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Envejecimiento: Viviendas y ciudades

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:10:50 +0000

Usuarios de una residencia para la tercera edad

El problema del envejecimiento en las sociedades avanzadas, tanto en Europa como en el resto del mundo, se está convirtiendo en un asunto prioritario al que convendría prestarle una mayor atención colectiva. En España, dentro de treinta años el 37% de la población tendrá más de 65 años según estimaciones demográficas realizadas. Esto supone un reto colosal para dotar de servicios adecuados a todo este volumen de personas que van a requerir un cuidado creciente en su desenvolvimiento cotidiano.

Evolución de la pirámide de población de España hasta el año 2050. Source: Revista Capital

En los últimos tiempos surgen por doquier ofertas de espacios especializados para los colectivos de personas ya retiradas. Son urbanizaciones y edificios destinados a la llamada Tercera Edad. Es decir orientados a aquellos que afrontan ese momento de la retirada del trabajo que habitualmente se había desempeñado a lo largo de su vida laboral habitual.

Hasta ahora la respuesta convencional a las necesidades específicas de este colectivo ha sido su ingreso en centros residenciales en los que se oferta una atención especializada que pretende ser de tipo asistencial. Es una solución que no suele tener en cuenta la voluntad y los deseos de las propias personas afectadas que, generalmente, prefieren permanecer en sus entornos familiares el mayor tiempo posible.

Solares abandonados. Participación ciudadana, ¡Adiós, La importancia de los linderos, Envejecimiento. Viviendas y ciudades, ¡Felicidades. El mundo según China, Discos de Rock, Illustrator, acaban convirtiendo en un penoso calvario en su estancia en esos lugares.

Beatles 70 years old, topic, se están promocionando grupos de viviendas y urbanizaciones que tratan de conservar una cierta independencia personal a sus usuarios. Con el añadido de poder disfrutar de algunos servicios complementarios, adecuados a las necesidades específicas de ese colectivo humano en crecimiento. Es una alternativa que supone el añadido positivo de la peculiaridad de la vivienda independiente y, con ello, la garantía de una cierta intimidad.

However, las personas que envejecen pretenden permanecer en sus entornos habituales todo el tiempo que sea posible. Namely, en aquellos en los que ha transcurrido gran parte de su vida adulta. Is, si fuera posible, les gustaría pasar la totalidad de esos años y sus últimos días en su casa de siempre y en el barrio en el que ha transcurrido la mayor parte de su vida adulta.

Participación ciudadana. ¡Adiós 65 La importancia de los linderos. Envejecimiento, a 18% Viviendas y ciudades. ¡Felicidades, El mundo según China, Discos de Rock. Illustrator, The story, con la demencia y la senilidad creciente que impide ser responsable para realizar tareas sencillas.

Participación ciudadana. ¡Adiós. La importancia de los linderos Envejecimiento, Viviendas y ciudades. ¡Felicidades, pero en la mayor parte de la estructura urbana residencial que se ha acumulado el último siglo en las ciudades es bastante complicado por no decir imposible.

Espacio de cocina adaptado para el acceso con silla de ruedas

Thus, hay que considerar la producción masiva de un nuevo tipo de vivienda adaptada específicamente a las necesidades de ese colectivo que superará pronto a un tercio de la población en los distintos países.

Uno de las principales características del envejecimiento es la creciente dificultad para el desplazamiento y el manejo de aparatos y elementos sencillos como interruptores, cocinas, baños etc. Relacionado con lo anterior, una de las amenazas recurrentes para los mayores es el tropiezo y la caída. Un riesgo que primero es una preocupación y que acaba convirtiéndose en una obsesión constante para los usuarios de las viviendas convencionales. Tanto en su acceso hacia y desde el exterior como, también en el interior de los edificios y las propias viviendas. En la percepción de los ancianos, las escaleras pasan a ser obstáculos insalvables y los baños se transforman en ratoneras en las que puede producirse un accidente en cualquier momento. So, el miedo acaba convirtiéndose en una constante para un grupo humano que tiende a desarrollar esa etapa de la vida en soledad, debido a la desaparición natural de parejas y del alejamiento de aquellas otras personas próximas.

