This project explores the existing values, the strong community, and the problems of the Danish “Ghetto” Vollsmose. With a focus on local initiatives, the concentration of people effected by PTSD and critical spaces of the area. The concept seeks to treat the issues through architectural initiatives.
This chair is the product of a contemporary, sustainable approach to design. A meticulous designing process, combined with resource-friendly construction, led to this three-legged, lightweight, stackable chair made exclusively of wood. It seems familiar at first sight, then surprises us with its many thoughtful details, its elegance, and the fact that it is extremely comfortable.
The urban laboratory experience aims at showing the resilience of participatory planning made visible through children’s actions in social housing neighbourhoods.
Assuming children as indicators of urban inequality and as determinants for inclusive urban design, would support formulating more inclusive urban policies.
Finding procedural tools that are reproducible and adaptable in different context would help people exercise their rights.
The project includes specific interventions, proximal to each other and similar in the topics they deal with, that create a broader strategy for the regeneration of these fragile territories. Through the intervention on existing buildings and volumetric expansions, the project aims to link in an innovative way to the history of a valley founded on rural and pastoral economies, as well as marked by the role of Gian Giacomo Galletti as promoter of cultural diffusion in the Bognanco valley.
When people leave (or otherwise flee) their own homeland in search for security and prosperity abroad, they’d be happy to find a place that welcomed not only their labour, but also their heritage and dreams. “All around food” promises to be that place, welcoming refugees, vulnerable migrants and/or asylum seekers who want to live in hope, work in a socially conscious environment, and thrive alongside diverse ecosystems. It all happens around food, but maybe there is more to it than we think!
The vision of building green cities using circular building methods provides answers to problems we face today. As a local and recyclable resource, clay can make a big difference in the pursuit of implementing this vision. This project demonstrates how versatile the construction material is: rammed earth modules provide habitats for various species by offering hollow spaces and shaped surfaces. Placed in the right context, the bricks become the foundation for the development of small ecosystems.
"Talk with students, not about them." By institutionalizing 'student civil servants' at municipalities, one can improve the conversation regarding the needs of students, which is now important more than ever. In cooperation with this, 'Social & Wellbeing Hubs' will be created to encourage students, giving tools and training to improve social engagement. Inspiring and supporting students to make an impact on their own world. Increase knowledge exchange between each hub from other cities.
The greater Douais, as with all post-industrial areas, is a forgotten urban fabric awaiting a fresh start. If the term “degrowth” often describes the image of an area in decline, it is also a substantial keyword to sustainability! Therefore, Breeding Ground is inspired by a positive and sustainable degrowth, embed in a territory capable of change, and allowing smart densification and profound economic changes. Above all, applying circular tools can sprout a new commons called resilience.
The circular pavilion is a crafted hands-on construction project that worked experimentally in order to understand and prototype reuse construction. Built as a temporary object, the design was intended to be unbuild and recycled again.
The pavilion is intended as the first in a series of small scale, experimental architectures that work with raw and reclaimed materials in order to provide an open-source, physical catalogue of circular details.
BeeVacc contains a potential symbiotic partner for wild bees!
The microhabitat provides space in the human-developed city for the solitary wild bees and inhibits diseases such as the deformed wing virus.
Fungi's mycelium of the Ganoderma genus can immunize bees against consequences of the varroa mite. It is too big for being a parasite of wild bees, but they can get infected by visiting the same flowers as infested honey bees. The difference is, one is bred for numbers, the other one is not.
