28 research outputs found
Fresh fruit and vegetables: a world of multiple interactions : the case of the Buenos Aires Central Wholesale Market (BACWM)
No full textThis research explores ethnographically the everyday social interactions between the ‘users’ of a particular marketplace, the Buenos Aires Central Wholesale Market (BACWM). The ‘users’ of this marketplace are the social actors who work there everyday, and who bring and buy fresh produce. These ´users´ are the ´makers´ of the BACWM since, through their everyday practices, interactions and interpretations and knowledge, they socially construct this hub of distribution
One Last Modular Game. Taller de Arquitectura and Le Petite Cathèdrale
No full textIn 1971, while the Taller de Arquitectura was beginning the project for Walden 7, the team received the commission to build a housing complex in the ville nouvelle of Cergy-Pontoise on the outskirts of Paris. Continuing with the working method that began with the book "Towards a Formalization of the City in Space", the Taller established a construction system for the project of 1000 homes, which they would call Le Petite Cathédrale, based on working with models and creating a clear spatial order.
However, unlike the Walden 7 project, this small cathedral began to address the concerns of the Taller members, seeking formal relationships with the architecture present in the Mediterranean city. For the team, in this project, the form is the "what," the final objective, and the "how" is the Cartesian arrangement of the modules. Thus, Le Petite Cathédralebecomes the last example of the team's modular work; an unbuilt project that marks the end of a line of research, that of the city in space, and opens the door to a new attitude in approaching a project, based on form and image
De la Factoria Samsó a La Fàbrica. La casa estudi de Ricardo Bofill o com habitar una ruïna
No full textEl projecte de La Fábrica, residència i estudi de Ricardo Bofill, sorgeix de la trobada de l'arquitecte amb les restes d'una factoria de ciment en demolició i la voluntat de conservar-la. La instal·lació industrial era als afores de Barcelona i comença la seva producció a principis del segle XX. El conjunt passa a mans de l'arquitecte el 1970 quan aquest buscava terrenys on edificar la proposta de Taller d'Arquitectura de la ciutat a l'espai que es transformaria en el que avui coneixem com a Walden 7. Aquest article té com a objecte establir una hipòtesi sobre el procés de projecte que va permetre que una factoria es transformés en un espai domèstic. Abordarem els diferents instruments utilitzats per dur a terme aquest canvi radical de funció -mecanismes de neteja, delimitació i redefinició- amb què l'estudi de Bofill aconsegueix habitar aquesta ruïna industrial. En definitiva, es tracta de posar en valor aquest projecte pioner en la reconversió d'arquitectura fabrils, des d'una visió no convencional vinculada a les influències europees de l'època. Però també, des d'un univers propi de formes, textures i llum, on els arquitectes van desenvolupar l'obra com a punt d'inflexió a la trajectòria de l'estudi.The project of La Fábrica, Ricardo Bofill's residence and studio, arises from the architect's encounter with the remains of a cement factory under demolition and his desire to preserve it. The industrial facility was located on the outskirts of Barcelona and its production began at the beginning of the 20th century. The complex passed into the architect’s hands in 1970 when he was looking for a site on which he could build Taller de Arquitectura’s proposal for the city in the space that would become what we know today as Walden 7. This article aims to establish a hypothesis about the project process that allowed a factory to be transformed into a domestic space. We will address the different instruments used to carry out this radical change in function - cleaning, delimitation, and redefinition mechanisms - with which Bofill's study manages to inhabit this industrial ruin. In short, it is about putting in value this pioneering project in the reconversion of industrial architecture, from an unconventional vision, linked to the European influences of the time. But also, from their own universe of shapes, textures, and light, in which the architects developed this work as a turning point in the studio's trajectory.El proyecto de La Fábrica, residencia y estudio de Ricardo Bofill, surge del encuentro del arquitecto con los restos de una factoría de cemento en demolición y su voluntad por conservarla. La instalación industrial se encontraba a las afueras de Barcelona y empieza su producción a principios del siglo XX. El conjunto pasa a manos del arquitecto en 1970 cuando éste buscaba terrenos en los que edificar la propuesta de Taller de Arquitectura de la ciudad en el espacio que se transformaría en lo que hoy