, community-led resilience as the ability of the urban syste... more This paper addresses socio-ecological, community-led resilience as the ability of the urban system to progress and adapt. This is based on the socio-cultural, self-organized case study of CanFugarolas in Mataró (Barcelona), for the recovery of a derelict industrial building and given the lack of attention to resilience emerging from grassroots. Facing rigidities (stagnation) observed under the provisions of urban regeneration policies (regulatory realm), evidenced in the proliferation of urban voids (infrastructural arena), the social subsystem stands as the enabler of urban progression. Under the heuristics of the Adaptive Cycle and Panarchy, the study embraces Fath’s model to analyze the transition along, and the interactions between, the adaptive cycles at each urban subsystem. The mixed method approach reveals the ability of the community to navigate all stages and overcome successive ailments, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles (traps) at the physical support (built sto...
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