NatUrban gadgets LAB Barcelona, 2014

WASTEnity 2014

NatUrban gadgets LAB is a DIWO design-and-construction workshop that upcycles recovered materials to convert them into urban prototypes inserted in local neighbourhoods to start a learn-by-doing-process to add quality of life to the future of the City and citizens.

CONCEPTS 1

City..?

wikipedia & google

..or Territory?

wikipedia & google

City as territory..

London City Hall administrates 11.000 acres of green spaces

cityoflondon.gov.uk

lostinlondonmagazine.com

.. City as an ecosystem

lostinlondonmagazine.com

..City as an experience

To ADD quality of life to citizens

CONTEXT

wikipedia & google

2

wikipedia & google

La Pau neighbourhood in Barcelona..

google

Open Spaces

Cultural-Social building

Ajuntament de Barcelona, piramidon.com, fagic.org, zumba Isabel gonzalez, aturats en moviment, avlapau.org

Pro-Active Community

Close to the river

Parc fluvial besos+ fotobirding.blogspot.com.es

Presence of a wide variety of birds

GOAL of the course 3

BIRD HOUSE

?

DESIGN

DESIGN

BIRD HOUSE

nah!

Funcional

BIRD HOUSE

ASSIGN Place + DESIGN + BUILD…

ARCHITECTONIC ELEMENT

Interactive

Atracts multi-users (humans, birds…)

Selfsufficient

Estrategic

151x26cm

…with the following RESOURCES:

20 WOOD panels, SCREWS

(remnants of a model factory)

5 PEOPLE

(you guys!)

1 DRILL, 1 HANDSAW

(pencil, tape measure, level)

MATERIAL TOOLS FORCE/TIME

1 HR brainstorming

6 HR construction

20 HR design 3 HR jury

estherrovira.com

Naturban experience …to slowly construct the:

DESIGN 4

Andrea Corbie

13- 14 cm

12- 18 cm

400m

PROTOTYPE design

INSTRUCTIONS

recovered panels 26,2cm x 151,2cm

12ut

FINAL RESOULT 5

PROCESS 6

day 1

day 2 day 3

day 4

LECTURE WELCOME! BRAINSTORM

with neighbours

PRESENTATIONS to neighbuors

JURY by neighbours RE-DESIGN FINAL OPTION CARPENTER CLASS

BUILD UP

DETAILS LIGHTING HAND IN

to neighbours

CELEBRATE with neighbours!

FUTURE OPORTUNITIES 7

This Naturban gadget makes the asociation’s building terrace to have the legal perimeter height.

This Naturban gadget makes the asociation’s building terrace to have the legal perimeter height. Other actions should be designed in phases within a long term project to make the terrace be total accessible.

Esther Rovira Raurell

Other actions should be done within a long term project to make the terrace be total accessible.

PHASE 2 Repair Facade Pathologies to: ADD wall activities

PHASE 3 Reinforce Slab’s load limit to: ADD larger groups activities

PHASE 1 Increase Height of the Perimiter to: Outter exhisting activities and ADD outdoor activities

Esther Rovira Raurell

This will allow more uses that will strengthen the community while learning how to get to the Naturban Experience.

Gracias!

REFERENCES Urbanhabitats.org Urbanhabitats.eu Audubondportland.org Recetasurbanas.net Todoporlapraxis.es Arquitecturascolectivas.net Zuloark.com Basurama.com

Workshop Design, Production and Coordination: Esther Rovira Raurell Marc Binefa Daniel Martinez AvLaPau.org

Students and authors of the propousal: Andrea Corbie Jose Antonio Hernandez Myvell Mahfoud Victor Martinez Marco Sessa