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NOW ON SALE a+t 38 Strategy and Tactics in Public Space

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:09:24 +0100

In the latest issue in the Strategy series, a+t extends its field of research to the system of tactics. While the first two issues in the series involved approaching the project through the strategies identified in it, Strategy and Tactics in Public Space aims to define the strategy in relation to the tactics. Javier Mozas looks at the context from which it emerges and develops the system of tactics applied to public space offering his view of the actors involved, the modus operandi and the realms in which it takes place. Based on this view, a+t has chosen 8 tactical actions which it considers to be action types: re-using what is useless, low-cost self-building, farming the city, playing to change reality, negotiating at all levels, acting generously, using direct action and aspiring to utopia.

Coll-Leclerc. TMB Park. Barcelona. Spain

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:59:42 +0100

The park above the Horta depot, more than just a green area, is a great open space similar to the plaza of Güell Park. It has a thick, hollow construction and therefore a relationship between height and depth exists which connects it to the first Giacometti sculptures. It is a 90 degree rotation, an overhang of the facade on deck. The facade is the deck and the deck is the facade.

The second operation is the change of scale which will serves us as reinforcement for ambiguity, tur.

Topotek1. Maselake Industrial Site. Spandau. Berlin

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:37:44 +0100

Along the river Havel chain of lakes and waterways the former industrial quarters of Berlin- Spandau are in the course of urban reconfiguration. While the many waterfront sites in the vast area have been converted to residential developments, the evolvement of the inland sites is following at a more careful pace. The branch canal is part of the historic industrial structures where much of the former industrial structure and charm remains. The short piece of promenade along Maselake Canal gras.

Froetscher Lichtenwagner, Idealice. O-Dorf Square. Innsbruck. Austria

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:31:01 +0100

The Olympic Village in Innsbruck was built for the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Games and is a highrise housing complex with 8,000 inhabitants. It exhibits all the characteristics of an European peripheral housing estate and struggles with the same problems: lacking infrastructure, insuffcient cultural life, monofunctionalism, as well as segregation of ethnic minorities. Through the Europan IV competition, the city of Innsbruck took the first step to the revaluation of the neighbourhood. The p.

Strategy Space on ArchDaily

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:11:24 +0100

a+t number 37, entitled Strategy Space. Landscape Urbanism Strategies, has been reviewed on the architecture blog ArchDaily:

\"Landscape Urbanism is the new black in architecture and this magazine, part of a+t Strategy series, has heads turning. There a.

Martín Lejárraga. Torre-Pacheco Library Square. Murcia. Spain

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:36:06 +0100

This project, by adding multifunctionality to the traditional programme of a library, proposes new ways of approaching reading. An outdoor reading patio, a night study area, lecture halls for courses and conferences, and an area for an exhibition hall are added to the usual libraryrooms, completing the city’s cultural opportunities. The intervention also serves to improve the aesthetic standard of its surroundings and takes on the outdoor public space, blurring the limits between park a.

Kristine Jensen. Prags Boulevard. Copenhagen. Denmark

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:04:47 +0100

Prag’s boulevard, which is surrounded by inhomogeneous uses –industry, homes, traffic and urban activities– was inspired by their robust character. For its redevelopment a progression of activity areas is counterbalanced with a continuous green mall. Among the programmed sites are a garden, a cage, a sporting court, a skating-area and an amphitheatre. This guarantees there is ample space for sports and leisure, but also assures that this can coexist with special events like .

Dbook. Examples of density (6)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:06:24 +0100

The graphs shown here analyze the Froetscher Lichtenwagner project in Innsbruck, Austria. This project seeks to confront the dilemma that many suburbs in our cities face. These suburbs have become true breeding grounds for marginalisation and disenchantment. In a context of high population density, the project lightens up the urban fabric, introducing a reduced number of housing units in comparison the large size of the plot. At the same time it also brings a high programmatic density, which .

Dbook. Examples of density (5)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:30:38 +0100

The graphs shown here analyze the Belzunce, Díaz Mauriño and García Millán project in Bilbao, Spain. This proposal, winner of the competition Europan IV, involves the recovery of the lands of a disused mine next to a very densely populated working class neighbourhood. It is part of a zoning operation of the authors who then afterwards break up into different tasks, according to the division of the plot. This intervention is very directly connected to the proje.

Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The High Line Sections 1 & 2. New York. United States

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:10:48 +0100

At a+t we have followed this project from the start*. Here we include the complete project with special focus on the most recent stretch: stage 2. The original strategies have been maintained in this sector although they have been adapted to the narrower character of the stretch and its rectilinear layout. The flooring based on pre-fabricated concrete components, the plantations, the components, the lighting and the access systems have all been maintained. The difference resides in the.