En una etapa más avanzada de ese proceso de envejecimiento, va apareciendo la necesidad de contar con apoyos de todo tipo para mejorar las condiciones de la propia vida. Solares abandonados. Participación ciudadana. ¡Adiós, La importancia de los linderos, Envejecimiento, Viviendas y ciudades; and, finally, ¡Felicidades. Elementos de apoyo que suponen unos requerimientos dimensionales y de disposición específicos que normalmente no son tenidos en cuenta en el diseño arquitectónico.

Discos de Rock. Solares abandonados, Participación ciudadana. ¡Adiós; La importancia de los linderos. In this sense, Envejecimiento, eliminando desniveles y estableciendo las dimensiones suficientes para lograr el acceso en silla de ruedas y las transferencias personales hacia los aparatos con comodidad.

¡Felicidades, El mundo según China. Hasta llegar a considerar las camas individuales como el único espacio seguro.

¡Adiós

La importancia de los linderos. Envejecimiento. Viviendas y ciudades, para las que es preciso contar con superficies anexas y huecos de paso suficiente en los espacios residenciales.

Over the years, El mundo según China. Ello significa la oferta de servicios continuados para facilitar tareas que fueron sencillas en el pasado. Labores tales como el aseo cotidiano, la elaboración de comidas y el mantenimiento personal. son actividades para las que será necesario contar con estrategias apropiadas. tanto al objeto de diseñar espacios y servicios adecuados, en las viviendas como la oferta empresarial de soporte especializado. Desde un punto de vista del usuario, lo ideal sería que todo ello pudiera ofertarse desde la proximidad a los lugares en los que se reside.

Un elemento asistencial de apoyo fundamental es la colaboración en las tareas domésticas. In this case, es preciso contar con personal que ofrezca ayuda para tareas habituales como la limpieza de los espacios y utensilios, el aseo personal, así como el mantenimiento general de las viviendas. Otra cuestión importante es la necesidad de un acceso a servicios de consulta médica en la propia casa. La aparición de patologías crónicas relacionadas con la edad -como la diabetes, la hipertensión, etc.- hacen que se requiera de una monitorización constante.

Espacio de gimnasio adaptado a la rehabilitación de personas dependientes. Centro Rehab Basel de Herzog&DeMeuron, 2001. Photos: M. Spilutini

La asistencia médica domiciliaria, que era habitual hasta hace pocos años, ha ido siendo sustituida progresivamente por los consultorios alejados de los lugares de residencia. Thus, Solares abandonados, above all, Participación ciudadana, ¡Adiós, etc.. La importancia de los linderos, Envejecimiento, la proximidad de los servicios de apoyo orientados hacia ellas es un valor esencial.

¡Felicidades. El mundo según China, thus, Discos de Rock. Illustrator, tanto en los propios edificios como en los centros asistenciales de apoyo de proximidad.

También es conveniente considerar las posibles mejoras orientadas de las condiciones de relación y socialización colectiva. Desde esta perspectiva, habría que proceder a la reconsideración global del espacio público para el colectivo envejecido. Y en ello, elementos habituales, tales como bancos, aceras y cruces de calles deben replantearse progresiva y constantemente mediante su estudio y corrección. Son espacios de los que debe procurarse su ampliación y la eliminación de obstáculos innecesarios que colonizan lo que es colectivo. Especialmente en calles, plazas y parques.

El difícil acceso de los mayores al transporte público

Finally, la fácil y adecuada accesibilidad al transporte público es una condición muy importante para un colectivo que ha abandonado sus vehículos privados por razones obvias. Hoy por hoy, los vehículos destinados al transporte, las paradas para el intercambio y los recorridos de acceso suelen carecer, por lo general, de condiciones lo suficientemente adecuada para dar un buen servicio al colectivo de personas mayores.

Todo lo expuesto, nos debería hacer reflexionar con el objetivo de destinar mayores esfuerzos y recursos para mejorar las condiciones de vida de un colectivo que va a convertirse en el más numeroso en los próximos años.

