Romania research...III

Romanian real estate market will maintain for a long period its devel¬oping trend, in spite of the regressive tendency also imprinted to a consid¬erable part of the European space by the high risk mortgage credits crisis from the United States, which result is, for some time now, a state of uncer¬tainty and decrease on the regional markets.
The conviction that the real estate in¬vestment is the least risky in Romania is again dominating the agencies rep¬resentatives opinion. At the beginning of the real estate crisis in the United States, agents strongly believed that the internal market will not take the step backwards; then the course of things made them more moderate, but still defending the same position: the real estate remains the reference domain for profitable investments in Romania. A still growing domain that will continue to grow for quite a while until it reaches the point of a maybe prices adjustment. In other words, still “as safe as the Bank of England”.
Arguments supporting this idea, pub¬lished in the central daily newspapers and promoted by the national news agencies, are based on data and fig¬ures revealing that the internal market has still enough not covered space, and the time and money necessary for a long term continuous development. Also for a physical growth of prices.


There is much potential left. Pro¬vided mainly – according to RE/MAX Bastion specialists – by the banking system, the development of which made more permissive the warrant¬ed mortgage credits, the approx. 6% growth of a 70% private economy, a constant of the last years, the sala¬ries increasing as well as the grow¬ing demand for dwellings, coun-terbalancing the still low levelled offer. As a consequence, as long as demand and offer, the fundamental factors speaking for the real-opti¬mistically expressed opinion, remain on the same coordinates, the Roma¬nian real estate will continue its way forwards. Dwelling and land prices will not very soon go down.

Another fact speaking for this is that, differently from the European market that moved very quickly after the social events from before the 90’s, Romania did not build too much until 2005, and the residential projects only made their appearance two or three years ago. A noticeable difference, then, from countries hav¬ing built for tens of years and now forced to prices adjustments. The time-difference now offers Romania perspectives for the following years and a sooner entrance in the EU, the result of which was the prices imme-diate increase by 20% while aligning themselves to those of the member countries. At the same time, it is a significant fact that Romanians working abroad – a total of 2.5 mil¬lions – have opened a new gate for the real estate from inside the Romanian borders, known being that more and more of them can now af¬ford to buy here new houses.
Following this, only during this sum¬mer, in Bacau and its surroundings, for example, apartments and land prices recorded a 35% increase. Statistics still has more figures to support the expressed positive thinking: 87,397 transactions signed in the last month of this year’s first semester, semester counting a total of 227,235 transac¬tions; Romania, the fifth of the EU members concerning construction rhythm, three times more alert than the European average; 26,000 con¬struction licenses issued during the first semester, an increase by 28.4% as compared to the same period of last year and so on. Eventually, the limited exposure to the high risk mortgage credits market and the actual plans of certain giant companies as Microsoft and Renault to open centres in Roma¬nia constitute another advantage for the domain in discussion.


Opinion shared by the agencies rep¬resentatives activating in Romania is convergent – particularities like the exposed ones ensure the local mar¬ket’s emergence. The real estate offer in Romania is on-growing and at least the following two or three years will not bring the touch of the general crisis.

Romania research...II...Final Strategy/Conclusions

The commerce trails in Romania have a good perspective to growth as much as they want. The general panorama in a geographic, political and resources they are in the path to become a very important nodal potency in the trace of the commerce links. As we saw it the location and the politic relation are health and with a good vitality to continue investing like in Constanta that in the next yaers will increase the potencial of cargo to the double. But this not only good news, Romania also has to improve a lot of the internal connections and start to put in paper the regulations to grow in order and direction. One example is the Case of the las image where the street of Ion Bratianu that is clearly un develop space that can generate good results if there is a good intervention. The influence of the commercial trails is also very clear in respect to the general view, but there are nodal points that can be re-designed to form a better link.
In general the logistic of the commercial lines and structures are fine, but with a lot of work to do, the Danube for to take another example needs to be the same part as the Rhine in the other, and became a huge commercial source and also an enoumous way to transfer goods and service in a ecological and sustainable transportation.

Romania research...

An extensive territorial investigation to propose urban and planning strategies for the South-eastern European country of Romania. Based on the contemporary geopolitical, economic and social changes undertaken by this country and the forthcoming incorporation to the European Union. Analyze, evaluate and propose a series of projects making use of urban planning methodologies.

Research work will be published and exposed in an iterant exhibition, staring with the cities of Barcelona and Bucharest...



