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⚐ EN | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNoWangle⚐ EN September 25, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Nordic Urban Spaces | Exhibition in Berlin Category: ⚐ EN+events+news If you overly wondered how the North builds, this exhibition is for you.  The “Nordic Urban Spaces” shows examples of Nordic tracery and urban planning once implemented that make life in the municipality better. The Nordic weather tends to be quite extreme, stuff either a unexceptionable and hot summer or a very long and unprepossessed winter, so weather particularly affects tracery and urban planning. This exhibition shows successful, innovative and participatory examples of Nordic construction and planning. The projects not only bring summer into the municipality (for example, with urban swimming spots) but moreover provide light and verisimilitude in winter (for example with brightly colored subway stations). They moreover try to demonstrate that functionality and sustainability, consideration and elegance are not mutually exclusive. We are happy to signify that our project Dreamhamar is displayed in the exhibition until the 28th of September. The redesign of the Stortorget Square in Hamar, Norway, through participation and a network design process, took place during Fall 2011. Citizens took part in a joint creative process that helped us shape the future of the square. Our tideway was supported by workshops, lectures, urban actions, communication, and participation tools. Dreamhamar was awarded as BEST PRACTICE by the United Nations-HABITAT program in 2014. If you are in Berlin and want to trammels it out, go to The Felleshus. This towers is the cultural part-way and event venue of the five Nordic embassies (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). Exhibition: Nordic Urban Spaces. Inspirationen für Stadt und Raum Date: Until 28 September 2018 Place: Felleshus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany Find out more: www.nordischebotschaften.org/ausstellungen/nordic-urban-spaces September 14, 2018 posted by Manon Rollet Comments: (0)Stuffa pedestrian in Dhaka Category: ⚐ EN+city+dhaka+mobility+urbanism Tags: dhaka+mobility+pedestrian+street+walking Stuck between a street vendor, his living hens and a rickshaw (first midpoint of transportation in Dhaka), trying to navigate a four-lane road in the middle of an intersection among clouds of dust… stuff a pedestrian in Dhaka can squint like a risky adventure. Ecosistema Urbano experienced it when we were in Dhaka for the Dhaka Upgrading Urban Project. In 2016, Dhaka was the 11th megacity in the world with 18.237.000 inhabitants. In 2030, the UN estimate that its population will be virtually 27.374.0001 inhabitants. In rapidly growing megacities like these, with large, unplanned neighborhoods, both private and public spaces are unauthentic by dynamics unswayable mostly by the pressure of the local and global economy. Public space, in particular, tends to be approached as an remembrance and becomes the residual (and scarce) space between the buildings, merely regarded as the minimum right of way and thus rhadamanthine hugely dominated by traffic. Due to lack of planning, parks, squares or boulevards are nonexistent, and when they exist, the spaces consist of yellowish land, often misused and treated as dumping grounds. Walking is the main form of transportation in the Greater Dhaka Metropolitan zone since 37,2% of the trips are made by foot2. However, this mode of transportation is far from stuff the safest.Stuffa pedestrian can be very complicated as one may encounters lots of obstacle through his journey. Walking in Dhaka’s streets The typical narrow street in Dhaka features a continuous surface. There are no curbs, and the whole street can be used either by pedestrians or by light vehicles without much conflict. One of the most noticeable problems is the quality of the pavement. Most of the streets are made of concrete, sand and dirt and wilt unusable during the monsoon. The only obstacles are the steps that requite wangle to the buildings, which have variegated heights, and the unshut drainage channels (side drains). Inhabitants often put “homemade bridges” whilom them. Street lighting can be found in some streets, but not all. A street with an uncovered side phlebotomize // An example of a “homemade bridge” whilom the side drain. In wider streets, pedestrians have to share the street with trucks, cars, rickshaws and street vendors. In this kind of street, there are usually sidewalks, separated and elevated from the traffic lanes by a curb. Part of the traffic lanes and sidewalks are typically obstructed by piled goods, stopped vehicles, construction rubbish and hawkers. Invaded sidewalks in Lalbagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka Metropolitan municipality has approximately 388km of footpaths, 155 km of which are occupied by hawkers3 forcing pedestrians to step lanugo the sidewalk and to use the traffic lanes where they must compete with cars for mobility space. There, they have to stave parked rickshaws and streets vendors who sometimes moreover invade the road. Pedestrians have to step up and lanugo the sidewalk