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[Checkpoint43]

There's a month missing from this topic.
I'm sure I posted between something June 11th and now.

[erjavi]

the last reply is not mine. yesterday I tried write but two different messages appeared. I´m going to see what happens now.

[erjavi]

It´s ok, anyway I ´m going to change my name in the forum, I am not sure if people can continue writing with my name. My excuses to WalkerArchitects and Checkpoint for the way I answered, a veces empiezo a cabrearme y me pongo en ridículo, hay otras reacciones posibles. So this id the last post with erjavi.






Which is the cost for society respect sustainability? And which is the cost opportunity for architects respect sustainable suburbia worldwide?



Sometimes the debate respect sustainability is reduced to a % of emissions respect 2020, 2040, 2050. This a fix view, forget it. Economy works like a net, and moves like a net in proceedings, including architecture.



An example: in the 80s Japan advanced more than USA in some sectors, the typical answer from a CEO was than the country was sleeping, living from the train of past successful initiatives, but the train was stopped. Then people reaction, in both countries, a now the panorama tends to show an advantage of IT in USA , but not others sectors like transport (cars).



Now see the effects of space in economy. Suburbia has launched some sectors more in one country than another? Which has been the paper of architects and builders in the process? Japan consciously has decided since many decades ago do not touch too much the surroundings, so the people has concentrated on coasts and the forest mountainous interior is in big terms intact. Scandinavians have made something similar – in fact paper industries helped financed Welfare State while other European countries walked to dessert process – but accepting a bigger tension between wood sustainable exploitation and virgin areas, helped by the fact than center- northern areas are coldest.



Then Japan has been in fact considered the country like a big suburbia fomentando public transport systems like train, despite is the first or second world place like car producers. The dependence of exterior respect cars export after consider strategies in space, both buildings and transport, impact seriously over them with the oil crisis of 1973, a efficiency energy was a common expression in CEOs language.



And the net began to move, not in the coming IT, which has not very big initial problems of energy cost, but in car consume. And the USA net began move afterwards faster in IT helped by innovation (fashion, following the ideas described in other replies respect the idea of creativity socially supported), the “efficiency” of IT in services in the late 80s and 90s conceived mainly like move people dealing with people for locate machines (computer, cable, antennas, handy, laptop, etc) instead of them saving costs in salaries, real state, proceedings, etc. IT in industries has supposed in these times the change from electro-mechanical word, standardised and long term for satisfy general access of people to “basic” goods, to electronic-mechanical world, reducing people for install machines and trying avoid new Fordian simplification “colour” consequences with just in time techniques for get a bigger painter palette, so the services inside industry companies, helped by computers in these services, has leaded to a bigger movement respect people in Japan, helped by a weaker social pact. Of course many non-reduce-cost It initiatives have been launched in USA in terms of redirection flows-net economy-, producing a bigger approach to reality –getting more data of the whole economy like process-, and reorganising efficiency crossing both. The problem has been the increase of homeless not only in number, but in space too –extension of poor suburbia without any control-.



Eliminate the urban dry spider web in Japan suppose bigger opportunities in terms of real state, am energy efficiency house values more than an inefficient one, a sustainable surrounding gives more value to a near house respect a non sustainable surrounding, in this sense the USA suburbia, conceived in terms of energy efficiency houses and surrounding sustainability(diminished in value by the inexistence of efficiency transport systems) each time have less potential value.



Well, not really, depending of the areas. The whole USA and Japan economy movement net depends of innovation located, following Murphy Law, in earthquakeable areas (Pacific Coast in Japan and California in USA), but the bigger size of USA has helped historically the launching of other technological areas, mainly the West Coast, highly conditioned by efficiency in suburbia due the high population concentration. From the end of XIX century, with the end of big railway companies, USA has not an efficient energy transport system than promotes efficiency in the whole economy net, and this together, with the non-organisation of suburbia, continues promoting obstacles. And this is particular important in IT sector. Like tourism depends of building, transport and telecom sector, It depends of efficient transport and logistic, and if you consider long distances you need ships for get cheaper alternatives, or inland trains, of energy efficient trucks, cars, aircrafts or whatever, for avoid neck bottles, and this in a context of inefficient suburbia. So advances in IT without advances in transport, which means advance in suburbia, can stop some advances in productivity, forcing companies advance more and more in fashion, or sustainability.



Talking now about Spain , in 1999 I detected 1.200 new unusual villages, tourism urbanizaciones and city suburbia. Now the data must be impressive. Fundicot recently invited me assist to a conference about the transport in Spain in 2020, about expectatives and priorities, inside a opened round tables. Manel Ferri, representative of CC.OO. a labour syndicate, talked about 20.000 labour centres in Spain outside the city. Because not all of them have public transport system, the inefficiency of costs for the full economy, and emissions too, was impressive. But the worst is the fact than the main reason for death in work places in Spain is driving to work, mainly in the mornings, for arrive on time, legally “in itinere”, and insurance companies do not cover it. Like ex Red Cross volunteer I know you can pay a fortune in - web scam - if you want but you are not covered in the biggest part of Spanish territory, because you depend of a volunteer of ambulance of a village, Spain has 8.000 town halls and – in 1999- 36.500 locations inside them.



