Urban Design in Marrakesh 2007

Transit Tanger

2007-11-07T19:48:00.000+01:00

The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) runs a fund which supports the production of small videos on third world countries. They can be viewed online. Among them, I found one, Transit Tanger, about the Moroccan exodus to Europe. The full list of videos can be seen here.

Photos from Morocco

2007-11-06T11:00:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody
Thank you for a great trip:-)
A few of us discussed how we best can share photos from the trip. The suggestion is that we all make a cd/dvd with our own photos and name on it, before next monday and put it on the shelf with all our books. Then we can all access the files and copy them to our own computers.
Louise will bring @ with her tomorrow so bring a harddisk to copy the files.
Se you all tomorrow.

Travel letter on Nic's blog

2007-10-28T23:18:00.000+01:00

I posted a travel letter (in Danish) on Nic's blog along with some photos. You can read it here.

Lisas poster

2007-10-20T12:12:00.000+02:00

2007-10-12T14:43:00.000+02:00

Henriks Poster

2007-10-12T11:46:00.000+02:00

Tourist Trap

2007-10-04T14:28:00.000+02:00

Hi ;-)

I put a 'Tourist Trap' diagram in the group folder. It shows the ratio of tourists to locals in selected cities around the world - also Morocco.

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The diagram is from: MARK #9 and the specific reference is listed in the diagram.

Sille's Poster

2007-10-03T09:57:00.001+02:00

Carina's poster

2007-10-02T14:14:00.001+02:00

Marianne's poster

2007-10-02T13:21:00.000+02:00

Tina`s Poster

2007-10-02T12:03:00.000+02:00

AnSo´s Poster

2007-10-02T10:48:00.000+02:00

(Louise) Kruses poster

2007-10-02T09:41:00.000+02:00

Louise Fiil's Poster

2007-10-01T20:31:00.000+02:00

Lenes poster

2007-10-01T19:44:00.001+02:00

New book on the shelf

2007-10-01T19:38:00.000+02:00

I have just picked up a book at the library a few days ago, which might be interesting for many in regards to the paper it is called Tourism & sustainability and is about these issues and development in the 3rd world.

Supervision and lecture week 40

2007-10-01T14:45:00.000+02:00

Supervision and lecture

There will be supervision Wednesday morning at Toldboden – a note has been put on the board where you can write your name on, if you wish to have supervision.

Nic will give a lecture on “how to write a paper” on Thursday. Time and place will be announced later here on the blog.

Remember to send your abstract to Nic

2007-10-01T14:34:00.000+02:00

Remember to send your abstract to Nic, so he can give you some comments on it. It was also decided that we all so should put our abstracts and the references/articles we have in the group folder/or on the blog, so everybody can look and borrow from them.

Also remember to do a small size (max 1Mb) PDF of you poster to put on the blog this week.

Meeting and posters

2007-09-30T17:51:00.000+02:00

Hi Everybody
For those who werent there wednesday morning it was decided that we will have a meeting tomorrow (monday) at 11.00. We also decided to put all the posters on the blog. To do that you will have to save the poster as a gif or jpeg file and add it as a picture, when you make a post.
See you all tomorrow.

Postcards from workshop

2007-09-20T23:01:00.000+02:00

Here are two of teh postcards we made last week, feel free to post the last ones or send tehm to me.
Have a fun weekend:o)

Morrocan Tourist Magazines

2007-09-20T17:51:00.000+02:00

I have put two Moroccan tourist magazines on the bookshelf. They give a good impression of how Morocco is branding itself as a tourist destination. They also feature some of the golf estate projects that we have been talking about, as well as a project for "The 21st Century Medina" on the site of a former military barracks North of the railway station.

Literature list

2007-09-20T13:11:00.000+02:00

Hi guys

I have updated the literature list - some new books and articles are now available.

I put out a new version called 070920_Literature.

All the best..

Meeting 9.00 thursday 20th of September

2007-09-19T19:07:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody
There will be a short meeting tomorrow at Toldboden with Nicolai, were we will plan the rest of the pilotproject as well as discuss other relevant issues.
9 am in toldboden thursday.
See you there.

Resume of meeting 14-9

2007-09-16T18:51:00.000+02:00

Friday we had a group-meeting, and here is a short summary of the conclusions of the meeting:

For the workshop monday and tuesday remember drawing equipment.

We should know start thinking about the physical project and leave teh paper in teh back of our minds for a while.

We should create a unified Graphical layout for the exibition posters, which Carina and Anso will be in charge of. There should also be an introductional poster, which explains the project and might contain a "map" of our individual projects.

The individual posters should be prioritized so that the design proposal takes up ½= the size of 4 A4 papers, The paper abstract + references should take up the size of 1 A4 and the rest of the poster, which is the size of 3 A4 papers should contain analysis.

See you all tomorrow.