to stave obstacles. The elevated prorogue becomes an widow barrier. Some streets can moreover be momentarily appropriated by inhabitants to organize events or for a mechanic workshop (see the previous vendible well-nigh “5 things you can do in Dhaka’s public spaces”). Diagram showing pedestrian space in a street of Dhaka Crossing the roads in DhakaPlaneif walking is the first midpoint of mobility in Dhaka, public space is not designed for pedestrians and is dominated by traffic. In some large avenues, there is no infrastructure to help pedestrians crossing the roads. In Attish Deepankar Avenue, for instance, pedestrians have to make their own way to reach the other side of the road. They have to navigate several traffic lanes, separated by a inside elevated strip, and a railway, lamister several obstacles. By doing so, they yank small informal paths in the urban landscape that urban planners undeniability “desire lines”. These desire lines can help urban designers to shape public spaces. Can you spot the desire lines? Through the Dhaka Upgrading Urban Project, Ecosistema Urbano worked to modernize liveability, serviceability and walkability in Dhaka´s public spaces. One of the challenges of the project is to make public spaces increasingly wieldy and visible, easier to move to and from and to increase safety for pedestrians. Some of the key deportment towards this goal are: Diagram showing a proposal for recovering pedestrian space in a street of Dhaka Removing architectural barriers like steps, elevated curbs or unshut side drains whenever possible, in order to increase walkability and accessibility. Widening or creating new pedestrian spaces. Permeating limits, establishing visual and functional connections between spaces that are currently shredded by the presence of physical barriers like walls. This specifically includes opening sealed untried areas to the surrounding streets. Creating inner pathways in untried areas or unshut spaces in order to enable increasingly uncontrived and well-appointed routes for pedestrians. Increasing visibility and protection of pedestrian crossings. Adding greenery to increase attractiveness, comfort, climate and the diversity of urban ecosystems. All these interventions are aimed to modernize the pedestrian wits in Dhaka’s public spaces. Each intervention will be unfluctuating to a larger system or cluster. Public clusters, referred within this project as “neighborhoods”, are networks of public spaces or facilities created by connecting urban nodes with continuous corridors. Each urban node is a public space or a facility that could act as a suburbanite for urban change. Those nodes can have variegated notation and uses: polity centers, markets, playgrounds, parks, water surfaces and other singular spaces. To know increasingly well-nigh the Dhaka Upgrading Urban Project, read our next vendible next week well-nigh “An UrbanDiamondScheme to modernize mobility in Dhaka”. 1. Bird, Julia Helen; Li, Yue-000316086; Rahman, Hossain Zillur; Rama, Martin G.; Venables, Anthony J.. 2018. TowardUnconfinedDhaka : a new urban minutiae paradigm eastward (English). World Bank Group. 2. Data taken from Dhaka Transport CoordinationWorkbench(DTCB), Ministry of Communications (MOC), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Preparatory Survey Report on Dhaka Urban Transport NetworkMinutiaeStudy (DHUTS) in Bangladesh Final Report (Appendix Volume). JICA, March 2010. 3. Data from the 2012 Strategic Transport Planning Report. September 6, 2018 posted by Manon Rollet Comments: (0) 5 things you can do in Dhaka’s public spaces Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+dhaka+mobility As a recent project has led us to Dhaka, we are starting a series of posts to share with you some key topics and observations well-nigh this very interesting city. Dhaka, wanted of Bangladesh, is one of the densest cities in the world, with 18 million people squishing in 1,528 square km. The stereotype density of the inside zone of the municipality has reached a staggering 41,000 inhabitants per square kilometer1. The municipality is considered one of the least livable cities in the world, ranked 137 out of 140 cities2 in 2017. It is the lowest for any South Asian municipality surveyed, considering of, among other things, air pollution, severe traffic congestion, bad sewage system, hundreds of slums and regular river floodings. In such a dumbo and crowded city, the inhabitants make the most of each square meter, making public space a truly multi-layered and multi-dimensional entity. Public space is usually described as an inclusive space, unshut to everyone, worked by a network of streets, squares and parks. In Dhaka, considering of the lack of private space, public space becomes an outdoor extension of living and working spaces. The boundaries between private and public places get voiceless considering of the way they are stuff used. Public space becomes a livelihood asset, a waterworks of flows and a place for recreation and social integration. Ecosistema Urbano was in Dhaka for two weeks on February of 2018 to study Dhaka’s public spaces within the context of the DhakaMunicipalityNeighborhood Upgrading Project (we will write well-nigh this soon) and we were amazed by the diversity and intensity of uses in public spaces. Here are just five examples of things Bangladeshi people are doing in Dhaka´s public spaces. 