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GARDEN IN BILBAO

Being a juror in the second edition the international competition of Urban Gardens "Garden 2009 Bilbao, Diana Balmori of the team, based in New York, Balmori Associates was invited to create a garden in the Basque city. As the site chosen to locate the garden stairs in the middle of the two towers near the controversial Arata Isozaki Santiago Calatrava bridge over the river Nervión.

The garden complements the list of many projects of this equipment in the city of Bilbao among which Abandoibarra management (proposal contest winner, 1997), the Plaza de Euskadi (under construction), Campa de los Ingleses (winning proposal Contest, 2007) and recent selection as a finalist in the competition for the management of the bay of Pasajes.

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VERTICAL GARDEN

The vertical garden, or green wall is the new application of landscape architecture, in this case with a new way of growing plants without soil or horizontal substrate. Noting the ability of roots to grow along a vertical surface, the French botanist Patrick Blanc patented his invention in 1988 calling it "mur végétal. This concept, which to some extent recalls the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon, has been developed in many works, more than a hundred operations worldwide, also designed the first vertical garden in Spain in the building of the Swiss Caixa Forum Madrid Herzog & De Meuron. It also has collaborated with such architects in the transformation of the Plaza of Spain in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the walls of the halls. This "green architecture" can be implemented in both exterior and interior spaces and in any climatic environment, selecting most appropriate plants for the conditions of the climate.

Caixa Forum, Madrid. Photo: sallylondon, Flickr

Pavilion Plaza of Spain, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Photo: Mataparda, Flickr

As explained Blanc: "Plants do not need land because land is not more than half. Only water and the many nutrients dissolved in it, along with light and carbon dioxide carbon, are essential for plants. Wherever the water is never lacking, as in tropical forests, the plants are spread on the trunks of trees, the rocks of the cliffs ... For example, some 2,500 of the 8,000 known species of plants grow without soil in Malaysia. "

The Vertical Garden is composed of three main elements: metal, plastic sheeting and a layer of nylon felt. In the case of Caixa Forum Madrid, has a height of 24 meters, a thickness of about three feet and a length of 19 meters. is placed slightly away from the façade of the existing building, in order not to transmit any effort. The resulting plant surface extends Over 460 square meters. It consists of 15,000 plants of 250 different species.

The elements that make up this type of intervention are:

• Structure Metal: is a self-supporting vertical structure, 24 meters high and is the basis on which rest the supporting structure and all elements of the vertical garden. This consists of six main towers and tubular system. A layer of air that acts as a heat and sound insulation very efficient.

• Support Panel : It consists of a PVC foam panel subjected to the metal structure. This layer provides rigidity to the whole structure and makes it waterproof.

• Layer irrigation: Formed by a double blanket of synthetic fibers and a plastic sheet on her face interior, is fixed by clamps to the support panel. It is the base of support throughout the plantation. Felt is special, so it does not rot, and its huge capillarity allows a homogeneous distribution of water. The plants were distributed throughout this layer of felt (the density is about 30 plants per square meter) and the roots grow along it.

• Plantation: is done by inserting the roots of plants without soil, between the two layers of the blanket using staples and fix them.

• supply water and nutrients and water harvesting: A network of pipes, nozzles and drip fed by a water pump and nutrients, is fixed on the blanket of rooting. Irrigation water enriched with nutrients, is from the top of the structure, and automatic. The water seeps through the wall is collected by a gutter attached to the bottom of the vertical garden. This will solve the problem that could generate extra runoff.


This type of garden can be developed on any wall, regardless of size or height. Thanks to its thermal insulating effect, reduces energy consumption (in winter, insulate the cold, in summer, acts as a natural cooling system) and clean the air (particles pollution are lured by the wick, which slowly decompose and remineralizing, thus becoming fertilizer for plants).

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any city in the world or a blank wall can become a Vertical Garden by becoming a valuable refuge for biodiversity, bringing nature into the daily lives of citizens.

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"Wind-it." New ideas in energy generation.

This year the magazine Design and Architecture Metropolis has spent the last edition of his award "Next Generation" the challenge for the new generation of clean energy production. The young French architects Nicola Delon, Julien Ménard Raphaël Choppin and have won the first prize with his interesting project, "Wind-it", which involves inserting vertical axis wind turbines on electricity pylons. The most characteristic of wind power are often places its distance from power consumption and the environmental and landscape impact they have on their surroundings. This idea is get a system to be linked more efficient energy source with the transmission line, and in turn impact minoraría landscape by combining both systems into a single element.

