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The Costa Iberica book, from MVRDV talks about the Spanish and Portuguese cost, and its development. MVRDV is an office in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 1991 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design.

The book was based on studies that a group of students made in Barcelona (ESARQ) in 1998, in a moment where the tourism made Benidorm (a city near Valencia, the densest city in the whole Europe) the best example of the urban concentration to serve the mass tourism. The Iberian coast represented the common touristic option in Europe, for the European, and also the Portuguese and Spanish people. 

The rising openness of destinations like Benidorm has meant a decline in Spain and Portugal, not helped by insensitive development and environmental degradation. This book considers where Costa Iberica might go from here. Benidorm is the most densely-occupied, and most enduringly successful. “It is a city given over to tourism, rather than a tourist ghetto in the ‘suburban’ model”. Developing the beach, creating artificial islands and other solutions are presented which could cope with the projected four per cent annual growth in tourist numbers over the next decade or so, and which could offer clues for the increasing leisurefication of our cities.

The proposal is filled with high dense buildings, making voids in city, left by old structures. It’s about finishing their existence in order to let this space for other functions. The mix city proposal wants Benidorm to become the Megacity, concentrating all the Spanish Touristic spots in this space. It’s to have a façade to the tourism, and to the beach.

This week we were looking closer to some characteristic sites in Barcelona’s Ciudad Vella. Our zoom-in diagrams are available in pdf.

Group Theme is “Digital Urban Happenings” 

The terms wiki (pronounced “weekee”, /wiki/ in SAMPA) and WikiWiki are used to identify either a specific type of hypertext document collection or the collaborative software used to create it. Webster’s Online Dictionary

Concept

A chromosome is a single large macromolecule of DNA, and constitutes a physically organized form of DNA in a cell. It is a very long, continuous piece of DNA (a single DNA molecule), which contains many genes, regulatory elements and other intervening nucleotide sequences. The word chromosome comes from the Greek χρῶμα (chroma, color) and σμα (soma, body) due to its capacity to be stained very strongly with vital and supravital dyes.

Chromosomes vary extensively between different organisms. The DNA molecule may be circular or linear.

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Here is a try to come up with final idea for the information representation of the amount of noise in Ciudad Vella and the causes of noise at the same time. We came up with the diagram that represents the information both in 3d and 2d    

The complete presentation is here

This is a Drawing about walking in the city , and defining dots to measure sounds. Those sounds has to be related to the leisure fact. The lines represents the path that we took to walk , and the orange has the direction.

This one is about how we can build an structure to develop the noise in the city.

Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support (TIDES) is an open-source collaborative effort.The TIDES project will identify, test, refine, and document sets of rapidly deployable, cheap, and environmentally friendly infrastructures (basic shelter, water, power, hygiene, communications, etc.).

These sustainable infrastructures should be deployable quickly to meet human needs where available services are inadequate, such as in refugee camps or for disaster victims. TIDES also will develop assembly instructions and operational procedures for these infrastructures.The Hexayurt is a shelter build with $200.00. It’s a prize-winning shelter from the TIDES project.

The raw materials include common building materials (insulation boards,) hexacomb cardboard and plastic. You cut six 4′ x 8′ panels in half diagonally to make the roof, and use six more whole panels to form the walls. It takes about two hours.

An enormous group of architects are exploring how to help people displaced by a natural disaster or other emergency. When the emergency strikes they require and urgent solution for their housing problem and the short time construction ideas it’s a need. Sean Godsell has designed a house named The Future Shack that has a parasol-style roof made from recycled plastic to collect water for storage, and includes solar cells to generate electricity. It is made from containers, proposing that it is mass-produced with a minimum of materials and is easily stockpiled, making it a versatile emergency-housing unit.

There is also a project made in Rotterdam about Flood. This one is named the flood house; it is an egg shape house that its silhouette permits water to run fluently by. The critic that I see is that it permits water to flow, but I don’t see an structure to be rain proof.

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