1. Get a haircut enjoying a garden view Source: Google Street view In lots of developing countries like Bangladesh, proposing services (or goods) to customers directly in the streets is a good and easy way to make money for people with low level of income, usually migrants. It does not imply any shop or financial investment. Get an old chair, a mirror and some shading and you can offer good and affordable haircuts to pedestrians. This form of entrepreneurship is less risky and increasingly resilient than opening a formal business. Informal businesses in Dhaka are a huge part of the city’s economy as virtually 5.000.000 hawkers are working in public spaces3. Most street vendors work on sidewalks, in traffic intersections or plane parks or fairgrounds at all times of the day. They contribute an essential service to all socio-economic segments of the population by offering low forfeit goods and services at user-friendly locations. 2.Shepherda wedding An unnoticeable installation for a triumph in Azimpur Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh The lack of private and public indoor spaces results in an important need of places to meet and organize events. Inhabitants towardly public spaces for private events like weddings or celebrations, towers bamboo installations for shading and privatizing unshortened streets for private use. Streets wilt an outdoor extension of private space, a place for social interactions. This is why, in every narrow corner of Dhaka, you can find a pile of bamboo poles waiting for their opportunity to wilt a cheerful shading for any kind of celebration. 3. Repair your car Outdoor mechanic workshop, English Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh It is possible to find everything you need in Dhaka, if you know where to squint for it. In some streets, it is possible to find car, trucks or rickshaws4 pieces to repair vehicles and plane people who would help you for a few Bangladeshi taka. This worriedness takes place on the sidewalks, often invading the traffic lanes, worsening the traffic congestion, forcing pedestrians to walk among the traffic and reducing the constructive traffic lanes by half their size. 4. Play cricket A cricket game in a playground in Dhaka, Bangladesh There is a lack of playgrounds, parks and gyms in Dhaka. In this dumbo context, every unshut space becomes an opportunity to play and to practice sports. As a result, unshut spaces host lots of activities like street vending, recycling, begging or playing. These places can have multiple uses during the day, and one of the most typical ones is playing cricket. Bangladeshi people are unconfined fans of this sport, brought by the British. A pile of old tiles can delimit a cricket field and some trees or an old wall can provide shading for an audience, turning a yellowish plot into a sport field. Dhaka’s inhabitants develop resilient tactics to make the most of every square meter and to overcome the lack of recreational spaces. 5. A street art visit Rokonpur girls upper school, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dhaka is considered one of the least livable cities, but some parts of the municipality can be increasingly enjoyable than others. Some streets of Dhaka are very colorful, their walls taken by street art. This mural was made in 2014 during the FIFA World Cup by a group of 200 volunteers that transformed a regular street with a colorful space as a part of the Goal-E project to support their favourite football team. “Goal-E” stands for “goli”, a typical Bangladeshi lane. This kind of art is a way for the inhabitants of the neighborhood to reuse public space and to towardly the place. Public space in Dhaka is a multidimensional entity: a space of appropriation, of socialisation, of mart and a livelihood windfall for the poor. All these uses of space are showing how resilient and creative inhabitants of a megacity can be. But public space is moreover the place for pedestrians, as 37.2% of the trips in Dhaka are made by foot5. In our next article, we will remoter explore the pedestrian wits in Dhaka. 6. And… a bonus A goat? A butterfly? An angel? You can indeed see strange things in Dhaka. Let us introduce you to… the goatterfly! This fairy-dressed animal, trying to find some supplies among the trash, sums up our impressions of this city: vital, complex, precarious, bizarre, creative and often difficult to explain. If you are curious and want to see more, we rencontre you to swoop into StreetView and let us know any other interesting situations you find. 1. Bird, Julia Helen; Li, Yue-000316086; Rahman, Hossain Zillur; Rama, Martin G.; Venables, Anthony J.. 2018. TowardUnconfinedDhaka : a new urban minutiae paradigm eastward (English). World Bank Group. 2. Ranking by Economist Intelligence Unit (2017). 3. Statistics from the DhakaMunicipalityCorporation. 