James Corner Field Operations. Race Street Pier. Philadelphia. United States

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:11:40 +0100

This is one of the first interventions to give Philadelphia back its river. The run-down waterfront has freed up large areas of public spaces which the authorities want to link up to the business district. This operation is similar to the recovery of the Brooklyn waterfront, where the pier structures were also put to use. A ramp allows the space to be divided into two levels, connected by stands. On the lower platform, a multi-purpose field occupies most of the space and two perforations in t.

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Brooklyn Bridge Park. New York. United States

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:12:16 +0100

We cover the first stage of an ambitious plan to convert the harbour docks of the banks of the East River. 34 hectares in total will have been converted to public space when the works come to an end. To finance these works, part of the land belonging to the park, on which housing and a hotel with the best views of Manhattan will be built, has been put on the market. The existing warehouses will be sold off once recycled and business and cultural concessions will be set up. The end goal of thi.

Stosslu. Erie Street Plaza. Milwaukee. United States

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:42 +0100

The Third Ward district in Milwaukee is a former industrial neighbourhood which is fast becoming one of the most active areas in the city. Housing, stores and art galleries occupy the former industrial warehouses. The new square serves as a link between the walk which runs alongside the Milwaukee River from the business district and the green corridor which runs alongside the shore of Lake Michigan. A hybrid plan between a square and a park is adapted to the changing uses of a neighbourhood u.

Studio Associato Secchi-Viganò. Theater Square. Antwerp. Belgium

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:14:36 +0100

The Theatre Square was an enormous undefined space in the centre of Antwerp which was not frequented often. Despite its strategic location, the lack of legibility was causing the users to hurry off after the shows. The proposal is based on linking up small legible friendly and safe spaces to bring back the public. For this reason the site has been divided into four recognizable areas: a garden on the south side, a tree-lined walk, a service street and a covered square which works for all type.

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres. Hercules Mall. Seville. Spain

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:17:16 +0100

This space in the historic centre of Seville has been remodelleded in a single approach, incorporating neighbour and municipal requests. One single paving coloured according to the Seville soil brings together the entire space without any sharp level change. The intervention is camouflaged between the trees and the setting is regenerated, discretely, reinterpreting that already existent. Simultaneously, 500 m away, the Plaza de la Encarnación has also been remodelled, inviting r.

Burgos Garrido, Porras La Casta, Rubio A. Sala, West8. Madrid Rio. Spain

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:17:47 +0100

This is another of the projects which given the scope we have been following from the very beginning. Without going into the overwhelming figures which have accompanied the tunnelling for the motorway, we echo the capacity for change of the new park which is spreading out over the tunnels. Apart from the visual enhancement of the ill-treated river banks, the disappearance of the background noise and the pollution or how the right bank neighbourhoods have been brought closer to the downtown ar.

Paredes Pino. Open Center for Public Activities. Cordoba. Spain

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:18:15 +0100

The project replaces a recently-built square which had no appeal whatsoever. Now, the parasols shelter a protected space for leisure activities and a twiceweekly market. Furthermore, the place serves as an anteroom for the new hospital which is being built on the adjacent site.The coverings are dealt with using light metal elements, of different diameters and variable heights, allowing light to reflect onto the white-coloured lower sides. The ground plan is handled using a uniform surface are.

Alday Jover. Saragossa Tramway. Saragossa. Spain

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:18:46 +0100

The new infrastructure crosses the southern half of the city and the public spaces which run alongside have been redesigned. Following an approach which treats the downtown area and the outskirts the same way, pedestrians, cyclists, cars and public transport have all been integrated. Tram stops along the route protect from the intense sun and winds inherent to the city’s climate, integrating all installations into their structure (lights, traffic lights, street lighting and telecommunic.

Topotek1. Theresienhöhe Railway Cover. Munich. Germany

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:15 +0100

Theresienhöhe is a new neighbourhood close to the centre of Munich, built on the lands of a former trade fair centre which has now been dismantled. The city planning project is a dense group of housing blocks, which needed an open public space to compensate for the few views the compact grid afforded. The space over the train tracks is laid out inspired by rows of carriages. The rubber floored play areas, the fields and the large sandy area adjoin each other on the central strip o.

Global. Lisbon Bicycle Path. Lisbon. Portugal

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:41 +0100

We promote means of transport co-existing together in the public space in our cities and the integration of sustainable mobility into the everyday space. The cycle way in Lisboa forms part of an ambitious urban plan for cycle paths. This route connects the centre up with the local train, the ferry port and several historical enclaves. The operation is very simple and the budget is very low: an asphalt strip runs through different places and integrates the existing pavings where they can be pr.