Some years ago the Comunidad of Madrid tried to expand public emergence sanitary assistance to the region but the cost was high (and many doctors are not specialised in get out a person from a crashed car, and many techniques are these old volunteers after received more formation, and think now than respect world data Spain is a potent in quality of doctors and extent and organisation of a Red Crescent Moon/Cross national society, only a few group of countries have developed such public services to the roads). Then the cost of suburbia is higher than we believe, more if you add smog and respiratory deaths each year. Even if you pay without a social pact and common sense spatial management your investment can be a ruin talking in “economic” language.



Francisco Segura, a representative of Ecologistas en Acción, talked about Spanish popular myths, Spain has few infrastructures, infrastructures gives employments and productivity itself, and I do not remember the third. Conclusion with data is than Spain now is European leader and soon will be world leader in some infrastructures related with highways and high speed trains, really a fever, at levels you can not imagine, and the effects of such impulse than feeds the Construction Machine respect employment, energy efficiency and optimisation of suburbia can proportion new neck bottles (it was mentioned a British initiative guided by the same philosophy than finally reduced astronomically the final number of projects executed after study worldwide experience), so the inefficiency supported by “market” efficiency studios can be astonishing, making more difficult in next future the work of architects and city planners.



Angel Aparicio, teacher of the Madrid Polytechnic University , talked about the convergence of two models, USA and European, respect long-term research transport systems and global optimisation, with big effects in economy. Unfortunately he showed quickly some images of innovative designs worldwide thinking than audience was not specially interested in such subjects.



Anyway the whole meeting dealt with efficiency more than with sustainability, so when I commented, after give thanks of the experiences showed, than perspective was not complete, I think the comment was correct but said in an appropriated way. I´ll be more prudent next time.



But what was importance in meetings like that is the event itself, and the necessity of link them to customers, CEOs, and over all architects.



Coming back to USA case, why USA do not reactions respect sustainability in 90-s and 00s like did in the 80s respect IT? Because the net economy movement – a form to talk of a precise way of daily life – tends to continue routines in terms of new locations and suburbia through the country precisely because the country is big, tends to focus in fashion because is more related with consume aesthetic –see how when in later 80s the country got many private debts due consume and external deficit too the collective answer was precisely concentrate more in consume ignoring structural-storming subjects, thinking than this re-ordering could put in doubt the life style when it was not true, the problem was more close with arrogance. talking in CEO language, living from past successful events without sea new market necessities – tends to perpetuate inefficiencies.



Well, the problem if a country, whatever, do not want firmly concentrate in eco-design products and renewable energies is than you do not perceive the whole economy is structurally moving at not standard speed respect traditional productivity

progress. An eco-advance interacts with the rest of economy in terms of process, interrelations, like the introduction of a machine does. Usually is not an isolated phenomenon. So many products and services we make today can be out of context or loose competence more and more till be finally expelled or create a dual economy system, one for the origin country and other for others more eco-efficient, creating an increasing absurd in terms of quality of life.



Japan has the same problem in terms of adapt to sustainability. The country has an strong tradition respect energy efficiency, but they think sustainability affects exports because they lack raw materials and they, by different reasons, do not promote fashion-creativity like other countries, and they can not get better efficiency in IT services without a big cost in employment if they follows USA model. But sustainability has not relation with raw materials. Raw sources of eco-machines are everywhere, the aspect of eco-design, in terms of fashion, is relatively more difficult to solve.



Then reduce emissions is not a matter of dates, or numbers. I think is more a question of space like object of study in economy, and implications in concentration-suburbia, transport, logistic, design, social pact, liberty.



I am not interest in business, I was only dealing with this language for approach people. I consider a suburbia in social-urban terms not like maximize reduce costs for get better collective life style but in terms of maximize human activities, promoting liberty, and the paths for get it are different respect described. But I think if architects, builders, representatives, CEOs and others think in space like economy management object, both in developing and developed countries, you will see the % of emissions and dates people are managing today are obsolete, structurally obsolete. And the historical data managed for describe industrial transitions in the past following standardised models, I mean in the same continuum, can be reduced.



The day to day process to get is have many opportunities, not necessarily must look for traditional paths. When I arrived to Ronda I knew the problem were not the size of the problems, or the good practices for solve them, the problem was the rumour. The rumour of past successful stories for solve problems, sometimes millenary solutions, a rumour than is some cases is disturbing new opportunities, real opportunities of future. But it is very easy promote changes, even if you must round the world before. People worldwide wants talk and share experiences, so connecting their information and sharing it is the guideline for surf in tsunamis, and each time is easier because the word “solution” is everywhere, and you can solve difficult problems even if you are not qualified like me in many fields. Is the same in the Serranía of Ronda, in a suburbia, in megapolis of 20 millions persons. Do not discuss or work hard, just let flow yourself, it is quite pleasant. If somebody argues you some problem you begin talk solutions of good practices and quickly people stop and begin thinks because you crashed the mental standardised framework.