4. Unmotorised light vehicle with suburbanite 5. Data taken from Dhaka Transport CoordinationWorkbench(DTCB), Ministry of Communications (MOC), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Preparatory Survey Report on Dhaka Urban Transport NetworkMinutiaeStudy (DHUTS) in Bangladesh Final Report (Appendix Volume). JICA, March 2010. July 27, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (2) Turning alleyways into zippy pedestrian passages |UnshutShore Project Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+design+ecosistema urbano+urbanism+work in progress Tags: architecture+banyan hub+competition+ecosistema urbano+Miami+renaturalize+shore to core+Strategies+sustainabililty+Van Alen Institute+waterfront+West Palm Beach Part of theUnshutShore Project was to create a lively urban ecosystem nearby the shore of West Palm Beach, and one of the things that interested us the most was a visionless and dirty pathway near the Banyan Hub. When a municipality lacks public spaces, every corner, shore or plane an pathway can wilt a part of the urban ecosystem. These secondary narrow streets are unique opportunities for transformation. This is how we proposed to vivify this space: The passageways From Service Alleyways to Surprising Passageways The alleyways will undergo a rapid vivification process ranging from temporary interventions to the minutiae of permanent structures and spaces to host new programs. Walkability, security, and repletion will be the first priorities to be addressed by ways of zippy and passive climatic mitigation, new waste disposal and lighting systems, etc. Activities will disperse later into proximal public spaces and buildings and these revamped ‘passageways’ will wilt thematic routes connecting variegated parts of the city. alimony reading well-nigh the passageways! July 10, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Banyan Hub: A new urban ecosystem for West Palm Beach |UnshutShore Project Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+design+ecosistema urbano+urbanism+work in progress Tags: architecture+banyan hub+competition+ecosistema urbano+Miami+renaturalize+shore to core+Strategies+sustainabililty+Van Alen Institute+waterfront+West Palm Beach The Banyan garage is envisioned as a new steer for activities in downtown. This hybrid and flexible towers will be unshut to the public all day long and will be an zippy presence in the city, producing culture, knowledge, and goods, while attracting businesses, talent, and innovation with its attractions. Its configuration allows many variegated uses to coexist, which moreover makes it flexible to permit future changes in use. It is a permeable building, open, and wieldy to all citizens, a true part of the municipality from the ground floor to the public roof terrace. Its bioclimatic design, based on a untried permeable facade and two big thematic courtyards -natural and digital- will provide pleasant internal climate moderation throughout the year while reducing environmental impact and management costs. The Banyan Hub is, not only tightly unfluctuating to the street: it takes the street and its energy inside and makes it one of its cadre features. Folding, twisting and ramping up towards the unshut terrace on the roof, this new kind of street provides a unique urban-like wits inside the building, but moreover retains many of the features of an ordinary street. Section of Banyan Hub, an Urban Ecosistem in the Heart of West Palm Beach Areas of the towers will be unshut to the public at anytime. The towers may be accessed by many modes of transportation such as pedestrians, cyclists, skaters, and light vehicles. It connects variegated uses withal its path — from businesses to cultural spaces to public plazas. Prioritizing public serviceability is integral in ensuring that this project has a landmark presence in West Palm Beach. Banyan Hub is envisioned as an urban ecosystem where users can satisfy their wants and needs without overly having to leave the building. Banyan Hub is sure to set the tone for the future of West Palm Beach as a collaborative, sustainable, and creative city. The Banyan Hub includes a series of public spaces located at variegated levels unfluctuating by a re-envisioned parking ramp which provides wangle to variegated spaces and twists virtually the courtyards.   +A flexible square at ground level which consists of an unshut hall unfluctuating to the surrounding streets and to the passageway at the when of the building. +A covered but unshut air plaza at an intermediate level of the building, right where the two courtyards begin. This space is the heart of the Hub and plays a crucial role in its climatic workout and cultural activity.  +A top terrace, overlooking the lagoon which offers a panoramic view of the natural environment and of the whole downtown. Relaxing and informal like the decks of a trip ship, it is and an platonic place to uncork a stroll through the towers and withal the waterfront.   