Cuca de Llum

Funicular Tibidabo Barcelona Mias Architects & Leitner

This book tells the story of the new funicular of Tibidabo Park: la Cuca de Llum (glow worm). The emblematic funicular has been rehabilitated several times since its installation in 1901, however, in 2020 it was decided to design a new funicular, which was to be sustainable, transparent, fast and accessible. The new funicular, designed by MIAS in collaboration with Leitner Ropeways, achieves maximum integration into the landscape by hiding its installations, and thus enables the best views of the city of Barcelona. This book shows not only the history of the park and its funicular, but also all the details of its innovative design and connection to the city. With Contributions of Rosa Ortiz, PATSA Director Martin Leitner, LEITNER ROPEWAYS director Josep Miàs, MIAS founder & director

Urbanismo regenerativo (SP ED.)

Santander, Hábitat futuro Landlab, Paisaje Transversal

We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather generate new ones that ensure compatibility between economic and social prosperity and nature. Santander, Hábitat Futuro (Santander, Future Habitat) is the city model created from this methodology, a proposal for the transformation of this city for the year 2055. It is an open model based on innovation and citizen participation that prepares and adapts the territory for the different scenarios to come. Santander, Habitat Futuro is a guide that directs the commitment of the different social, economic and political agents towards a common goal: to achieve a circular, sustainable, resilient, vertebrate, prosperous, vital and inclusive city. A model that, due to its innovative nature, can serve as an example to other intermediate cities around the world. With Contributions of Emilio Luque, Zaida Muxí Martínez, Carlos Moreno, Pere Macias, Sonia P. Landázuri, Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo, José Mª García-Pablos y Antonio Bezanilla. EBOOK VERSION

TdB Architects (SP ED.)

Juan Trias de Bes From the understanding that architecture is at the service of society, its tasks include values such as the transmission of the identity of corporations and companies, the contribution to territorial and urban implantation, the quality of the environment, the control of resources energy, the contribution to the health of users and the maintenance of buildings over time. In short, TdB deploys its ideas in the construction of space as a result of the convergence between architecture and humanism. Buy English Edition

TdB Architects (ENG ED.)

Juan Trias de Bes From the understanding that architecture is at the service of society, its tasks include values such as the transmission of the identity of corporations and companies, the contribution to territorial and urban implantation, the quality of the environment, the control of resources energy, the contribution to the health of users and the maintenance of buildings over time. In short, TdB deploys its ideas in the construction of space as a result of the convergence between architecture and humanism. Buy Spanish Edition

Tracé Bleu (ENG ED.)

Architecturestudio Tracé bleu is a forward-looking approach that questions the ecological and social challenges facing our inhabited environments. Architecturestudio draws on its international experiences as an architect and urban designer to cross its approach with those of various multidisciplinary thinkers and experts. Starting from the given at a geoscale, how to anticipate the common good ? How to create incentive projects for more virtuous and ecological behaviours ? How an urban or architectural project becomes part of daily life ? These are the questions that Architecturestudio addresses, using cross-experiences to examine the future of our practice. With Contributions of CENTQUATRE-Paris, Marc-Antoine Durand, experts, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers FRENCH EDITION

Tracé Bleu (FR ED.)

Architecturestudio Tracé bleu is a forward-looking approach that questions the ecological and social challenges facing our inhabited environments. Architecturestudio draws on its international experiences as an architect and urban designer to cross its approach with those of various multidisciplinary thinkers and experts. Starting from the given at a geoscale, how to anticipate the common good ? How to create incentive projects for more virtuous and ecological behaviours ? How an urban or architectural project becomes part of daily life ? These are the questions that Architecturestudio addresses, using cross-experiences to examine the future of our practice. With Contributions of CENTQUATRE-Paris, Marc-Antoine Durand, experts, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers Buy English Edition

Urban Mix (ENG ED.)

Explorations of Eight Crossings Around the World: Movements & Interactions Stéphane Lemoine / AP5 Mobility questions our ways of inhabiting the city. They are attached to multiple social approaches, constrained by the geography of the city and linked to the available energies. However, their deployments and their effects in the urban space remain little studied as an everyday experience. The frequentation of the city is mainly observed as a saturation or an animation and in an abstract and numerical way. But what is the nature of the movements in the cities, the daily life of more than half of the inhabitants of the planet? Resulting from a crossroads, the city has grown so much that we no longer look at how people meet in the central squares. What are the speeds, rhythms, interactions, trajectories, specificities in an urban square? Many data relate to flows, but most often with a finality on the speed of movement. GPS navigators are first made to connect a point A to B with a minimum time, and not for the study of the dynamics and the diversity of movements. Each moving element draws paths with its own rhythms which are factors of animation and encounter. We propose this exploration on a human scale on 8 cases around the world. With Contributions of AP5 / Stéphane Lemoine + Sophie Harache, Anisha Suri, Jeanne Vincent, Adèle Guérin. + texts de Fabrice Guillot, Stéphane Juguet, Eric Alonzo. Buy French Edition EBOOK VERSION

Mix Urbains (FR ED.)

Explorations de 8 carrefours dans le monde: Mouvements et Interactions Stéphane Lemoine / AP5 Mobility questions our ways of inhabiting the city. They are attached to multiple social approaches, constrained by the geography of the city and linked to the available energies. However, their deployments and their effects in the urban space remain little studied as an everyday experience. The frequentation of the city is mainly observed as a saturation or an animation and in an abstract and numerical way. But what is the nature of the movements in the cities, the daily life of more than half of the inhabitants of the planet? Resulting from a crossroads, the city has grown so much that we no longer look at how people meet in the central squares. What are the speeds, rhythms, interactions, trajectories, specificities in an urban square? Many data relate to flows, but most often with a finality on the speed of movement. GPS navigators are first made to connect a point A to B with a minimum time, and not for the study of the dynamics and the diversity of movements. Each moving element draws paths with its own rhythms which are factors of animation and encounter. We propose this exploration on a human scale on 8 cases around the world. With Contributions of AP5 / Stéphane Lemoine + Sophie Harache, Anisha Suri, Jeanne Vincent, Adèle Guérin. + texts de Fabrice Guillot, Stéphane Juguet, Eric Alonzo. Buy English Edition

Climate Inheritance

Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy / DESIGN EARTH

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites—from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands—have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks—rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts—all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism. The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triptychs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and values. With Contributions of Lucia Allais, David Gissen, Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling

Espacio público en la Barcelona metropolitana (SP ED.)

Intervenciones y diálogos 2018-2022 AMB

The AMB is releasing the sixth volume in the Metropolitan Spaces collection, a catalogue presenting the main interventions from the period 2018-2022, which have shaped public space in metropolitan Barcelona.

The volume features 56 out of 251 projects built during these years, grouped under six themes that the journalist Anatxu Zabalbeascoa introduces through interviews with two experts who offer their perspectives from inside and outside the metropolitan Administration.

With Contributions of Presentation Ramon Torra Prologue Xavier Mariño Epilogue Albert Gassull

Interviews by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa to Imma Jansana, Cati Montserrat, Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Antoni Farrero, Josep Ferrando, Oriol Ribera, David Chipperfield, Carlos Llinás, Beth Galí, Claudi Aguiló-Riu, Eva Pagès, Paul Lecroart, Javier Ortigosa

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