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Cuenca Red | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNo Access Cuenca Red May 22, 2018 posted by Antonella Milano Comments: (0) An Overview to our Latest Projects in Latin America Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+Centro Histórico Abierto+city+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+Plan CHA+Plan Encarnación Más+sustainability+technologies+urbanism Tags: Asunción+cuenca+cuenca red+Distrito Central+ecosistema urbano+encarnación+encarnación más+participation+sustainability+technology During the last year we have been rented with several projects and competitions (including the latestUnshutShore project for West Palm Beach) which didn’t requite us the time to squint when and reflect on some of our projects from the last few years. As maybe some of our readers know, Ecosistema Urbano has been working on several large-scale projects in Latin America since August 2014 when we won a competition to develop the Master Plan of the HistoricalPart-wayof Asuncion, Paraguay. In 2015, we workaday flipside significant project: the participatory process Centro Histórico Abierto for the transformation of the historical part-way of Distrito Central, wanted of Honduras. We moreover worked on the transformative Cuenca RED project which make-believe on the Public Space Reactivation Plan of the HistoricalPart-wayof Cuenca, Ecuador.Withoutthe first wits in Paraguay, we had flipside project in the municipality of Encarnación, giving origin to the Plan Encarnación Más, well-balanced by an Urban and Territorial Planning and Sustainability Plan. In these four cases, the urban issues and the peculiar situations that required our intervention were unshared yet shared many worldwide features.Increasinglyspecifically, the enthusiasm and interest shown by the people directly and indirectly involved was unveiled throughout all of the projects, but moreover the opportunities that these experiences have given us as an tracery firm, to test ideas, tools, and methodologies. CONTEXT Although they share the same zone of origin, each of these cities has ripened unique problems and issues. Some of these, such as the ones found in Encarnación, are physical-territorial matters such as the recent loss of the municipality part-way considering of the controlled rise of the water level in the Yacyretá dam. That event led to the envisioning of a “SustainableMinutiaePlan” and  “Urban and Territorial Ordering Plan” in order to prepare the municipality for the future. In the specimen of Cuenca, the need for a new plan was unswayable by a series of big changes underway: the definition of a new model of mobility and the progressive emptying of population that afflicts the historical center, World Heritage Site since 1999, and headquarters of most of the commercial, touristic and economic city’s activities. In the specimen of Asunción and of the wanted of Honduras, the project regards the transformation and the regeneration (both physical and social) of their historic centers. The Distrito Central is part of the minutiae framework of the new urban turning “Choluteca River”. SOCIAL 1 – Participation The first of the projects’ worldwide keys are unfluctuating with the theme of sociability, expressed in the form of participation. The citizens’ involvement, promoted both through a series of organized activities and through online platforms, has been one of the cornerstones of our work in Latin America. We involve citizens considering we believe that the resider is the only gravity worldly-wise to unzip a deep and lasting transpiration in the urban environment and so they should not be just a passive receptor of the changes promoted by the city’s institutions. That’s why in some cases, as in that of Asunción with the ASU-LAB, a space was created which could serve as an interface between citizens and institutions: a place for the execution of the municipality planning but moreover an unshut place where each person or group can momentum a new regeneration initiative or shepherd a course. Organized activities with the citizens Participatory activities, such as workshops and events, have been geared to write representative members of the municipality such as children, university students, “active agents”, citizens and institutions. For each of these categories we have developed, project without project, a series of ad hoc initiatives. Participatory process in Asunción, Encarnación, Cuenca and in Distrito Central For the children we created a “toolkit” with which we had them reflect on their perception of the municipality and with which they could propose their platonic vision for the city. The kit consists of portions of the municipality map on which they could yank and that, once recomposed, could recreate the overall image. 