So that is why I say the objectives of 2020, etc, are useful and necessaries like guidelines(and sometimes courageous, see Scottish), but are symbolic. In theory growths of 20-30% are the top in economic history, but the process I expose works only in part in this way. Other part is change of habits adjusting present capabilities without bigger transformation, other are just reordering common goods, or looking for soft/partial alliances, others have relation with leisure time, others have relation with new activities enriching the previous. Sustainability do not works in standardised, climbing way, is not a pyramid. And architects and city planners are in the core of this habited space.



Are we walking with History?.

Para mis paisan@s, basta uno solo de los 8000 municipios españoles o uno solo de los 36500 núcleos de población inscritos en ellos para meter el turbo disfrutando tranquilamente el cambio logrando reducir también la incertidumbre. La incertidumbre en sí no es mala, si la economía depende del clima y el clima es incierto no hay que preocuparse más por ello, no controlamos nada. Tengo hasta 6.500 millones de razones para seguir insistiendo en este punto, ¿cuántas tenéis vosotr@s?

[erjavi]

Hi Solidred, how are you?

Talking now with everybody, it is difficult for me even register again with other personnel mails I have (old ones), that is why I am going to stop my participation in the forum for a time. Anyway I think the most important good practices I know I shared. Because sustainability is a local matter new ones appears if you reconcile your local environment with human activities developed there. In this sense I did not included some interesting initiatives showed in the publicity here because I had in mind direct dialog and I did not paid attention to it (i.e. magniworks, www.orangeengineering.it , a Greek system for earthquakes in buildings, a many showed in the past.

But collect good practice is cheap, free, quick and easy to expand when you have detected the precise problem. Others will require community building work.

Good news, the recent Spaniard Architect Congress celebrated this week in Valencia has supposed a rainfall of new perspectives, the construction machine begins to move, now es un hervidero de ideas (see Google news, Wikio news, etc)

I do not know if the login of my emails are sure now. So if you think something wrong happens with erjavi, do not give importance to it.

Ifema has invited me assist to the SIMO in September, and the Congreso de Arquitectura Sostenible in Valladolid at the end of the year has invited me to expose like ponente (I arrived late for assist to a meeting of Fundación SUMA and the European Real State Agency in University Carlos III, I am sorry and thanks anyway), so I supposed then I´ll write something more.

See you

Erjavi

[erjavi]

Now I think I am in a more secure place. Let´s go see.

A peace initiative I saw this morning announced in the forum make me reflect about the potent peace-storming effects of human being http://www.america.gov/obama_ru.html , and recently I saw an architectural example than came to my mind.

In the Museo del Prado there is now an exhibition of Sorolla painter. Light showing joy is bigger than the museum serious tradition aesthetic. It looks his paintings are going to burst the building. The effect is bigger if you climb the automat staircases and arrives, climbing like a mole, to the upper part, an ancient monastir. And this symbol of fearful architecture is bursted by external Light because architect Moneo has left the essential skeleton for help illumination enter inside and a storming Light flood all. Minimalist decoration, some lost little king statues, the space is like a relax area for finish a travel of optimism. Outside building the aspect is sad following some monumental tradition.

Is the potential than all it can be but still is not completely because other things are happening, in contradiction. But for all that live or have been living in close atmospheres they know what I am talking about. Something is happening?

Talking about suburbia there are two aspects in American continent for me in order to consider aesthetic personality in contrast to European tradition. There is a non European cultural element than has been present always, and enriched by immigration, voluntary or torced. In general terms this aspecto is new in Europe, it is possible find precedents in towns with islamic medieval contribution, but in modern times I do not appreciate big scale aesthetics, immigration is recent (in this sense Sarkozy initiative for surrounding cities of Paris, I mean brain storming for architects, and the http://www.citechaillot.fr/ in the sense of children urban education are two of the most valuable initiatives for me in Europe, mentioning it please note conventional political parties, right and left, are in one or other way “standardised” in some aspects respect my position, I told it too respect past replies too so you will see finally a meeting pot position, and in other aspects add independent questions too). In the other hand I feel American societies are not so stable like Europeans in the sense their contemporary history has not been completely sedimented (and this do not implies destroy illusion or creativity). So effects in suburbia aesthetics I think will run different ways in some aspects, like other parts of the World (i.e. the tension of hutongs and others elements in SE Asia)

In this context consider than IT sector Works like any other respect standardised mentality, just increasing potent of cables or equipments for invite initiatives operate in like i.e. infrastructures, developing a dryer communication spiderweb, linking as much as possible points in the net like an objective itself, without consider efficiency showed by real economy spiderweb and I am not only talking about nature, but efficiency of the economy we do over it, social efficiency, cultural efficiency. I mean give potent a process isolating it respect other considerations can proportion IT neckbottles in suburbia, and what is apparently business today can be a ruin soon, difficulting IT structure the change (in terms not only of physical Powers or others but overall in terms of create routines or habits).