Inspired by the French rural landscape seen from the TGV high speed train which numerous erect pylons and some electric turbines thought why not combine them?. Thus headed to consolidate its initial idea, considering various possibilities for this energy mix. On the one hand wind turbines could be inserted into existing electrical towers mainly those that are obsolete or require replacement. It also build new models that combine both energies, with three different sizes of vertical axis turbines by location.

different proposals of pylons + wind turbines, depending on size.

These initiatives are not the first to come to light since the 2006 edition of the same award one participant, Mark Oberholzer, raised vertical axis wind turbines integrated into the barriers dividing traffic in the state of New Jersey highway. Or the proposal to replace the information panels of the motorways vertical axis wind turbines, made by a student of architecture at Arizona. Companies such as Urban Green Energy have implemented ideas how are you, by installing wind turbines on mobile phone antennas on the roofs of buildings. In this way you could introduce this type of energy in urban environments preventing the transmission of it over long distances where you lose efficiency.

medium wind turbine proposal (Mark Oberholzer)

Wind Project-it despite being clever and original initiative with great potential, would require major economic and technical efforts for its implementation . For example, the common electrical towers should be strengthened to accommodate this type of elements, besides the added cost of vertical axis turbines less expensive than conventional. Another aspect is the management of such facilities as it would have to coordinate with the utilities with wind turbines. Nevertheless it is a project under development that allows ample room for improvement.

Windmills in Teno, Tenerife. Photo: Luis Roca Arencibia, Flickr

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PARK [ing]

Surfing the net I found this curious initiative. PARK [ing] Day is the name of an event during which individuals or groups of people transform parking spaces, parking spaces and other parking spaces for motor vehicles in public areas or micro gardens to the congregation and enjoy after habérselo taken (legally and peacefully) for motor vehicles.

Park (ing) day in New York. Photo: Flickr

The procedure is simple, you pay the meter of the chosen square. Subsequently occupies the space the way you want to finally use it as a place of social life.

This initiative began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art collective became a common parking space, an area of \u200b\u200bthe city with a deficit of open space in a small temporary public park. Later it became a creative exploration project as it is distributed and used in public spaces. For example, 70% of the public space belongs to the "downtown" San Francisco is for the vehicle, while only a fraction of this space is allocated to the enjoyment of pedestrians. Paying the meter of a parking space we have the opportunity to enjoy for a short period of urban public space. The question is what are the possible activities to do in this small space of time?

This project has become a global phenomenon, independently created by artists, activists and citizens whose purpose is to reprogram the traffic space into a swap space, recreation and artistic expression, returning to the city which has always been theirs.

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DAY HIGH LINE, NEW YORK. A NEW PARK

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Today, Tuesday June 9, 2009 has been inaugurated a new park in New York. It is the transformation of the High Line, an abandoned railway line to nine feet high that runs along the west of the island, alongside the Hudson River. The project includes the consolidation of green space, restoration of buildings, connection to the subway and major transportation routes in the city.

The High Line is an elevated viaduct built freight railroads in the 30 west of downtown Manhattan in New York. Probably the most interesting part of this infrastructure was being incorporated into the urban fabric, adapting to the existing densification as a means of transport par excellence of industrial development west of Manhattan.

was in operation until the 80's and then sold to underground city where as previous decades, this once again fall into disuse result of high maintenance costs, not to mention the noise and structural problems generated in adjacent buildings.

The high road was long a place not within the city but also an important social symbol of the inhabitants of the West Side of Manhattan. artists like Joel Sternfeld among others, were able to assess this peculiar space within the city.

Thanks to the community organization Friends of the High Line was prevented its demolition to make it a project of urban renewal with the announcement of a design competition in 2004. The winning proposal was the Field Operations / Diller Scofidio and Renfro to other proposals of Steven Holl and Zaha Hadid pervasive.

the winning image

The proposed recovery transforms this elevated section of railway line along 2.5 kilometers, in a large urban park. To this end retaining metal bracket and the rails, a platform is designed green where open roads, boardwalks, rest areas, restaurants, exhibition and small businesses. The play is based on recreating the ancient links and railways, with large flower gardens and more focused short breaks.