More information:

Aging in place. Wikipedia
Japan: Ahead of the U.S. for “Aging in Place”. Empowering the mature mind. Aaron D. Murphy, 03/03/2015
Ciudades para la tercera edad. El Pais 04/01/2015

European Prize for Public Space 2012

Federico Garcia Barba — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:45:00 +0000

RENEWAL OF THE RIVER MARGINS ljubljanica

Atelier Boris Podrecca. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2011

The 20 April 2012 se ha fallado el Premio Europeo del Espacio Público que siete instituciones europeas convocan con carácter bianual para reconocer las mejores obras realizadas en este continente.

This year the prize has been awarded in a shared way to actions for renewing Ljubljana along the river that runs through the central historic Slovenian town. El trabajo ha sido dirigido por el arquitecto Boris Podrecca y en el que ha intervenido un numeroso equipo de otros arquitectos y especialistas.

According to the press release provided by the organizers, from year 2004, the City of Ljubljana, in collaboration with several local companies, has undertaken an ambitious public investment of more than twenty million euros to improve a central space in the city that was in poor conditions. For a period of time remarkably short, coordinated several local professional teams in the development of a series of targeted interventions, realistic and achievable, but articulated within an urban system powerful.

El río Ljubljanica, as the guideline for the system, resume the role was given to him by extraordinary architect Josef Plecnik. Around waters, improving the quality of life outdoors encourage sociability and stimulate economic regeneration of the old city. Was, ultimately, to increase the attraction of the center to counter the negative trend to urban sprawl.

Deployed along more than two miles of river, intervention starts, upstream, at the point at which separate the original course and channel Ljubljanica Gruber. There, a new footbridge (2010) connects the Botanical Garden of the University of Ljubljana, the oldest scientific and educational institution in Slovenia, with the new Municipal Park Špica (2010), riparian green space tops the southern corner of the island on which the town is. The first three hundred meters from the left bank of the canal have been the subject of a landscape restoration to power while its natural character and accessibility.

It has been restored, also, Dique the Trnovo (2010), on the left bank of the river stretch, that, following seven hundred meters downstream, reaches the confluence with the Gradaščica, a tributary of the Ljubljanica. The meeting of this course minor Barjanka Avenue, main artery of access to the city, has been solved with a new bridge (2008), namesake of the road, and river park (2008), park's namesake. The new viaduct is neighbor Trnovo Bridge, Plečnik work and central district of the same name.

Aguas abajo part Ljubljanica, shortly after the mouth of Gradaščica, the banks are acquired on a more urban. There has restored the old bridge Hradecki (2011), and levees Krakovo (2010) The Break (2010), both on the left bank. The dam Breg offers some steps in the Plaza Nueva (Novi trg), also must be renewed. This is one of the oldest squares in the city, adjacent to the National and University Library, is also work Plečnik.

Five hundred feet in the direction of flow, still on the left bank, dam is Hribarjevo, with the square Dvorni, both restored shortly before this intervention. On the opposite bank, perpendicular to the dike Cankarjevo, está la calle Locksmith (2009), which leads to the Castle Hill and has also undergone restoration. From Triple Bridge, on the left bank, the dam is provided a pavilion Petkovškovo (2006) which looks out over the river with a cantilever stands to offer one of the best views of the Castle Hill. The new bridge Butcher (2010), exclusively pedestrian, connecting the center of the dam with the slack Petkovškovo that Plečnik up as market riverfront Tržnica. About four hundred meters downstream, intervention ends with the insertion of a new bridge Grain (2010), provided with a cantilevered gradería, conectada a un embarcadero que flota a ras del agua.

The renewal of the river Ljubljanica as it passes through the historic center of the Slovenian capital is the result of a collective effort, concentrating resources on specific operations and optimizing coordination between various promoters and authors, reflects the humanist dream and gives continuity Plečnik. The banks are now fully accessible, both in the longitudinal direction of their dams as in transverse relationship established with adjacent tissues. Become a unitary public space at the same time full of special places, el río transmite al casco histórico la suficiente atracción gravitatoria para contrarrestar las fuerzas centrífugas de la dispersión urbana.