SLA. Fredericia C-Temporary Park. Denmark

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:20:08 +0100

Implementing the urban plan drawn up by KCAP will mean extending the surface area of centre of Fredericia by 25%. In the time this plan is being drawn up, a very low cost temporary park will occupy this former industrial brownfield site. The park, laid out according to historic maps, recreates the landscape of the urban voids and will function as a framework for multiple uses to be defined by the users. Different activities related to health and fitness, subject to a process of constant mutat.

Topotek1. Theresienhöhe railway cover. Munich

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:21:09 +0100

Dbook. Examples of density (4)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:31:11 +0100

The graphs shown here analyze the Paredes Pedrosa project in Copenhagen. The goal of this project is not only to satisfy the needs of a social housing programme but also to articulate an urban area which benefits the city. The mark of the builidngs is set on a flat space, with an important visual presence on the adjoining territory and it is spread out rhythmically becoming higher as it reaches the vertex of its plot. The two five-storey blocks create two open public spaces which serve as sma.

Diario sobre la memoria

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:53:03 +0100

Extracto del artículo de Javier Mozas publicado en Rashomon La triple verdad de la arquitectura.

\"...Esa tarde K. había estado enseñándonos Berlín-Mitte. El sábado anterior la ciudad había sido tomada por la Love Parade y Tiergarten todavía estaba siendo desocupado de las enormes cantidades de b.

DBOOK. Examples on density (3)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:31:38 +0100

The graphs shown here analyze the BIG+JDS project in Copenhagen. This project joins the main ideas that characterise the Orestad urban plan, a variety of uses, vertical distribution of collective spaces and the elimination of parking spaces on the lot. The authors pay homage to l\'Unité d\'Habitation inside t.

La condición moral de los materiales

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:53:24 +0100

Extracto del artículo de Javier Mozas publicado en Rashomon La triple verdad de la arquitectura.

\"Mies van der Rohe tenía la creencia de que el arte de la construcción debía de basarse en los materiales. En el programa docente que envió a Henry T. Heald, decano del Instituto Armour (más tarde se convertir&ia.

Michael Van Valkenburgh. Brooklyn Bridge Park. New York

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:22:42 +0100

Author of the video: McGraw Hill Project published in a+t 37 Strategy Space

In a+t 37 Strategy Space

Dbook. Examples of density (2)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:32:25 +0100

The graphs shown here analyze the De Architekten cie project in Almere, the Netherlands. It is located in the urban plan of Almere Centrum, designed by OMA. The building contributes a high residential density to a much less dense plan. It proposes up to 20 types of housing unit and harmonises its urban profile. In this way, it is an exception to the recent Dutch tradition which was not one to promote height in urban plans built literally from scratc.

Dbook. Examples of density (1)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:32:54 +0100

a+t research group carried out an exhaustive analysis in the publication Dbook on collective housing’s contribution to the dense city covering 64 projects. Based on indicators such as floor area ratio, population density, building volumes, heights and uses, a comparative analysis giving examples of dense living was attained. With this forthcoming series of posts we would like to show some of the most.

a+t in the CEU San Pablo University

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:24:11 +0100

Javier Arpa, architect and member of a+t research group, has given a lecture in the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid today. The lecture, entitled Density is Home and inspired by the book of the same name, has explained what density is and what density is not, how the agents and the fluxes that shape the city influence it and why the only means to reach a dense city is to build desirable housing.

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Strategy Space in Skfandra

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:21:34 +0100

The blog Skfandra, written by the architect Pilar Pinchart, includes a review of the latest issue of a+t magazine, entitled Strategy Space.

Read the complete rev.

ZigZag. Vivazz. Mieres. Spain

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:46:49 +0100

Author of the video: duosegno

The project is based on modelling the maximum building envelope -a traditional closed seven-storey block- set out in the strict building regulations. The proposal breaks with convention and distributes the dwelling units on a new volume of variable height (between three and seven storeys). This way various voids and cut-outs are created allowing views of the mountains and the scenery w.

Alberola, Díaz-Mauriño, Martorell. 22 dwellings in Vara de Rey. Madrid. Spain

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:08:37 +0100

Author of the video: Asimetricas

The building is set in the historic centre of Madrid and reinterprets both the traditional housing typology of collective housing in the area and the way facades have been built in the architecture around the site.Acommon interior courtyard defines the layout of this program.

Strategy Public in Plataforma Arquitectura

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:36:46 +0100

The number 35-36 of a+t magazine, Strategy Public, has been reviewed on the famous architecture blog Plataforma Arquitectura.

