Canopy fruit location can affect olive oil quality in Arbequina hedgerow orchards

The effect of location of fruit in canopies of hedgerow olive trees (Olea europaea L., cv. ‘Arbequina’) on quality of virgin oil was tested by analyzing oils extracted from different height layers and faces of 9 olive hedgerows (6 North-South oriented and 3 East-West). Although sensory attributes were not different other oil quality parameters may be significantly modified by fruit position. In some hedgerows, oils extracted from fruits harvested from higher layers exhibited significantly higher stability against oxidation, along with higher palmitic acid, linoleic acid and phenol contents, but lower oleic acid content. Oils extracted from fruits harvested from East and North facing hedgerows oriented North-South and East-West, respectively, exhibited higher oleic contents and lower saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acid contents. The mean phenol content of oils extracted from fruits from a North-South oriented hedgerow was significantly greater from one of the East-West oriented hedgerows. These findings may be relevant for the design of future olive hedgerows destined for olive oil production.

Puente de ferrocarril sobre el Mittellandkanal en Braunschweig

The bridge over the Mittellandkanal is located in the municipality of Braunschweig, a city of Low Saxony located in Mid-North Germany, between Berlin and Hannover, 50 km away from this last city. The city of Braunschwig has 248.867 inhabitants (December 2010). The orography of the zone is practically even, with some slopes in the surrounding area, with a no important variation of the ground elevation, characterized by a big uniformity and a great visual quality. In this zone the canal flows from west to east, from the Dortmundkanal until the Elbe river, so it has a length of 325,3 km. The normal flora from the zone is farmland with some little forests not very big and not very important. But the Mittellandkanal lies at the North of Brauschweig, that means that in the zone of the canal there is a change between the urban area and the rural area. For this reason in the zone of the bridge we start to find farmlands and forest, however the constructions and buildings are still present in this area. The railway line that is going to be built will unite the North-center of Germany with the North-East of Germany because some of the following factors: •Overstress of the only existing line in the moment that connects Berlin with the North-East extreme of Germany. •No direct connection with the North-Easth Germany with other important German cities from South and West of Germany. •Replacement of the old existing one way line in the area that has to be renewed. •Modernization of the old railway lines of Germany. Schedule order by the European Union and the German Government. The actual lines of the zone do not have the necessary conditions and characteristics to satisfy the demand of the travelers that want to travel all over Germany with the railway avoiding using other transports like plan or car. For these reasons the necessity of the replacement of the old railway line and the aim to create a union with the North-East Germany that has a deficit of transport infrastructures and connections with the rest of the country and Europe. Although the new railway line provokes some disadvantages when constructing it is indispensable to build this railway line. The pass of the railway line through Braunschweig has not been random. The zone Braunschweig-Wolfsburg is a very industrialized area because of some companies like Wolkswagen and too because this zone is an important pass of important line from Berlin, South and East Germany. For all of these reasons the railway line goes through Braunschweig and connects to the city of Wolfsburg first, and after the North-East Germany zone.

Canopy fruit location can affect olive oil quality in Arbequina hedgerow orchards.

The effect of location of fruit in canopies of hedgerow olive trees (Olea europaea L., cv. ‘Arbequina’) on quality of virgin oil was tested by analyzing oils extracted from different height layers and faces of nine olive hedgerows (6 North–South oriented and 3 East– West). Although sensory attributes were not different, other oil quality parameters may be significantly modified by fruit position. Oils extracted from fruits harvested from higher layers exhibited significantly higher stability against oxidation, along with higher palmitic acid, linoleic acid and phenol contents, but lower oleic acid content. Oils extracted from fruits harvested from East and North facing hedgerows oriented North–South and East–West, respectively, exhibited higher oleic contents and lower saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acid contents. The mean phenol content of oils extracted from fruits from a North–South oriented hedgerow was significantly greater from one of the East–West oriented hedgerows. These findings may be relevant for the design of future olive hedgerows destined for olive oil production.

