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STUDENTS / STAFF

MASTER
Eduard Bru (ETSAB-Barcelona)

TEAM PROFESSORS
Chantal El Hayek (LAU-Beirut)
Emanuele Sommariva (UNIGE-Genova)
Emre Alturk (Bilgi-Istanbul)
Xavier Llobet (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Pol Martin (Mies van der Rohe Foundation-Barcelona)
Enric Llorach (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Ivan Blasi, Coordinator (Mies van der Rohe Foundation-Barcelona)
Segond Raphaëlle (ENSAM-Marseille)

JURY
Elie Haddad (LAU-Beirut)
Howayda Al-Harithy (AUB-Beirut)
Han Tümertekin (Bilgi-Istanbul)
Xavier Costa (Northeastern-Boston)
Jacques Sbriglio (ENSAM-Marseille)
Mosè Ricci (UNIGE-Genova)
Nicola Canessa (UNIGE-Genova)


STUDENTS
Elif Erdogan (Bilgi-Istanbul)
Fadi Khalil-Yachoui (LAU-Beirut)
Elena Migliorini (UNIGE-Genova)

Dilara Sezgin (Bilgi-Istanbul)
Elisa Tozzi Juan (UNIGE-Genova)
Khaled Mlanao (ENSAM-Marseille)

Wei Song (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Joan Maroto (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Maria Elisa Marini (UNIGE-Genova)

Tarek Ibrahim (LAU-Beirut)
Aida Espanyol (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Coralie Burel (ENSAM-Marseille)
Maher El-Rez (AUB-Beirut)

Jordi Gorgues (ETSAB-Barcelona)
Namitta Merchak (LAU-Beirut)
Elodie Girodengo (ENSAM-Marseille)

INTRODUCTION

During the second half of the 20th century, most Mediterranean cities underwent major exchange phenomena such as immigration and tourism, and also emergency scenarios such as wars or natural catastrophes. Those have led and will continue leading the destruction of the city’s urban form and will hasten new urban opportunities. During this period, most cities grew away from the centre in the form of large-scale scattered extensions of housing areas, which misunderstood the modern-movement typologies and urbanism. New ghettos emerged due to a bad relationship with the historical city, lacking of public space, and introducing low construction quality and non-flexibility in housing typologies.
Common aspects may be found in the specific geographical area, which is complex and diverse, of the Mediterranean sea-shore cities, from North to South and from West to East. These cities are located in a context very different from those in the vast central European or the American continents, because they find themselves on the verge of an intellectual and physical context that is struggling and thinking its urbanism and its way to settle on the territory. We may also point out a specific and common Mediterranean climate that undoubtedly affects most of the form and environment situations that led to the modern-movement principles and basic aspects: a common cultural and historical development. These cities settle in their territory providing concrete answers to different conditions. These answers merit a specific analysis and deserve to be related to their specific future solutions.

EDUARD BRU

BARCELONA PORT




PORT –CITY: a generic and genetic relationship

Mediterranean ports have had an essential role in their city origin and history.
We could mainly and even generically say that the economical future of these cities significantly depends on the role of their port regarding the global exchange system of goods and of citizen flows.
The Mediterranean port has usually been a key asset in terms of public space because of the interaction between social groups and their roles, service exchanges, both open and representative space.
The general role of these cities will be a consequence of the commercial and economical success of their port, as well as of the quality of their mutual physical disposal and the resulting interaction quality regarding use and sociability.
Progressive mechanization and the extraordinary increase in size and capacity of ports, has often broken the original crucial relationship between port and city.
The Mediterranean Cities Program focuses on the role of public space in the development of our cities.
In the Barcelona 2011 edition, it aims at proposing the creation and recreation of public space between city and port dealing with our present time, both as a crucial reality for the development of the port and as the urban social peak stage of those cities that have originated with it.
The 2011 edition positions itself in the great development of the Barcelona Port which has increased its commercial and economical role but which has, at the same time, weakened the intimate link with the city which, as in other Mediterranean cities, used to characterize it.
The goal is to establish ways that allow the city and the port to come together again, basically working with public space and working in spaces which are shared between city, port and public transport; three factors which are present in the foreseen scenario.

EDUARD BRU

MONDAY JUNE 27th 2011















TUESDAY JUNE 28th 2011

EDUARD BRU PRESENTATION BETH GALÍ CONFERENCE

WEDNESDAY JULY 29th 2011


JORDI GARCÉS CONFERENCE



MAMEN DOMINGO CONFERENCE














THURSDAY JULY 30th 2011


BOAT TRIP TO THE PORT