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Barcelona Besòs es un libro de libros, una herramienta que permite aproximarse a la sostenibilidad urbana y arquitectónica desde diversas perspectivas y a través de múltiples lecturas cruzadas. Se incluyen un Glosario, seis Propuestas, siete Discursos y veinticinco Mapas sobre el Barrio del Besòs y las ecologías corrientes que tienen lugar en él.

Barcelona Besòs is a book of books, a tool that enables the approach to urban architectural sustainability from various perspectives and through multiple cross-readings. It includes a Glossary, six Proposals, seven Discourses and twenty-five Maps on the Barri del Besòs and the current ecologies that take place there.

Barcelona Besòs és un llibre de llibres, una eina que permet aproximar-se a la sostenibilitat urbana i arquitectònica des de diverses perspectives i a través de múltiples lectures creuades. S'hi inclouen un Glossari, sis Propostes, set Discursos i vint-i-cinc Mapes sobre el Barri del Besos i les ecologies corrents que hi tenen lloc.

During the years before and after the Barcelona ‘92 Olympic Games, known as the years of Olympic Barcelona, there was a cultural manifestation that had a great impact on the forms of leisure of a stratum of Catalan society: mákina music. This research aims to study the relationship that existed between mákina music and the social and urban context in which it was produced and evolved. This relationship helps to understand from a new perspective the details of the emergence and evolution of this musical style and the spaces that contained it. Based on a review of the history of the mákina genre and the urban and political processes of Barcelona, a vector of analysis of its party spaces is traced, pointing out how the relationship between music-society-city has a direct translation in the typological evolution of the spaces of electronic dance music.

This master's thesis aims to investigate the Pla Popular of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a pioneering urban project in Catalonia presented in 1978. It emerged as a response to the city's urban deficiencies during a period of uncontrolled growth. In this context, citizens, driven by dissatisfaction with the lack of basic services, adequate infrastructure, and the marginalization of peripheral areas, organized to propose alternative solutions that would ensure a more just urban development. The Pla Popular represents a model of participatory urbanism in which the involvement of neighborhood associations was crucial in designing a dignified urban environment. The research analyzes the social and urban conditions that led to its creation, as well as the processes of neighborhood mobilization that preceded and accompanied its development. Moreover, it reviews the urban challenges of the time in the metropolitan area, marked by the lack of public facilities and green spaces, uncontrolled densification, and real estate speculation. The methodology used in this study combines the analysis of historical documents, a review of the urban planning regulations in place at the time, the cartography of the Pla Popular proposals, as well as the mapping of the plots of land claimed by neighborhood associations and their development over the years to understand the plan's impact on the evolution of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. This final section focuses on a critical analysis of the proposals, evaluating their level of implementation over the years and their relevance in the current urban planning of the city. The study's findings highlight that, although the Pla Popular was not fully implemented, many of the neighborhood proposals were key in restructuring the urban space.

This document presents an investigation into theory and critical thinking from a conceptual and methodological theoretical framework that seeks to expose a way of observing as a proposal for modifying the environment through citizen participation. Driven by the belief that an integrative understanding of the social reality of the context and greater professional knowledge about participation processes in architecture and urban planning can lead to a more sustainable and resilient way to intervene in the built environment of neighborhoods, especially marked by urban vulnerability, we present a dialogue between an academic framework of concepts and basic criteria around the idea of co-creation in the built environment and the exemplification of it in the real-world experience of the case study of La Pau neighborhood located in the city of Barcelona. Through this synthesis, we aim to illustrate how theory and practice can come together to shape meaningful interventions in similar contexts.

We, people, are active historians. Our lives tell the history that surrounds us, and the history that we're surrounded by also narrates us back. Barcelona has many stories already told. Of the many that still remain to be written, some reside in La Pau, a peripheral neighborhood and bordering the city that, coming from a social-housing empty redidential block, has evolved in the hands of the neighbors, who have fought to turn it into a dignified, healthy, safe and alive home. This stories gather the events from the creation of the neighborhood to this day, throught the experiences of six neighbors who lived, live and will continue to live in the La Pau neighborhood.