Strategy Public analyzes the strateg.

The knot (8 House by BIG)

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:02:10 +0100

In 8 House all the communal functions have been concentrated in the point where the figure 8 crosses itself. There is in the 8-cross-point a true social tower of empty space tying or linking the House together from basement to attic. It contains meeting rooms, canteen for parties with kitchen and outdoor spaces for barbecues. Its cladding in made of aluminium gold composite panels, in order to be distinguished as a communal place within the block.

The idea.

Strategy Space by Judit Bellostes

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:15:43 +0100

The architect and blogger Judit Bellostes has reviewed the latest issue of a+t magazine, number 37, entitled STRATEGY SPACE.

Read the review (only in Spanish)

Kempe Thill. Hiphouse. Zwolle. The Netherlands

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:04:40 +0100

Author of the video: DutchProfiles Project published in Density is Home

Hiphouse is a manifesto by its creators in defence of social housing, as opposition to the growing indiffe.

Density is Home in A Barriga de um Arquitecto

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:58:07 +0100

According to Daniel Carrapa, editor of the Portuguese blog A Barriga de un Arquitecto, \"those with an interest in contemporary housing design, both architects and students, will likely find Density is Home a powerful source of information, as it complements the quantitative analysis of density and costs we can f.

Density is Home in Plataforma Arquitectura

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:08:55 +0200

The book Density is Home has been reviewed on the famous architecture blog Plataforma Arquitectura.

Read the complete review on Plataforma Arquitectura (in Spanish)

a+t Strategy Space. Now on sale

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:47:21 +0100

The number 37 of a+t magazine, titled STRATEGY SPACE . Landscape Urbanism Strategies, is the second issue of the STRATEGY series. 12 works of urban landscaping, all built, are analysed regarding the strategies identified in each one.

a+t 37 Strategy Space. Strategies

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:27:12 +0100

a+t 37 STRATEGY SPACE. Landscape Urbanism Strategies includes an index of the strategies analyzed in the project description pages.

Detail of one of the pages from the index of strategies:

AIM: RECREATING A THEME. Definition: Selecting a theme helps to give an identity to public spaces which are all too often struggling against the harshness of some unwelcoming environments. Recreating an ambience related to the past of the location and its context or importing far-off atmospheres enables the place to be dealt with in a unified way and to base the choice of materials, furniture or the layout of the space on this decision STRATEGY: Les Terrain Vagues. After the intervention, the finished project presents the aspect of post-industrial voids, evoking settings of both freedom and opportunity at the disposal of the users.

a+t 37 Strategy Space. Projects

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:29:13 +0100

STRATEGY SPACE. Landscape Urbanism Strategies is the second issue of the STRATEGY series. a+t number 37 analyzes the strategies undertaken in .

Density is Home on the australian Triple R radio

Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:39:55 +0200

The book Density is Home was recently reviewed by the Triple R Melbourne Independent Radio show \'The Architects\'. Stuart Harrison, Simon Knott and Christine Phillips conduct the show, a weekly discussion talking about Architecture, Sustainability and Urban Design.

According to them:

The book is \"a great crossover between analysis and glossiness\".

a+t at the Czech Technical University CTU

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:18:16 +0200

Javier Arpa, architect and member of a+t research group, gave a lecture at the Collective Housing in Europe lecture series in the Czech Technical University CTU yesterday.

The lecture, entitled Density is Home and inspired by the book of the same name, explained what density is and what density is not, how the .

a+t 37 Strategy Space

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:30:30 +0100

The number 37 of a+t magazine, entitled STRATEGY SPACE. Landscape Urbanism Strategies, is the second issue of the STRATEGY series. 12 works of urban landscaping, all built, are analyzed regarding the strategies identified in each one.

The STRATEGY series initiates a new way of approaching the project, in which the method is as visible as the result.

\"In public space, time becomes the first tool to work with.

Les Compagnons du Devoir

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:37:26 +0200

Les Compagnons du Devoir have travelled around the world since the Middle Ages. When the crisis is hitting the building sector, they are still travelling around different countries to learn the traditional construction trades and live in community.

As Javier Mozas wrote in the article The hand that moves the crane, published in the b.

Druot, Lacaton & Vassal. Tour Bois le Pretre. Paris

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:04:13 +0200

Author of the video: Pavillon-Arsenal Project published in Density is Home

The Paris periphery is unfortunately notorious for containing a large number of large scale interventions, built in the 60s and the 70s, whose architecture has been held partly re.

Density is Home by Judit Bellostes

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:45:06 +0200

Read the review (only in Spanish)