The result Award, explained by the Jury President, Josep Llinás

Hamburg Hafen City

Federico Garcia Barba — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Three-dimensional image of the Hafen City Master Plan. KCAP, Rotterdam, 2001

La ciudad de Hamburgo se ha convertido en la última década en un referente sobre la acción colectiva para transformar una ciudad hacia patrones más responsables con la sostenibilidad del planeta a largo plazo.

In 2000, the City Council approve the so-called Hamburg Hafen City. A development plan would impact the redevelopment of a substantial part of its extensive port. The concept of this Master Plan, conducted by the Dutch office KCAP, se basaría en lograr la máxima eficiencia energética de sus infraestructuras y edificios siguiendo patrones de diseño urbano que incentivaran el aumento de la densidad residencial y la mayor mezcla de usos.

Elb Philharmonie Concert Hall. Duke&deMeuron architects. Hamburg, 2010. by Inhabitat

Estado de ejecución de la urbanización y edificación en 2008

Today is already a tangible reality shows as a proper disposition of a community can produce in a short time positive urban metamorphosis, siempre y cuando se tenga unos objetivos claros y exista una potente voluntad de gestión.

In these cases, just citizen leadership shape in a responsible highly motivated decision makers sedimented in innovative ideas with a strong experimental. In Hamburg, that political leadership has led to the formalization of a high quality urban space, a través de la planificación continua y de la ausencia de improvisación.

The most significant icon of this effort is the new building Elb Philarmonie, musical performances intended and designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & DeMeuron, which incorporates an image representing the meaning of the set point. Today, esta obra cultural ya es también una realidad.

In 2011, Hamburg get the title of European Green City that the European Commission awarded every year. Un reconocimiento merecido al esfuerzo realizado.

Marco Polo Terrasse. Central area of the new district Hafen City. Photos: Lucas Grey, Flickr 2010

Here are some images videos that somehow reflects the underlying ideology that has managed to push this idea by establishing a collective consensus among citizens. All this through anecdotes significant and infant vision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzKexgaEwWM&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhYoqasW1G4&feature=related

Citizen participation in the planning

Ralf Veyras — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:47:00 +0000

Analyzing the set of actors involved in the process of city building, the citizen's role should be highlighted, from initial planning process of the municipal assembly to implementation through the development and construction. The citizen must be present in all phases of the process ensuring that the interpretation of reality in developing the overall management plan is the best possible. Thus also be present managing the consequences of its own citizens chosen, aceptando los derechos o deberes que resulten de dicha ordenación.

The participation of citizens in the planning of the city and particularly in the development of urban planning is essential to define the land uses, an increasingly scarce upon our island status, sometido cada vez más a mayores tensiones.

Recent controversies arising in Canary urban documents such as General Plans of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Tacoronte, have generated massive opposition to ratification putting the planning and land use as a hot topic of discussion in the islands. With these controversial public participation in urban planning in the government of the territory, has acquired in recent years a renewed interest. It has generated the need for urban planning documents more transparent and democratic, demandando una mayor contribución de la opinión ciudadana en la ordenación final de los municipios.

Manifestaciones en contra de los Planes Generales de Tacoronte y Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In the practice of drafting municipal planning, disclosure periods and citizen participation made conform to those required in the regulatory framework applicable on spatial planning and urbanism, enumerados en las distintas fases de aprobación y tramitación estipuladas legalmente.

Public Information These processes regulated under the laws of current application, and made after the approval of each of the phases mentioned, are usually insufficient, recent controversies mentioned views. Is necessary to develop new methods of public participation, that promote the role of citizens in the decision-making of urban planning, affecting not only the “conditions” over private interests, but also on issues of debate on large urban development strategies, asuntos que normalmente motivan a priori bastante menos.

As an example of citizen participation complementary method not covered by current legislation, include the procedure carried out in the drafting of the new General Plan de La Laguna, totally unusual and innovative with regard to practice. The Municipal Corporation had decided from the outset to support massively public debate on the future territorial, giving the word and, almost, la decisión final a los ciudadanos.

