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Mteriality in architecture is the concept of, or applied use of various materials or substances in the medium of building.

In the age of interaction and media, new materials keep appearing in the field of architecture. But could we say that interaction or media themselves represent the new materiality of architecture?

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SG02 has uploaded the 3rd assignment for Mapping Class_Las Ramblas Segment: c/Portaferrissa _c/Ferran:

las-ramblas_sg02_portaferrissa-feranpart1.ppt

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SG02: Ismini Koronidi, Gabriel Ochoa, Maria Papaloizou

Urban Space is a term that has a lot of definitions, in terms of how each one of us defines it and lives in it. What if we erase all the urban sounds around us? Then what is our vision of urban space?

This is an interesting video i found on YouTube about the use of Ipod in the city:

“Our perception of urban space is based on sight, smell, sound and to some extend touch. Portable music became main stream in 1979 with the introduction of the Sony Walkman and with it came a change to the way we perceive the space around us. By filtering out the natural and man made sounds of the city we are able to immerse ourselves in an alternative reality of our choosing.(…)”read more

Links: Eduardo Mayo, Georgia Voudouri, Georgios Machairas

Group: Anastasia Fragoudi, Maria Papaloizou

tube1.pdf

The construction of the TUbE:

Group 1 Las Ramblas has uploaded the 2nd assignment for Mapping Class:

g1lasramblas.pdf

These are some notes and sketches from my notebook concerning the flow of people in Las Ramblas during the day.

Flows of People: morning, noon, night.

Walking with “local” speed:

“Architecture is all about boundaries and transitions and their intersection with human and social practice(…)” We relate or give meaning to space depending on our interaction with it.

Urban computing, such as WiFi or cell phone signals, or mobile locating services, creates a new layer of infrastructure, added in the urban space. “New technologies cause people to re-encounter spaces(…)” With this simultaneous layering we are clearly creating a physical and not a virtual infrastructure on urban space, that should be thought as one with the existing physical structure of space. “We need to think architecturally about the mobile and wireless technologies that we develop and deploy, the human side of infrastructures(…)”

E-Motive House by ONL Architects

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The E-Motive House is a research project, experimenting on interacting spaces. Its form is a long movable space with two solid blocks on both ends. The space in between, changes its shape and content, depending on the weather and the movement of its inhabitants, therefore changing the geometry and developing its own emotion.

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Dorota Kabala………Female

Maria Papaloizou…..Female

Ginkgo-Biloba………..Male

ginkgo_bilobadm.pdf