2 – Urban deportment These activities were followed by a series of urban actions so that the results could be shown tangibly in the city. In the specimen of Distrito Central, ideas were gathered in a week of workshops with 80 students from the three major universities in the municipality and have been translated into urban deportment like “Las Gradas de la Leona“. The staircases are indispensable spaces in a municipality with a very unshared topography as Tegucigualpa. But in the municipality these vertical connections are often perceived as inhospitable, dangerous, and dirty places and therefore they are cut off from any kind of activity. The students’ work was aimed at legitimizing these stairs as a public space through cleanliness,  decor,  lighting, and the organization of a series of activities that achieved resounding success and participation. Socialization withal “Las gradas de la Leona” In the specimen of Encarnación, one of the proposals that has distinguished our tideway in this project was the inclusion of a series of pilot projects that trailblaze and translate into touchable proposals within the “Plan de Desarrollo Sustentable” and the “Plan de Ordenamiento”. Among these, one of the most successful pilot projects was the “Proyecto Piloto Bicisienda“, whose purpose is to modernize the quality of life of the inhabitants by optimizing the use of volitional mobility and by raising sensation of the value of sports and recreation. Again we have sought the cooperation of citizens by promoting a series of initiatives (such as the construction of velocipede lanes in the city) in which the citizens could finger protagonistic. Proyecto Piloto Bicisienda 3 – Informative events  The disclosure of the participatory process to the citizenship, promoted both online through the project’s platforms and through unshut exhibitions, is a recurring phase in all four projects. We felt it important and necessary that each phase of the process was documented and could be hands wieldy to all so that the citizens could be informed well-nigh the progress made in the project. Among these, the most scenic event, realized in Tegucigualpa, Cuenca and Encarnación, was the megacosm of a ” mosaico ciudadano“, a wall made of post-it notes with written words, phrases, and ideas well-nigh the city.Municipalitymosaic in the several projects SUSTAINABILITYFlipsidetheme of our projects in Latin America is sustainable minutiae expressed in various forms: superintendency and sustentation to the environment, the introduction of an volitional mobility system, the importance of education to the environment as an engine of sustainability, and the minutiae of the project made in collaboration between private initiatives and institutional management. In the specimen of Cuenca, for example, our intervention was partly required as a magnitude of the municipality’s willingness to pinpoint a new model of mobility for the historical part-way of the municipality consisting of ceasing car traffic in the part-way and towers a new tramway system. This new model of mobility has uncontrived implications for the current urban dynamics, as well as on the public space, as it tries to reduce the vehicular load of the city, giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists. This, and the megacosm of quality public space, led to strengthen the social, economic, and cultural role of the city’s historical center making it increasingly pleasant for residents and locals. Our aim is to vivify a historical part-way that promotes social, economic, and environmental development, as well as a increasingly livable, habitable, and inhabited historical center. Cuenca’s plan is divided into four aspects: an urban acupuncture strategy, which proposes small / medium-scale interventions to recover areas with potential; a minutiae of a network of zippy courtyards, by transforming the typical patios of Cuenca in catalysts capable of generating new synergies, connections, and interactions between residents, visitors and inhabitants; a guide to the historic part-way re-design, which defines the main lines for the diamond of the public space; a process of socialization, to pinpoint the “acopuntura” and the zippy patios network strategies. The intervention strategy in the square “Mary Corilè” in conjunction with the megacosm of “La casa en el árbol” is part of the zippy patios network strategy. This square is an unused and degraded space, perceived by the residents as an unpleasant and dangerous place. The square “Mary Corilè” Among the several interventions proposed, such as the re-furnishing of the square, traffic closure, and the diamond of activities in collaboration with the municipality, there’s moreover the megacosm of “La casa en el árbol“, a space included in the existing trees of the square where educational activities in relation to the theme of the environment can be carried out. “La casa en el árbol” is set up as a space to get in contact and be familiar with the nature, built in harmony with the surroundings. Inside there are several “environmental” classrooms in which one can study natural resources such as sun, wind, and water.Increasinglyspecifically, one can