It is not a secret than the main potential of cars is not used, like houses, energy, IT, roads, etc. Build, IT, travel or others with flexibility helps a little in this sense, but it is not an half. Like landscaper i.e in an valley my challenge consists in, one accepted other´s activities are so much big for me in all terrains, just help design proposals inspired mainly in good practices for help human encounters at all levels, but never reduce perspectives to fix and/or flexible proceedings including IT.

Coming back to suburbia possibilities thinking in El Prado experience, I mentioned respect Australia some possibilities. Buildings can be tranformed from inside before. In Bilbao I saw only the Guggenheim entrance, Gehry did this part like outsider, half sculptoric half for landscape (photo). But it is the inside of Deutsche Bank http://www.flickr.com/photos/jles/1901678247/ that than shows me structural dinamicity of buildings if you make structure with interchangeable elements (that is way I mentioned the spam hangar manufacturer and the Italian engineer concrete-iron system), helping Robertson methods for renove skyscrapers, together with renewable mobile solar-crystal fachade (www.sunenergy.com etc) for be able of move parts of the buildings in Molotov Seaton, and even benedif of this wind movement together with skyscraper sail races. And talking abou this, irrigate Australia not necessarily must be dangerous, the Great Artesian Basin is the down part of a dam which can pump water up like in Mauritania does www.giramundo.net with solar force, in a close circuit so you can install photovoltaci cells just now and have night energy in all the island. Add a simple pipe from the sea for transport vapour from the sea pumped with section photovoltaic stations and you will have water for get grass and others avoiding or minimising thermical conditions of tornados. You can get all in months, independently of other initiatives, so if coal industry investí in it Australia can in the good sense of meaning laugh of emissions objectives, being world leader. And suburbia transformed from inside or those created new can be inspired by the landscaping example of Isozaki Towers in Bilbao, for make two buildings he did a complete landscape area; 1%, well, for be honest the books than mentioned Rsii talked about something more of the 11%, Walkerarchitects had reason in the sense you can not see cities like a surgeon, but, have I stolen cities to architects? , is the polis bigger than a city? , is the city the dream of an architect, of an engineer, of a transporter, or an artisan, or an uthopian? …where is the collective dream? I never saw a book dealing with architecture about this, respect that I was honest. Suburbia possibilities are enormous.

(the Franch company for digitalise stakes in Venice is http://www.noomeo.eu/ , and the Austrian ice rinks manufacturer is http://www.professional-icerink.com/?gclid=CIr116zWwZsCFYYU4wodGluuDg thanks for announce again)
www.emergentsurfaces.com
http://www.hypsos.com/

[erjavi]

Oh! I forgot said yesterday than, independently of some worrying actions are now ocurring in Central Asia (in the other hand a local millenary tradition promotes crops of life in gardens no Death), politics of some countries are not only politically correct but politically opportune too.

Talking about Copenhague and other places, sometimes the immediate intermediate path for arrive there in a healthy way could consist in little modifications, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443735952&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Introduction to SIMO 2: popular interfaces (no more pain in column and eyes)
http://info.planar.com/forms/3d-case-study?Campaign_ID=701300000008L7u&00N3000000149Le=i&_kk=3d%20displays&_kt=6834a1f0-dea0-4704-8775-a575dea0e839&gclid=COSU9JHBw5sCFYUA4wod7Et7DQ

[erjavi]

I´d like show two case – net Studies dealing with ecoarchitecture and energy in the first case, and ecoarchitecture and transport in the second.

The first case has been launched in Germany, the net study is North Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and Near East.

http://www.desertec.org/en/foundation/
(in spanish)http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Europa/inicia/carrera/explotar/sol/Sahara/elpepusoc/20090708elpepisoc_3/Tes

This interesting initiative deals mainly with renewable energy, desalinisation water, intensive energy industries and others, from a tri-continental perspective and technology transfer inside an innovative multicultural perspective. The Project looks supply 15% of European electricity for 2050 and 66% in North Africa and Near East, with a cost, mainly private, of 400.000 millions euros in 41 years, gradually invested. The net is descentralizad through many countries, and expectancy of productivity and forecast of economy scale in renewables you can compare with present cost of solar termal factory of Abengoa in Arizona, 4.000 millions euros. Desertec Project look for an installed power of 20GW in 2020, and 100GW in 2050. In North Africa Algeria each time more appears like a leader country in renewables.

Munich Re, an inssurance company, and the Rome Club German Chapter will present ideas on 13th July.

