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2012

Solar decathlon europe 2012Born in 2002 in the USA, SD celebrated his first European edition in 2010. Is a contest of international universities to design and build an energy self-sufficient home that works only with solar energy, connected to the network, and incorporating technology to allow for maximum energy efficiency. The international competition is driven by the U.S. Department of Energy, organized by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) commissioned by the Ministerio de Vivienda of Spain, culminating in 2012 with the construction and operation of the different prototypes that will compete in ten different disciplines.

UPC Technical University of Catalonia has presented the prototype (e)co where I have been working for more than a year.

2012

(e)co means equilibrium through cooperation, it is a project developed and built by students. It represents a new sustainability and low-cost model that reaches a real equilibrium between the environment, the society and the economy.

The 150 m2 dwelling has an outer skin that offers protection from bad weather and balances climate needs, operating as a greenhouse in winter and as a shading structure in summer. The interior living space is made up by three wooden independent modules of 15 m2 each one.

Functional plasticity(e)co’s dwelling distribution is organized in free of tag spaces. The house is distributed through the activities it involves, multiple non-programmed spaces. The user and the objects define the space according the needs, the seasons or the preferences.

InterspacesInterspaces are a way to enlarge constructed surface without increasing much its price and acclimatization cost. It’s a privacy gradient, a potential relationship space with variable conditions and variable ways of inhabit it.

As member of sustainability team in (e)co I am in charge of the use of materials and the ecological impact of the construction.

Furthermore, during the last months I have been in charge of the interior design.

2012

Awards

- Honorable mention in Interior design

-1st prize Green building Council

-4th prize Architecture-3rd prize Industrialization

...finish in 8th position

2011

Centre per a la SostenibilitatUNIVERSITAT POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUNYA 4th International Seminar in Sustainable Technology Development

2011

moarB

Barcelona mobility

BARCELONA’S ACTIONS www20.gencat.cat

Pla de l'energia de Catalunya 2006-2015,based on the planification of the persons and mer-

chandising mobility. It has 3 parts:

o Urban mobility with energy efficiency

o Electric cars

o Enterprises’ mobility

Urban mobility with energy efficiencyIts aim is to force the sustainable mobility. It creates the PMUS,

sustainable urban mobility plan, which considers models of low

environmental impact transport that permit social unity and econo-

mic development, and, at the same time, improve the life quality of

the city.

Benefits:

- Less traffic jams, and their associated pollution

- Promotion of biofuels, so less carbon fuels

- Amelioration of public transport

- Improvement of the space for the pedestrian

- Better citizen health, because of minor pollution and noise

Enterprises’ mobilityThe obligatory mobility is the most important one. It is

necessary to reduce the private transport in order to in-

crease the public one or the sharing of the cars.

The ICAEN (catalan institute of energy) subvencions

the 60% of an enterprise plan.

new solutions

THE SUPERBLOCKS

A proposal to reinvent the public space in compact and com-plex cities.To create a net throughout the city of basic fast roads for cars and public transport, each one on its lane. This net embrace the blocks of the urban tissue with almost no tra-ffic. Inside the blocks: pedestrians, bikes, emergency vehi-cles, and the neighbours, with a velocity of 10km/h.The goal:

- To liberate the public space in favor of other activities. More space for pedestrians.- To decrease the number of surface parkings and increa-se the parcking places.- To improve the public transport- To improve the acoustic quality- To decrease the pollution- To ameliorate the accessibility to the blocks

Before: everything mixed

Up: now: a different net for each mode of transport.

Left: New Barcelona map

The superblocks were already created in the 50s in Chandigarh by Le Corbusier, and were suggested for Barcelona by that time.

Llei de la mobilitat de Catalunya (Llei 9/2003 del Parlament de Cat., de 13 de juny):

Made compulsory the mobility plans with priority of

the public transport and low impact transports, like

walking, bike, and no fuel systems.

and us? what do we do?

new traffic congestion

urban sprawl

motorized mobility increases

traffic congestion

increased road network

low energy prices and growing

popularity of the car

urban sprawl

motorized mobility increases

Flows that pass

through the streets and

avenues have different

kinds of transport and

very different intensi-

ties, with configuration

changes over time.

Today, most traffic between sea

and mountains passes through the

Eixample (at rush hour 76,000

vehicles / hour).

