Conference of Xevi Bayona
A face-to-face conference where we will have the opportunity to listen to the architect Xevi Bayona, who will talk to us about the studio's trajectory and its most relevant projects.
Bayona Studio is a workshop and studio in the center of the city of Olot, where we work with experimentation and essay as a method, criticism as learning, emotions as a tool, the interpretation and respect of social, physical and cultural environment, enthusiasm and intense research as fuel. All straddling architecture, urban planning, art, landscape, ephemeral installations and light sculptures, a mix of disciplines that feed back and complement each other.
Xevi Bayona studied from an early age at the School of Fine Arts in Olot and studied architecture in Barcelona and in Portugal, at the FAUP, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Architect for the Barcelona Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB) with the PFC Biblioteca-Ludoteca in Espinho, Portugal. Post Graduate Degree in Landscaping at ETSAB and Master in Theory and Practice of Architectural Design at ETSAB with the thesis "La Girona dels Carrers-Escala". Since 2008, professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Girona. Since 2018, professor at Elisava's international master's in ephemeral architecture. Winner of several awards, including three FAD awards, several finalist and selected projects, winner of architectural awards and mentions from the Regions of Girona and winner of the Changing Tracks competition, a European project to create 3 installations, in Catalonia, England and Ireland. Since 2017 he collaborates and realizes projects together with Àlex Posada, MID Studio. He has carried out civil works such as the Rehabilitation of the Tortosa State Bridge over the Ebro River, the rehabilitation of the Sant Jaume de Llierca sports area or the Olot Fair, as well as housing architecture works. He has given conferences, workshops and made ephemeral interventions in several European cities.
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LACOL Arquitectura Cooperativa
On Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 7:30 p.m., we will have the opportunity to listen to the LACOL Arquitectura Cooperativa conference, where architect Ari Artigas will talk about the history of the cooperative and its most relevant projects. A face-to-face conference offered by the Tarragona Region of the College of Architects of Catalonia.
Lacol is a cooperative of architects that works from the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona. They work to generate community infrastructures for the sustainability of life, as a key tool for the ecosocial transition, through architecture, cooperativism and participation. They work with architecture for social transformation, as a tool to critically intervene in the immediate environment. Always in parallel with society, acting in a fair and supportive manner starting with a horizontal work system.
They believe that the way to transform the city is based on the active participation of the people who live there and proactive action. They work on the interests related to the quality of life of all the people who share the city. The contribution of the architect is made at the heart of the urban movement, as another part of this movement, helping to translate citizen concerns and embody them on paper, providing criteria for the definition of objectives and strategies, as well as tools to define and communicate ideas through drawing, graphic representation, etc.
They encourage debate and discussion on the uses of public spaces and the management of urban spaces, city models, participation and heritage recovery, among others.
The work built by LACOL Arquitectura Cooperativa includes, the housing cooperative La Borda (2014-2018), Comunal Espai Cooperatiu (2016-2020), housing cooperative La Balma (2017-2021), Coopolis Bcn Phase 0. (2016), reform works and other multi-family housing projects that are in process.
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[In]TESIS | "Vías y entrevías. Atributos y compromisos del distrito industrial de Tarragona"
Analysis of the form and structures in interest to understanding foundational logics, assessing urban events impacts and phenomena, revealing Tarragona industrial districts attributes. Recognize the duality that has been caused between a periphery marked by infrastructures determination and their marginal condition, and a city that, traditionally deals with your center rationalization. Transformation of a territory that has achieved its occupation supporting itself on the strength of unrelated layouts and which would have procured urban exclusion in the space created, analyses how urban possibilities are taking root amidst these conflicts. Examines the initiatives of urban planning as a reflection of the social and technological changes, boosted by the expansion and development policies that marked this period. Concludes from the perspective regarding the recognition of how socioeconomic structures have been deployed in this territory, vindicating the Tarragona urban project has pending regarding its periphery.
At the end of the event there will be a dinner-discussion with the speaker at the Barhaus restaurant. If you are interested in attending, you can contact tarragona@coac.cat.
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“Manresa, en la región del Llobregat - Cardener”
Con el título “Manresa, en la región del Llobregat – Cardener”, la Demarcació de les Comarques Centrals acogerá el jueves, 9 de junio a las 18.30 h una conferència del arquitecto Manel Larrosa.
El peso regional del entorno de Manresa, en una mirada de escala catalana y la experiencia de FemVallès: economía, regionalización, infraestructuras, gobernanza metropolitana serán los temas de su ponencia.
Manel Larrosa es arquitecto desde 1978. Fue concejal de Urbanismo de Sabadell entre 1979 y 1987 y ha participado en diversas iniciativas y proyectos de planeamiento urbanístico, como el Fórum Terrassenc que formuló la Vía Verde Sant Llorenç-Collserola , la Vía Verde de Cerdanyola por la ampliación de la UAB o el plan estratégico de Terrassa.
Forma parte de la plataforma FemVallès, una asociación de entidades económicas, sindicales, profesionales y sociales, cuyo objetivo es potenciar la importancia económica y superar la condición de periferia metropolitana en la que el Vallès ha estado permanentemente situado,