What think German architects about the cost opportunity of this Project, are they able to improve this initiative or present alternatives http://www.bak.de/site/498/default.aspx ? What think city planners and suburbia managers of the country about?

And what thinks their financial sector, an insurance company together with electrical companies are promoting the Project. We enter in the long tested terrain of Pharaonic projects, a standardised tendency in the XX Century. Is correct this vision for the XXIth?http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=1681
http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=1676

San Francisco earthquake management gave credibility to USA insurance companies. If at global level merely we are now able to support financial sector with a simple overconsume crisis thanks to public debt, will be able insurance companies face severe climate change crisis alone, or together with public help? http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=1656
Sure not.

And the cost opportunity of these 400.000 millions euros in crisis time, (now just only the initial investment) can be improved employing it in R&D, improvings of energy efficiency via good practices, (www.magniwork.com , I did have not time for see well this technology, but together with other showed, locals, without loss in transport, aren´t they quick to produce and easy to return investment? Initial comparative high investment is alter near 0 cost if are durable or easy of maintain) http://en.cop15.dk/blogs/view+blog?blogid=1522 and others? There are renewable energies and good practices easier to develop in some latitudes better than others, http://en.cop15.dk/blogs/climate+thinkers+blog Stéphane Dion (I do not enter in political parties), so may be the question here is if pharaonic projects themselves have sense in present context? Are really more efficients? In part? Not?. Desertec Project could get more support if hand made dessert lands are gained again? Could get more support if it contribuyes restore pre-industrial atmosphere (thanks to a bigger absortion of carbon in vegetation and crops)? This Project can launch electrical or others transport systems in North Africa and Near East? In other words, can reoriented oil and gas benefits convert this Southern areas in a magnet pole of sustainable investments at global level?

The second case-net study, dealing with infrastructures, is launched in Spain, is the infrastructure program till 2020, and the net study is West Europe http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/DIRECCIONES_GENERALES/CARRETERAS/PEIT/ , and the question for Spanish architecs http://www.cscae.com/ and other sector are the same in terms of efficiency, cost opportunity, energy distribution, energy pollution (the pollution caused by energy use), etc.

The difference in this case respect North Africa, Near East and even Australia is than historical referentes respect hand made dessert lñands is fresh and easier to restore. In this sense insurance sector http://www.firemansfund.com/default.html can map easier which infrastructures, houses and others must pay a less or bigger tax by the fact of construction itself, or by convencional maintaining, or improvements in energy efficiency, or area improvements (coastal houses in front of the sea without altitude, and/or without forest protection are more vulnerable not only to Molotov winds but droughts, measured i.e. in water supply costs, i.e. see in Spain Destrucción a toda costa 2009 http://www.greenpeace.org/espana/ ).

So is very easy and quick select a team and map a country with climate change risks, and voice to public opinión directly or via a ghost organisation for launch debate and justify different ratios of taxes, this or put in storm-risk your business maybe soon as you expect). In this sense I think lobbies of any nature can obtain popular acceptation more doing analices and sharing information more than in petit comittees really few “transparent”, i.e. Brussels is a gastronomy city you know what I mean.

But it is difficult talk with authorities and other if CEOs are not efficients. In all the companies I worked people ask me about my job, if I did wrong continously I stopped work. A CEO than is going to obtain pluses even with millionaires loss talk me about work? Not. Last crisis showed us one more time a clear message: “you can do it again, society promotes inefficiency”. I understand a CEO conserves a salary in crisis time like everybody, but millionaire pluses? If some decisión makers do not operates with efficiency criteria how do you want the whole organisation relieve in reorienta all the proceedings towards eco-design and other questions? Poor workers? Some years ago analyst Peter Drucker said the bigger ownership of Wall Street were workers via funds. Of course architects can not solve alones the case-net Studies exposed.

But in this case they have the support of top World politics, they are going to meet this Hjek in L´Aquila, an earthquakeable area, which continues moving (I súpose Vicepresidents will keep at home) so in this “open atmosphere” they will be more sensible to get agreements, experiencing personally changes in nature (together with anti-system people).

I´d like finish just with two ideas. BMW launched a moto than looked a car in the TV advertisement because it was filmed with Darkness, but afterwards the object was divided in two, two motos together. I asked myself thinking in electrical autos, if modular car can be invented and assembled directly on the road forming temporal trains and benefiting of collective energy efficiency, and it can facilitate economise space for transport in city designs. And I asked too if solar car roofs can be used for traffic stops and start in cities employing hybrid Systems, Toyota now is launched a model with a bigger solar surface I think. So we could use particular transport with the efficiency of collective in cities, maybe a service of www.betterplace.com or others, even supported by benefits in local taxes.