conocemos como Walden 7. Este artículo tiene como objeto establecer una hipótesis sobre el proceso de proyecto que permitió que una factoría se transformase en un espacio doméstico. Abordaremos los distintos instrumentos utilizados para llevar a cabo este radical cambio de función -mecanismos de limpieza, delimitación y redefinición- con los que el estudio de Bofill logra habitar esta ruina industrial. En definitiva, se trata de poner en valor este proyecto pionero en la reconversión de arquitectural fabriles, desde una visión no convencional, vinculada a las influencias europeas de la época. Pero también, desde un universo propio de formas, texturas y luz, en el que los arquitectos desarrollaron la obra como punto de inflexión en la trayectoria del estudio.Los autores desean agradecer la inestimable ayuda de los técnicos del Arxiu Històric de l’Ajuntament de Sant Just Desvern, Jordi Amigó y Patricia Badosa I Teba, que han hecho posible está investigación gracias a la comunicación continua y la digitalización de los fondos del archivo necesarios para llevar a cabo este trabajo durante las restricciones de movilidad debidas a la situación sanitaria por la pandemia de la Covid-19. Este trabajo se ha desarrollado sin ningún tipo de subvención a la investigación.Peer Reviewe
Chapter Deconstruyendo la maqueta. Generatriz geométrica en taller de Arquitectura
No full textThe here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing
SPATIAL MECHANISMS FOR THE MODERN MEDITERRANEAN CITY Or a vertical casbah called Walden 7
No full textProducción CientíficaIn 1971, on the outskirts of Barcelona, the team led by Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura, built the building that we know today as Walden 7. This building, made up of more than 400 homes, was a proposal with which Taller de Arquitectura wanted to break with the sociopolitical situation of the time, both in the way of making collective housing and in the way of living. In contrast to the misunderstood housing block of the Modern Movement, Taller de Arquitectura wanted to recover the vibrant atmosphere of traditional mediterranean settlements, focusing on the design of communication spaces, turning these into a living space for the community of neighbors who inhabited Walden 7. Different mechanisms that we will study in this text, with which Taller de Arquitectura seeks to generate a community outside the ways of life of the time. A social experiment on the outskirts of Barcelona, with which the Taller wanted to introduce the germ of a new society for the future and that bore fruit
Arquitectura contra ciudad. Encuentros entre la vivienda colectiva y el espacio público
No full textFor decades, the collective housing project has been repeating practices and habits inherited from the Modern Movement, with rigid programs that understand the building as a container (sum of housing capsules behind a facade), and with little regard for the boundary between the building and the adjacent public space. So far the problem of housing has been reduced
exclusively to a problem of numbers and means, trusting in the effectiveness of the block, the tower, the row, etc. The research that is being developed tries to demonstrate that an exit to the problem of contemporary collective housing and the search for new types would happen by rethinking the
limit between the building and the public space. The architects from the Modern Movement’s third generation, react agains the rational housing
standards, looking for new ways to break the limit using two strategies: systematization and contextualization (context: surroundings, environment, atmosphere…). These two strategies create different project mechanisms, which have been collected by some of the contemporary architects, seeking to recover the third generation’s speech, their proposals and their statements.The dissertation’s purpose is to investigate in these proposals and strategies’s origin, and detect the different design mechanism which the third generation used, by analyzing relevant housing programs, in order to find new formulations for the contemporary collective housing.Desde hace décadas, el proyecto de vivienda colectiva viene repitiendo prácticas y hábitos heredados de la modernidad con programas rígidos que entienden el edifico como un contenedor (suma de cápsulas habitacionales tras una fachada), sin apenas una mínima consideración sobre la idea de límite entre este y el espacio público adyacente. En ellos la vivienda se reduce exclusivamente a un problema de números y de medios y a la confianza en la eficacia del bloque, la torre, la hilera, etc. La investigación que se está desarrollando trata de demostrar que una salida al problema de