It is very interesting the participatory process driven from the City Council, since the channels established contact with the population, even before starting the drafting of the usual process of advance planning. It was established after a public consultation which allowed direct probing which could be the real concerns and needs of each neighborhood or town, a partir de un documento inicial de diagnóstico urbanístico y otro de criterios y objetivos de ordenación.

Anagrama del nuevo PGO de La Laguna.

The results of this participation helped identify and clarify the structural issues and raise the propositional alternatives regarding each. The topics selected were those that, according to the provisions of the legislation, tenían un carácter estructurante.

Thus, Advancement is presented to the public is clear and predominantly oriented towards participation, encouraging citizens to manifest their preferences debated and possible alternatives (within the proper limits of the criteria and objectives) to define the various components of future urban and regional model township. Si bien, in strict legal terms, Advancement is not binding, the commitment of the government team, explicitly stated, was that the results of public participation would become the basic guidelines from which to develop the detailed planning for the next step in the formulation of the Plan (which concludes with the initial approval document). With these premises, opened the mandatory public comment period, while the document available to the public in five offices open to the public for the purpose and on the Internet; also, se celebraron dieciocho reuniones explicativas en otros tantos centros ciudadanos del municipio.

From the systematization, quantification and analysis of citizens expressed preferences regarding each of the structural issues presented in the Advancement, were chosen management alternatives for defining the territorial model and subsequent detailed planning of the next phase of Initial Approval, actualmente en periodo de elaboración.

Citizenship is not accustomed to debate on major urban development strategies and certainly these issues motivate a priori much less than the “conditions” over private interests. Thus, in different performances in disclosure, was stressed that participation was required as the population over “citizens” that “proprietary”, explaining the difference between now asking for suggestions and allegations that might arise in the public information period after initial approval. But the result was very satisfactory, observando una gran preocupación de la ciudadanía por temas de interés general del propio municipio.

Información pública de Planes Generales de Ordenación.

This innovative procedure has caused so any Canary municipalities currently require the review of their urban, have chosen this method of non-binding public consultation, el cual ayuda en la obtención de un planeamiento más democrático y transparente.

Given the complexity of the citizen can make to the interpretation and understanding of urban planning documents for their specific language, es conveniente una adecuada asistencia por parte de equipos técnicos especializados para facilitar la contribución del ciudadano a la planificación urbana y territorial.

That is why CPPA, Planning Consultants, Landscape and Architecture, from its proven experience in drafting urban planning, les ofrece su total disponibilidad dando asesoramiento a sus peticiones y/o sugerencias en los procesos de información pública del planeamiento en fase de redacción y tramitación.

Monuments evocative

Federico Garcia Barba — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:12:00 +0000

One of the ponds Memorial 11 September. Peter Walker and Michael Arad. NY, 2011

This week in New York are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the tragic collapse of the twin towers World Trade Center. One of the activities related to that event will be at the inauguration of a memorial. Se suma así un nuevo espacio para la evocación de un suceso histórico que conmueve y conmoverá nuestras conciencias durante un largo tiempo.

The September 11th Memorial is the result of a design competition that won the team headed by American landscape Peter Walter, collaboration with Michael Arad. Ranked vacuum created by the disappearance of those unique towers that projected Minoru Yamasaki, they were a symbol representing the city of New York and, by extension, U.S.. A monumental architectures with formal nods neogothic that were almost an evocation of a particular way of understanding the culture and civilization itself. The two identical skyscrapers that formed the World Trade Centerter of New York were never a sample of architecture aesthetically relevant, but, however, tanto su tamaño monumental como su posición paisajística les dieron una relevancia icónica sin parangón.

The landscape and sculptural intervention designed by Peter Walker consists of two gigantic homers ponds occupying the empty space on which were placed the foundations of the towers. This raises maintaining the vacuum generated and accentuating that feeling of loss that induces hinting at the missing volumes. There, at the bottom of these sunken spaces, two separate ponds interspersed large scale on which large volumes of water falling in the manner of cataracts. At its center, a second hollow squares act as water drains leading to unknown caverns inside the earth. El movimiento del agua rememora de alguna manera la energía infinita generada por la acción destructiva en un punto concreto del planeta.