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Well that infrastructure that has survived as a skeleton still where grass grew at the expense of real estate madness around him, is now a park in the heights, that one called "green carpet" to "fly" the streets of Chelsea.

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is undoubtedly another great example of recovery of obsolete infrastructure, where the green power on behalf of public spaces for citizens.

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aesthetic extreme values \u200b\u200bof the components in the immediate environment is a Japanese property. Reflects a cultural sophistication that is the result of a peculiar social evolution, unique in the world.

sometimes insignificant elements that surround us can be attractive in themselves. Therefore, seen from a distance it appears that the Japanese have a strong interest by the formal quality of the objects and places. The extreme simplicity, reduced expression and functionality are three major characteristics that apply in that country to almost everything that has to do with architecture and applied arts such as graphic and industrial design.

This is a cultural attitude, widely assumed in Japan, has resulted in very peculiar and traditional practices like cultivating particular bonsai or ikebana art of flower arranging.

is what it is with this humble shoe of shoes sold in Japan, the interior products company h-concept (I'm afraid to buy one would have to travel to that country from the Far East)

Called Kotori (little bird) is made of laminated wood and is the result of a lowering of what is necessary that eventually led to a piece of great beauty. Designed by Yamada Kaichiro costs 50 $ and it is that beauty can also be extremely expensive. It is what it is to gain exclusivity.

An example of I + D + i does not require large investments or sophisticated machinery, only sensitivity and good ideas.

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The engineer Paul Otaola Ubieta given on 21 May in the Demarcation of Tenerife, La Gomera Iron and the COAC, entitled "The transformation of the city," he emphasized the role of local management in the implementation of planning. This is exposed to various interventions where this aspect was crucial to their development. The transformation of Bilbao Bilbao 2000 and Zorrotzaurre, and the IBA Emscher Park in the Ruhr, were some of them.

The latter was undoubtedly the greatest interest aroused in me, perhaps because the transformation of Bilbao nearest me and family.

IBA Emscher Park is the name given to the metamorphosis of the old industrial Ruhr region, Germany, between 1989 and 1999. In This created a large park land involving more than 80 communities, in order to restore one of the most degraded landscapes in Europe. It became a symbol and a stimulus for urban change, economic, social and environmental.

Ruhr

Land Art or the art of landscape construction is very present in this speech. The IBA convened several international competitions to select works of art to place in this unique landscape. This caused some controversy among the public to see how large amount of money invested in hiring artists to design the lighting of obsolete industries and extravagant sculptures, rather than use for housing or other social needs.

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However, this focus on art helped strengthen the new line of the initiative and gave the park a great milestone in the landscape. Many of these milestones and sculptures were made with industrial artifacts, strengthen the connection to the area and its history. Also abandoned industries became new attractions for visitors, engineering old with a high cultural value. All this within the strategy to regenerate the economy and the environment of a degraded area, enhancing the original character of the place.

tetrahedron. Photo: Flickr

Industry as a place of cultural interest. Photo: Flickr

The image that I found most attractive was the installation lecture called "The Wall" by the artist couple Christo and Jeanne Claude, specializing in textiles used to wrap or cover large gigantic buildings public areas such as His works "Valley Curtain," "Surrounded Islands" or the covering of the Reichstag in Berlin. However, in this installation did not use textiles, was split in two a gasometer by a huge wall made up of barrels of oil. This gasometer Emscher Park is one of the largest tank-shaped structures in the world. It was built in 1928 and is currently used as an exhibition space. Its structure is 110 meters high with a diameter of 68 meters. No doubt a spectacular space.

The Wall, Christo and Jeanne Claude

To achieve this wall were used 13,000 barrels of colors. In addition to this installation documentation presented two works by the artists mentioned in other countries, "The Umbrellas" (Japan) and the covering of the Reichstag (Germany).

In this way managed to transform this already if unusual space.

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In this situation of crisis, it is clear that the architects of walking, little can be done to change the course of things.

Moreover, we find that the exuberance of the housing bubble in the past decade, with the subsequent explosion, we have focused a scenario of economic marginality.

The profession is no longer necessary according to the concepts we use and look for new ways to give a reason for our mission. Hardly going to be something similar to what is used in the recent past that already sounds like a pipe dream.

Meanwhile, a friend recommended me this medicine to take us the situation philosophically.

luck to everyone!