UCJC, ESAYT, Architectural Projects
Levels I-II and V-VI
2013-14 International Workshop
Start: 2013 September 14th
Professor:
Miguel Ángel Díaz Camacho,
Phd Architect. ESAYT (Madrid)
Subject:
Now we know each calorie we eat needs ten for the
process of production, processing, transport and food management. In many
cities around the world, “Food Systems” start having the same consideration as
transportation, housing or even the environment, in urban development matters: food and cities give shape one to
another. The workshop presents an approach on food systems planning as
contemporary urban development tool, by studying the special case of the
Norwegian city of Stavanger.
The City:
Stavanger is the third
largest urban zone and metropolitan area in Norway. Today the oil business is a
key industry in the Stavanger region and the city is widely referred to as the
Oil Capital of Norway. Stavanger East is currently undergoing an extensive urban transformation:
nearly 600daa old industrial sites are gradually turning its status from being
the city backyard to becoming a valuable resource supporting the urban growth
and extension of the City of Stavanger. The east part of Stavanger which was
one of the selected projects in the Ministry of Environment initiative
generated a series of projects done in a collaborative partnership between the
property owners which was manifested early in 2000 as a non-profit company
called Urban Sjøfront.
The company has generated a
progressive collaborative partnership between private and public sector,
producing constructive and result oriented processes for how to realize the
structural transformation of a run down district. Such development takes time
and experiences frequently changes physically, judicially and mentally through
new challenges and developed guidelines. These tendencies are similar processes
found in other cities both nationally and internationally. Complex issues
related to such urban transformations requires exchange of knowledge and
experiences as a foundation for further strategies to be developed, processes
and projects organized and methods to be used.
Academic goals:
URBAN PLANNING: THE GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD.
City as edible infraestructure.
“So the food situation is totally
mad. The mindset seemed to be that cities are for people to live and work in
and the countryside is for growing food. However, things are changing fast, […]
planners and architects are starting to accord for food systems the same
priority as transport or housing”.
John
Thackara, “Low Entropy Urbanism”, MEGACITIES,
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010
Keywords: food culture, food
production, urban agriculture, urban design, water collection, research and
educational programs, resources management, citizen initiatives, social
cohesion, entertainment, creative business, healthy cooking, etc.
The development of all these urban
strategies, designed through cartographies and geographical, urban, climatic,
ecological or social maps, will lead to a new edible city concept: the
geography of food.
Some urban study cases:
-Gardener’s Notebook, David Greene, 1969.
-Leisure and Conference Center, Montecarlo, Archigram, 1970.
-International Competition for the park of “La Villette”, Paris, OMA,
1983
-West-way Park (proposal), New York, Venturi & Scott Brown, 1980-85.
-The Big Dig, Central Artery Boston, 1986
-Food Print Manhattan: MVRDV + TU Delft, 2010
-High Line, Nueva York, James Corner -
Field Operations (Project Lead), Diller & Scofidio + Renfro, and planting
designer Piet Oudolf, 2011.
-Valencia Central Park, FOA
+ AIC Equip + GPO + Agronomía Arquitectura, 2011.
ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS: TRANSITIONS
Nature is presented to us like a huge
and continuous outer space, the place inhabited by primitive man. Dwelling the
cave or tree, it means only the temporary appropriation of a previous
infrastructure that exist apart from any function, scale or representation of
the human being. As man builds his own structure, the origin of architecture as
artifice, begins also a story of transitions between the living space and the
outside: “The architecture should
be conceived as a set of clearly defined intermediate places. The interspace provides
the common ground where conflicting polarities can be twin phenomena”
Aldo van Eyck, Architectural Design 12, Vol. XXXII, 1962 December.
In this sense, transitions result an interesting topic for their great capacity
for synthesis between antagonistic categories: natural-artificial /
indoor-outdoor / free-programmed / walk-wander / property-dominion /
housing-producing ...
Some transitions categories and study cases:
-Porosity: “Tokio housing”, Hiroshi Kuno, 2006.
-Connected interspaces:
“casa Guzmán”, Alejandro de la Sota, 1972.
-Telescopic Nesting: “House N”, Oita, Sou Fujimoto,
2008.
-Nettings: “Santander Dwellings”, Alejandro de la
Sota, 1967.
-Extreme
natures: drawings by Junya Ishigami, 2008.
-Freaks
& Mutations: City in Sky, Mu Wei; Sam Cho; Yu Hui, Wuhan (China), 2013.
Site
The site “C” will be probably
a combination with residential and commercial. The existing buildings will be demolished,
so everything will be open. URBAN FARMING+LIVING+OFFICES (the site will be a
part of a green corridor connecting to the rest of the district.). It could be
an interesting thing to explore the fine line between private and public when
it comes to Urban Farming here.
International contributions:
Aslaug Tveit, Managing Director at URBAN SJØFRONT.
Francesca Miazzo, Master of Science, Metropolitan
Studies, Amsterdam; Urban Researcher, GLOC; Managing Director, CITIES
(Amsterdam). Author of the reference book: “Farming the City”.
Guests Lecturers:
Iván Capdevilla + Vicente Iborra, Architects
at Playstudio, professors at UA (Alicante University).
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