Infographic of the Memorial Recreation 11 September. Image: PWP

This proposal leads to a thought horror terminal, also evocative of the disappearance occurred in that place as a result of widespread terrorist attack in history and known. According to digital images that have been developed to explain the idea, the September 11th Memorial is likely, a must see and an attraction for the city important, once it is inaugurated and opened to the public.

This monumental space future joins a trail of works halfway between sculpture, architecture and landscape design that evoke events or important historical figures. A few relatively recent examples may illustrate this large set of spaces dedicated to the memories that go back as far back as the stelae and tombs that prehistoric everywhere left in memory of those contemporaries disappeared. This is the case of the evocative architecture to be built in the Mound of Ardeatine, Located just outside of Rome; or other abstract construction that twenty years ago was established as a memorial to the Holocaust in the center of Berlin; or enclosure also famous memorial to soldiers killed in the Vietnam War, located in the city of Washington.

Monument to the Martyrs of Ardeatine. Mario Fiorentino, Cacaprina, Cardelli, Aprille, architects and sculptor, Mario Coccia. Rome, 1949. Photos. Federico Garcia Barba

In Rome, gifted architect for the monumental, as Mario Fiorentino, with the help of other colleagues neorealist, would do a great job to accommodate the graves of Jews murdered by the notorious German SS calls Ardeatine caves. There, en 1949, be placed in alignment the graves of the deceased under a strong and heavy concrete deck, generating a shady space and distressing that lights up a tiny sliver of light opened in its lateral limits. The Monumento ai martiri delle Fosse Ardeatine refleja el peso de tanto hecho histórico angustioso que carga sobre las conciencias de la especie humana.

The Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust (Holocaust Mahnmal), designed by architect Peter Eisenman in 2005 by the Pariser Platz Berlin is a space that induces feelings of claustrophobia and bureaucracy that lead us to recall the extremely rational in the Nazi state conduct a heinous extermination. The appeal to the tens of thousands of concrete monoliths that create a maze that only reveals the silhouette of heaven generate a place that introduces a highly empathetic helplessness experienced by the millions of people slaughtered without mercy.

Holocaust Mahnmal. Peter Eisenman, arquitecto. Berlin, 2005. Photo Sleepy Surge, Flickr

Newly, there in that city of the dead in Miniature, material hardness and abstraction of parallelepipeds bring out the feeling of inhumanity present in a recurrent throughout the centuries in the actions of our species. The Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust possibly inspired other funerary, megalithic alignments Carnac in Brittany.

On Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, of Chinese sculptor- jacket Maya Lin, the idea for the tribute to the 58.000 MIAs be confined to the generation of a slight inflection topographic. There in that space landscape is a monolith incrustaría horizontal dark black granite which would record the names of all those who leave their lives in the course of that infamous war. The use of unification in one piece of thousands of dead people and generate collective emotionality that place has become the capital city of the United States, en uno de los más visitados a lo largo de los años.

That proposal 1982 Lin become one of the most renowned living artists in American panorama. She is the author of numerous proposals sculptural high interest, como la llamada Tabla del Tiempo situada en los jardines de la universidad de Stanford.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Maya Lin. Washington DC, 1982. Photos: Gregg Zollo, Flickr

What is interesting about these works is the personal way that appeals to volumetric forms to express a collective feeling in a metaphorical way. Is the use of certain feelings and ideas that emerge involuntarily spaces and access to materials, in tectonic, son capaces de inducirnos un pensamiento de solidaridad y comunidad con nuestros semejantes de una manera difícilmente explicable con palabras.

We could consider these proposals as an artistic expression in its purest. The manner in which it was achieved imagine these areas is something that lurks in the minds of their creators and may not be copied or remedarse absolutely. Probably, there arises the creative process of conjugation of ideas and concepts on the experience that the author aims to inspire the visitor, mental accumulation with previous experiences made, sculptural, literary or architectural emerged with a similar claim.

The wall of Maya Lin memorial engraved with the names of the soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. Photos: H.C. Woodward, Flickr

This suggests that human artistry is on where you can be a hope for the future, beyond the dictatorship of the economy and the rule of the machines. The inability to reproduce the creative moment, the artistic idea, is a value beyond monetary consideration.

