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Service Learning in the Degree in Architecture

Construction IV

  • Coordination: Sergio Coll Pla (sergio.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Sant Pau de Reus School.
  • Summary: The subject Construction IV proposes a first approach to the resolution, from the constructive point of view, of a technical architectural project. The first practical work has the function of introducing the problem of adapting the technical solutions to the needs of the project. Thus, an exercise is proposed in which the student has to technically solve a small project linked to a real situation: a school playground. The project has resulted in two aspects of great importance: first, the approach to children and families, the driving problems of growth and the need to constantly adapt to new spaces and challenges; understanding the playground as a space for learning and self-experimentation under the control of the school. Second, the approach to tools, new materials and new study concepts to society through experimentation with non-toxic and safe biodegradable materials.

Sustainability in the contemporary city

  • Coordination: Carles Barberà Escoí (carlos.barbera(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Lluis Domènech i Montaner High School, Reus City Council.
  • Summary: The first is carried out with the Lluís Domènech i Montaner High School, which consists of very old facilities that have been properly maintained, but show deficiencies in terms of energy efficiency. Architecture students do real practices and also experience first-hand the current situation of public facilities. The students become aware of the need to act to improve energy efficiency, and given that their work will be transferred to the center so that it can decide what measures to apply, the student body feels proud to carry out a useful job for the educational community. The center will receive an energy audit that, despite its limitations because it is not a professional job, will help to identify the main problems regarding the management of energy resources. In this way, we can propose solutions with low economic cost and high energy savings. In the second activity, students must diagnose the bicycle transportation needs of the city of Reus and propose different alternatives based on the possibilities of using municipal facilities, as well as road networks and connection nodes. The student body experiences the difficulty of promoting sustainable mobility measures both in terms of cost and citizen habits. The recipient of this service is the Reus City Council, which will receive assessments on the Bicycle Implementation Plan that will serve to improve it, thus offering a better service to citizens.

Architectural heritage: analysis and interventions

  • Coordination: Agustí Costa Jover (agusti.costa(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations:
    • Academic year 2017/2018: Reus Town Hall - Reus and Bajo Campo Funeral Services.
    • Academic year 2018/2019: Xerta Town Hall.
    • Academic year 2020/2021: Limonium. Pont del Diable.
  • Summary: Cultural heritage today is a complex concept that encompasses different types of heritage: intangible, natural, movable and immovable (built). The course work of the subject proposes the analysis and proposal of intervention in an object of the built cultural heritage. In each course a different case study is proposed, trying as far as possible to avoid the examples that we could consider more conventional. The work carried out allows students to raise awareness of the architectural heritage, who acquire specific resources to understand, analyze and value, to finally propose. These works also fulfill the function towards society of valuing and emphasizing the most relevant characteristics of the built heritage, facilitating its appropriation as a community asset. They also establish a base of knowledge, often unpublished, that can be used for other initiatives, such as for educational purposes or also for the maintenance of the heritage asset itself.

    

Theory and practical of the architectural heritage restoration

  • Coordination: Agustí Costa Jover (agusti.costa(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona City Council.
  • Summary: The cultural heritage in current events is a complex concept, encompassing diferents types of heritage: intangible, natural, and property (built). The work of course poses the analysis of an interest patrimonial element (a building, an urban space...). The work of course poses the analysis of an element of interest patrimonial (a building, an urban space...) With the aim to identify the alterations suffered along the history, together with the criteria of intervention applied. The works realised allow the true sensitivity of the architectural heritage for part of the students, which purchase specific resources to understand, analyse and value, for finally propose. These works also fulfill with the true function with the society to value and emphasise the characteristics more important of the heritage built, facilitating the appropriation as a good community. Besides they establish a base of knowledge, often inèdita, that can serve for other initiatives, how for example with purposes educacionals, or also for the same maintenance of the good patrimonial.

Instalations III

  • Coordination: Sergi Coll Pla (sergi.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Management Body of the Educational Complex of Tarragona.
  • Summary: This is a compulsory subject of the fourth year, of three credits. It is an activity intended for architecture students to understand the everyday problems of a building in relation to technical concepts. The specific tasks that the students will carry out are: thermal calculations, thermal resolution proposal, study of surrounding materials and the construction of the different parts of the building. Finally, they will have to make a proposal according to the social and building needs.

Pathologies and rehabilitation

  • Coordination: Agustí Costa Jover (agusti.costa(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations:
    • Academic year 2018/2019: Municipality of L'Aldea.
    • Academic year 2019/2020: Municipality of L'Ampolla.
    • Academic year 2021/2022: Reus City Council - Municipal Brigades.
  • Summary: Constructive pathology is the science that studies the constructive problems that appear in the building (or in any of its units) after its execution. Rehabilitation is the set of actions that have the purpose of making a building suitable for its usual use, adapting it to current requirements or improving it. The diagnosis is the process by which the state of an existing building is determined and the technical measures that may be necessary to guarantee its conservation and/or adapt it to a new use. The practical work of the subject plans to carry out the entire process from the definition of the current state, the systematization of injuries and pathological processes and the intervention and maintenance proposal. Specifically, during the first course, the case of ten farmhouses and a hermitage in the town of La Aldea has been worked on. The study analyzes the conditions of the land, the functionalities of the buildings and their importance in the territory to carry out proposals where the functionality of the buildings can be recovered. During the third year, work was carried out on the following buildings in the city of Reus: Cal Massó, Civic Center of Llevant, Civic Center Mas Abelló, Escola Giny, Mas Carandell, Mas Iglesias, Mercat del Camp.