The citizen becomes a pe-

destrian, moving around

the city in a different way

at the needs of which

the pavements and

buildings are ad-

justed.

The example of Barcelona

The 1st car manufactured in Spain was in

Barcelona at 1898.

Catalonia is the most important region of the auto-

mobile sector in Spain, the 3rd in Europe and the 7th

in the world.

The car manufacture represents more than the 10% of the

catalan PIB.

Automobile industry employs more than the 3,5% of the popula-

tion and generates more than 200.000 secondary jobs.

The car exportation is the 20% of the international traffic from

Catalonia.

SEAT represents more than 70% of the automobile catalan

sector.

Catalonia is proud of its automotive culture.

Subsidies until 2000 € to buy a new car with less emissions than the old one.

The help is for cars until 45.000 €, while in Spain (E-Plan) until 30.000 €.

The goal: to help a total of 50.000 comercial operations of cars, 20.000

with E-Plan and 30.000 with AutoCat.

AutoCat 09 Plan

Automobile & Economy

ABC 13/7/09“The Generalitat helps SEAT with a ailroad investment of 85 millions”

El pais 13/1/08“Barcelona has the most expensive puclic transport of Spain”

La Razon, 2/01/11“Public transport, bicing, taxis and highways, rise up above the IPC.”

Car Makes Money

Territorial distribution of household disposable

income per person 200-2009

Average Index reference = 100

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Una región de tres velocidades

En Barcelona, el uso del transporte privado es minoritario, por un doble motivo:

• Existe una tradición de movilidad sostenible• Las instituciones han puesto frente a la expansión y congestión del vehículo privado

Barcelona; Ciudad y Movilidad1

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Solo 2 de cada 10 desplazamiento internos en Barcelona se dan en términos de vehículo privado (que puede ser motocicleta). El desplazamiento a pie es del 40,6% y el del transporte puublicoes de 39,7%.

Barcelona; Ciudad y Movilidad1

travel in Barcelona

forced displacement

housing

offices

trade

industry

Main compounds that con-

centrate the movements of

generations and attrac-

tions

mobile underground

travel and transport

origin and destination of travel

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EVOLUCIÓ DEL NOMBRE D’ETAPES EN ELS DESPLAÇAMENTS SEGONS MODE (2009)

Les etapes dels viatges en vehicleprivat i transport públic s’han reduïten un -3,32% i un 2,23%respectivament durant el 2009. Elmode a peu i bicicleta són els únicsque es mantenen estables.

Font: DOyMO i Enquesta de Mobilitat de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona

TRANSPORT PÚBLIC; 39,80% TRANSPORT

PRIVAT; 27,86%

A PEU I BICICLETA; 32,34%

Repartiment modal de la ciutat

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

A PEU

BICICLETA

ETAPES TOTALS 2006 % 2007 % 2008 % 2009 % %09/08 % 09/06TRANSPORT PÚBLIC 3.080.937 39,58% 3.148.519 39,74% 3.146.085 40,07% 3.075.965 39,80% -2,23% -0,16%TRANSPORT PRIVAT 2.258.618 29,01% 2.308.337 29,14% 2.227.403 28,37% 2.153.453 27,86% -3,32% -4,66%A PEU I BICICLETA 2.445.148 31,41% 2.465.062 31,12% 2.477.485 31,56% 2.499.808 32,34% 0,90% 2,24%

TOTAL 7.784.703 100% 7.921.917 100% 7.850.973 100% 7.729.225 100% -1,55% -0,71%

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EVOLUCIÓ DEL NOMBRE D’ETAPES EN ELS DESPLAÇAMENTS SEGONS MODE (2009)

Les etapes dels viatges en vehicleprivat i transport públic s’han reduïten un -3,32% i un 2,23%respectivament durant el 2009. Elmode a peu i bicicleta són els únicsque es mantenen estables.

Font: DOyMO i Enquesta de Mobilitat de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona

TRANSPORT PÚBLIC; 39,80% TRANSPORT

PRIVAT; 27,86%

A PEU I BICICLETA; 32,34%

Repartiment modal de la ciutat

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

A PEU

BICICLETA

ETAPES TOTALS 2006 % 2007 % 2008 % 2009 % %09/08 % 09/06TRANSPORT PÚBLIC 3.080.937 39,58% 3.148.519 39,74% 3.146.085 40,07% 3.075.965 39,80% -2,23% -0,16%TRANSPORT PRIVAT 2.258.618 29,01% 2.308.337 29,14% 2.227.403 28,37% 2.153.453 27,86% -3,32% -4,66%A PEU I BICICLETA 2.445.148 31,41% 2.465.062 31,12% 2.477.485 31,56% 2.499.808 32,34% 0,90% 2,24%

TOTAL 7.784.703 100% 7.921.917 100% 7.850.973 100% 7.729.225 100% -1,55% -0,71%

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Barcelona transport

Bike’s Mobility

68,2% of the trips are com-

pulsory mobility.