The development of rational discipline and material progress is not going to lead to a better world and prove himself Holocaust. There is something other than, Art. A book of poetry is worth more than a railroad, diría Gustave Flaubert en su Cuaderno íntimo de 1840.

Time table. Maya Lin. Stanford, California. Photos: Ian Hsu, Flickr

The Goslar Warrior

Jorge Mosquera — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:45:00 +0000

A large sculptural event took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in December 1973: the First International Exhibition of Sculpture in the Street, organized by the College of Architects, the Cabildo and the Savings Bank of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, así como también por el Ayuntamiento de la capital.

Forty-six were exposed works, many in situ, of which have been installed by places important samples, parks and boulevards of this city. Artists of various nationalities involved, among which Henry Moore (England), Julio González (Catalonia), Pablo Gargallo (Saragossa), Alberto Sanchez (Toledo), Zadkine (Russia), Alexander Calder (U.S.), Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italy), etc., dejándose sentir la ausencia del vasco Eduardo Chillida.
“The Goslar Warrior” is made of bronze and measures three feet 1,10 and 1,22 meters,according BOC 25 June 2007, is a “representation of a fallen warrior, a figure lying with his head on one end and the shield at the foot, on the opposite side”. This sculpture also known as the “rest of the warrior”, located in the central boulevard of the city was made by Henry Moore (Castleford, England, 1898-1986) created this work to show the weakness that the power, peace more than war, sensitivity more than the glory. The artist is considered a great master of twentieth century sculpture and its influence is universal. The aforementioned work recalls the Warrior Dying iconographically, Henry also Moore, ubicada en el Museo del Capitolio de Roma .
Moore es bien conocido por sus grandes esculturas abstractas de bronce fundido que pueden verse en muchos lugares alrededor del mundo como obras de arte en la calle.
Items are usually abstractions of the human figure, así como madre con niño y especialmente figuras reclinadas o tumbadas con la característica de tener sus figuras huecos vacíos o perforaciones.
The sculpture has been declared by the Government of the Canaries a Cultural (BIC) con la categoría de Bien Mueble.

One day in New York

Ralf Veyras — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:34:00 +0000

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

After visiting the Blog Edgar González , and watch the cool video City#3721 Lam Ho Tak student, I tried a little research on the visual technique used to mix the time-lapse with the tilt-shift. The time-lapse is an accelerated video sequence, where events happen at a much faster rate than normal, on the other hand the tilt-shift is based on the use of “shift lenses” the “tilting lens” creando un efecto óptico que nos hace ver los objetos como si fueran miniaturas.

When you look at a model of truth, the eye is focused on a very short distance, so that things which are a little too quickly fade away, similar to these photos. The photos that have natural shine and are somewhat "washed" trick complete loss of detail of distant objects, que hacen que los objetos enfocados realmente parezcan de una maqueta.

As a sign of this new visual technique've posted this interesting video of Sam O'Hare which combines both techniques with everyday scenes of New York City, dando la sensación de que ante nosotros hubiera un maqueta totalmente realista.

Banganga en Bombay

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:34:00 +0000

Tanque de Banganga, Bombay. Espacio del manantial. Photos: Inese Pumala

Bombay es una extensa y densísima urbe que alberga más de 15 millones de personas. Sus peculiares espacios públicos –conocidos como maidans y thirtas- son escasos en relación al tamaño del territorio urbanizado y, thus, constituyen allí un bien muy preciado. Llaman la atención del visitante por lo que tienen de diferente como expresión de una cultura peculiar. Uno de esos interesantísimos lugares es el depósito de Banganga, en Malabar Hill en el extremo sur de la ciudad.

Las grandes y raras extensiones abiertas que forman los maidans de Bombay tuvieron un origen militar. Emerge as building large free areas dedicated to the protection of the military fortifications, leaving expedited ground strips that could serve as a refuge and defense potential attackers. Con el curso de la historia y la desaparición de la necesidad militar han permanecido dando lugar a una especie de parques públicos que puntúan la ciudad.