One of the most important qualities of a municipality is the worthiness to evolve by waffly its uses and its physical configuration equal to the needs of the society that lives in it. The Banyan Hub materializes these principles as it stuff conceived in a way in which changeability is the only constant. It will remain unshut to transformation by its managers and users, embracing incubation as a way to stay useful and relevant. This will be achieved by introducing workalike programs and spaces between stock-still elements, and designing movable physical delimitations and reconfigurable technical infrastructure.Transpirationis the only unvarying The rich mix of variegated uses in tropical proximity helps create situations where activities can complement and goody each other. This moreover gives a special weft to each part of the building, enabling interactions that would not take place in a conventional building. In order to wilt the everbeating heart of West Palm Beach, Banyan Hub will include a diverse and complementary set of programs, balancing the type of activities, desired level of comfort, need for equipment, and profile of the participants throughout the day. The scale of the Hub allows the coexistence of various uses, bringing together diverse age groups, interests, and communities. Management & Stakeholders The Banyan Hub operational model could be ripened as a public-private partnership. The main partners could be comprised of the City, private companies, non-profits, sturdy associations, and other organizations. This would beg the megacosm of a managing workbench which would share the funding, ownership, and visualization making responsibilities of the building. This workbench would take superintendency of the construction and later lease spaces and equipment to other urban stakeholders. It would moreover create working committees for logistics and maintenance, programming, communication, and participation. It would serve as a mediation entity between institutions, the unstipulated public, entrepreneurs, and other potential partners. June 17, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) On Cities Workshop by the Norman Foster Foundation Category: ⚐ EN+city+events+news Tags: belinda tato+ecosistema urbano+event+josé luis vallejo+Norman Foster Foundation+On Cities Workshop+Workshop Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo will be participating in the On Cities Workshop, organised by the Norman Foster Foundation, which will take place this week (18 to 22 June 2018) in Madrid. The workshop will focus on Autonomous Innovative Communities, selecting a district in Madrid as a case-study for a research project that will be ripened throughout the week. The On Cities Workshop will include seminars, lectures, one-to-one tutoring and urban architectural tours to learn increasingly well-nigh the context of Madrid and it’s districts. During the undertow of the workshops, participants will have the opportunity to engage with the Norman Foster Foundation’s gazetteer and research projects. Can each polity locally produce all of the energy, food, and wipe water needed for vital living—requiring no centralised infrastructure? Can humans transition from ownership to sharing, while living and working in compact, agile, supportive environments? This workshop explores the premise that emerging urban innovations can dramatically reduce resources consumed by cities while simultaneously creating increasingly livable, entrepreneurial communities. ‘We are living in an era of lattermost urbanisation and rapid global warming’, states workshop mentor Kent Larson. ‘The challenges of both undeniability for increasingly than mere incremental adjustments.’Withoutreviewing applications submitted by hundreds of candidates from virtually the world, the selection committee awarded ten scholarships to students from the pursuit universities and institutions: American University of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, United States; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, the Netherlands; Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. These ten students will engage with a group of specialists through a series of seminars and lectures culminating in a five day workshop led by the Atelier mentor, Kent Larson, Director of MIT Media LabMunicipalityScience Group and Initiative, and his team. Nicholas Negroponte, Co-Founder and former Director of MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, United States will act as the Chief Advisor of the workshop tutoring the students through the research process. The Academic Body spans a wide range of practitioners working in variegated fields interrelated with the City, including: Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, United States; Luis Cueto,UnstipulatedCoordinator for the Mayor in Madrid, MadridMunicipalityHall, Madrid, Spain; Anupama Kundoo, Principal, Anupama Kundoo Architects, Madrid, Spain/Auroville, India; Winy Maas, Co-Founder and Director of MVRDV and Director of the Why Factory, Delft, the Netherlands; Tim Stonor, Managing Director of Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom; Leonor Tarrasón, Director of Environmental Solutions, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway; Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo, Founders and Directors of Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid, Spain/Miami, United States. 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 DistritoInsideis 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 DistritoInsideFor 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.   