This research aims to deepen the relationship between ecology and community, with self-building as a point of view and urban history as a guiding thread. Through memories and archival documents, it reconstructs the process of urbanization of the foothills of the ‘Muntanya Pelada' in the Carmel neighborhood of Barcelona and, in particular, in the ‘Turó de la Rovira', in a way that ties it's construction to the everyday life of the community that inhabited the area during the twentieth century. This perspective allows for a more complex understanding of reality through the affective bonds between the social context, the built space and its surroundings. Two main themes are the backbone of the discourse. On the one hand, the investigation explores the class stigma that hovers over self-building and shantyism at the top of the mountain. A conceptual confusion has been created between the two terms which today needs to be clarified and broadened. On the other hand, the nature-culture couple is considered in a less antagonistic reading of the relationship. The “Parc dels Tres Turons” project, which threatens to demolish part of the urban fabric of the mountain, offers both the delimitation of the case study and a fertile proposal to this same project, which is at a key point in the environmental debate on the relationship with the “natural” environment and the community dimension of a bottom-up ecology. Through the reconstruction and contraposition of diverse narratives and imaginaries regarding the mountain, it opens a discussion ground that intends to nourish the contemporary social struggle around “els Tres Turons”.

Veus confinades és un recull d'entrevistes realitzades en el marc del projecte de recerca Barcelona ciutat fràgil finançat per la Generalitat de Catalunya a través de la convocatòria Pandèmies 2020-AGAUR. Es tracta d'una sèrie de testimonis que registren l'experiència singular del confinament, especialment durant la primera onada de la pandèmia de covid-19 a Barcelona. Les converses pretenen copsar la vivència i percepció de l'espai confinat en les situacions més fràgils: l'espai domèstic, l'habitatge tutelat i altres espais assistencials, el fenomen del sensellarisme, les xarxes d'ajuda mútua, el carrer en absència d'activitat comercial, els entorns paisatgístics pressionats, els espais de creació artística teatral i els de divulgació cultural com els museus. La publicació pretén ser un dipòsit memorial que permeti a les futures generacions identificar un conjunt plural de veus que expressen la complexitat de la vida a la ciutat també en una situació històrica.

The goal of this thesis is to understand the role of architects today in modern society, as well as the importance of them being constantly updated on the needs of more sustainable cities. Therefore, the work strives to comprehend connections between initial ideas of the Modern Movement used as reference in the building of Besòs Southwest neighborhood, to identify connections between parameters and goals established by the UN's 2030 Agenda in favor of developing sustainable cities.

This thesis explores the ideas of Ivan Illich and John Turner as a continuous development of a theory of anti-industrialism rooted in analysis of the divorce of production from consumption. For Illich and Turner, this divorce ultimately leads to planetary overreach, global inequality in access to resources, and loss of personal freedom. Both authors put forward an alternative framework to industrial productivity which emphasizes localism and individual control over the means of reproducing everyday life. Illich offers a more high-level analysis applicable to all sectors of society, whereas Turner applies Illich's philosophy to the production of housing. After exploring each author's thinking through a close reading of one text by each, this thesis will attempt to illustrate their critiques of industrialism through a historical and anecdotal account of the building of the Sudoeste del Besòs neighborhood in Barcelona and the experience of some of its first residents in the 1960s.

The construction of informal settlements within the peripheries of Barcelona was a phenomenon caused by the large influx of internal migrants from Spain. The majority of these migrants were agricultural workers from mainly rural regions of the country, who suffered a large brunt from the Francoist regime. These informal settlements were considered a problem for the city and affected thousands of people as they were used as transitionary spaces between rural life and urban life. This investigation used a literature review and semi-structured interviews to reveal the different levels and dynamics of the social and metabolic life within the informal settlements, to attempt at understanding how the community functioned and how metabolic resources were distributed and managed in a decentralised way. The literature review concluded that these migrants received the largest disadvantages from the Francoist regime and were considered peasants. The semi-structured interviews revealed that mutual aid was the engine for the functioning of the community, mainly due the shared experiences and situations of the inhabitants. Resources were acquired on a need basis, and the communities were largely cut off from general water distribution systems. The investigation concludes that informality still persists in the region and techniques and similar community-based distribution could be used in climatic change situations.