Intermodality:

63% uses exclusively the

bike.

37% interchange the bike

with public transport.

Barcelona Transport

pressure

city design

status

rent house22%

own house76%

free house2%

Finanzas.com“Spain at the head of

home ownership in

Europe”

The property does not change over time.However, work, leisure areas, etc. change fre-

quently and represent an increasement in travel.

tradition

Alfonso Godoy

Nayara Fuentes

Natalia Sánchez

Paola del Chicca

Ioanna Papachristou

Barcelona: one of the most contaminated cities in Europe 27 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter when WHO

(World Health Organization) proposes a maximum of 10 to

maintain the population healthy.

Aim: increase of human life expectancy by 12,9 months.

Measures:

Reduce traffic by 75%.

Reduce number of diesel vehicles

The low price of vehi-

cles and of carburants provoked

an elevated density of vehicles of

6.100/km2 (while in London 1.300/km2),

reaching 599.000 in total.

technology and energy

moBar

As member of UPC team, we studied the mobility in Barcelona, made an analysis of its problems and propose new alternatives to made it more sustainable.

4th International Seminar in Sustainable Technology

Development

As part of the master in sustainability there is the option to participate in an international seminar. In 2011 they made a competition between the 7 schools that take part and our project got the 1st prize.

2008

Un CamiNo, uN liBro, un CobIJo(a road, a book, a shelter)

This project is located in lovely surroundings, the “Parc Güell”, characterized by the Gaudi architecture and its breathtaking views over the city, it becomes a required tourist stop. Therefore, we considered the points of maximum activity and we have separated from them to get the atmosphere and silence required in a reading room without giving up all that the park offers.

Regarding the construction, microclimate and characteristics of natural resources offered by the site have issued forms, materials and techniques.

The project is conceived as a journey in which you find the necessary services, books and reading small spaces that give you a sense of shelter while it shows the whole city from a unique perspective.

With this project we win the local prize.

18th Iberic competition of constructive solutions

Although plasteboard is a vital part of modern-day construction, PLADUR is not just a board; PLADUR is a complete Construction System. Metal studs, cements, suspended ceilings, accesories and tools, thats why each year the brand encourages all the students of architecture to use their systems trough a competition.

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2010

Can JofresaThe final project of the postgrade Ecohabitar is a rehabilitation of a district in Terrassa, a town near Barcelona.

By confronting the rehabilitation project of the tower Jofresa VI, we rely on the idea of improving the comfort and energy savings for the user.

We define 5 vectors, in which we affect, proposing strategic actions: water, energy, waste, social space, green space for urban agriculture.

In the case of Energy propose a large solar collector, comprising facade vacuum tubes, using a high incidence of the sun. The facility is sectorized and distributes the heat radiating through walls to different rooms.

Taking advantage of the proximity of the park and the benefits it can bring, we give top priority to this approach and incorporate it into our building as a green wall that rises and joins the common spaces as vines or urban gardens, up to the covered pergola which involves creating a patch of shade under it. This action seeks to create a microclimate inside the building and make the space more pleasant.

Finally, the social space. The expansion of the building by a metal frame that hangs from the trusses above allows us to have on each floor a space for collective uses located in the most privileged area of the building.

2009

Bachelor of architectureMy final project is the design of a hotel and a shopping mall located in the city of Barcelona near the Diagonal avenue running through the city.

The project aims to make all the difficulties of the solar where is situated as opportunities, thus the game of ramps to save levels or the rotation of the building to find the gaps between the neighboring buildings and get unbeatable views.

A hotel is a service that consumes more resources so that the building has tried to contain the most advanced and efficient technologies, while the design is adapted to the bioclimatic criteria, shading the sun in summer and allowing this between the interior in winter.

To consult the entire project visit:

http://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/handle/2099.1/7239

2009

2009

2009