COMMERCIAL AND LOGISTIC.
To understand the trade logistic, is good first understood the importance and the commerce to a country. All countries around the world try to always improve the negotations between other nations to increase the exchange and have better possibilities to grow. The understood of the potencials and the weakness of a country in a commercial point of view, is good to make a general panorama in a geographic, political and resources situation. The scale also is importante in a way that it can give to us the better strategic to afront the competition of the new commercial logistic in the world.



LOGISTIC IN COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS.

The conectivity between blocs and countries had a crucial importance to the commercial development. There exist some agreements at differents scales and zones, where the intention is to stablish the good flow of the goods and services and create strong bonds to extend the reach of the commercial borders of a country. Romania is part of different assosiations in where it have an excellent perspective and potencial to became an importan center in the logistic of the trade corridors in Europe, Middle East and Asia.



The national situation in Romania that is included in the European Union the last year, and the incursion to the capitalism in the last years; It coudn’t be better for a commercial growth. In a large view Rumania is located in a privileged zone in where his contact to the Black Sea and the Danube River makes a stronger input to the commercial flow.



Rumania is the European area is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridors and the Trans-european Transport Networks. The presences are mainly in 3 Corridors, which are very importat for the connections to the seas.
The Corridor 4 that runs from the center of Europe pass throw Romania and finish in two point of the Black Sea that are Constanta in Romania and Istanbul in Turkey. Is one of the few that ends in the Black Sea and the only that connect the center of the Continent to the limit of it. Thi create an excellent potenciality because it create this link between the West to the East and in commercial logistic is important in the X-large scale the connection to Asia ans Middle East.



The Corridor 9 runs from Helsinki to Alexandroupoli passing throw Iasi-Bucharesti-Giurgiu of Romania. This path connects the Baltic with the Mediterranean in a huge landbridge, which have a lot of influence in the commercer in the Eastern part of Europe. This landbridge also extend the potenciality of commerce to all the flow of the Mediterranean Sea that for times is one of the most important commercial seas in the world.



The final Corridor the have influence in Romania is the Corridor 7. This line for most is uno of the most important commercial paths in Europe, and this why because, is an inland waterway that cross all Europe and is the connexion between the North Sea and the Black Sea. This corridor is constitute by three rivers The Rhine that the potencial of inland commerce is considere one of the most importants rivers in the world, the Main that is the link between the Rhine and the Danube, and finally the Danube. The importantance as I say it is the link the two seas and have the increasing commercer of Europe in the Rhine. For Romania this is an excellent opportunity not only to recibe goods and services from the center, what means is the opportinity to Romania to produce and deliver to the Continent.



In the other hand Romania is also part of the TRACECA agreement that is an Intergovernmental Commission of the 14 member States of the Eastern European, Caucasian and Central Asian region. This corridor consist in a multilateral agreement for the international transport development, that in the commercial point of view is that have a excellent potencial in energy matter that is create in the Middle East and Asia.This corridor starts from the Easr European countries Romania, Bulgary and Ukraine and finish in Kazakhstan passing throw Turkey,Georgia, Uzbekistan and other countries.



For Romania the sum of this two partnerships of logistic commercial corridor put the country in a optimal location of link the Europe and Middle Eas-Asia from extreme to extreme and with the good development of the infrastructure can rise the trades in the country.

Rules of a Game or Satisfaction of Needs?

Mass customization is now kind of a fashion term in the industries, witch is used to persuade the customers selling them the idea that the product they are getting is unique but the question is it unique? Comes to my mind do to the fact that is the same product but with an additive component such as texts, colors, parts, etc, trying to make it call a distinctive product.In the industry of golf exist the idea of mass customization do to the fact that each person has different capacities to perform a golf swing, for example a six years old girl will perform a natural movement because of her flexibility and also because the muscles are in fact growing and in the phase of memorizing movements, but in order to do this she would not be able to perform the swing if the weight, the size, the shaft, and so on are not suitable for her age, size, strength etc. If we get to explain every golf swing in terms of people’s size, strength, rotation, age, etc, we get to find billions of different golf swings so do to this fact the golf clubs industry generate a pre-fabrication process in order to satisfy as many as possible needs in terms of golf swings. So this process is trying to get the golf clubs unique because the golf swing is unique for every golf player, but it’s all about the mass production of components like shafts, heads and grips, but in the unity of this different components you get to make a golf club suitable for your golf swing.In the same way, the Smart car develop this idea of customizing your car but its again in the mass production of components that you get to buy a “unique” car. In terms of design we don’t see the uniqueness of the car because it is just the colors or the graphics what gives the car a differentiation from one to another.By crossing this two examples of pseudo mass customization we find more attractive the fact that in the joint of different components you can find the real uniqueness of a product to satisfy the different needs of people but applying this to architecture and more specific to the development of housing end in a prefabrication process were people gets to pick the different components of their house in order to get a exclusive one, but does it really response to customization? Then what is the meaning of customization? Is it about giving some regulation to a game or really trying to satisfy the needs of each different way of living?

