Second day: May18^th

Venue: EUSKALDUNA CONFERENCE CENTER

“The adaptation of industrialized building to a changing world” Keynote speech by Prof. Alfonso del Águila.

Prof. Dr. Alfonso del Águila García, professor of “industrialisation and prefabrication of construction” at the Department of Building and Architecture Technology in the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

“In the early sixties, the first division was produced about how to understand the international building industrialisation: “model method” and “components method”, according to industrialise complete buildings or their parts. In the next decade, the Roma Club proposed a more humanised industrial building which was closer to the environmental and architectural values. At the end of the seventies and start of the eighties open industrialisation and compatible components were proposed.

Most recently, the evolution of the economy at the end of the 20^th century and the start of the 21^st produces an enthusiasm that in Europe focuses on leaving behind the technological backwardness by implementing, above all, open industrialisation.

However, the new economic climate, the various requirements of the new family models and the requirement for the reduction of environmental impacts seem to disrupt all this.

This paper will emphasise how to approach this multitude of changes, what technologies to use, how to resolve and face the desires of a society that doesn’t have residential models clear… and, finally, the paper will show how the best path is the open flexible and adaptable building industrialisation.”lklhkkh

Plenary presentation about the new Japanese approach to Open-Building, Kazunobu Minami.

Dr. Kazunobu Minami is a Joint Coordinator of CIB W104 Open Building Implementation and a Professor of Architecture at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo.

“The new law which promotes the longer life of housing in Japan passed the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament on October 28, 2008. The author explains the outline of the ongoing research and development to prolong the life of apartment buildings in Japan which follows the establishment of the new law and its technical guidelines”.

Plenary presentation about the 2^nd Student Competition “Detaching from Architecture”.

Dr. Jia Beisi is Joint Coordinator of CIB W104 Open Building Implementation and Associate Professor in Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong. He endeavors to encourage quality housing design and construction which is people responsive and interactive, and environmental friendly. He is promoting Open Building theory, practice and education in high dense urban context in Asia.

“When the building complexes are located in a fast transformation of social and economic systems and multifold culture exchanges, the base structure needs to be minimum, moderated, passive, neutral, and monotony. The building needs to functions as platforms, structures and service channels supporting the intensive flows of users and energy, diverse and frequent changes of demands and interests…”

Technical Tour: Architectural landmarks of the new Bilbao

Without a doubt, the architecture has been the driving force of the transformation of Bilbao, once a city based on heavy industries such as the iron and steel industry and the shipyards towards a new city looking for a relevant role in the XXI century.

In this tour we offer a sightseeing walk in AbandoIbarra starting from the Euskaduna Conference Centre and Congress Hall by Soriano to the Guggenheim Museum by Gehry. Where once were placed the shipyards and the facilities of the Bilbao harbour, now the art and the knowledge is created and spread. In this walk we will meet the Melia Bilbao Hotel by Legorreta, the Iberdrola Tower by Pelli, the assembly hall of the Basque Country University by Siza and the Deusto University Library by Moneo, where we could go into this last building.

In the Guggenheim museum we will take a bus to go to other district of Bilbao, its expansion “el ensanche”, where a very interesting triangle has been created by the new Basque Country Health Department headquarter at Bilbao by Coll-Barreu, the Basque Country Government building by Soriano and the Alhóndiga by Bastida transformed by Starck. The tour will end at the Alhóndiga building, where we will have the opportunity to walk between the cubes that now make up its interior.

Access Bilbao.net to find out more about Bilbao’s transformation and which includes its participation in the Shangai Universal Exposition in 2010.

This tour is restricted to O&SB2010 participants and to a maximum of 50 people. The price is 50 Euros and must be paid through the O&SB2010 website. This tour is organised in collaboration with the Association of Architects of the Basque Country and Navarra.

Third day: May19^th

Venue: BIZKAIA TECHNOLOGY PARK

Plenary presentation “Success and failure in flexible buildings. Flexible input leads to flexible output” by Rob.P.Geraedts, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Prof. Dr. Rob Geraedts is Co-founder and Member of the international CIB Working Group W104 Open Building Implementation since 1996 and Associate Professor of Design & Construction Management in the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

“In the present demand-driven market, consumers play a key role. Players in the house-building market, as in other sectors, need to listen to the consumer’s requirements – and these are continually changing. The results of this study have been incorporated into guidelines containing a step-by-step plan to initiate and develop an flexible and adaptable house-building project”.

KUBIK,

distinctive and unique world-class R+D+i infrastructure for improving building energy efficiency k

KUBIK by Tecnalia

KUBIK is a distinctive and unique world-class experimental R+D+i installation designed for the development of new concepts, products and services for the improvement of building energy efficiency.

The main distinctive feature of KUBIK is its capacity to create realistic scenarios for the investigation of energy efficiency resulting from the interaction of constructive solutions, the intelligent management of air-conditioning and lighting systems and renewable energy supplies.

The infrastructure is a building enclosing a maximum of 500 m² distributed over a basement, a ground floor and a further two levels. The supply of energy is based on the combination of conventional and renewable energies (geothermic, solar and wind power). Finally, the building is equipped with a monitoring and control system that provides the necessary information for the development of R+D+i .

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