
Alvaro CluaPolytechnic University of Catalonia | UPC · ETSAB - School of Architecture of Barcelona
Alvaro Clua
PhD Architect
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Las urbanizaciones cerradas son hoy una de las formas habituales en la extensión de las ciudades latinoamericanas. En el Gran Mendoza (Argentina) existen unas 384. Su medida y agregación está produciendo la saturación de parte del territorio periurbano, propiciando así un paisaje marcado por grandes recintos con accesos puntuales y una estructura v...
The article approaches the dynamic condition of the urban form and activities of the so-called “urban thresholds,” spaces located in between different city fabrics. The study is based on a comparative analysis of seven maps representing key historical moments of Porta Ticinese’s area in Milano from 1807 to 2022, produced through geographical inform...
Within the framework of urban pedestrian networks, this paper presents a method of modeling the street network from the perspective of foot traffic, beyond the vehicle-focused street centerline representation approach in transportation research. A scalable method to extract the centerlines of the complete walkable urban area from its polygon repres...
Conté: Foreword: Walking the streets: an approach to urban proximity through the analysis of pedestrian networks / Eulàlia Gómez-Escoda -- Presentation: Urban Network Analysis tools for modeling land use and transportation interactions for pedestrians and cyclists / Andres Sevtsuk -- Barcelona’s Superblocks under the spotlight: evaluating expected...
This work approaches the phenomenon of the outdoor terraces of bars and restaurants, analysing the role of these privately owned collective elements whose layout has shaped the urban landscape at the pavement level for more than a century, and whose presence has become essential in the streets of many cities after a pandemic. The research highlight...
On 11 October 1935, the inauguration of the Slussen urban cloverleaf took place in front of the excited citizens of Stockholm. It had the attributes of a pure traffic machine taken from the most advanced traffic engineering publications, and it expressed the optimistic cultural modernism that five years ago the Stockholm International Exhibition ha...
Beyond the binary, traditional, figure-ground reading of urban patterns, this research presents a graduated expression of the geometry of urban spaces from a perceptive point of view. This highlights the spatial relationships and introduces a new set of criteria to evaluate contemporary open spaces according to visual experience. The study produces...
La creixent preocupació per la sostenibilitat dels àmbits metropolitans està portant a reconèixer el valor dels espais de vora urbana com a franges de singular rellevància per poder generar sinergies entre la ciutat i la matriu biofísica que la sosté i envolta. Aquest llibre recull el resultat de les últimes edicions dels cursos d’Urbanística IV (E...
The practice of busking and street music performance is becoming key to the identity of cities. However, although the spatial configuration and acoustics of historic city centres are interrelated, few rigorous studies have been undertaken on this area. The paper presents the results of a quantitative and comparative analysis of the space syntax con...
Laboratori d’Urbanisme de Barcelona
(Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
Established: 1968
Lab Leadership:
Josep Parcerisa (Coordinator of the LUB Research Group)
Current Lab Structure:
Academic Faculty: 30
Research Staff: 9
Postdoctoral Researchers: 4
Graduate-Level Students: 350
Master Students: 11...
Over the last two decades the Slussen in Stockholm designed by Tage William-Olsson in 1935 has been the subject of an intense debate about how to update it to the contemporary needs. Tabula rasa, reconstruction or renovation? This lively discussion, however, has resulted in a final proposal granted by the expertise of an international firm but cont...
As Manuel de Solà-Morales noted, urbanity relies on the variety and quality of relations between things, materials and human beings. Considered as such, how are we to achieve an underground urbanity? This paper seeks to address this question through a focussed reading of a number of European urban projects from the 20<sup>th</sup> century; all of w...
The Slussen urban project designed by architect Tage William-Olsson and engineer Gösta Lundborg between 1929 and 1935 in Stockholm, synthetically expresses the emergence of the automobile in the European cities at the beginning of the 20th century. The combination of more than thirty previous proposals highlight the evolution of a space in contradi...
El proyecto del Slussen en Estocolmo es hoy una ruina del movimiento moderno. Aquella visión optimista y eterna de la arquitectura funcionalista se presenta incierta y desproporcionada tras menos de un siglo de pervivencia. Paredes desconchadas, metales oxidados por el salitre, azulejos rotos, tiendas en decadencia y paseantes en sombra muestran un...