The second idea deals with IT highways. Why highways? Imagine efficient energy houses and/or communities than decides, depending of timetable, support energy for increase potent to local cable IT network for get more services, or physically form the cable temporally. And if you think in IT & local area logistics, there are alternatives to heavy traffic with implications in urban design too, http://www.sobre2ruedas.net/acercanosotros.html

The cost of energy in IT or handy is marginal, some times even smaller than in car factories, unless you consider than really few big hubs are required to be installed in a territory, and a changing-fractal multilocal usersnet access to it. Then you can save installations but overall it will be possible optimise IT services, bringing more IT posibilities to real needs. IT highways are too pharaonics.

All comments about cases described I hope contribuye to strengthen them, it is important than renewable energies leader nations do not finish advances just introducing to the rest new proceedings for alter collapsing themselves with initial succesful events.

Somebody knows who fabricates longterm, recyclable solar cells?

[erjavi]

¡Ayuda help!


http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/G-8/luchara/cambio/climatico/elpepuint/20090708elpepuint_5/Tes
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/07/08/internacional/1247073876.html

¡Olé! (imagine when your sons and grand sons say the same to you)

Excuse some lines, I need help and I am going to talk with my paisan@s before, afterwards I continue in English.

Esta mañana me han llamado desde el Ayuntamiento de Ronda, es la primera vez que lo hacen desde Octubre, me pedían que el CD que adjuntaba especificara a qué parcela me refería respecto a mi aportación. Les expliqué que se trataba de un propuesta general de ordenación sostenible del territorio que entre otras cosas invalidaba la construcción de viviendas para 30000-40000 personas entre planes del pasado no ejecutados más los que se quería hacer, cuando el censo estimado para la próxima década – dato manejado por el propio Ayuntamiento en su propuesta de PGOU – era de más 2.000 personas. Salvo que el censo se refiera a 1.000 parejas extraordinariamente prolíficas no entiendo semejante desembolso de fondos públicos y privados. Estas cifras las he obtenido de una alegación efectuada por el Decano del Colegio de Arquitectos de Málaga y firmada por un colectivo de arquitect@s rondeñ@s.

No obstante añadí que había realizado propuestas más concretas en el foro de Architecture Week e iba a darles la referencia pero me contestaron que no le correspondía a la persona que me estaba hablando el tomar esos datos, ella sólo estaba interesada en tomar nota de la parcela para remitírsela al estudio que urbanismo que diseñó el plan para el Ayuntamiento. Adjunto remiro una representación figurada sobre el aspecto de la ciudad con el nuevo plan del Ayuntamiento – una ciudad fantasma, no Ciudad Soñada – a este tipo de representaciones me refería cuando hablaba en el foro de representar en 3D los proyectos urbanísticos y de infraestructuras sobre el paisaje.

El CEDER (Centro de Desarrollo Rural, en este caso de la Serranía de Ronda) llega hasta donde puede llegar, pese a la gran labor de los CEDER andaluces, pioneros en tantas cosas y movilizadotes de la riqueza y creatividad de su tierra, poco pueden hacer por seguir sus líneas tradicionales de actuación. No estoy hablando ahora de su labor a la hora de facilitarme mapas y documentación para poder hacer este proyecto. Decía que por burocracia sólo andaluza con cada nuevo Plan de la UE pasan unos meses de apatía en los que se paran programas y se despide a gente, y los cuatro gatos que quedan pagan con sus sueldos los gastos del edificio para que no cierre la institución. Alguien tuvo la “torpeza” de decir esto en la prensa local la última vez y vino el Director de turno de la Junta a echarle la charla sobre sus comentarios. Pero como madrirondeño que anda libre, permítaseme la licencia, cuento esto para hacer notar al personal que son tiempos de grandes desafíos en los que no sobra nadie y que por respeto a nuestros descendientes tenemos que dejar el cachondeo del malo para quedarnos con el bueno.

Si no me equivoco quedan Ronda y Cuenca en España como ciudades con un perfil bonito, a Ronda la salvaba un Tajo y a Cuenca dos. Lo demás que queda son pueblos. Si alguien cae en la equivocación de dar algo por perdido, que España va a ser un desierto, sólo recordar que del espino nace la rosa, y que donde por improvisación hubo chapuza ahora va a haber arte.

¡Señoras, señores, pido ayuda a la ciudad de Ronda, que es soberana de su belleza, a la gente de las Sierras de Málaga y Cádiz, a los costasoleñ@s, a instituciones , informativas y tecnológicas de Málaga, a Unicaja, a l@s artistas y en general a tod@s los que aman la belleza, es decir a l@s española/es, para que hagan llegar estas líneas a l@s habitantes de la ciudad y sus instituciones, para que no sean l@s últimos en enterarse de que todo está moviéndose!

En Septiembre el Presidente Rodríguez Zapatero sacará una Ley de Economía Sostenible que debe ser colectiva, esto va a elevar el listón todavía más que en la Transición en algunos aspectos, el éxito sólo puede serlo si es colectivo, y preparados estamos de sobra para ello, si no, ¿qué vamos a decirles a l@s que vienen detrás?.