Marrakech on Youtube

2007-09-13T13:17:00.000+02:00

There are of course lots of videos on Marrakech on Youtube. Both the typical selfmade tourist videos, all sorts of tourist promotion videos, as well as videos made by people from Marrakech, such as these amazing ones about parkour which also give an impression of the physical environment beyond the typical tourist places and the medina.

Party and group meetings...

2007-09-12T16:47:00.000+02:00

Today we decided to have a small party next thursday the 20th of Sep. at 18.00. Tomorrow a list will be put up at Toldboden for people to sign if they want go to the party. At monday Ditte (or someone she asks to do it) will take the list down and make reservations.

Regarding teh reasearch we concluded that there is no more work to do untill we know more about which subjects and areas we will focus on in the projects.

Later on in the project we will have to try to find a way to work with individual projects but still get the feedback and inputs from others, like we are used to with group based projects. Hopefully the next couple of days will give us some tools to do that. But we also decided to have a set day for a group meeting/pin up each week. It will be on thursdays at 9.00 starting thursday the 20th (next week). Here we will be able to present our work for a large group and we can organize smaller groups for more detailed discussions. We will discuss this with Nicolai when possible, to hear his point of view to this suggestion.

Regarding e-mail from Lasse

2007-09-12T08:15:00.000+02:00

He everybody
In case anybody is in doubt, we wont meet untill 13.00 today 12/9-2007. So spend the morning the best way you can.
See you all later today

LITERATURE LIST

2007-09-11T11:46:00.000+02:00

A literature list is created under: file://fileserver1/grupper/sem0910/9sem/ad9-urb1/070905_LITERATURE.doc.

COLOUR CODES
It is divided into 3 categories;

GREEN: On the shelf – if you borrow a book, please write it on the printed literature list (located at the shelf)

BLUE: Is in the group folder at: file://fileserver1/grupper/sem0910/9sem/ad9-urb1/

RED: Ordered, but not arrived yet

THEMES
The literature list is organised by themes similar to the working tasks. Please update the list with relevant materials you might have or have ordered. Please write in the same format as already used in the list.

As decided the books mainly belong on the shelf. If you borrow a book, please write your name on the printed paper version of the literature list. Louise F. and Marianne will print the list whenever needed.

Happy reading to you all!

2007-09-11T11:43:00.000+02:00

Demography group puts out new material:
A summary based on the data we have retrieved so far!
It´s in the group folder...

Announcement for the Intl. Day of Architecture

2007-09-10T18:45:00.000+02:00

The PR announcement for the Intl. Day of Architecture event at Gammeltorv where we will be contributing with a poster exhibition of our preliminary work has now been formulated:

Fredag 28/9 Arkitekturens Dag 07 – DEL 1
Bygningspræmiering
kl. 13.00 Det Gamle Rådhus, Gl. Torv 2

Foredrag ”Havn & Industri” v/Lars Thiis
kl. 15.00 Arkitektur & Design, Gl. Torv 6

Lounge & Udstilling ”Marrakech – Designing the Experience City”
kl. 16.00 Arkitektur & Design, Gl. Torv 6

GRATIS ADGANG – ALLE ER VELKOMNE!

The announcement will be published at www.by-info.dk shortly.

Brainstorm from 7/9

2007-09-10T14:27:00.000+02:00

What / Why
New building typologies -to combine new and old
Experience trail -to connect attractions –show other sides of the city –divesify the turist economy
Nodes
Plan for integration
High end housing development plan -integration
Environmental park -quality of life –preserve the environment
Event-temporary use of public space
Strategy for Medina -preservation
Apartment/housing -prevent segregation
Hidden treasures -to provide new green spaces + meeting places
Meeting places -integration
Second skin / 5. façade -common use of areas without exploitation
Music house
Food centre
Rapid transit system
Sustainable transportation
Ecological public space -public education
Bike system
Activity spaces -recreation for local kids
Golf resort/hotels -turism
Animal interpretation centre
Combined public space and hotel -economy, new authenticity
Mini Marrakesh, amusement park -anticipate future development
Shopping mall
Golf development plan

Semester expenses

2007-09-10T13:37:00.000+02:00

To keep an account of semester expenses a list is created - it is located next to the book shelf. Therefore - if you spend money on behalf of the semester - please write your name, the price and what you have bought on the list, and balancing the account later on will be much easier.

Summary of meeting 7. sept.

2007-09-09T11:21:00.000+02:00

At the meeting on friday 7/9 it was decided that we would make this blog, which can be used to share information and ideas. We are all meant to be able to contribute with posts for this page, but I (Lene) will go through how we do that tomorrow.
Besides from the the blog Kruse was put in charge of organising work of making the figure-ground map.
At the meeting friday we also made a brainstorm. All the ideas we developed will be added to this blog tomorrow.
Hopefully this blog will be a usefull tool in our communication and we will all be able to contribute.

Tomorrow: monday 10. sept. we will meet at 9.00 in Toldboden. We will discuss the blog, the map, and organise the work of the next couple of days.
See you there:-)