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From October 1-9 of 2022, the iconic Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion was transformed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Bauhaus Earth with mass timber installations establishing a dialogue between 20th century industrial modernity and the new, circular, low-emissions buildings of the 21st century. The event marked the launch of Mass Madera, a national network of pioneers promoting sustainable construction leveraging mass timber to decarbonise the built environment.

This architectural/landscaping project upgrades and extends the previously undervalued formal garden at Ta’ Qali. The complex, whose construction started in the 90’s, consists mainly of a grand portico that embraces a simple, yet attractive fountain, an open-air Greek-styled theatre, and extensive walkways. The new design articulates further the original garden’s longitudinal axis that points to the old capital city of Mdina.

The project consists of a new development of an automated industrialized process and layout for manufacturing a circular timber based . It also includes the industrialization of unpopulated areas, through valuation of local certificated timber, promoting quality jobs creation and giving inclusive access to women and vulnerable group to working environments.
The project is a sustainable circular system with a low CO2 emissions print and reduction and repurposing of the industrial waste.

H.I.T. is short for German humus fertiliser recovered from contents of dry toilets. Finizio redesigned the linear, waste-oriented water-borne sanitation system and invented a sustainable way to recover nutrients as phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen for a resource-oriented Circular Economy. The project safely recovers nutrients from consumed food, the contents of dry public and private toilets and produces quality-assured humus fertiliser for horticultural purposes storing carbon in the soil.

In the Poruba district, senior citizens make up about a quarter of the population. The challenge is to provide them with adequate and modern housing with accessible social services.

The project aimed to build accessible rental housing and to make the Dělnická Street site more attractive. It involved the complete reconstruction of the building on Dělnická Street into a residential home for the elderly with care services and premises used as a municipal police station, café and garage.

Artemisia Academy, a villa confiscated from the mafia, is an innovative model of housing, residential and tourism-social mix. A part of the Villa was destined to an apartment group for Italian neo-adults and former unaccompanied foreign minors, allocating the additional spaces to catering activities, tourist-hotel reception co-managed by the same boys; a place where the young inhabitants of the house will have the opportunity to start from scratch, giving themselves a second chance.

A Village Point is a place where residents can meet and find missing former services. The Village Point is run by people with disabilities. With the Village Point, we want to connect people and invest in a warm and caring neighbourhood. We do this by moving towards a new care system in which we do our own connecting and innovative business with the local community as the driving force and with a focus on people with increased vulnerability. Today, there are 5 Village Points in the Westhoek.

Building on the visions of the residents and local authorities, and through a process of engagement and co-creation with communities of interest and communities of influence, ReCreate has reinvented public spaces for communities in the highly dense urban environment of Senglea, Malta. The project has led to the co-creation of two public spaces and pop-up park art, and has served as fertile ground for experimentation on how to co-create green spaces with and for communities.

An ecological restoration project in a formerly industrial area that provides the Cabo Llanos neighborhood of Santa Cruz de Tenerife with its first green public space. This banana trees and endemic plants garden that surrounds a former oil tank, reused as a cultural space since 1997, recalls the agricultural landscape prior to industrialization, staging the city as a place of coexistence for diverse cultures and sensibilities that shape the identity of the city.

Precollinear Park: a Turin-based placemaking project transforming a former tramway bed into an urban linear park ー a new community hub as a response to Covid-19. The project was born out of participatory planning and generated a community of over 120 volunteers that develop and upkeep the reconquered public space. Furnished with reused co-designed materials, it has become a focal point for the local community, hosting gatherings, cultural events and even lessons partnering with nearby schools.