“Energy as a right” project rethinks the energy system of Barcelona aiming for a more sustainable, fair, democratic and efficient energy eco-system. The proposal was developed taking the role of a local private community, pursuing the dream of providing basic free energy for all residents of the city. An extensive data collection and analysis process was carried out to understand the main challenge these communities face in relation to their energy consumption and the potential to reduce it through a catalogue of passive and active measures.

On one side, we decide to join the forces of the communities to have the advantages of the big scale and, on the other hand, align ourselves with the administration in order to achieve their common goals. Based on the data analysis, we propose a deal to the city council through a rights and duties agreement. We commit ourselves to take care of the energy renovation of the buildings and in exchange they provide a public basic free energy.

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“Energy as a right” is a project developed at IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, by: Alvaro Cerezo, Leyla Saadi, Iñigo Esteban Marina, Tugdual Sarazin & Mario Gonzalez.

”Sociable Spaces” project focuses on the question of how we can make public spaces more sociable. The proposal investigates different layers of data that may affect social interaction and coherence and attempts to propose a strategy of intervention to improve sociability in selected areas.The goal was to assess which are the main areas of research on this topic within the city scale and how social challenges affect people’s personal and economic relations, correlating different categories through two different clustering methods.

What we get as a replicable outcome of our proposal is a kit of parts, designed to improve each selected indicator and therefore each category. It mandatorily needs to be combined with the numerical and spatial analysis we have developed, in order to tailor the application of the kit to each specific case, obtaining an informed proposal that would be further developed by the designer with the public participation in parallel.

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"Sociable Spaces" is a project developed at IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, by: Leyla Saadi, Iñigo Esteban Marina, Laura Guimarães, Kevin Aragon & Sridhar Subramani.

"Healing Flows" is a research project that aims to tackle the challenge of creating a healthy mobility network in our cities. To tackle this challenge, our project allows stakeholders and planners to design a catalogue of targeted interventions that promote healthier streets, through a combined agent-based evaluation of health risk and mobility flows on urban streets. As a result, we are able to identify each segment with a health score, based on three categories that pose threats to the the agents health: physical, mental and social health risk.

After selecting targeted segments, a catalogue of “Health Pills”, organized in 3 lines of action (sustainability, inclusion and comfort) associated with previous health score, are introduced and customized as interventions on the urban environment. The system allows the design input to be re-evaluated to understand its impact on the global network, so the final desired output could be obtained through this data-driven feedback loop.

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"Healing flows" is a project developed at IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, by: Tugdual Sarazin, Adriana Aguirre Such, Diana Roussi, Dongxuan Zhu & Hebah Qatanany.

In the project “Flatten the curve” our aim is to analyze the current energy consumption and potential energy production of the existing urban fabric to propose active and passive strategies on it to bring a new and more sustainable energy model into the city, based on solar energy. All the analysis is time-scaled, with consumption patterns defined by each building’s surface and land use together with their energy certification, while production and production by solar radiation and space availability on each building’s rooftop.

Our analysis on the urban morphology lead to identify which strategies each building could benefit most from, selecting from a catalogue of passive and active measures, and identifying an order of intervention on the whole building stock. We plan to decrease the use of energy through a renovation process and increase the production of local energy, placing solar panels energy storage facilities in buildings with the highest exposure.

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"Flatten the curve" is a project developed at IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, by : Alvaro Cerezo, Riccardo Palazzolo, Marta Galdys, Nadh Ha Naseer & Juan Pablo Pintado.