J.A.D.E. jardín y arquitectura doméstica del este: (la casa contemporánea japonesa, el refugio y el jardín, Tokio: 1991-2011)

El capítulo 1 de esta tesis doctoral describe conceptos relativos a la ontología y a la arquitectura como, por ejemplo, la cuestión de “El lugar” o “Basho” o el espacio visto desde un punto de vista filosófico. En este capítulo se examinan las diferencias y similitudes entre la ideología oriental y la filosofía de occidente a lo largo de la historia y se esbozan los puntos comunes entre ambas en cuestiones que atañen al habitar. En el capítulo 2, estos conceptos se enumeran y ordenan y se extraen diferentes conclusiones en cuanto a la percepción de valores como el espacio o el vacío, fundamentales para entender la arquitectura y el paisaje en las culturas de Oriente y Occidente. El capítulo 3 describe el paisaje oriental y el jardín chino a modo de prólogo del de Japón. Este capítulo introduce al lector en la historia del jardín y explica las transformaciones que éste ha sufrido a lo largo de la historia de China. El capítulo 4 es una asimilación de los conceptos examinados en los capítulos 1,2 y 3 y en él se analizan los aspectos compositivos fundamentales del jardín chino y sus elementos como, por ejemplo, el centro, el límite, el agua o la montaña. El capítulo 5 consiste en una introducción al paisaje japonés que comienza con el estudio de su geografía, su lengua, su literatura y sus períodos históricos más importantes previos a la era moderna: la era primitiva “Jomon”, la era “Yayoi”, los tres Shogunatos y la Revolución Meiji. La segunda parte del capítulo 5 describe los jardines japoneses a lo largo de la historia tales como el jardín Karesansui, los jardines de Kioto o el arte del jardín Tatebana, entre otros. El capítulo 6 comienza con una copia del texto medieval japonés, “HOJOKI”. Al igual que en los capítulos 2 y 4, en el capítulo 6 se extraen los valores del capítulo anterior, esta vez, mediante un comentario de texto. En esencia, este libro demuestra la importancia de la “cabaña en la naturaleza” para la cultura japonesa, así como la relación del espacio doméstico y el jardín a lo largo de su historia. El capítulo 7 describe la evolución del paisaje de la ciudad china en paralelo a la evolución del paisaje urbano japonés que se desarrolla en el capítulo 9. El capítulo 8 es un nexo de unión entre los capítulos 7 y 9 puesto que explica las influencias paisajísticas y urbanas mutuas entre las culturas china y japonesa a lo largo de la historia como es el caso del trazado de las antiguas ciudades capitales chinas y japonesas o el de los paisajes y urbes proyectados sobre la topografía de Manchuria durante la ocupación japonesa de China. El capítulo 9 describe el paisaje japonés moderno, sus ciudades y sus paisajes interurbanos como, por ejemplo, el Tokai-do. A continuación describe la evolución de la arquitectura y el jardín japonés a lo largo del siglo XX, los principales movimientos de vanguardia, las circunstancias económicas que llevaron al país a la crisis de los 90 y la lenta recuperación económica posterior. Por último, este capítulo explica la destrucción del paisaje del norte tras El Gran Terremoto del Este del 2011 y su recuperación a corto plazo. El capítulo 10 se compone de tres entrevistas a tres figuras relevantes del mundo académico y de la arquitectura japonesa. Algunos de los temas que exponen son la arquitectura doméstica japonesa, el jardín y la naturaleza de esta cultura, la situación de la ciudad de Tokio o el rol del arquitecto en la sociedad contemporánea, entre otros. Además de estas cuestiones, se debate acerca de los recursos y la recuperación del país tras El Gran Terremoto del Este de Japón. Finalmente, el capítulo 11 consiste en un estudio en profundidad acerca del paisaje de la ciudad de Tokio y el espacio doméstico y el jardín en base a los conceptos estudiados en los capítulos 1 y 2 y en relación a los valores paisajísticos vistos en los capítulos 3,4,5 y 6, además de los temas urbanos y topográficos estudiados en los capítulos 7,8,9 y 10. En este capítulo se estudia la figura del sujeto individual y colectivo, el refugio, el jardín, las acciones urbanas del Machizukuri, el parque y la morfología y evolución de los barrios centrales de Tokio y sus espacios domésticos y parques y jardines vistos a través de los datos estadísticos proporcionados por el gobierno. Además, el texto estudia un total de 21 casos seleccionados y analizados a través de la comparación de cerca de 800 viviendas domésticas publicadas entre 1991 y 2011 en las revistas de gran prestigio nacional e internacional, Shinkenchiku Jutakutokushu y GA Houses. Tras el análisis de los casos de estudio, se extraen una serie de conclusiones y clasificaciones del jardín en el espacio doméstico del centro de Tokio en dicho periodo. Los últimos tres capítulos de la tesis doctoral se dividen en: una traducción al inglés del resumen y las