“PlaceCity Floridsdorf” tested innovative co-design methods and tools of inclusive, participatory placemaking through the initiative of the local community in the context of urban development and centre activation in Vienna. The aim was to develop a common vision to vitalize the urban space and make it useful for the local population with hands-on implementation strategies that remain active even after the finalisation of the project.
The Contemporary Association of Arts and Crafts is a non-profit association which promotes the education of the future craftsmen and preserves the most valuable dimensions associated to traditional and contemporary crafts in Spain, such as its identitary, cultural, artistic and historical dimensions, as well as its sustainable, tourist and economic values, pursuing crafts innovation through design and digitalization, and Spanish workshops internationalization through our e-commerce CASA ALIA.
The Urban Resilience Classroom is a didactical program on urban regeneration in which students are actors for change in the city of Madrid. The students of the Grade of Architecture in ETSAM learn and work to provide evidence to the Madrid Municipality on the need and the benefits of addressing the situation of the vulnerable neighborhoods through holistic urban regeneration strategies. They do this interacting with the social tissue of the area and in a transdisciplinary learning framework.
A framework for designing, sourcing and constructing small-scale, buildings using principles of user participation, the circular economy and design for disassembly.
Our ideas are communicated by means of an interactive pavilion and carbon configurator app. This Irish-Estonian trans-disciplinary collaboration is part of a travelling exhibition entitled WoodWorks, appearing live and online throughout 2022.
Passive house on the outskirts of Madrid. To solve the programmatic needs of the clients the project is solved in two floors with independent access. Both floors face south and also open onto a bioclimatic central patio surrounded by practicable glass enclosures to regulate temperature in winter and summer. The construction system combines a semi-buried ground floor with high thermal inertia and a first floor of prefabricated wood, always following strict energy efficiency and health criteria.
A sustainable solution to adapt public space to new needs through punctual and small scale interventions in order to demineralize, vegetalize and re-activate asphalted surfaces that are no longer needed as such.
Once a landfill today the Kennedy Meadow is a vibrant spot in the vicinity of Puchheim. With a migration share of 50% from 70 nations the involvement of the residents as from the very first moment was the main focus. A temporary ice skating rink was built to learn about the needs of the smallest. The patterns on the play towers applied by surrounding kindergarden kids reflect patterns collected by adult users and refer to their cultural backgrounds. The park is the way to a sustainable society.
Project Weeks is a practice-based art educational programme spanning over two consecutive weeks towards the end of the second semester, in the framework of graduate studies in Nature Art. Just like in a live situation (commission, application or exhibition), students have to build during these two weeks the plans they have developed in the preceding period. To help students, course tasks are coordinated and a set of varied and dedicated extra-curricular activities are organised by the initiator.
Can wood be both a sustainable and an esthetic material? Con-Truss project tries to qualify this material as a hoilistic process, starting from his regional production in Berlin region to its use as piece of furniture in housing project. The block consists of solid wooden structural elements stuck orthogonally and a softer " layer", the furniture, inspired by the Renaissance painting type " Saint Jerome in his Study". Therefore, Con-truss is defined by the subtle con-trast of this two layers.
On the banks of the Cher, a French river, the legacy of modernity separates; humans and non-humans ignore each other, sometimes even clash. Under the threat of flooding, the dam has pushed the river away, making us almost forget its presence.
Challenge? Accepting the fluctuations of the river to reconnect the living. To allow "common ground", a recognition between each of the forces involved: the cycles of living, human activities and the river itself in its variability, high and low water.