study: a system of photovoltaic panels that generate the energy needed for the lights, rainwater harvesting structures, and urban gardens as environmental and ecological experiences for schools and kindergartens. It is, ultimately, an unshut classroom in which a new form of pedagogy built on the respect for the environment is proposed, in order to increase sensation of the natural resources and of their use, as well as increase sensation of existing technologies. In the specimen of Asunción we proposed a strategic plan with ten deportment in order to promote a connection between the several parts of the municipality through the minutiae of spaces, named “corridors“, and of individual buildings, named “urban catalysts“, which might act as drivers of transpiration and benchmarks within the city. The corridors are divided into three types: those “green“, which introduce a new untried infrastructure in specific parts of the existing roads; those “civic“, which consist of a new network of public spaces withal the roads in order to connect the most important historic and government buildings; those “dynamic“, aimed at creating zippy urban environments and encourage economic and cultural activities. Configuration of a charateristic dynamic corridor Among the deportment of Asunción strategic masterplan one concerns the economic and landscaping regeneration of the “GreenZippyCoast”. Due to its topography, this zone is subject to cyclical floods considering of the rising water level of the Paraguay River. That forces the inhabitants of the informal settlements who live there to move temporally. While fully respecting the identity of the river and of the existing topography, we have proposed the megacosm of a untried lung with a large sports zone in continuity with the Bicentennial Park. We moreover promoted the integration of the informal settlements both within the urban fabric and in the areas of new urban expansion. The Encarnación masterplan incorporates within its own name the concept of “sustainability”, since it is well-balanced of the “Plan of Sustainable Development” and of the “Plan of Urban and Territorial Organization”. The “Plan of Sustainable Development” will establish the standards and mechanisms for the growth and for the future minutiae of the municipality equal to the criteria of sustainability. The “Plan of Urban and Territorial Organization” aims at directing the use and the occupation of the territory in the urban and rural areas of the municipality. Officially, the municipality will squatter in the next twenty-four years an increase of the population amounted to 62,000 people, for whom it will be necessary to provide a massive increase in housing. The model we proposed to squatter this need refers to the sustainable principle of “the meaty city.” Through the identification of a physical verge for the city’s urban growth, we have protected the rural areas from new settlements. Moreover, we encouraged, through private and municipal initiatives, the densification of areas once developed, by filling the vacant urban lots and expanding pre-existing single-family homes. Example of urban densification The new interventions follow the principles of the bioclimatic architecture: large overhanging roofs and vegetation as protections from the hot summer sunlight, the use of wind to moderate the hot and humid climate of Encarnación, the reuse of rainwater, and the increase of the vegetation to swizzle CO2 emissions. TECHNOLOGY In all four projects, technology represented an important collaborative tool to promote our work and to enable everyone to be constantly updated on ongoing progress, but moreover as a support for the participatory process, so that the involvement of the citizens would not be worn-out with the end of the activities organized, but could protract to map needs, issues, concerns and initiatives for those interested. For this reason we have ripened a platform, tabbed Local-in (formerly What if ..?), which has been well-timed to each project equal to their personality and to the peculiarities of each participatory process, while maintaining a worldwide format. Local-in is a self-ruling and wieldy to everyone using of joint mapping. In it, registered users can add messages, photos and geolocalised links, sorting them into categories and labels. It’s hands installable and customizable, in perfect harmony with the spirit of the projects themselves, and it can be found for each project under the name “AsuMAP” for Asunción, with the name “Encarnación Más” for Encarnación, as “Cuenca RED” for Cuenca and with the name “Centro Histórico Abierto” for Distrito Central.   