I am sorry for the Englih audience.

I´d like ask you for your help, please!

When I knew the potential problem of the water of Ronda I asked for additional water test to British, Germany, France, USA, Japan, I think Maroc and Chinese Embassies and Consulates and others too, thinking too in health risks for their national residents and tourist, together with the foreign press in the Serranía, Costa del Sol and Spain. The water is ok, at least by the moment. If you made some activities about this, thank you very much – I contacted too with Spaniards institutions-.

Now I ask again for your help again for foreign residents and tourism participation in the area, particulars, associaciation and institutions, some of them very active in the promotion of a better future for all, in order to form stronger alliances with us for distribute and improve sustainability information dealing with the area. Por favor, please, bitte, http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=44974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0au19MmQU !

[erjavi]

If you get a coloured ice cub and deposit it on a water recipient with some additive than neutralise colour after 3-5 seconds, you can see invisible evolutions of fractals. It is the same with Greenland. Change ice for methane in surroundings diminish “fractal” temperatures on the area (I ask my self if you could feel it flying in a planner) so the underice water channels operate like the example exposed. Is it possible see this from meteo satellites? Is it possible detects changing flows of waters in the coast together with minimal differences in reflections in some areas nearest coasts? Is it possible biocolour temporally such flows, install coastal solar sensors… shttp://www.flowmaster.com/solutionstour/marine/index.html?_kk=3d%20design%20software&_kt=321a5016-34c8-421f-936d-ca01b9fc060e&gclid=CJbGlMDoypsCFZwA4wodAnX4Jw ?


At industrial levels it is possible do the same, give shorttime biocolour to emissions for see, between others, influences of cloud formations? This ideas could be interesting for Climate Change agenda.http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/noticia/311861/onu-considera-que-acuerdo-climatico-aquila-insuficiente Technology transfer? Desertec initiative could be fantastic worldwide balancing many factors. (imagine shantytowns with renewable supply, magniworks included, with green roofs, like immediately sources of water, hygiene, temperature, food, community involvement, beauty. Formulas? Local associations there, they want live, not survive. If you do not think me try avoid new “standardised surprises”, like conventional bankers experienced with Grameen Bank and others.

But this time information will be not source of privileges, we must try it in other way at least at general level, although I understand private initiatives http://www.geotechmap.net/ (note we do not control Countdowns, and the obsession for business privatising the world is one of the essentials of the present suicide model, renewable economy could result useless)

Coming back to SIMO, the reference I did respect flexible capacity of information highways (other pharaonic projects) could enrich the debate in this sense launched by Microsoft (the intelligence is in the machine) vs Google (the intelligence is in the cable/handy).

[erjavi]

Hi! Just mention than I usually write quick, very quick, mails here too, as you have already perceived many times, so not always I use the better expressions, in English or Spanish. I have not dedicated time for see if they are some guide or architecture good practices free to see, I have seen fragmented works, books here and there, but I think a clear comprehensive guide is needed, maybe separated by different clima. (Note than in changing climate world the initial solution can be not always the better and it brings a potential conflict in architecture, in this sense I mentioned the house like a battery, in contrast with Le Corbusier idea of the house like a machine, maybe some flexibility in structure building can be incorporated to design, I just launch the idea).

I´d like ask you for some additional reference of Magniwork, I practically did not saw too much, the video of Skynews Australia in Magniworks web and few more. Thank you very much.

[erjavi]

Hi! I´d like go to Israel from 11 th September to 21 aprox., visiting Jerusalem and Galilea Sea, I have many reasons to go, maybe accept the idea of extreme landscaping too. Somebody knows interesting places for see, and travel webs with special offers? Thank you very much

Javier

[erjavi]

Please, let me introduce an idea in Spanish, is easier for me.

L@s conquistadora/es pensarán que el león ha rugido y toda la selva lo ha oído, l@s escéptic@s pensarán que no es tan fiero el león como lo pintan y l@s descubridora/es pensarán que efectivamente el los límites de la arquitectura tampoco hay leones jajaja

Architecture Week Staff, chapeau.

Empiezo a retirarme de todo.

I´ll not see this web and others till September, the Speaking Corner effect you know, now I want design landscapes without think, just enjoy. Now I am in the beach again.

Have a good summer/winter!

erjavi

[erjavi]

I discovered something

Hey! Last minute! I had intention of paint landscapes all the summer but I went to my habitual architecture library, Naos, asking for book of landscapes and then I went to a recommended painting shop near. There I found a catering companionship than studied Bellas Artes and then we began comment the Sorolla exhibition at El Prado I said to you.

We were agree about the feeling of joy when we visit the exhibition. She told Sorolla expressed joy even in daily details than showed the real big things of life in contrast with apparent monumental events, afterwards she went to Reina Sofía Museum and the atmosphere were more serious, dealing with problems, tragic.

