UNIVERSITY COMPETITION:
“Powering Transformation”
The competition is aimed at multidisciplinary working teams comprising university students in the field of Architecture, Engineering, Urbanism, Environment and Sustainability, led by University professors.
The research will be focused on building proposals and their urban influence to propose sustainable strategies.
The best proposals will be presented in the “World Sustainable Building 2014, Barcelona” Conference and will be used as content at the plenary session called “A Global Vision” encouraged by the Conferences.
WSB14Barcelona CONFERENCE
“ARE WE MOVING AS QUICKLY AS WE SHOULD?
It’s up to us”
The “World Sustainable Building 2014, Barcelona Conference” is the main meeting about sustainable buildings worldwide. It gathers for the first time the most important and influential international institutions on the subject.
The Conference is organized by Green Building Council España (GBCe) with the implication of: CIB, iiSBE, UNEP-SBCI, FIDIC and WGBC. The final goal is to launch an action plan to allow giving a quick and effective answer to the global, social and environmental challenges of the building sector before 2050.
World population will experience a remarkable growth during the next decade, then it will stabilise at approximately 10.000 million people. Moreover, population will be concentrated in cities – more than a half of the population is already urban –and this population growth will also occur within the urban environment.
The production and consumption model, based on an industrial system, is expanding like a global model with the promise of a continuous improvement of people’s quality of life –progress– and it also deeply transforms society and generates environmental damages that seem to be alarming today, in the local scale, but also through its influence on general systems that, as climate or biodiversity, are life support for both our societies and our lives.
This double challenge has a special meaning in building and architecture. On one hand, to meet the demands of habitability from an increasing population and their quality of life. On the other hand, the limits –usually already exceeded– related to our environmental conscience, which provides resources to produce and maintain the habitability that our society requires.
In this context, architecture finds itself in a situation of an intense transformation.
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