Territory and Landscape. Territorial Projects

  • Coordination: Sergi Saladié Gil (sergi.saladie(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organizations:
    • Academic year 2012/2013: Riudecols Town Hall, Pinell de Brai Town Hall, Tarragona Chemical Business Association.
    • Academic year 2013/2014: Institute of Valls Studies, Plataforma Salvem la Platja Llarga i el bosc de la Marquesa, La Canonja 3. People, Landscape, Sustainability, Consortium for the preservation of the agricultural landscape of the Alt Camp rainfed plain.
    • Academic year 2014/2015: Assembly Stop BCN World, GEPEC, Barri Immaculada Residents Association, Association for the Defense of the Territory and Heritage of Riudecols (DELTERPA).
    • Academic year 2018/2019: La Canonja School.
    • Academic year 2019/2020: Renau Town Hall y La Sínia Environmental Association. 
    • Academic year 2021/2022: Association of Friends of the Naturista del Torn Beach.
  • Summary: The students work the practical part (3 credits) of the subject in territories that present particular territorial and landscape dynamics. In contact and interaction with the territorial agents of each field, it is intended to provide possible solutions to the planning and management of the corresponding landscapes. The work of the students is based on the analysis of the territory, the field work and the elaboration of proposals for the improvement of the quality of the landscape. Students work in groups that focus on specific and particular aspects of the municipalities they work with. Each academic year works in different territorial and problematic areas, so that the recipients of the service vary.

Interdisciplinary workshop - Reus Ocult

  • Coordination: Jordi Sardà Ferran (jordi.sardaf(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Espais Ocults Association.
  • Summary: The experience is very enriching, since not only surrounds the area of architecture and history, but that also has great importance the direct treatment with people throughout all phases of the activity: management, broadcast... It is a setting in scene of team work where there are people from many areas, origins and different concerns. The student will work, learn and get experiences of all kinds and at the same time they will have much fun. In addition, they will work on a project almost since the initial phase and will have to take advantage of the activity until the end.

Archeology and Architecture in heritage restoration

  • Coordination: Roger Miralles i Jori (roger.miralles(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tortosa Town Hall.
  • Summary: The optional subject "Archaeology and Architecture in heritage restoration" aims to reflect on the role of these disciplines in relation to built heritage. It is about addressing a real problem and looking for imaginative solutions, which go beyond the regulatory framework, but which are an attempt towards solving the problem.

Final Degree Project - Design of a wine route in the municipalities of Falset and Marçà

  • Coordination: Sergio Coll Pla (sergio.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Falset-Marçà Cooperative.
  • Resum: The erection of heritage buildings and the architectural intervention in heritage environments is one of the most emotional tasks of the architectural discourse. This APS was developed, during the 2019/2020 academic year, with the Falset-Marçà Cooperative, located in a modernist building by the architect Cesar Martinell; architect who built more than 40 agricultural buildings throughout his professional life. The work focused on the study, survey of the Falset-Marçà Cooperative building and the architectural intervention in its surroundings.

Final Degree Project - Analysis and recovery of historical-natural spaces in Tamarit

  • Coordination: Agusti Costa Jover (agusti.costa(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: La Sínia Environmental Association.
  • Summary: On the beach of Tamarit, municipality of Tarragona, a bunker or machine gun nest, built on the Rock of Gaià, is preserved in perfect condition. Located at a strategic point in the alluvial plain at the mouth of the Gaià, we believe it would be interesting to recover this space as a center for interpretation and historical memory, as well as a seabird observatory. In this area, there is also another smaller bunker, a civil war shelter, and the remains of a sunken Republic ship off the mouth.

Final Degree Project - Proposal for the use of an outdoor space in the modernist building of the Cooperativa Obrera

  • Coordination: Sergio Coll Pla (sergio.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona Workers' Cooperative -COT. 
  • Summary: Two students of the Degree in Architecture will develop, during the academic year 2021/2022, their TFG within the framework of the Service-Learning Program and in collaboration with the Tarragona Workers' Cooperative (COT) in relation to two assignments they carried out:
    - Proposal for the use of an outdoor space in the modernist building of the Cooperativa Obrera Tarraconense.
    - Energy sustainability for a modernist building for cultural purposes in Tarragona. This task will force you to reflect and realistically evaluate the requests, needs and possibilities of architectural development of the existing building as well as its connection with the rest of the city.

Final Degree Project – SEnergy sustainability for a modernist building for cultural purposes in Tarragona

  • Coordination: Sergio Coll Pla (sergio.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona Workers' Cooperative – COT.
  • Summary: Two students of the Degree in Architecture will develop, during the academic year 2021/2022, their TFG within the framework of the Service-Learning Program and in collaboration with the Tarragona Workers' Cooperative (COT) in relation to two assignments they carried out: - Proposal for the use of an outdoor space in the modernist building of the Cooperativa Obrera Tarraconense. - Energy sustainability for a modernist building for cultural purposes in Tarragona. This task will force you to reflect and realistically evaluate the requests, needs and possibilities of architectural development of the existing building as well as its connection with the rest of the city.

Final Degree Project - Development of an architectural proposal with the Tarragona City Council

  • Coordination: Sergio Coll Pla (sergio.coll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat)
  • Community organization: Tarragona City Council – Department of Historical Heritage. 
  • Summary: The student developed her final project, during the 2021/2022 academic year, with the experience of coordinating with the Tarragona City Council. This task forced to reflect and realistically evaluate the requests, needs and possibilities of architectural development of the existing building, as well as its link with the rest of the city.