la vivienda colectiva contemporánea y la búsqueda de nuevos tipos pasaría por replantearnos estos límites. Los arquitectos de la tercera generación del movimiento moderno reaccionaron a los estándares de la vivienda racionalista, buscando formas de romper ese límite mediante dos
estrategias: sistematización y contextualización (contexto: entorno, ambiente, atmósfera…) Las dos estrategias generan distintos mecanismos de proyecto que han sido recogidos por algunos arquitectos contemporáneos, buscando recuperar aquel discurso, sus propuestas y
sus enunciados. La tesis que se está realizando tiene como objetivo investigar en el origen de esas propuestas y en sus estrategias, intentando detectar los distintos mecanismos de proyecto utilizados, mediante el análisis de conjuntos de vivienda relevantes, de cara a encontrar nuevas
formulaciones para la vivienda colectiva contemporánea
Teaching optimization of manufacturing problems via code components of a Jupyter Notebook
No full textLa construcción de una identidad. Los diseños de Javier Carvajal para las tiendas de la marca Loewe (1959-1963)
No full textAt the end of the 1950s, Enrique Loewe Knappe commissioned architect Javier Carvajal to design the future Loewe stores. Faced with this commission, Carvajal not only decided to respond to his client's request but also to build the identity of the luxury brand's stores based on the design of the premises' interiors and their furniture, giving them a common image. This article aims to analyse and highlight the different designs by Javier Carvajal, some of which were never built, classifying them according to his role in the purchasing process. This classification allows us to see how the architect was ahead of his time, building the image of Loewe thanks to an innovative vision of how the brand's points of sale should be.A finales de la década de los cincuenta Enrique Loewe Knappe encarga al arquitecto Javier Carvajal el diseño de las futuras tiendas de la casa Loewe. Ante este encargo, Carvajal no solo decide dar respuesta al encargo de su cliente si no construir la identidad de las tiendas de la casa de lujo a partir del diseño de los interiores de los locales y de sus muebles, otorgando a estos una imagen común.Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar y poner en valor los distintos diseños de Javier Carvajal, algunos de ellos no construidos, clasificando estos en función de su labor en el proceso de compra. Esta clasificación nos permite ver como el arquitecto se adelantó a su tiempo, construyendo la imagen de Loewe gracias a una visión innovadora de como debían de ser los puntos de venta de la marca
Vaccine development targeting lipopolysaccharide structure modification
No full textInternational audienceVaccines are one of the most important methods for preventing infectious disease. Structural modification of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) provides a strategy for the development of live attenuated vaccines, either by altering the immunogenicity or by attenuating virulence of the bacteria. This review summarizes various approaches that utilize LPS mutants as whole-cell vaccines. (C) 2017 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved
Perspectiva fenomenológica de Juan José Saer: a discussão do realismo no espaço da lhanura
No full textResumo: Discute-se o papel do espaço ficcional de maior recorrência na obra de Juan José Saer (1937-2005): a lhanura. Esse espaço do vazio eclode nos romances saerianos, no movimento descritivo, na tentativa de esgotamento dos limites daquilo que se mostra ao olhar. Por meio do narrador ou da personagem acompanha-se, aqui, a fixação de Saer por esse lugar, nessa investida fenomenológica de apreensão do mundo. A análise desse gesto saeriano é intermediada por ideias de Merleau-Ponty acerca da relação vidente-visível. Atesta-se que esse primoroso trabalho descritivo saeriano revela uma discussão consistente do realismo ou daquilo que o autor argentino defende como sua proposta de escrita literária.Palavras-chave: espaço saeriano; realismo poético; fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty.Abstract: This paper discusses the role of the fictional space that continually appears in Juan José Saer’s work (1937-2005): the flatlands. This space of emptiness appears in Saerian novels; in the descriptive movement, in the attempt of depleting the limits of what is shown by the act of looking. Saer’s fixation on this place is tracked through the narrator or character in this phenomenological attempt to understand the world. The analysis of this Saerian act is mediated by Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about the seer-visible relationship. Such analysis shows that this exquisite Saerian descriptive work presents a consistent discussion of realism or what the Argentinian author claims as his proposal of literary writing.Keywords: saerian space; poetic realism; Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.</jats:p
