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INTERVIEW WITH ISRAEL ALBA: WASTE, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE

Israel Alba — Wed, 18 May 2016 07:05:16 +0000

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WASTE R&D INSTITUTE. ZARAGOZA

zina petrikova — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:30:01 +0000

One of the leading urban-waste management companies in Spain is looking to develop a state-of-the-art project - a technological innovation institute and a visitor centre dedicated to investigating the use of waste as an alternative energy source. Prototypes will be developed on-site to examine various technologies. The chosen location in Zaragoza is an old and currently disused incineration warehouse at the waste-treatment centre of the Recycling Technology Park. The tender term-sheet called for an innovative, high-tech building with a unique character reflecting the groundbreaking nature of the project while taking advantage of the existing infrastructure. Our proposal explores the possibilities offered by the roof as a key architectural feature for achieving the objective: modifying the silhouette of a conventional warehouse in a conventional industrial environment. A system of suitably positioned skylights enhances the quality of the space and incorporates natural ventilation and solar control. The building revolves around the prototype-testing platform outside, onto which it opens, giving a general overview of the complex, where the various parts are laid out on a board and organised in a sequence. Oak lattices and aluminium panels are used as sun-screens.

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WHERE DOES OUR WASTE GO? WASTE TREATMENT PLANT IN VALENCIA

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:57 +0000

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LECTURE BY ISRAEL ALBA. RÍO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

zina petrikova — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:02:06 +0000

Under the title “Infrastructure and Development in Contemporary Society: Needs and Oportunities”, this International Meeting intends to provide an open space to discuss the importance of infrastructures in the contemporary city, in terms of sustainability and to review the experiences and current possibilities of the power, mobility, waste management, water or public utilities, which are essential for the development of planned environmentally sustainable cities in terms of productivity and socio-economic development.

Brazil experiences and historical moment, and a crucial challenge, and has favourable prospects in the International scenario due to the huge sport events coming up in the following years. These aspects, undoubtedly, are an occasion to discuss the transformation and improvement of big cities infrastructures focusing on improving public spaces and the quality of life of its inhabitants.

Participants:
Israel Alba
Manuel Castillo
Sergio Marta
Gunter Kohlsdorf
Raquel Naves Blumenschein
Ione Carvalho
Nahya Caju
Ana Elisabete Almeida Medeiros
Fermín Vázquez

Organizing entities:
Instituto Cervantes (Brasilia)

Cooperating entities:
Spanish Embassy (Brazil)
University of Brasilia / Universidade de Brasília
Ministry of Culture (Brazil) / Ministério da Cultura (Brazil)
Secretary of housing and urban development / Secretaria de Habitação, Regularização e Desenvolvimento urbano – SEDHAB

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Lecture by Israel Alba. Works and Projects. Brasilia, Brazil

admin — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:05:58 +0000

UniCEUB School of Architecture, Brasilia, Brazil

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JESÚS GRANADA PHOTOGRAPHS THE WASTE TREATMENT PLANT IN VALENCIA

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:04:57 +0000

JESÚS GRANADA
www.jesusgranada.com/

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WASTE RECYCLING PLANT. VALENCIA

admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:32:31 +0000

The waste-treatment plant (WTP) is located on the outskirts of the city of Valencia in an area close to the airport, where the crop fields and market gardens stretch out like a sea of gold and green, a typical image in this place, famed for its fertile land and gentle Mediterranean climate. This project, conceived as a public facility, providing a public service whose negative connotations must be erased, incorporates a visitor centre and an educational facility to demonstrate the energy-related and environmental potential of the plant and raise awareness among the population who also have a role to play in the management of what we choose to throw away. As a kind of observatory, it is a place to study, to understand and to contemplate contemporary society. The elements of the surroundings such as the topography, scale, colours and textures are used as a source of inspiration, while responding with precision and rigor at the same time to a complex functional programme, a simple idea and coherent image, and establishing a close relationship between landscape and technology. The project builds a piece of the city through a small access plaza, a public meeting place for workers and visitors, where the water and vegetation, based on local orange trees, are given great importance. The establishment and organisation of the waste treatment process, which works in support of gravity, have been developed through taking optimum advantage of the topographical conditions and through access to the chosen site. Annually, as a whole, the WTP deals with a total of 450,000 tonnes of urban waste. The fragmentation of the main building in four linear strips responds both to the internal logic of the waste treatment process and to the need to have natural light for the work carried out inside. These strips, which are extended into the ground with coloured gravel and natural grass in continuity with the façades and roofs of the main building, fit in with the landscape and forge a link between the project and the land and its immediate surroundings. The roofs reproduce both the industrial process and the landscape that surrounds it. To make it possible for the building to become a true public facility, a tour has been designed for visitors which includes an exhibition and education and exhibition classroom that links the waste, the energy and the city like a small observatory.

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