Then I argued it was easy for Sorolla concentrate in people because they painted them in beaches and other natural places, so the beauty of the moment was launched by the beauty of the natural framework. In contrast for me was difficult do the same with cities with “standardism” art building style, I had in many occasions the help of nature presence for design urban landscapes.

Yesterday night I tried translate the Sorolla feeling to collapsed urban areas thinking in cities with a potent natural surroundings and then I saw panorama photos in internet, but I did not found the solution.

This morning, resigned, I just went to my balcony, in the middle of the city, I began paint. In the first picture you can appreciate just the skyline of the city together with the green, but overall the reflects of the light, I painted just following intensity of lights trying imitating Sorolla.

And then, happily, I got the solution. I painted the same skyline turning artificial buildings into natural details, imaging the city like a countryside landscape, in order to approach urban transformation with the pleasure of see a nice picture. And not only for me, for the rest too, people loves paint, dreams pass into action. This perspective help me to consider the paths or changes like a collection, without loose perspective of common beauty.

The building work and the crane you see in the first picture inspired me for Venice. Some time ago the structure was just vertical and lateral iron stakes supporting flat levels of concrete, an aerial disposition. Even the dry pine you see near was supported, all was almost floating(ploting). Then I came back home and saw a poster in the bus station of Ireland tourism than included the Giants Causeway, so I remembered the Maritime Museum of Bilbao, showing a map of 1905 were different deeps in the ria were described after modify the entrance flow of marine water. So I looked too the “underground” stakes, and the support – or not – of the soil in the process of elevate Venice, considering Mose dam, and eventually mobile marble concrete dock too.

Linking both pictures I just realised with ideas of cranes of different aspects, like SuperMa buildings (I-mad.com in the left side of the second picture), suburbia (modern, sculpture nets/buildings), patrimonial cities (romanic, vhite cranes, etc), tropical cities (old big trees with lianas), modern tropical cities (Ma clouds, including aerial SCS communication systems for handy, fomentando depositing touchable screen mobiles in existing urban fix nets, so the dilemma between Microsoft, Google and handy health pollution is inexistent because intelligence is everywhere and is shared on real time ad hoc), I can imagine new solutions for Robertson methods while protect cities for eventual Molotov winds and optimise use of energy and avoid pollution: I mean, adapt massively houses to energy efficacy can be supported by a net of temporal landscaped cranes (ecodesigned), with option of link them in upper part forming an aerial rail for transport commodities/information without collapse the city. Reorganise i.e. a quarter is easier and cheaper, collective solutions can be looked for efficiency, promoted with fashion, and even using the aerial temporal net for canalise – and with interior chemical walls reduce – smog. The same temporal net can be used like a “bamboo” net for mitigate Molotov wind, alone or with extensible architextiles mater-ails employed too like a filter in the case of sand storms. I repeat the idea of Australia, an external mobile structure mitigates effects over the fix inner part, like a jungle does with a monsoon.

And the same principle is valid for tornados, which concentrate forces on reduces areas, a tornado 5 has similar effects to an expansive wave of nuclear bomb. Even with a tornado 10 (other test for Decathlon solar) the idea is act like a lightning rod, a big focal potent is derived via fractal design to many places, this is I wanted say with the flake overlapped structure of painted tiles of Vila Nurbs.

Then such aerial structure, an inverted Venice stakes system – let me add than in the building work now the iron stakes have been reduced to few gross tubes able to be linked easily like snowshoes -, than employs few surface in the existing collapsed urban spaces – crane and/or sails can be used in top buildings too – is not only of pleasant popular participation for acquire quality of life, is an excuse for reorganise energy efficiency in cities,(productivity) the bigger polluters, stimulating fashion (diversity, liberty indirectly maybe too), obtaining real advances in logistics and communications, and avoiding collapse when buildings became old (respect this last point, why not fabricate i.e. 10.000 little concrete cubes and inject different foams for enlarge chemical reaction of components? maybe the final work in cities in 22th century can be reduced astonishing).

Now I see any urban context can be modified, via pilot project, massive action, etc, with pleasure, with popular participation, with preliminary design context, making each city unique, in a global world. Now I do not feel I need paint landscapes, I think now my formation is complete because in fact now, and it surprised me, I feel my work of landscaper like routine.

And what is more important, I felt I transported the Sorolla joy in paintings to urban context, being now able of transform any sad urban atmosphere. And is wonderful.

Iam sorry!I have problemswith the wideandhigh pixel size!Just substitute the outline of each building, green areas,etc,by natural colours showing natural accidents than reflects the sun light with different density.

[erjavi]

Hello, the building work is between Torrelaguna and Condesa delVenadito streets, but is more advanced now

For those living or visiting Madrid I recomend see the Sorolla exhibition and after go to the top of the building, I think is open till September

[djswan]

It's good to see you haven't skipped a beat, with the forum crash...and still all over the place with information. We do we start setting standards?

Are those napkin sketches?

Derek