Este trabajo surge del convencimiento de la importancia que supone la incorporación de la perspectiva de género como categoría analítica y metodológica para abordar la realidad, así como las teorías y prácticas feministas para la reconsideración crítica del entorno que habitamos, del proyecto y de la teoría. Habitamos un entorno de pensamiento, social y físico androcéntrico y patriarcal que ha generado un sistema de conocimiento falsamente neutral y que ha dejado fuera las aportaciones de las mujeres a lo largo de la historia, y esto es una omisión que la sociedad ya no puede permitirse. La antología está compuesta por 36 textos publicados entre 1961 y 2011, muchos de ellos inéditos en castellano, que forman parte imprescindible del acervo del pensamiento feminista. Aunque no están todos, sirven como inicio y esperamos sirva para animar a continuar en esta búsqueda tan apasionante como imprescindible.

El màster en arquitectura de l'ETSAV de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya presenta, amb l'ajuda de la Diputació de Barcelona, el segon recull dels treballs realitzats per les estudiants centrats al casc urbà del municipi de Cardona, que es desenvoluparen entre el febrer de 2019 i el maig de 2020. Com s'esmentava a la introducció de la primera publicació amb projectes ubicats a Gironella, el màster en arquitectura és la figura docent que habilita els i les arquitectes que han cursat un grau en estudis d'arquitectura per a exercir la professió. I aquest terme, ‘habilitació', es pren des de l'ETSAV com una assumpció per part de l'alumnat d'una doble responsabilitat: la responsabilitat de l'experimentació física i la responsabilitat social d'entendre que allò que un arquitecte proposa afecta un gruix social i ha d'estar validat i acceptat per tècnics, promotors, agents socials, veïns. Així, la vinculació amb un territori permet aproximar-se a un espai físic concret i a un teixit social que esdevé la referència de qualsevol projecte. El conveni vigent amb la Diputació de Barcelona permet aquest desplegament del màster als municipis de la província de Barcelona, i arribar, així, amb més facilitat a les persones interlocutores, als àmbits de poder o als veïns i veïnes que treballen i viuen al territori. El municipi de Cardona que protagonitzà aquesta edició desbordà ja en primera instància en temàtiques d'alt interès docent: patrimoni, memòria històrica, abandó i precarietat, crisi industrial, pèrdua de població, envelliment del parc construït i, en paral·lel, de la població, impacte paisatgístic, mineria, pedanies, colònies i masies disseminades, sector agrícola en actiu... Degut a aquesta riquesa temàtica es decidí realitzar dues edicions a Cardona: una centrada al nucli urbà i antic, i l'altre als entorns: paisatge agrícola, miner, colònies i barri de la Coromina. L'edició que aquí es presenta abordà temàtiques sorgides del nucli antic i el nucli urbà, encara que també alguns projectes es situaren a l'espai de la vall salina i a la colònia Arquers. Fent una lectura posterior, el conjunt de Projectes Finals de Carrera constitueix una veritable proposta global pel municipi que permet calibrar la vigència d'algunes de les seves realitats normatives i dinàmiques de funcionament. Podríem agrupar els projectes d'aquesta edició centrada al nucli urbà en tres grans grups: els ubicats en el nucli històric, els situats als eixamples del segle XX, àrea també anomenada ‘barri nou', i els situats a la Colònia dels Arquers o la vall salina. En quant als primers, afronten problemàtiques dispars, però pròpies d'un teixit gairebé medieval que ha anat creixent intramuros afegint densitat i minvant permeabilitat i transparència, com són l'accessibilitat, l'habitabilitat, la dificultat d'introduir usos no-residencials d'interès econòmic, la manca de xarxes de telecomunicació. Unes problemàtiques que, en gran part, expliquen la pèrdua de valor d'aquesta àrea, la davallada de la població i, de retruc, l'envelliment i la precarietat de l'edificació. Els projectes situats al ‘barri nou' en canvi, tendeixen a abordar qüestions de ‘reparació urbana' o millora de l'espai públic, com és l'adequació dels camins a les escoles, amb la vinculació a aquests dels parcs i places de la població. També, els projectes situats a la vall salina i a la Colònia dels Arquers pretenen una re-valorització d'aquests àmbits a partir del reclam turístic, l'interès paisatgístic d'una àrea PEIN o la introducció d'usos residencials i de serveis en l'edificació abandonada. El conjunt d'aquesta edició, juntament amb la següent dedicada als entorns de Cardona, és una col·lecció interessant de propostes factibles en major o menor grau, que han pogut ser calibrades a diferents escales -des del territori i la seva gent fins el detall constructiu i econòmic- que esdevenen un valor de cara al futur del municipi i un banc d'idees per als reptes que hagi d'afrontar. desplegament del màster als municipis de la província de Barcelona, i arribar, així, amb més facilitat a les persones interlocutores, als àmbits de poder o als veïns i veïnes que treballen i viuen damunt del terreny.

