Aleksandar Ivancic
Adjunct Professor
Cecília Obiol
Assistant Professor
Pep Avilés
Adjunct Professor
MBIArch Notes: Energy Technologies Reviews
MBIArch Notes
10/11/2010MBIArch students recently had their first Project Reviews of the term, presenting work for the Energy Technologies course of the Building Technologies Department. Projects were evaluated by Visiting Lecturer Aleksandar Ivancic, Cecilia Obiol, Assistant to the Building Technologies Department, and Pep Avilés, Head of Graduate Studies, along with guest critics Núria Garrido, Engineer and Professor at UPC’s Escola d’Enginyeria de Terrassa and Jaume Salom, Chief of the Thermal Energy and Edification Group at the Catalonia Energy Research Institute (IREC).
Students were asked to work in teams and develop proposals departing from three actual competition briefs: one for the City History Museum in Pontevedra , Spain; on for a social housing regeneration project in Porcellino, Sicily; and finally a competition for refitting a former briquette factory in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
As part of the design brief, students focused on the environmental conditions of each sight and proposed sustainable energy strategies, putting into practice the approaches reviewed throughout the course while taking into account specific environmental, social, and political concerns for each site. Teams had to analyze climate and environmental conditions of the sight and develop a complete design proposal in terms of program, building envelope, distribution of facilities, and applied systems to minimize loss of energy.
Project for Porcellino. The brief contemplated reusing existing industrial heritage for a new multi-use center with offices, commercial activies, and a conference hall. Students had to focus on the former factory's missing roof and small spatial units as building elements. Project team: M. Chapman-Smith, G. Kallis, J. Jossif.
Pontevedra Project. The brief for the Pontevedra History Museum project indicated the proposal should be developed as an underground building at the site of a series of historic ruins. The maximum height of the project was to be 4m, and students had to develop a scheme for a tour surrounding the ruins, creating a public space above the museum. Project team: A. Badnjar, M. García-Orte, I. Petkovic
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