C.A.R. C.ooperativa de A.utogestión y R.ecuperación del Espacio Público en U.nidades H.abitacionales ¿How to self-manage 12 m² or 30 m3? As a result of insecurity in Mexico City, in this neighborhood like in many others, the neighbors decide to keep their cars in a cage to avoid damages or being assaulted. parking spaces become overcrowded...

This project explores potential methodologies for urban interventions in historic city centers. The traditional fabric of those areas is currently facing the effects of external forces resulting from rapid development and intense socio-economic pressure. In contrast to renewal programs that ignore existing architectural and cultural heritage, this project proposes a number of innovative strategies for...

In a fluvial context fully exploited by urban growth, intensive agriculture, and industrialization, our U- TOPIA project introduces affordable solutions to reverse this trend by saving and growing endangered plants. For a long time these small organisms have had the ability to shape territories by spontaneously generating large-scale natural habitats. However, today they would barely...

“TOMORROW AND TOMORROW CO. existences” is the realization of a participatory project of students, teachers, neighbourhood associations and politicians on social and urban issues of the new neighbourhood located north Sanchinarro in the city of Madrid. The argument is the issue of co-existence and its many transformations over time. Coexistence is understood as the simultaneous...

Spanish Dream is an architectural and photographic art project by the collective Cadelasverdes. The three architects that make up this group offer a critique of the architectural world during the economical crisis, in a country that has based much of its growth and development on the real estate industry. Spanish Dream alludes to the American...

The current financial crisis has brought the development of the Rotterdam Central District (RCD) to a standstill. What used to be the lively heart of the city has become a run-down office boulevard with a tremendous vacancy rate and an inhospitable ground level dominated by large scale infrastructure. There are ambitious plans for the RCD...

R-LAB R-lab is a laboratory of architecture that pretends to provide another point of view in the educative models of the architecture schools, invigorating the students to take part in the society which involves them. The intentions of this laboratory are mainly educational with the goal of spreading the social need of the architect. The...

Think commons is an ambient intelligence network, meaning a network capable of creating situations of learning based upon a collective intelligence and usually thank to the process of lateral exchange. For the moment this project develops in two ways: weekly online streaming sessions and periodic meetings. Every Wednesday at 7.30 PM there is a new...

Adhocracy. Make it your self (Background) People have been disenfranchised from the sense of responsibility towards the public space. Citizens think that the government (and other institutions) should take action when it comes to shape the city. This is a commodity, for which citizens pay (with their taxes). However it is more and more clear...

[im]possible living is a crowd-sourced a website dedicated to the re-use of abandoned buildings all over the world. It provides tools and services for people who try to raise, discuss and, potentially, solve the problem represented by the underuse of real estate. Since the beginning of the project in January 2011, the founders’ aim was...

Dialogues is a research project aligned with the undergraduate discipline “Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Slums”, as part of the Architecture and Urbanism course at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). The project uses a a methodology of action, coming from the mediation of information between a university and families involved in the auto-construction of homes...

KIUI Kit di Interazione Urbana Istantanea is a research and action project on urban public space promoted by Orizzontale from fall 2011 to spring 2012. KIUI has been articulated in four moments, three temporary micro-events and a final costruction workshop whose outcome has been the realization of a semi permanent structure. During the first three...