November 16, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1) Cuenca RED | Premio de Arquitectura Española Internacional 2017 Category: ⚐ ES+Cuenca Red+noticias+urbanismo Tags: award+cuenca red+ecosistema urbano+ecuador+espacio público+evento+participación+premio+urbanismo Hoy tenemos el placer de anunciar que Ecosistema Urbano ha recibido el Premio de Arquitectura Española Internacional 2017, promovido por el Foro de la Arquitectura Española del Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España —Foro CSCAE—. El premio reconoce la calidad arquitectónica y urbanística de profesionales y empresas de arquitectura, promotoras y constructoras que hayan desarrollado sus trabajos fuera de España, con el objetivo de incentivar y consolidar una marca común más allá de nuestras fronteras que apoye y de continuidad a la expansión de estos profesionales y al sector. El máximo galardón de la categoría de Urbanismo ha sido adjudicado al proyecto Cuenca RED, el Plan de Revitalización del Centro Histórico de Cuenca, Ecuador, promovido por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el GAD Municipal de Cuenca. El jurado —compuesto por representantes del CSCAE, Ministerio de Fomento, diferentes Colegios de Arquitectos, Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, Fundación Arquia y Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid—, ha destacado el proyecto por su “exhaustivo e ingenioso trabajo previo de investigación y análisis; destacando su aspecto pragmático con actuaciones de pequeña escala factibles a corto plazo y muy detalladas, considerando aspectos prácticos y técnicos”. protract reading September 14, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1) Kits para niños: involucrando a la ciudadanía más joven en el planeamiento participativo Category: ⚐ ES+Centro Histórico Abierto+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+educación+participación+Plan CHA+Plan Encarnación Más Tags: centro histórico abierto+ciudadanía joven+cuenca red+ecosistema urbano+encarnación más+kits para niños+participación+Plan cha Como probablemente hayáis notado, hace unos meses este post fue publicado en nuestro blog en inglés.  Con razón de la publicación de este articulo en la Carpeta Informativa de Abril del CENEAM, Centro Nacional de Educación Ambiental del Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, se ha recientemente traducido el texto al castellano. Por lo tanto, os dejamos a continuación esta lectura para hispanohablantes. protract reading December 13, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1) CUENCA RED en el libro “La participación en la construcción de la ciudad” Category: ⚐ ES+arquitectura+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+publicaciones+urbanismo Tags: ciudad+cuenca red+diseño participativo+ecosistema urbano+Jaume Blancafort+libro+participación+Patricia Reus+publicación+Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena La Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura y Edificación de Cartagena publica el libro “La participación en la construcción de la ciudad”, y Ecosistema Urbano ha sido invitado a contribuir en el mismo, compartiendo alguno de nuestros últimos proyectos. Hemos decidido narrar el proceso de trabajo, los resultados y la experiencia adquirida en el proyecto CUENCA RED, un proyecto que finalizamos la pasada primavera, después de un intenso proceso de trabajo que culminó en la definición de 6 propuestas urbanas para la transformación de espacios públicos de la ciudad. El libro ilustra este proceso en más de diez páginas de contenido exclusivo, por lo que agradecemos a los editores y coordinadores Jaume Blancafort y Patricia Reus, la oportunidad que nos han brindado. protract reading October 26, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (2) Kits for Kids: involving the youngest citizens in participatory planning Category: ⚐ EN+Centro Histórico Abierto+creativity+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+educación+participación+Plan CHA+Plan Encarnación Más Tags: centro histórico abierto+cuenca red+ecosistema urbano+encarnación más+kids+Plan cha+school participation kit As you may know, in our ‘toolkit’ for the participatory processes we usually siphon out in parallel to our urban projects, there are often some materials we specifically woolgather to allow the participation of children and teenagers.  As part of our transferral towards inclusive processes we aim to target different social groups in our activities; especially that part of societal society that usually doesn’t have a voice in the joint debate well-nigh urban issues. Children have a particularly honest and imaginative look, and trying to understand a society or culture through their vision is a privilege we alimony enjoying project without project. In particular, during our four latest projects in South America we detected this specific need to involve young population in participatory processes and we begun to design specific ‘kits’ for kids. As a result, we now have four variegated versions, ripened in tropical relationship with the local context but moreover with many worldwide features in mind. These ‘children participation kits’ are designed as a series of A4 or A3 paper sheets and they are explicitly designed to be easily reproducible. All the kits you can see in this post were used during the activities