May 21, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano at Milano Arch Week Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+ecosistema urbano+events+news Tags: 2018+ecosistema urbano+event+josé luis vallejo+lecture+Milano Arch Week+talk+Triennale di Milano Next Sunday 27th May José Luis Vallejo will be giving a lecture at the Milano Arch Week 2018. This important event, this year under the title “Urbania“, is promoted by the Comune di Milano, the Politecnico di Milano and the Triennale di Milano in collaboration with Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, and includes a rich program of conferences, workshops, installations, exhibitions, performances, events unshut to citizens to reflect together on the future of the municipality and the dynamics of trendy architecture. Date and time: May 27th, 19:00 h. Location: Palco giardino – Viale Alemagna, 6, Milano See full program at the website April 4, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) What we’ve been up to | Portfolio Review and Current Projects Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+ecosistema urbano+work in progress Tags: #ThinkingFadura+argentina+arquitectura+Cervecera+cuenca+cuenca red+ecosistema urbano+ecuador+eu:live+Fadura+Febres Cordero+germany+Getxo+Heidelberg+Hermosillo+mexico+participation+participatory design+proyectos+Santa Fe+Spain+Spielraum+urbanismo We know it’s been a while since we published something in our blog, but we can reassure you that we have been everything but idle. In fact, it was totally the opposite: 2017 was a big year here at ecosistema urbano. We had the opportunity to develop a wide telescopic of projects, from participatory workshops to urban-scale studies, in countries like Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, and plane Spain! Let us have a squint at the last updates to our 2017 portfolio, and some of the projects that are coming during 2018.   Idea Hermosillo The Inter-AmericanMinutiaeBank (IDB/BID) tasked us with the rencontre of reactivating urban spaces virtually the Historical Downtown in Hermosillo, Mexico. For this project, we put in place a unenduring but intense participatory process involving variegated stakeholders (institutions, businesses, students, neighbors) from Hermosillo. That way, we were worldly-wise to identify the key aspects to write towards the revitalization of the municipality center. The Idea Hermosillo Revitalization Plan consisted of a unenduring diagnosis, a series of unstipulated strategies, and a set of 27 pilot projects which, together, would help reactivating the urban spaces in the area. One of these pilot projects was remoter ripened as proof of concept: the Banco de Ideas, proposing the renovation of an existing towers with a creative and mixed program that would act as a impetus for attracting worriedness and driving interest well-nigh the Historic Downtown. One of the pilot projects in Hermosillo – ‘Banco de Ideas’ See the “Idea Hermosillo” project in our portfolio Febres Cordero Mixed-useTowersThe Febres Cordero School was identified as one of the key interventions in the the CUENCA RED project in Cuenca, Ecuador. The proposed project keeps part of the original school towers while creating a new mixed-used towers in side it. The main goal was to create new public spaces and combine local businesses, a societal center, student residences and other uses that would help vitalizing the surrounding area. The new Febres Cordero towers moreover implements sustainable diamond elements such as locally sourced materials, bio-climatic façades and passive temperature regulation. Technical diamond of Febres Cordero ramified See the “Febres Cordero” project in our portfolio Spielraum – Der Andere Park Competition In 2017 we were moreover invited to take part in an international competition to diamond the conversion of a former military wiring in Heidelberg, Germany. TheMunicipalityof Heidelberg slantingly the IBA hosted a competition for the opening of the -until then- restricted area, and creating new public spaces for the municipality to enjoy. ecosistema urbano devised a playful layout for the park, concentrating the intervention in the inside areas of the unshut spaces, and integrating the existing pavements and elements whenever possible. The overarching diamond and pathways of the park were conceived as a “game board”, where elements of the park, such as playgrounds, would wilt “game pieces”. The program and final diamond of these elements would be specified by the “game rules” consisting on a series of participatory processes involving neighbors and other stakeholders. Schematic overview of programs at Der Andere Park See increasingly well-nigh the “Spielraum” project in our portfolio Thinking Fadura This project consisted of the preparation of a big participatory project in Getxo, Spain, towards the conversion of a sealed sports zone into an unshut park. An urban diagnosis of the Fadura zone was made in order to identify the main issues, challenges, and opportunities that the park, the surrounding zone and the population currently possess. This diagnosis was intended to inform both the technical minutiae and the participatory process. In wing to this, a social mapping was created by meeting and interviewing all possible stakeholders and representing their