The current configuration of the environment of the Nonell's torrent implies a physical separation between the neighbours of Valldoreix neighbourhood, in Sant Cugat, separation that is materialised in the existence of some cul-de-sac in the adjacent streets. Moreover, this problem is aggravated because of a deficient treatment of the storm water. This project tries to find a jointly solution for both problems: the creation of a diversion water system in the streets around the Novell's torrent from and adequate transformation of the public space to improve the accessibility and to give a continuity to the cul-de-sac that enable the union of both banks of the torrent. In the end, this project achieves an environmental improvement that is reflected in a permeability improvement of the torrent and the debottlenecking of the sewage system of the neighbourhood, which prevent the sewage discharge and enable a densification growth.

Consolidación del Torrente d'en Llobet en Valldoreix como una infraestructura lúdica, verde y cotidiana, a través de la rehabilitación del Castillo de Canals, la masía Can Badal y el acondicionamiento del entorno escolar en el cruce entre Avinguda Can Montmany y el Carrer Brollador.

Urban reorganization in the southeast of Sant Cugat del Vallès connecting the Collserola Park with the city center. The project is developed from the study of the different plans in the field. By means of a dispersed urban fabric it is intended to generate a type of garden city that accompanies users on their way to the entrance of the park. In the southern part of the area you will find a series of facilities and services for the use of both the people of Sant Cugat and the visitors of the park. The project is defined by its sensitivity to the environment and the desire to carry out sustainable construction.

“Downloading domesticities” is proposed as a response to the growing issue regarding accessible housing, especially for young people, in the context of low density neighborhoods. Virtuality, the link between the earthly and virtual world, is used as a key tool to reconfigure the domestic space and the idea of ​​the city. The project works on the existing urban fabric in La Floresta and is defined as contemporary and vernacular, since, on the one hand, it reinterprets the morphological and material actions, familiar and known, of the neighborhood, which correspond to the logic of where it is located. On the other hand, it learns from its historical evolution with the aim that its development is coherent in the current temporal reality, where the fight against the climate crisis and the techno-virtual evolution are protagonists. Energy sustainability and reimagining new housing models are key. The selected case studies test the normative, management and theoretical-architectural strategies that seek to offer future densification models that take advantage of the qualities of mountain neighborhoods from the understanding of the essence of low density and far from the replica of the compact city.

Urban reorganization in the southeast of Sant Cugat del Vallès connecting the Collserola Park with the city center. The project is developed from the study of the different plans in the field. By means of a dispersed urban fabric it is intended to generate a type of garden city that accompanies users on their way to the entrance of the park. In the southern part of the area you will find a series of facilities and services for the use of both the people of Sant Cugat and the visitors of the park. The project is defined by its sensitivity to the environment and the desire to carry out sustainable construction.