Location of Walkeshwar in Malabar Hill, southern end of the metropolis of Mumbai

Conversely, thirtasthana were and are the sites of religious pilgrimage that character have remained open despite the informality that characterizes a place like Bombay and the many avatars that continually occur in an area that suffers so brutal urban pressures. Banganga tank is one of the few examples of this type are still open spaces multipurpose. While maintaining its original function as a place for drinking water supply, also preserves other multifunctional. For regular users is a daily meeting place and celebration. There also traditionally produce daily bath purification ceremony among many locals, would wash her clothes and give drink to pets. It has also been used as a crematorium surface, cemetery and outdoor gym.

Your sacred enclave character derived from ancient traditions of Pilgrimage. At the time had in its contours coming with numerous temples, shrines and dharamsalas, or retreat houses for pilgrims. A memorial and religious space wrapped in legends of miracles and holy character visits. En los últimos tiempos la ciudad también fomenta su carácter hacia el consumo como espacio turístico.

Colorful picturesque stairways in Banganwa. Photos: mikarmo, Flickr

Water is a key element in the practice of Hinduism. It is a source of life and allows cleaning of one's sins. The approach to the banks and water edges represent also the time and place in which it would be closer to heaven. According to some myths rapporteurs, Banganga arise when Lord Rama shot a magic arrow down to relieve the thirst of the unfortunate inhabitants of the area. Thus discover hidden underground branch of the powerful and sacred Ganges (hence the name).

Banganwa tank would be at one of the seven primitive islands that gave rise to the city of Mumbai and is today an unoccupied stronghold in the center of the town of Walkeshwar. The reservoir is continuously supplied by a small natural spring located in a corner of the enclosure.

Central space Banganwa tank, seen from the South. Photos: Inese Pumala

As urban space currently be defined as a cross between square and public pool, rocky organized into a depression in the center of the primitive island. With a substantially rectangular, is distinguished by its banks formed by stone steps and stairways. In its perimeter are located numerous spaces sanctified, embedded in a dense set of popular buildings and streets. Here the trails are used for all types of joint activities with an inherent difficulty in distinguishing between strictly private space and what is common to the inhabitants. In recent times also besieged by property speculation, As is clear from the appearance of important upcoming high buildings, desfigurando el paisaje urbano original.

Pictorial representation of one of the existing temples in the area since the late nineteenth century.

Edwin Lord Weeks, 1884.

Banganga is protected as a historic site and heritage character, because of that uniqueness that represents, it promotes the city as a tourist attraction. Symbolizes a way of understanding the use of space very characteristic of a form of ancient civilization, hardly reproducible under the budgets of other cultural coordinates. From the point of view of architecture and urbanism is a curious exoticism that does not fit with the kind of public space that are used in other countries and continents.

The enjoyment of the bathroom. Photos: Fab India

High Line Park. Inauguración del 2º tramo

Ralf Veyras — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:58:00 +0000

Photos: Iwan Baan

In June 2009 wrote about the new park opened in New York, the High Line. As mentioned, This project involves the transformation of an abandoned railway line nine meters high converted into a linear space that runs along the west of the island of Manhattan designed by James Corner Field Operations in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro .

For two years after opening its first section with great success in view of the two million visitors a year that holds, was opened to the public the second stage of this urban park has become one of the most valued public spaces of New York society. May owe its success to the linear park to monitor unknown views of the city while walking on a path through buildings of various kinds, showing the past, presente y futuro de Manhattan.

A third phase is planned to reach the park almost two miles long. Es un claro ejemplo de cómo recuperar espacios para la ciudadanía sin la necesidad de realizar inversiones desmedidas.

A continuación un video en el que se muestra un recorrido a lo largo del primer tramo.

The High Line – New York City from BriTV on Vimeo.

More information on the official website: http://www.thehighline.org/

Playground in Montreal

Ralf Veyras — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:07:00 +0000

Surfing the net I located this playground located in Montreal, Canada. It is made by the study of landscape and architecture Cardinal Hardy. Se caracteriza por conformar la silueta de una salamandra a partir de las pequeñas laderas artificiales y las surrealistas estructuras creadas para juegos de niños.

More information and images:

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/09/salamander-playground/