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Can a project promoting inclusion for vulnerable people become added value for the whole community? The MOI initiative is a public-private partnership addressing the needs of the inhabitants of 4 occupied degraded buildings in Turin. More than 800 people were transferred and accompanied toward independent housing and working solutions. The buildings were liberated, renovated and transformed into a social housing project for students and youth, giving the area back to the people living there

Annunciation Square, a focal point for the Stella Maris community in Sliema, has been transformed from a busy street flanked by two rows of perpendicular parking lots into a paved square with orderly parking and reduced traffic. Public squares in the cities and villages have long played an important role in the life of our nation, and this square is no exception.

Buildings that rotate to follow the Sun, just like sunflowers, producing clean energy to power themselves and electric vehicles, while giving the users different views through the day.
Through Artificial Intelligence, the buildings can also be set to behave autonomously, adapting their behavior (rotation, opening windows, closing shutters) to reduce energy consumption for climatization and/or to maximize energy production.

The project is an inspirational reinvention of a small town in Jiu Valley (RO) mourning its mining industry's disappearance & transitioning from a male-led economy to a gender balanced one where women’s role is more central.Local enthusiasts supported by change agents stopped community's dissolution by reinventing a former coal mine as a beautiful, sustainable, inclusive central stage.Planeta Planeta is a place anchored in locals' memory, where all actors meet & experience feelings of belonging.

Sacromonte Caves Museum is a participatory project piloted by local residents’ organisation ”Vaivén-Paraíso”, to restore natural, cultural and social heritage in the valley of the Darro River. The area, in Granada (Spain) has been a refuge for ethnic minorities – particularly gypsies – since the 15th century. Residents worked with various partners to rehabilitate traditional dwellings and caves, create a botanical garden and an area for performances and projections, where visitors can discover Roma people culture and local biodiversity.

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.