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This project is the materialisation of a neighbourhood's struggle to recover the leisure space that belonged to them: the Beach. After the ferocious expansion of a port that only considered its productivity, a neighbourhood was deprived of the origin of its being. Now the inhabitants of Nazaret are demanding the recovery of the leisure paradise that is the beach, and they have decided to rebuild it with their own hands. This is a leisure infrastructure.

For years, the abandoned former Thermal Power Plant of Sant Adrià de Besòs was the focus of a preservation fight by the local community to prevent its demolition, and only recently were the Tres Chimeneas granted heritage protection by the authorities. The ultimate aim of this proposal is to excel a positive social, economic and environmental impact on a regional scale by re-qualifying the site while preserving its identity, and to give back people what they called "la Sagrada Familia of worker"

A Botanical Garden, a Robotics Campus, a Shopping Center, a Big Hotel, Glamping and Bungalows, all these and much more, will develope and enhance the existence of the natural landscape providing people leisure, commercial, social and educational facilities for all visitors. 

The 21Gleyssentials connects home-based workers with nature, while also protecting the environment using recycled materials. We're creating a social franchise with a product line designed to help NGOs become more sustainable, to support social activism and increase its positive impact across Europe.

21st Greentury is about the environment, for people.

Schwimmverein Donaukanal is a grassroots community initiative that aims to normalise swimming in Vienna's Danube Channel. Looking back at the history of swimming in the channel, we strive to reclaim these 850 000 square meters of liquid public space and bring Donaukanal swim culture and its natural ecosystem back to the Viennese way of life. SV DK activates this forgotten public space through the mere act of swimming and weaves a social fabric of courageous, pioneering urban swimmers.

In Spain, thousands of workers are needed each year for seasonal crop-picking. In May 2020, the farmers appealed demanding more workers in the midst of the pandemic and the influx of workers demonstrated extreme shortcomings in the regions ability to house them resulting in COVID outbreaks. This, among other social issues, is what the project is tackling. An innovative design which uses sustainability, modularity and pre-fabrication to be at the forefront of socially conscious architecture.

Can the wardrobe, like the flora and fauna, become impregnated with the seasonal variations specific to a climate?
 Can we, as J. Baudrillard proposes in the first sentence of his book The System of Objects, "classify the immense vegetation of objects as a flora or a fauna, with its tropical and glacial species, its sudden mutations, and its endangered species? 

Mar de Fondo is a non-profit organization from the island of Mallorca that is dedicated to raise awareness of the human impact on earth by bringing people closer to the marine environment through sports activities.

To achieve this goal we create experiences, educational programs and events that involve environmental awareness and sports, transmitting an active, healthy and environmentally conscious lifestyle, so that they appreciate themselves and the environment in which they live.

In this installation the idea is to retranscribe the sensations that one can feel outside, in a waiting room. For example: a sunset, a landscape or clouds. In the center different shapes create seats of "visions". Some planes are high, inclined or straight. These elements bring a comfort, a trajectory and they are woven like rafts ready to embark and accompany us in the vision of these images. The audience immerses itself, concentrates, breathes and comes out of it soothed.

"How will we live together?" This is the question asked, before the advent of the pandemic, by Hashim Sarkis, curator of the XVII International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2021). My answer came during the pandemic. This project is a new residential model, which takes a position on issues emerged during these months of crisis and wants to create a more beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive community, inside (and outside) the home.