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The project is based on the ecological restoration as well as the biodiversity and ecosystem regeneration of the Rec Comtal, a historical water canal from the 10th century.

Rec Comtal, one of the most important hydraulic infrastructures in Barcelona, was in a degradation process due to the abandonment it suffered in recent years; therefore, the driving force of the project is to recover and protect its ecological values and transform them into a green infrastructure.

iThanks is the first digital assistant that solves the problem of food waste in supermarkets and groceries stores.
For UN, food waste is the problem number one for CO2 pollution, water consumption, plastic waste and money loss in stores.
iThanks give an answer to all these problem controlling the deadline of food products on shelfs and give to stores an important assistant to save money, food, time work and carry the food distribution to 4.0 saving the planet.

Clau Mestra is a housing cooperative project born from the local neighbor's fight against housing speculation and to reclaim the use of abandoned buildings. Clau Mestra is part of Sostre Civic, a housing cooperative developer that aims to promote an alternative housing model, fairer and more accessible, not-for-profit and transformative. The project emerged from a public-cooperative collaboration and consisted on the renovation of the old school teacher's houses using eco-social values.

- The project is closely related to the needs of our school.
-Obstacles we encounter in obtaining different services.
- School students, due to the lack of technological materials, do not manage to practice in the subject of informatics and foreign language. - The young people of the village do not have a place where they can get services using technology, and norms of solidarity and reciprocity, which are essential for our communities, are not developed to the right extent.

The principal public square in the Majorcan municipality of Sencelles was used during decades as a parking lot. This project recuperates the plaza as the town’s preeminent social space. With citizen participation, we were able to recover the plaza as a venue for markets, dances, and processions. The design provides universal access, by integrating a ramp and eliminating barriers; sustainability, by creating a microclimate; and historic integration, by using local materials.

Neurodiverse people face difficulties using public play areas. ASD Publics has developed autism-friendly design guidelines and an innovative co-creation method, including a performative workshop methodology, to co-design inclusive public playgrounds with and for autistic children and their families. These have been tested in four co-creation workshops that explored new ways of engaging autistic children through play and creative ways of exploring multi-sensoriality and connectivity with space.

The new Fanton Bivouac is a protective shell at high altitude, a rough-hewn sloped volume that inhabits the Marmarole saddle in the Dolomites, a boundless space at 2667 m.a.s.l, a context made of rock, light, wind, snow and distances.
Its fibreglass body bends along the cliff profile and draws a visual tracer, an attempt to amplify and frame the landscape, a space coagulated around the tension between the vastness of the natural architecture of the Alps and the minute one of the bivouac

This is a unique district library, located in a dense urban node of the city of Barcelona, a sculptural volume inspired by stacked blocks of books and seated on a square slightly elevated above the street and whose large gaps and voids dialogue with the environment.
The access arcade extends the pedestrian and cultural axis of the neighborhood and connects with the interior central courtyard that connects all of floors and brings natural light into the heart of the building.

The aim of this project was to refurbish an existing playing field into something that provides infants, toddlers, younger and older kids, teenagers, adults, elderly, persons with special needs, families, and work staff groups with opportunities to engage in play, gatherings, discussions, interactions, and relaxation while being a stepping stone towards closing the gap in age and life conditions currently experienced by todays’ life rhythm as well as providing a safe, secure, green environment a

The BIRN BiH and the Srebrenica Memorial Center opened a new memory room, in a place of a transformed ancient battery factory, which now serves as an exhibition center. The room and video archive of 100 video testimonies along with collected items from the victims family members, became part of a permanent exhibition. The place of suffering is transformed in place of memorialization, which will contribute to the local community healing and combat genocide denial.