Ideas, strategies and projects that give rise to pilot projects. They tackle the challenges raised by the stakeholders involved and which are found in particular places in Barcelona or Medellín.
Ressò is the project presented by the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura for the architecture competition Solar Decathlon Europe 2014. The project brings together urban rehabilitation strategies that reinterpret ways of inhabiting in order to resolve weaknesses in a specific urban fabric in the current climate of crisis.
Changes in society and habits enrich the exchange between the home and the street. The private domain hosts activities related to the city while public space is used with a domestic mindset and is a refuge for privacy.
Typological Corrections is a research project that revises the methods used to recycle social housing in the established city by making it coexist with other uses, thereby giving obsolete buildings a second chance.
The project sets out to solve the social and environmental problems caused by the people who have settled on the site of the old rubbish dump in Medellín by relocating them and implementing appropriate technologies to decontaminate the site.
Every city has its own particular form of inhabiting that manifests itself in architectural spaces which, in turn, build its fabric and texture. This research project presents a series of architectural spaces that seek to understand how architecture can host the rituals of individual and collective daily life that characterises a place, and, consequently, its texture.
ARCHmedium organises an international architecture competition for students and young architects. The objective is to look at different approaches to architecture in social housing in Medellín that will provide a two-pronged response to two of the city’s deep-seated problems: the gentrification of the historic centre and self-build housing on the outskirts, caused by the influx of people from the countryside to the city.
This institutional device illustrates the projects being carried out by the current local government in Medellín. Texts, images and videos inserted into a structure that allows us to systematise content.
Squatting is the practice of occupying, using and enjoying abandoned spaces and is employed by urban popular classes to provide immediate solutions to their housing needs or lack of a place for gatherings, work or leisure. There is a long tradition of squatting in Barcelona and it has taken various forms depending on the social and urban conditions and circumstances of the day.
Intervention that allows the local residents in the Raval to work with (future) architects to map, design and study the feasibility of improving their housing and communities.