with children carried out by ecosistema urbano and our local collaborators in the schools and children’s centers of the municipality where the projects took place. The variegated versions of these kits share the same aims: Incline children and teenagers towards the urban minutiae of their municipality through reflection and creativity, making them increasingly enlightened of what is happening virtually them and improving their own worthiness to understand and act upon it. Involve both children and their families. The activities in which kids participate —and the results they generate— vamp the interest of parents and other family members who otherwise may not have the opportunity to tideway the ongoing planning or diamond process. Communicate the results; imaginative children’s vision have the regenerative and heady potential to bring freshness and friendliness to a process people often see as “serious” and complicated. These ‘kits’ indulge us to waterworks that talky potential. protract reading September 28, 2016 posted by Luisa Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano finalist of 2016 Taipei InternationalDiamondAward Category: ⚐ EN+competitions+Cuenca Red+design+espacio público Tags: awards+competitions+design+finalists+international+public space We are very pleased to inform you that Ecosistema Urbano is one of the finalists of the 2016 Taipei InternationalDiamondAward.  With the aim of enhancing the image of the wanted of Taiwan as an international leader in diamond and innovation, TaipeiMunicipalityGovernment organizes this award, which is divided into three categories: Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design, and Public Space Design. protract reading September 13, 2016 posted by Luisa Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano finalista del 2016 Taipei InternationalDiamondAward Category: ⚐ ES+concursos+Cuenca Red+diseño+espacio público+Uncategorized Tags: concursos+diseño+espacio público+finalista+internacional+premios Nos alegra informaros de que Ecosistema Urbano está entre los finalistas del premio internacional conocido como 2016 Taipei InternationalDiamondAward.  protract reading August 4, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1) CUENCA RED | Escuela Febres Cordero – nuevo edificio híbrido en el centro histórico de Cuenca Category: ⚐ ES+arquitectura+arquitectura red+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+proyectos+social housing+urban social design+urbanismo Tags: Activadores Urbanos+área verde+BID+catalizadores+comercio+cuenca+cuenca red+diseño social urbano+ecosistema urbano+ecuador+edificio híbrido+escuela+espacio público+Febres Cordero+housing+patrimonio+rehabilitación+residencia universitaria+sostenibilidad urbana+vivienda Continuando con la narrativa del plan Cuenca RED y tras haber presentado la estrategia unstipulated del proyecto, el proceso de socialización desarrollado y como éste ha influido en las principales decisiones de diseño de las estrategias de acupuntura urbana y red de patios activos; hoy compartimos el último de los proyectos, siendo el de mayor impacto previsto por su escala, singularidad y enorme potencial: la Escuela Febres Cordero. conoce más sobre el proyecto August 1, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) CUENCA RED | espacios de prioridad alta (II) cuenca hub y centro activo Category: ⚐ ES+arquitectura+arquitectura red+Cuenca Red+ecosistema urbano+proyectos+urban social design+urbanismo Tags: Activadores Urbanos+arquitectura+BID+catalizadores+cuenca red+diseño social urbano+ecosistema urbano+ecuador+espacio público+participación+proyectos   Tras haber compartido las estrategias para 3 de los espacios de prioridad alta en el marco del proyecto Cuenca Red, hoy presentamos 2 más. Las propuestas, pretenden generar un impulso renovador en estos espacios, para recuperar un tejido urbano social activo que mejore y facilite la calidad de vida y las posibilidades de habitar el centro. conoce más sobre los dos proyectos July 28, 2016 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1) CUENCA RED | 3 espacios de prioridad alta (I) Acupuntura Urbana Category: ⚐ ES+arquitectura+arquitectura red+Cuenca Red+diseño+ecosistema urbano+proyectos+urban social design+urbanismo Tags: Activadores Urbanos+arquitectura+BID+catalizadores+cuenca red+diseño social urbano+ecosistema urbano+ecuador+espacio público+participación+proyectos Como hemos avanzado en este post anterior, el plan de revitalización del centro histórico de Cuenca, Cuenca RED, es una estrategia a largo plazo que afecta a numerosos espacios en la ciudad. Frente a esta estrategia a largo plazo, y con el objetivo de ordenar las fases de activación, en ecosistema urbano hemos priorizado 6 espacios para una primera fase, estableciendo unas pautas avanzadas de diseño surgidas a través de las actividades de participación, el conocimiento adquirido durante el proceso, así como nuestra propia experiencia en proyectos y diseño urbano. continúa leyendo Page 1 of 212»