TE’TSAB.

09 EL CARMEL: AFTER THE CITY

july 9th – 23rd 2009

International Summer Workshop, Organized by ETSAB (School of Architecture of Barcelona)

PARTICIPANTS

Umayor Universidad Mayor, Escuela de Arquitectura. Santiago de Chile, Chile

tutor_ Marco Andrés BEOVIC

students_ Úrsula Andrea OLIVA, Diego Antonio OVIEDO, Jose Ignacio MARCHANT,
Marco Rodolfo GALLI, Marco Andrés AGUIRRE.

UIA Universidad Iberoamericana, Departamento de Arquitectura. México

tutor_Fernanda CANALES
students_Santiago ARAGONÉS, Julieta GIL, Andrés SOUTO,
Andrés RIVADENEYRA, Luis VARGAS.
UIC University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture. Chicago, USA

tutor_Juan Manuel ROIS

participants_ Meghan FUNK, Jon MACGILLIS, Cole MONAGHAN, Lauren TURNER

TU Tsinghua University, School of Architecture. Beijing, China

tutor_Li ZHANG
students_ Yuben ZHANG, Li LIU, Rui PAN, Yu LI, Hui AI

TU Delft Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculteit Bouwkunde. Delft, THE NETHERLANDS

tutors_Sang LEE & Mark KOEHLER

students_Michiel SMITS, Jan Willem VAN DER MADE,
Riekje TIMMERMAN, Marieke de GRAAW, Dominique VAN’T HOF

ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

tutors_ Joan FLORIT, Madalen GONZÁLEZ, Ignacio LÓPEZ,

Ignacio MARTÍNEZ, Héctor MENDOZA.
student_ Miguel Ángel ALCALDE, Pol CARRERA, Irma PÉREZ,
Agnès THÖNI, Ivan RIBA
AIM

The main aim of the workshop is to carry out an international experience in teamwork, which will be
intensive given the limited available time.
The activities will be jointly undertaken by the teachers and students of the participating schools.
Each group, coordinated by two teachers, will develop a single proposal.
It should be pointed out that, opposed to a course or seminar, the intention of this intensive
workshop is to produce material for the public discussion. This will condition the structure of the
workshop.

STRUCTURE

‐ The workshop consists of five groups, each made up of six students (one from each participating
university) and two teachers (one from the ETSAB and one from a guest university).

‐ The workshop pretends to be an intensive production space with parallel activities:

presentations, lectures, visits and other events, all sharing design as a common thread.

‐ The intermediate review by an external jury after one week divides the workshop into two stages
and means that students must have acquired criteria and solutions that can be assessed at the
end of the first stage. It also guarantees a minimum amount of time for verification,
experimentation and development of secondary ideas in the latter stage.
‐ On the first day, the participants from each school submit samples of experiences of their own
city, focusing on the topic “borders between planned and spontaneous city” and finding critical
reviews and innovative readings about the construction of specific areas of their cities where
urban form was not integrated in the planning process.
Preparation of this material should allow a prior involvement in the workshop topic and provide
all the participants with some shared references. The presentation of this preliminary work also
serves as the presentation of the corresponding school.

The working language of the workshop is English.

Conferences and lectures will be organized to complement the projects carried out in the workshop.
A detailed lecture programme will be provided in the final dossier, which will be drawn up in the
course of the year.

ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

All participants will receive credentials that enable them to eat daily in the school cafeteria, to visit
the library, and to use the limited accounts opened by the workshop at various school facilities, such
as the photocopy shop, the stationer’s and the model workshop.

The summer workshop will be held in two areas, both of which are air‐conditioned: a conference hall
and a classroom equipped with computers, scanner and printers. It is recommended although that
studenst bring their own laptops.
TOPIC

EL CARMEL: AFTER THE CITY

Barcelona is worldwide known as a paradigm of modern‐planned city. From the XIXth Century
Extension Plan of the Eixample Cerdà to the newer recovering interventions of the sea front the city
has been an innovative field for urban and architectural strategies. Besides this programmed
approach to the CITY‐PLANNING a spontaneous process of CITY‐MAKING arose in some forgotten
parts of Barcelona in mid XXth century. After some decades of urban deficiencies these areas are
seen as fields for city‐renewal.

TE’TSAB 09 will focus on El Carmel, one of the more genuine and spontaneous neighborhoods of the
city. Finding approaches and strategies for CITY‐RECYCLING through architecture will constitute the
challenge of this year summer workshop.
Can Baró 1926
El Carmel 2007
SCHEDULE

Thursday 9 Introduction 10:00_ Welcome

_ Presentation of guest universities, tutors
and previous works

16:00 _ Lecture:

“Introduction to the Workshop. Topics and Deals”

Adolf Sotoca, Workshop Coordinator

18:00_ Formation of groups

Friday 10 Visit to site 10:00_Tres Turons visit

Lunch at the site
16:00_Tres Turons visit

Saturday 11 Visting BCN 10:00 to 13:00_ Bike tour

Sunday 12

Monday 13 Workshop + Lecture 19:00_ Lecture:

“The Masterplan for Tres Turons”

Isabel Meléndez,
Head of Urban Planning Department, BCN city council

+ Trekking 21:30_ trekking to the terrace

Tuesday 14 Workshop

Wednesday 15 Workshop

Thursday 16 Halfway presentation 15:00_ External Jury

Josep Ferrando (teacher, ETSAB)

Josep Barjuan (Agència del Carmel)
Josep Alió (Agència del Carmel)
Miquel Vidal (professor ETSAB)
Roberto Rovira (landscape architect & teacher
Florida International University, Miami)

Friday 17 Workshop + Lecture 10:00_ Lecture

Roberto Rovira. Landscape architect & teacher

Florida International University, Miami

+ “terrace lecture” 21:30_ terrace lecture

Paul de Vroom. Architect. Rotterdam

Saturday 18 Workshop

Sunday 19
Monday 20 Workshop

Tuesday 21 Workshop

Wednesday 22 Workshop

Thursday 23 Final Review 15:00_ Final presentation (external jury)

Joan Roig (teacher ETSAB)

Jordi Bellmunt (Director of Master Landscape Program)
Manuel Ruisanchez (teacher ETSAB)
Estanislau Roca (professor ETSAB)
Ferran Segarra (Dean ETSAB)
Paul de Vroom (architect , Rotterdam)
Isabel Meléndez / Francesc Ragués (Urban Planning
Department, BCN city council)

21:00_ Closing ceremony

_ Dinner
COLLABORATIONS

GUEST LECTURERS

Isabel MELÉNDEZ head of urban planning department_city council BCN

Roberto ROVIRA landscape architect and professor_Florida International University

INTERMEDIATE JURY

Josep ALIÓ Agència del Carmel

Josep BARJUAN Agència del Carmel
Josep FERRANDO teacher_etsab
Miquel VIDAL professor_etsab
Roberto ROVIRA landscape architect and professor_Florida International University

FINAL JURY

Jordi BELLMUNT director of master landscape program_etsab

Isabel MELÉNDEZ/Francesc RAGUÉS urban planning department_city council BCN
Estanislau ROCA professor_etsab
Joan ROIG teacher_etsab
Manuel RUISÁNCHEZ teacher_etsab
Ferran SAGARRA dean_etsab
Paul de VROOM architect_Rotterdam