School Lecture Series: Harquitectes / EPFL Architecture
Event details
| Date | 18.03.2025 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | Roger Tudó |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
HARQUITECTES
Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca
The main strategy of the project is to reuse the materials of the old school demolition to construct the new building, with an ‘urban mining’ approach where the resources come mainly from the existing urban plot. The spatial organization and climatic behavior answers to the structural system as a new organization of the existing matter.
Roger Tudó is a principal and founding partner of the architectural firm H ARQUITECTES based in Sabadell (BARCELONA) and founded in 2000 together with David Lorente, Josep Ricart and Xavier Ros. He had been combining his professional activity teaching in the ETSAV-UPC, Harvard GSD and ETH Zurich. Their work has been published in several magazines such as El Croquis, 2G, AV, A+U, Domus, Detail, Casabella, etc. and exhibited at Venice Biennial 2016 in the Spanish Pavilion, awarded with the golden Lion, at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 and at Utzon Center in Aalborg 2021, etc.
This lecture is part of the school lecture series
HOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed or expanded as residential spaces. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light not only on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges. The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on New Construction".
Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca
The main strategy of the project is to reuse the materials of the old school demolition to construct the new building, with an ‘urban mining’ approach where the resources come mainly from the existing urban plot. The spatial organization and climatic behavior answers to the structural system as a new organization of the existing matter.
Roger Tudó is a principal and founding partner of the architectural firm H ARQUITECTES based in Sabadell (BARCELONA) and founded in 2000 together with David Lorente, Josep Ricart and Xavier Ros. He had been combining his professional activity teaching in the ETSAV-UPC, Harvard GSD and ETH Zurich. Their work has been published in several magazines such as El Croquis, 2G, AV, A+U, Domus, Detail, Casabella, etc. and exhibited at Venice Biennial 2016 in the Spanish Pavilion, awarded with the golden Lion, at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 and at Utzon Center in Aalborg 2021, etc.
This lecture is part of the school lecture series
HOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed or expanded as residential spaces. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light not only on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges. The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on New Construction".
Practical information
- General public
- Free