Multiplayer city: the production of urban spaces as an open-end negotiation
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MIAW 2015, WS (Basabe) %22multiplayer city%22 booklet(workshop info, theme and programme)

Workshop room:
R.1.
Building 11 / Via Ampère, 2 – 20133 – Milano (MI)

LUIS BASABE MONTALVO is founding patner of arenas basabe palacios arquitectos, an international firm based in Madrid, in which innovative, democratic and ecological concepts are developed for extreme forms of contemporary urbanity all around the world.

Their work has achieved several international distinctions, such as the HOLCIM AWARD BRONZE 2014 or the EUROPAN Competition, in which they have been awarded six times since 2005. It has also been presented, published and exhibited in Germany, Austria, UK, France, Switzerland, Cyprus, Korea, India, Russia, Italy and Spain.

Luis is Associated Professor at the ETSAM-UPM in Madrid, and has been guest lecturer amongst other institutions at the University of Cambridge, CEPT University of Ahmedabad, and Uni Stuttgart. In 2014 he has held the Visiting Professorship “Contemporary City” at Politecnico di Milano.

Program

“The model of the European city, designed as a city that assembles and integrates,  is becoming weakened and marginalized”. (1)

Instead of planned cities, from the Greek city to Haussmann Paris or Milan, they have become saturated, abandoned territories. The models that formed the city over the years are now obsolete. The theoretical base has given way to debate where very disparate ideas and transcriptions can be juxtaposed to compete, unfortunately, in a logic of spectacular objects, as wonderful as they may be.

Starting with the French repertoire of utopian or developed urban projects within the ongoing debate about the Grand Paris, from “La ville franchisée” by David Mangin to the “l’ilôt ouvert” by Christian de Portzamparc, on the vast Caserma Montello site we shall endeavour to revisit the contemporary “Pièce Urbaine” concept by Henri Ciriani that aims, in part, to restore faith in the emergence of a coherent and co-ordinated urban project, even at large scale.

Starting with the initial analysis of the context, then a joint preliminary study of the site and its characteristics, the elaboration of the overall design strategy and criteria will be formulated by the whole group with designated, methodical tools.

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Architect D.P.L.G, University of Paris 7 and University of Paris 8 graduated in 1984Since 2000, Jean Mas is founding partner of Ateliers 2/3/4/ and since 2005, the planning consultancy Faubourg 2/3/4/.  He was Consultant Architect 1991-94 to the French  Ministry of Equipment, Transportation and Tourism.

Lecturer at the Geneva School of Architecture 1991-95, he is currently Lecturer at the Val-de-Seine School of Architecture. He has extensive teaching experience especially abroad at the architecture schools of Milan, Bangkok, New York, Seoul and Helsinki.

In his early years, Jean Mas worked in the New York office of Richard Meier with whom he was in association during the 1990’s to undertake several headquarter buildings, for example, Canal+ in Paris. He also worked with Philippe Stack as designer, then later in Japan at the end of 1980’s and, currently with Ateliers 2/3/4, he undertakes projects in France and Vietnam.

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Longitudinal section: original drawing

PROGRAM

Carlos A. Wandosell’s studio will focus on Ex Cinema Adriano, a whole/hole into the city that recalls its former nature: a movie theatre, a place which made a show of the close relationship between light and time. Cinema Adriano is today an enclosed space where it’s possible to create ideal conditions, putting in practice a determinate number of rules created in order to transform the peripheral conditions of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants. Throughout the first week, students will be asked to focus on the cinema Adriano in its relationship with the city: they’ll have to work on geospatial and social processes, rewriting them in light of historical and contemporary forms of cartographic representation, drawing in layers and from different points of view and scales. They will focus not only on the architectural objects, but also on phenomenological situations as sounds, smells, views. The final aim of this first term is the generation of an atlas, which traces the geographies of the cinema including the geomorphological features as well as the social ones. The cartogenesis of the Cinema will be presented in 2 A0 panels, one vertical and the other one horizontal, conforming a dihedral. During the second phase, each student will be required to do deep social analysis, in order to establish a Rules Set: this tool will allow to define the program of uses, desires, needs, by analysing the relationship between the rituals of daily life in the neighbourhood, their timing and the space in which these rituals occur. Once the program is defined, so are the rules of the game: students will have maps, plans of the uses, desires and needs of the building. At this point, the design process will proceed through a subtraction intervention over the different layers of the cinema: a kind of cleaning methodology over the old building.

23/02 < explain the wording
24/02 < visit and work in the site – visit to Bastard Store (with L. Bini) h. 15:00 via Scipio Slataper 19
23-25/02 < cartogenesis, 2 A0 panels
26/02 < presentation and jury about cartogenesis
27/02 < maps and diagrams of rules and program
02-04/03 < work over subtraction system. models and plans
05/03 < design and build the tables for the final exhibition
06/03 < finish all the works, final exhibition, final jury

Room: U.2

Guest professor:
Carlos Asensio Wandosell

Born in Madrid, he graduates in 1993 at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura and he founds his architecture office with Nieves Cabañas, awa_estudio since 2007. He takes part in many design competitions and wins some of them – most recent: first prize in an urban intervention in Talavera de la Reina; first prize in the competition for the Veterinary Hospital in Madrid and first prize in the Auditorium and Concert Hall in Elche. His design survey is varied and active on a multiplicity of fronts: university and cultural buildings, sports complexes, community facilities. He combines design activity with research and teaching: since 2006, he is professor at Toledo school of Architecture and San Pablo CEU of Madrid and he has been visiting professor at many European universities as MsA FH Münster, TU Kaiserslautern, FH Kärnten and Politecnico di Milano. He has many publications to his credit in national and international issues, as Babelia – El País, Arquitecura/COAM, Baukultur.