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SOLAR SYSTEM

Marite Guevara — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:04:10 +0000

Solar System is a rooftop-solar remote assessment platform that allows any community on Earth to discover their underlying solar resources. It reveals the solar potential of any building using state-of-theart, hyper-precise, advanced technology developed by our team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and licensed exclusively to Mapdwell.

BLUE DUNES

Marite Guevara — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:03:06 +0000

Resiliency seems to be on the tips of everyone’s tongues, from architects and planners to city officials. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma demonstrated how vulnerable global coastal cities really are to sea level rise, coastal storms, and flooding. Greater attention must be placed on enhancing the adaptive capacity of built environments around the world. Addressing these issues requires thinking across neighborhood, metropolitan, and regional scales. This framework is inherently interdisciplinary and will breed solutions that are entangled in governmental and ecological processes. That is not to discount the architectural dimension, which can play a powerful role in communicating these proposals to the public.

Advanced Urbanism: New Ways for Design

Marite Guevara — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:48:52 +0000

24th-25th October, 2018

Advanced Urbanism: New Ways for Design was KA-AU final workshop, so KA-AU partners presented a balanced of their work.

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KA?AU SENcity ? FAV 2018

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:41:41 +0000

KA?AU has hosted for three years three higher education institutions: ENSAM in Montpellier, IAAC in Barcelona and UNIGE in Genoa, associated with 5 companies and editions ACTAR URBAN NEXT and the Festival des Architectures Vives. This consortium is working on the impact of new technologies on the city, urban planning and architecture. The FAV2018 was an opportunity to share with the general public the state of research on the issue.

The dAD Team from UNIGE for FAV, directed by Manuel Gausa with dAD’s students and PhD students of ADD, presented an installation with the title: We are city, we are information… we are the inter?faces.

The cities are the background of our daily life, that increasingly use technology in order to manage and offer better services to citizens. They become living laboratories where it is possible to experiment with new devices. The potential availability of data related to the implementation of multiple sensors and flows creates new opportunities; not only in monitoring but also in the way we draw, think and experience the city. The “big data” are thus at the service of the inhabitants and citizens, repositioning the man at the center of matter, experiencing a new idea of public space and meeting. Therefore, this new idea of space shared the installation matrix entitled: “We are city, we are inter?faces”, proposed by KAAU and by the creative students of the University of Genoa.

The Project: The installation proposes a celebration of urban diversity and multiplicity starting from an anonymous and repetitive element like the mask, which is converted into an interface device and which, through processes of interaction with information, encourages changes and participatory dynamics aimed at creating new and different identities.

The anonymous element of the mask modified and implemented by different information takes on the role of face and inter / face, capable of reacting to the flow of data and adapting to changes, actions and personal incentives.

At the same time the installation proposes a critical reflection on the danger of standardization and depersonalization in the age of virtual society. The other aim of the project was to recreate an urban living room where was possible to share with the public the state of research. Different conferences from the KAAU team have been held in the installation site, at the Hôtel des Trésoriers de la Bourse, from 13 to 15 June 2018.

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KA-AU in FAV

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:59:59 +0000

Responsive Cities Symposium

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:58:52 +0000

KA-AU in UrbanNext

Marite Guevara — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:55:35 +0000

Check KA-AU section in UrbanNext , an online platform fed by an extensive network of international collaborators, whose aim is to develop, disseminate, give advice and spread contents, researches and proposals related with the contemporary human milieu and its emergent urbanized environment in global scale

KADK : FARAJOUR PAVILION

Marite Guevara — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:25:04 +0000

This project explores the use of fiber-reinforced composites beyond their current framework. In addition to the traditional qualities of lightness and strength, composites have a high bending capacity.

LINK NYC

Marite Guevara — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:23:01 +0000

LinkNYC is a new communications network that is replacing New York City pay phones with state-ofthe-art kiosks called Links. Each Link is equipped with free services like highspeed Wi-Fi, phone calls, a tablet for maps and city services, and device charging for anyone living in or visiting New York City to enjoy. In addition to Link’s features being free to the public, they also come at no cost to taxpayers.

ROOFTOP REVOLUTION

Marite Guevara — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:20:54 +0000

Rooftop Revolution is a crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform which aim to develop rooftop gardens project in the city