Advanced Design Processes

New technologies new solutions

ABSTRACT:

Following some examples of contemporary architecture like (examples), we realize that the integration of industrial processes, new digital software’s, manufacturing tools and automated machines are helping in the exercise of architecture in terms of design process and the actual construction of architecture. Frank Ghery’s Der Neue Zollhof buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he used CNC machines to generate forms in order to make pre cast concrete component for the realization of the project. It’s unfeasible to number exactly how many engineering processes are being used these days on the manufacture of industrial products from bottles, tires, to cloths, cars and so on, furthermore impossible to count the amount of automated machines used in each industrial process. Since we notice that some architects are using machines or manufacturing processes to generate architecture and also the majority is using the same machines, consequently we found attractive to study different machines or processes in order to question it from an architectural point of view trying to obtain benefits for the exercise of architecture. Therefore we are going to look at 4D CAD, PET blowing process and Vulcanization process.

KEYWORDS: Design processes, technologies, 4D CAD, 3D modeling, vertical extension, Vulcanization, PET blowing, rubber, form, recycle, machines;

Human Skin (re) inventing materiality?

Once again, during the exploration of new materials I found a very deep relation with the human body, human skin is the most complex material ever, from the point that it reacts to any change in the environment, generating physical changes and developing systems in it to protect and provide information to the body so it can generate protection systems to contra rest the outside phenomenon so it can develop in a suitable way.In the re invention of materials exists a tendency in the search of how a material can act in response to the facts that are interacting with it, replying the theory of cause and effect.This new materials are called response materials, sensitile is an example of this kind of materials it made out of hundreds of light guides carved into a transparent block of acrylic polymer to create each tile. Together, these fiber-optic elements shine and sparkle in response to moving light and shadow it also picks up and disperses nearby colors. The human skin reaction when it’s exposed to sunlight it develop a change of color to protect the body, so the material is not protecting anything at all but it generate some changes out of the interaction with light as the human skin does.Blab Italia has design some tiles called living surfaces developed in two different materials glass and floor tiles made out of layers of acrylic and magnetic particles, so with people interaction the tiles generate physical changes, but some how the changes we get to see in this response material hark back skin’s reactions to cold or hot objects or different climates.As well The Living Company create systems and materials that can perform out of the interaction with people and they recently design a system called kinetic glass that response to external particulars made out of a series microprocessors that react to unhealthy earth, generating a physical deformation of the glass.Besides this architectural materials in robotics, Takao Someya Group developed a synthetic "skin" that is almost as sensitive as our own skin in terms of temperature and humidity, in addition they are trying to make it elastic like skin. Another synthetic skin in the works by Scott White and team is a self-healing material.Consequently the group of all this materials in one indicate us that the researchers and developers of new materials is to redesign a new skin that can have as much as function, volume and color changes, flexibility, malleability, self healing, like the human skin in order to provide to architecture and design in general, the possibility to generate intelligent objects that can response to the phenomenon they are exposed to and at the same time objects that can work together with the environment for the good of our planet in terms of sustainability.

Complex Geometries and our body

Architecture is inevitably concerning associations. Many of those associations are geometric in nature or body where we can find a geometric expression.When we think complex geometries it easy to conclude that the human being is searching for this phenomenon naturally in the way that we live in a constant relationship with the most complex structure ever developed, the human body. Architecture is a visual art in which we experience three dimensional spaces. The art of a building is foremost concerned with form and with dividing and articulating space. A building should express their uniqueness and bring order and relation to its surrounding environment. As an example of what we mean, the D-tower is an articulate hybrid of diverse media, where architecture is a fraction of a well-built interactive organism a perfect analogy of the human body. The building is designed by NOX, where standard and non-standard geometries together make up a complex surface (computer generated) this surface is very similar to a body part, a heart constitution. In a diferent perspective I can look to a house like the human body, occupies a space but with occupants and time it will become a place. The visual beauty includes lines, shapes, and colours. Colour is used to accentuate its form and the material it is made from, as well as distinguishing its divisions of space. Rooms which are shaped differently with different materials reflect different qualities. We express feelings from an architectural form or a specific aspect of architecture. The external features of architecture communicate feelings and moods from one place to another. Our emotional feelings toward where we live can be incorporated in our architecture interacting with the environment. The awareness of our bodies can be related to the place where we live. There is a comparison of our bodies to our home.