conclusiones más importantes del capítulo 11 (capítulo 12) una conclusión y resumen homólogos en japonés (capítulo 13) y un cuaderno de dibujos a mano realizado por la autora sobre especies botánicas naturalizadas domésticas de la ciudad de Tokio (capítulo 14) ABSTRACT Chapter 1 of this Ph.D. thesis describes concepts related to ontology and architecture like the issue of “The place” in Japan, or “The space” as seen from a philosophic point of view. In this chapter, the differences between the essential ancient Asian ideology and the philosophical contemporary thought of the East are discussed, and at the same time the transcendental thought coming from the West is analysed and compared to both of them. In Chapter 2 these concepts are analysed specifically in the field of “inhabiting the domestic space” and the text fathoms the common points between Eastern and Western thought relating to the house and the garden. Chapter 3 describes the oriental landscape and garden of China as a prologue to that of Japan. This chapter starts with a brief description of the history of the garden in the East and the West and introduces the reader into the geography and changes that have taken place in China since the birth of its culture. Chapter 4 entails a brief assimilation of what has been deduced from chapters 1, 2 and 3. In this chapter the compositive and design aspects of the Chinese garden are described, aspects such as centre, limit, the element of the mountain, emptiness, water, and vision or the theatre. Chapter 5 is an introduction to the history of landscape and architecture in Japan that starts with a geographical insight into the country and with a short summary about the language, the primitive “Jomon” culture, the “Yayoi” era , the three Shogunates.and the Meiji Revolution. In the second part of chapter 5, the text describes Japanese gardens throughout history, for example the Karesansui garden, the history of Kyoto and its gardens, the garden in relationship with art and with Japanese literature or the art of Tatebana. Chapter 6 starts with a copy of the medieval text “HOJOKI” and discusses issues such as the meaning of “the hut in the nature” for Japanese culture and its relationship with the domestic space and the garden. Chapter 7 discusses the development of cities in the landscape in Chinese culture in parallel with an observation of the evolution of cities in Japanese culture and landscape. Chapter 8 is the crux of the Ph.D. research as it explains the mutual influences of landscape, urban planning, construction and architecture between Japan in China. Chapter 9 describes the Japanese urban planning since the very first urban developments and develops a study on the evolution of the Japanese cities and roads (like the Tokai-do) in the landscape. Also, it describes the reconstruction of the cities of Japan after the Second World War, the cultural vanguard movements, the economical circumstances that led to the Japan´ s economic crisis of the 90´s and the slow recovery of its economy. Also, at the end of this chapter, the text analyses the event of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 211. Chapter 10 of this Ph.D. research is composed of a number of interviews with architects and professors about architecture, nature in the domestic space, the role of the architect nowadays in addition to facts about energy and about the Great East Japan Earthquake . Finally, chapter 11 consists of a deep study concerning the current situation in the city of Tokyo and the relationship between its domestic spaces (dwellings) and gardens based on the philosophical values studied in chapters 1 and 2, aswell as the landscape values of the garden studied in chapters 3,4,5, and 6 plus the information about the cities in the landscape studied in chapters 7,8, 9 and 10. In this chapter the main goal is to study the human being, the refuge, the garden, the urban planning actions of Machizukuri, the park and the morphology and evolution of the central quarters of Tokyo and of its domestic spaces and parks seen through the statistical data provided by the Japanese government in the last decades. Also, the text provides a study on 21 cases selected and analysed through the comparison of around 800 domestic spaces designed in between 1991 and 2011 and published in “Shinkenchiku Jutakutokushu” and “GA Houses” magazines. After these study cases, a number of conclusions are developed and also a classification of the domestic garden in the center of Tokyo. The last three chapters of this Ph.D. work are divided in: the translation to English of the summary and main conclusions of chapter 11 of the research in Chapter 12, the translation to Japanese of the summary and main conclusions of chapter 11 of the research in Chapter 13, and a collection of hand-drawings done by the author about the botanical species found in the gardens of the domestic realms of Tokyo in Chapter 14.

