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Latin America, South of Chile, September 2012

Chile, India, Egypt, Japan and Spain: 5 social conflicts in which architecture has a word to say

Text Jorge Lobos

University Austral of Chile, UACH, joined to “Architecture and Human Rights” to work in five humanitarian cases with a new academic methodology. We studied different architectural themes in each work group comparing the situation in the 5 study cases; Valdivia.cl, Mumbai.in, Cairo.eg, Tokio.jp, Madrid.es

It meant to finish the course with a rich rainbow of diverse solutions for each case: Density, borders, meeting places, constructive systems, waste recycling, amongst others themes. These topics allowed to face these difficult and complex social problems with a simple strategy.

Europe, Sardinia Island Autumn 2011. IT

A new architectural experience in five extremely vulnerable places of the world

Text Jorge Lobos

The School of architecture of Alghero, Sassari University worked in 5 places which claim for a better architectural answer. All these experiences were developed for the course of second year of architecture. The focus of this academic work was to show how architecture can be part of a better life in the most vulnerable places of the world

Asia, Japan, Fukushima. A shelter to keep people of Tsunami.

Africa, Somalia. A refugee camp for drought and civil war.

Europe, Italy, Rome. Low cost housing for young families without any possibility to get a normal house from the building market.

Oceania, Tarawa. New palafito housing for climate change.

Latin America Cuba, Housing for Hurricanes

Latin America, Santiago of Chile May 2012

Megacities, emergencies and social crisis

Mumbai, Cairo, Madrid, Tokyo and Santiago of Chile:
What it will happen if we have a humanitarian emergency in a megacity of millions of inhabitants?

Text Jorge Lobos

Following ideas of the workshop 5×5 in Copenhagen, we were interested to know how another university with another cultural background would reply the same questions? School of Architecture of University of Chile accepted the challenge. In Santiago we developed different strategies with the teachers Rodrigo Toro, Fernando Dowling and Igor Rosenman and their students, for these complex social cultural cases:

1- Measurement time and space in public demonstration in Santiago of Chile, a way of represent the people power on the streets.

2- Vertical demonstration for “Los indignados” of Madrid

3- Floating gardens like a new public space against panic in Tokyo

4- A recycled textile cover streets and new public spaces on the building terrace in the called “garbage city” of Cairo, where Christian Copts live and work recycling garbage of 17 millions of Cairo inhabitants, between another ideas of projects.

5- Bambu structures for Mumbai slums

Participants:
FAU, School of Architecture, University of Chile
Dipartimenti di architettura di Alghero, Italy and
School of Psychology, University Central, Chile
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Latinoamérica, Santiago de Chile, Mayo 2012

Megaciudades, Emergencias y Crisis sociales

Bombay, El Cairo, Madrid, Tokio y Santiago de Chile. Que sucedería si tenemos una emergencia humanitaria en una megaciudad de millones de habitantes?

Continuando con el Workshops 5×5 de Copenhague, nos interesó saber como una Universidad Latinoamericana respondería a las mismas preguntas. La Universidad de Chile tomó el desafío y desarrolló diversas estrategias con los profesores Rodrigo Toro, Fernando Dowling e Igor Rosenman y sus estudiantes, para estos complejos casos sociales y culturales en estas megaciudades:
-Mediciones de tiempo y espacio para las manifestaciones de estudiantes en Santiago de Chile, una manera de medir el poder de la gente en las calles.
-Manifestaciones en vertical para “los indignados” en Madrid
-Textiles reciclados y espacios públicos en las terrazas de los edificios para la llamada “Ciudad de la Basura” en el Cairo, donde cristianos coptos trabajan y viven reciclando la basura de 17 millones de personas que viven en el Cairo.
-Jardines flotantes como nuevo espacio público y lugar antipánico en Tokio. Entre otras propuestas

Europe, Copenhagen April 2012

Megacities, emergencies and social crisis

Mumbai, Cairo, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Tokyo: What it will happen if we have a humanitarian emergency in a megacity of millions of inhabitants?

Text Jorge Lobos

The workshop 5×5 developed different strategies for these extremely complex metropolis according with their different cultures:
1- A hammock skyscraper in Mumbai.

2- Bubble biospheres in Tokyo

3- A manual for demonstration in Madrid

4- A recycled textile cover in the called “garbage city” of Cairo, where 60.000 Christian Copts live recycling garbage of 17 millions of Cairenes

5. Water management in Favelas of Sao Paulo among other project ideas.

Participants:
Royal Danish Academy of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dipartimenti di architettura di Alghero, Italy and
ETSAM Madrid, Department of Human Settlement and E Architecture & Human Rights

Europa, Copenhague Abril 2012

Megaciudades, Emergencias y Crisis sociales

Bombay, El Cairo, Madrid, Sao Paulo y Tokio. Que sucedería si tenemos una emergencia humanitaria en una megaciudad de millones de habitantes?

El Workshops 5×5 desarrolló diversas estrategias para estos extremadamente complejos centros urbanos, de acuerdo a las diferentes culturas de estas megaciudades:
- Un rascacielos de hamacas y bambú en Bombay
- Burbujas-biosfera para Tokio
- Textiles reciclados desde la basura en la llamada “Ciudad de la Basura” en el Cairo, donde 60.000 cristianos coptos trabajan y viven reciclando la basura de 17 millones de cairotas.

y un Manual 15M, para manifestaciones ciudadanas en Madrid, Entre otras ideas de proyectos.