By eutv: creative urban sustainability



BASIC NEEDS

The theme description of the competition starts from a quotation about basic human needs. On the last century, basic human needs were the leitmotiv of a global consensus mainly due to the action of UN and NGO's, centered on cooking, hygiene and sleeping. One of the things we must learn from actual “musseques” is that “home” has to be thought as the place one work in. Therefore, we decided to integrate on our proposal a place to work, considering it as a basic human need.

LEARNING FROM MUSSEQUES

Musseques urban sprawl and continuous change is impressive. We don't think new interventions should do tabula rasa of rooted construction know-how. Even the most clean and designed house project will be enriched and appropriated by unpredictable family needs. Our option is to consider it, not as an undesirable consequence, but as an instrument on urban planning. The intervention will provide the basic elements and infrastructures, limit the plot and provide the basis to be arrogated.

THE CORE

Low budget, forced to focus on the essential. We concentrated on the human basic needs by designing the main volume as one core.

This will be composed by two floors (two bathrooms, one bedroom and the staircase). The social areas will be on the ground floor (two living rooms - one interior and one exterior, and one open-space kitchen, as a linking element of these two rooms.

On the upper limit of the plot, and conforming the patio, we placed the working place.

SELF-CONSTRUCTION

As said, self-construction is deep-rooted as a cultural activity. The difficulty on defining the number of inhabitants per house and its volatility, suggests that bedroom numbers will always be increasing or decreasing according to the needs. That's where we can potentiate self-construction.

The basic module provides one bedroom and the floor slab of the first floor as a plateau for people to appropriate themselves joining or removing bedrooms according to family needs.

SHADOW AND VENTILATION

Due to the geographic situation, the roof is the main tool for shading. Using it on exteriors provides useful places for socialization.

The ventilation is accomplished by the walls. On one hand, the grids, a typical device on Portuguese architecture's colonial legacy, may be used as a way of distinguishing neighborhoods and providing layers of privacy. On the other hand, the interior walls of the living room don't reach the ceiling so that the air may also circulate.

CONSTRUCTION

The construction system is made in concrete, comprising columns, beams and floor slabs, and cement bricks. The house pavements will be built in a continuous floor slab upon ground compression and regulation, finished by lining it with cement tiles. As a way to avoid electricity black outs, a generator is a necessary requisite and will be located on the exterior living room. The roof plans will have the proper pending for climate conditions and rain. Ship, simple and modular to be easily reproduced.

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[PT] Mário Moura, Design em tempos de crise, edição Braço de Ferro, Março de 2009

Um livro de bolso com inquietações que partilhamos. Escrito a partir de textos publicados no seu blogue: The Ressabiator.

(imagens da capa e contra-capa retiradas daqui)

[ENG] The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) are organizing a World Congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on the theme of Building Communities for the Cities of the Future. The congress includes a Student Competition, open for all students in the fields of (landscape) architecture, urban design, urban planning and other related studies. The competition focuses on the area of Morro Santa Tereza in Porto Alegre, and the students are asked to make a proposal for improvement of this area in groups of one up to five students.

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[ENG] ateliermob will be lecturing at Ryerson University - Toronto, in the end of November.

[ENG] Stadslab European Urban Design Laboratory is offering an international Master Class on the regeeration of Georgia's Black Sea coast and the transformations of Batumi and Poti as its main port cities. During the Master Class a number of architects and planners will develop strategies and design solutions for two strategic corridors in the Western part of Georgia: a tourism corridor along the subtropical Black Sea coast, connecting Batumi with Poti, and an industrial corridor connecting Poti harbor with Tbilisi and further to Central Asia.
The Master Class consists of three one-week design workshops (1 week/month in September, October and November) under the supervision of Ruurd Gietema (partner at KCAP Architects and Planners) and Stadslab Staff. The program includes lectures and seminars with internationally renowned planners and architects. The Master Class will further include design workshops, site visits to Batumi, Kobuleti, Poti, a visit of the INTA Conference in San Sebastian-Pasaia (Basque Country) and a final presentation and conference in Georgia.

Scheduled dates for the Master Class program:
September 19-26 (Tilburg, Netherlands and Batumi, Kobuleti, Poti Georgia)
October 23-30 (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain)
November 21-27 (Batumi, Kobuleti, Tbilisi Georgia)

Detailed Course Information and Enrolment Form

Application procedure has started. Deadline for applications is September 1st 2010.