La unidad de lo dual : tradición y modernidad en la obra de Tadao Ando y Toyo Ito

La referencia a la tradición como una fuerza capaz de aportar unidad, al abarcar tanto la continuidad como los cambios en las expresiones al margen de la época o las técnicas empleadas, ha sido siempre un componente muy importante de las manifestaciones artísticas de Japón y es la sutil ligazón que las conecta desde el pasado hasta la actualidad. Se entiende aquí que tradición no equivale simplemente a preservación, sino que se trata de una transmisión con una vertiente dual, pues permite una constante evolución sin que se altere su esencia básica. Es de esta forma que la cultura japonesa de la era Edo (1600-1868), con su alto grado de innovación, riqueza y sofisticación, pero además como epílogo histórico previo a la Restauración Meiji de 1868, ha sido la referencia clave en lo relativo a esa mirada a la tradición nipona para el desarrollo de esta tesis. A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, todas estas características tan genuinas del período Edo quedaron en suspenso y, desde entonces, Japón ha seguido la vía de la modernización (que en muchos aspectos ha sido también la de la occidentalización). Los entrelazamientos de otras dualidades provocados en Japón por los ataques nucleares de 1945 condujeron a una inevitable fusión de aquel mundo físico con el mundo metafísico, de aquella terrible presencia con un tremendo sentimiento de ausencia y, en definitiva, de Oriente con Occidente. El consiguiente impacto sobre la cultura de la nación tuvo una especial repercusión en el ámbito arquitectónico. En este sentido, el pensamiento francés ha desempeñado un papel fundamental en el replanteamiento radical de muchos supuestos esenciales, de muchos conceptos y valores de la cultura occidental, incluyendo los procedentes de la Ilustración, en este mundo contemporáneo que es cada vez más complejo y plural. Éstos y otros hechos otorgan a la cultura japonesa tradicional una cualidad multidimensional (frente a la marcada bidimensionalidad que suele caracterizar a las culturas occidentales) que, tal y como esta tesis doctoral pretende poner de manifiesto, podría revelarse como una «síntesis de contradicciones» en la obra de los arquitectos japoneses Tadao Ando (Osaka, 1941-) y Toyo Ito (Keijo, actual Seúl, 1941-). En el pensamiento oriental una dualidad es entendida como la complementariedad entre dos polos, sólo en apariencia opuestos, que integra dos vertientes de un único concepto. Al igual que la idea de «parejas» budista, concebida según esta doctrina como una unidad entre dos extremos inevitablemente interrelacionados, el objetivo principal sería el de poner de manifiesto cómo la obra de ambos arquitectos trata de resolver los mismos conflictos partiendo de puntos de vista polarizados. ABSTRACT The reference to tradition as a force for unity, encompassing both continuity and changes in expressions regardless of the time or techniques used, has always been a very important component of the artistic manifestations of Japan and it is the subtle link that connects them from the past to the present. It is understood here that tradition does not mean simply preservation, but it is a transmission with a dual aspect, because it allows a constant evolution without altering its basic essence. It is thus that the Japanese culture of the Edo era (1600-1868), with its high degree of innovation, wealth and sophistication, but also as a historical epilogue prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has been the key reference concerning that look to the Japanese tradition for the development of this thesis. From the second half of the 19th century, all these as genuine features of the Edo period remained at a standstill and, since then, Japan has followed the path of modernization (which has also been that of Westernization in many ways). The interlacements of other dualities caused in Japan by the 1945 nuclear attacks led to an inevitable fusion of the physical with the metaphysical world, of that terrible presence with a tremendous sense of absence and, eventually, of East with West. The resulting impact on the culture of the nation had a special repercussion on the architectural field. In this sense, the French thought has played a key role in the radical rethinking of many core assumptions, many concepts and values of Western thought, including those from the Age of Enlightenment, in this contemporary world that is increasingly complex and plural. These and other facts give the traditional Japanese culture a multidimensional quality (opposed to the marked two-dimensionality that usually characterizes Western cultures). As this thesis aims to highlight, this could prove to be a «synthesis of contradictions» in the work of Japanese architects Tadao Ando (Osaka, 1941-) and Toyo Ito (Keijo, current Seoul, 1941-). In the Eastern thought a duality is understood as the complementarity between two poles, only apparently opposite, which integrates two aspects of a single concept. Like the Buddhist notion of «couples» (conceived according to this doctrine as a unity between two inevitably interlinked extremes) the main objective would be to show how the work of both architects tries to resolve the same conflicts starting with polarized viewpoints.