Category Archives: Incubators

BK city

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After the dramatic loss of the TU Delft faculty of Architecture in a fire May 2008, the educational structure was kept together in tents at the campus´ sports fields. With incredible speed and creativity a new temporary faculty was improvised in the old university administration building at the Julianalaan. Already some people say it is actually better than the old building, although some activities are still ´homeless´ due to construction delays of certain spaces. In the meantime an ideas competition was launched for the future faculty of architecture.

Also see: post about the destruction of the old faculty in May 2008

The old administration building at the Julianalaan

New work space

New urbanism department

The old faculty building being torn down

Inauguration of the tents at the university sports fields (with gypsy music)

Endossa

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Endossa is basically a lot of tiny little shops inside a shop. The idea for the collaborative store is to give a chance for so-called mini-micro-entrepreneurs to sell something. This entrepreneur may be a beginning fashion designer, someone who makes small presents or accessories, or even homemade sweets and pepper sauce.

The small entrepreneurs can rent a ‘shop’, that is a suspended white box, which they can customize inside. Administration and sales are done centrally, without charging a commission per sale.

Read more:
www.endossa.com
www.tiagodoria.ig.com.br/…

The shop is located at the Rua Augusta, one of the leading nightlife areas in downtown.

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McFavela

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In the periphery of São Paulo a new fast-food chain is expanding. The ironically named McFavela started up in shantytown Bairro das Pimentas, soon opened a second franchise in favela Pantanal and is looking for new locations. The funny name as well as the affordable and decent food make the concept a success. For how long, nobody knows. An earlier snack bar with the name Mec Favela in one of the biggest shantytowns of São Paulo, Heliópolis, had to change its name after receiving a quite threatening letter from the original American fast-food company.

Read more:
http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2009/02/16/ult5772u2947.jhtm

Cine Paulistano

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Cine Paulistano offers alternative cinema, exhibitions and other cultural activities for free or at low prices. It will therefore stimulate cultural life in downtown São Paulo and help revitalize this area. The project transforms the ground floor of a building from the 1940´s – currently in use as a parking garage – into a cultural center, equipped with a movie theater of 75 seats, a café and a flexible exhibition space.
The typical paulistan sidewalk tiles continue inside the building, making the cultural center an extension of public space and emphasizing the accessibility for all social classes. The 35mm projector is placed in an air-conditioned glass cube to give the visitor insight in the handling and projection method of celluloid film.

Architecture:   Fernando Serapião, Vinicius Andrade, Marcelo Morettin and Merten Nefs
Cultural management:   Via Gutenberg
Consultants:   TRÍADE (cost calculations); Silvia Helena (zoning laws and land use)
Graphic arts:   Loroverz (graffiti)
Location:   Largo do Arouche, São Paulo
Net floor area:   1.029 square meters
Status:   financing and sponsoring

Suez Canal

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Various attempts were made to excavate a canal linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, from around 1850 BC by pharaoh Senuserett III, until it was finally completed by the Persian conqueror Dario I in 500 BC. In the following centuries it was destroyed, abandoned and rebuilt several times. The modern Suez Canal, from Port Said to Suez, was built by Ferdinand de Lesseps between 1859 and 1869, as ordered by Napoleon. In the end of the 19th century the British took control of the canal until it was restored to Egypt in the 1950´s. Also in the 20th century the canal was the scene of many conflicts, mainly between Arabs and Israelis. In one of these conflicts the canal was blocked by the Egyptians, trapping 14 cargo ships in the strait for over 8 years.

The intense traffic through the Suez Canal, bypassing the African continent, brings commerce and maritime activity into the heart of the Sinai desert. Irrigation works stimulated the development of cities and agrarian settlements along the canal. Due to the high salinity of the Red Sea water, which pours slowly through the strait into the Mediterranean, and the construction of the Aswan dam in the Nile, the eastern Mediterranean has been suffering from invasion by Red Sea maritime species.

There are plans to deepen the canal to accommodate supertankers until 22 meters draft, improving bulk transport that is now being offloaded to smaller vessels and reloaded at the other end of the canal. Environmentalists are against these plans as they worsen the invasion by foreign species in the Mediterranean.

Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal

Suez salt production

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