relationships, their possible level of involvement and the key topics they were interested in. Over the undertow of four months, the team conducted multi-stakeholder meetings and presentations to engage the users of the park, as well as to inform and prepare them for the participatory process. Stakeholder mapping as part of the preparation for the participatory process See increasingly well-nigh the “Thinking Fadura” project in our portfolio Cervecera – FaduraPolityCenter  In the same sports zone in Getxo, Spain, a participatory tracery project was vicarious to us, with the aim of towers a polity part-way in the place of a public facility which had recently been damaged by a fire. In its final years, the former pub (cervecera) was used as a social facility. In order to create a diamond that would indulge for the same level of engagement and zippy use, a participatory diamond process was devised. Three workshops were conducted where stakeholders could take part in the rethinking and redesigning of the towers and its surrounding unshut spaces. At the end of the process, a sustainable and flexible polity part-way was designed, capable of hosting plane increasingly activities than surpassing while remaining unsteadfast to future needs. Rendering of the envisioned cervecera See increasingly well-nigh the “FaduraPolityCenter” project in our portfolio Santa Fe – Resilient Cities As part of the 100 Resilient Cities program in Santa Fe, Argentina, ecosistema urbano was asked to lead a participatory project for the youth of Santa Fe. In this heady activity, we had the opportunity to create and run a program which unliable children to get involved with the future of their city. The children were led through an explorative stroll virtually Parque del Norte where they were encouraged to be creative well-nigh what they observed and what they envisioned for the park. Afterwards, the children drew on maps to demonstrate what they hoped to see implemented into the future park. Then they were given materials to create small models of their proposals, micro-landscapes they created using natural materials, sourced from the park itself, in a transparent box. The maps and boxes provided invaluable feedback in order to include the vision of the younger citizens in the future park. Images of the “participation kits” used for the megacosm of models See increasingly well-nigh the “Santa Fe – Resilient Cities” project in our portfolio EU GPP Public Space Maintenance  In a collaborative project with the European Commission, ecosistema urbano is helping to pinpoint the European UnionUntriedPublic Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Public Space Maintenance. We are working on creating a guide of weightier practices that will wilt the framework for procurement processes regarding public space maintenance. This project will have a big impact due to its scale: the public sector represents 14% of the GDP of the European Union. Therefore, a systematic sustainable transpiration in any part of the public sector will increase the market viability of sustainable products. Our participation in this project will help to plicate sustainable transpiration and forfeit effectiveness in the EU. Other ongoing projects in 2018 The past few months have been incredibly rented at ecosistema urbano, with increasingly projects happening all over the world. Here are some examples of what we are working on right now: In 2017 we won the competition to wilt the architectural partner for theUnshutShore Initiative in West Palm Beach. We are currently working on the Banyan Hub multifunctional building, as well as the public space resurgence of selected passageways. We have recently begun work on a new intervention at one of the key streets in downtown. We started a public space project at the University of Málaga. The project addresses the planning and construction of a inside boulevard that will modernize the spritz of people wideness the campus, promote sustainability and untried space, integrate physical and digital layers of the campus and create places for new activities to happen. We are moreover currently working with the World Bank in the identification of opportunities for resurgence of public spaces and public buildings in one of the most dumbo and congested cities in the world: Dhaka, the wanted municipality of Bangladesh. November 21, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Atmospheres for Social Interaction | Workshop and lecture in Helsinki Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+events+news Tags: Aalto University+architecture+atmosphere+ecosistema urbano+Helsinki+josé luis vallejo+lecture+social+Workshop Next Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th José Luis Vallejo will be giving an unshut lecture and leading a workshop at the Aalto University Department of Architecture. The workshop will develop the topic “Atmospheres for Social Interaction”. How can we, as architects or urban planners, support the minutiae of the social speciality of urban life? Location: Lecture Hall A1 at the Lecture Graduate Centre, Aalto University Lecture: November 23rd, 17:00h Workshop: November 24th, 10:00-18:00h Original call: www.groupxaalto.fi Page 1 of 6112345...102030...»Last »