‘The nature of building’ will draw a line connecting some of our (HARQUITECTES) works, focussing on the logic and consequences of construction systems, bioclimatic strategies, structural compositions and more… or perhaps how we organise matter to foster things to happen naturally once again.
“The particular design of each small element is always an opportunity to improve its’ overall performance and vice versa. We reorganise the solid matter to optimise its bearer capacities and implicate new types of organisation of the fluid matter. We design new flow paths that improve the comfort, naturalise the behaviour, and increase the vitality and viability of our buildings. The geometric relationships and the solid-fluid interactions determine the architectural space, which in turn determines the dynamic performance of the architecture —air speed, temperature, humidity, smells, sounds and light— and also the nature of the building.”
– HARQUITECTES The Nature of Buildings, El Croquis 181, 2015
HARQUITECTES is an architecture studio established in 2000 and based in Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó and Roger Tudó Galí, who count on an ample team of collaborators, such as architects, interior designers and students to realise their diverse range of projects. All four of them were licensed between 1998 and 2000 at ETSAV (UPC), where Josep and Roger now teach in the Department of Architectural Projects and Technology. Xavier also teaches Projects at the ETSA Barcelona. Their work has received many awards – for built works and also in architectural ideas competitions – and they have been published in both the national and international press. They have also been selected to be part of various exhibitions and invited as teachers and lecturers in Europe and America.
VIRTUAL TRIP is a week of seminars, lectures and presentations organised and hosted by Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design. After an enlightening 2019 studio trip, this second edition translates the format into a week of online talks and visits to deepen the understanding of Barcelona’s current problems and challenges derived from both contextual matters and historic claims. Organised around a number of daily topics (Introduction, models and governance for affordable housing, resilience, urban subjectivities and designing Barcelona), local guests from different profiles and backgrounds will enable a number of discussions for which the understanding of multiple stakeholders and their approaches becomes fundamental.
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