The first 6 applicants receive a free copy of Han Meyer's classic book 'City and Port: Transformation of Port Cities - London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam

A blaanc, em parceria com os arquitectos João Caeiro e Fulvio Capurso, venceu o concurso internacional de arquitectura Open Source House, cujo objectivo era projectar uma habitação sustentável, flexível e de baixo custo, para Accra, no Gana. O concurso foi promovido pela Enviu, innovators in sustainability, uma organização sedeada na Holanda, promotora deempreendedorismo sustentável e que, em colaboração com o arquitecto Vincent van der Meulen, fundou a OS-House, uma organização sem fins lucrativos que procura promover melhores e mais sustentáveis condições de habitação em países em desenvolvimento.

[PT] O nosso projecto de Sacavém está nomeado para os Prémios Construir 2010 - Arquitectura, Melhor Projecto Público. As votações online estarão abertas até ao dia 24 de Junho.

[ENG] Our Sacavem project is nominated to Prémios Construir 2010 - Architecture, Best Public Project. You may vote online until June 24th.

[Portaria n.º 303/2010 de 8 de Junho]

[Notícia OASRS]

Lista de equipamentos abrangidos pelas deduções à colecta:

1 — Instalações solares térmicas para aquecimento de águas sanitárias e de climatização, utilizando como dispositivos de captação da energia colectores solares.

2 — Bombas de calor destinadas ao aquecimento de águas de uso doméstico.
3 — Painéis fotovoltaicos e respectivos sistemas de controlo e armazenamento de energia, destinados ao abastecimento de energia eléctrica a habitações.
4 — Aerogeradores de potência nominal inferior a 5 kW e respectivos sistemas de controlo e armazenamento de energia, destinados ao abastecimento de energia eléctrica a habitações.
5 — Equipamentos de queima de biomassa florestal, combustíveis derivados de resíduos ou de biogás, nomeadamente recuperadores de calor de lareiras, destinados quer ao aquecimento ambiente quer de águas sanitárias, e as caldeiras destinadas à alimentação de sistemas de aquecimento ambiente ou aquecimento de águas sanitárias e de climatização.
6 — Equipamentos e obras de melhoria das condições de comportamento térmico de edifícios, dos quais resulte directamente o seu maior isolamento:
a) Aplicação de isolamentos térmicos na envolvente dos edifícios, seja pelo exterior ou pelo interior, incluindo coberturas (telhados ou lajes), paredes e pavimentos adjacentes ao solo ou a espaços não climatizados;
b) Substituição de vãos envidraçados simples por vidros duplos com caixilharia de corte térmico.
7 — Equipamentos de carregamento de veículos eléctricos de instalação doméstica, em conformidade com as especificações técnicas a definir por portaria.

[PT] Temos um bilhete para oferecer a quem quiser ir ao seminário internacional OPEN SOURCE (que noticiámos abaixo), à primeira pessoa que nos enviar um email para o ateliermob_at_sapo.pt.

AND THE WINNER IS: SOFIA CASTELO!

[PT] Nas diferentes áreas da produção humana, assistimos, cada vez mais, à constituição de redes globais informais que trabalham entre si num processo de partilha e colaboração. A partir desta perspectiva de criação, a Circo de Ideia – Associação Cultural apresenta na sala Suggia da Casa da Música, sábado, dia 12 de Junho de 2010, o seminário internacional OPEN SOURCE, termo utilizado na definição de software cujo código original é partilhado gratuitamente  e que pode ser redistribuído com ou sem alterações. OPEN SOURCE procura reflectir sobra as fronteiras da criação contemporânea através de contribuições oriundas da arquitectura, da engenharia, das artes e da matemática. Composto por um conjunto de visitas guiadas, uma exposição, um seminário internacional e uma publicação, OPEN SOURCE conta com a participação especial de Cecil Balmond, engenheiro que personifica esta busca de pensamento e que inspira a realização do evento.

[ENG] In the different areas of human production, it is curious to note the constitution of global informal networks that work between themselves in a process of sharing and collaboration. From this perspective of creation process, Circo de Ideias – Associação Cultural presents at Suggia Room in Casa da Música, Porto, portugal, Saturday, June 12 2010, the international seminar OPEN SOURCE, term coined on the definition of software in which original code is shared freely and that can be redistributed with or without modifications. OPEN SOURCE proposes the reflection on the frontiers of contemporary creation with contributions from architecture, engineering, arts and mathematics. Composed by a set of guided tours, an exhibition, an international seminar and a publication, OPEN SOURCE counts with the special participation of Cecil Balmond, engineer that embodies this kind of thinking and inspires the realization even.

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