Chengene Skele is a small bay in the southern part of the Burgas Bay. The exceptional natural features and preserved traditional crafts related to fisheries turn the village into an area with potential for tourism development. “Chengene skele” is the only authentic fishing village on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast – a place with a unique spirit and character, which still preserves the fishing tradition and impresses every visitor.
My Square was a project co-designed with the local community. A semi-abandoned square with a park and a theatrical stage was brought back to life, with the help of the Municipality Youth Volunteer Group and the locals. Various environmental and cultural activities, such as tree planting and the development of an audio-walk with the locals’ memories of the square, increased the sense of belonging, which led to the revitalization of the space since the locals are now visiting the place.
The La Jaira de Ana OCIRIF project was born from the need to create spaces free of violence, which generate quality family moments and strengthen the mother-child bond.
Its objective is, on the one hand, the rehabilitation of support networks based on healthy leisure and the reinforcement of links connected with the natural environment.
On the other hand, create a space to share among women through the creation of workshops related to the primary sector.
Nemuno7 is a river engineering and landscape design project that is unique in Europe and which serves as a public cultural space. The object made from river dredger combines technological history, heritage and contemporary architecture, and became a new attraction in Lithuania for locals and tourists. A dredger placed on the bank of the Nemunas river near the village Zapyškis became a cultural centre for visual art, interdisciplinary collaboration, science and creativity.
Narrative infrastructure makes personal memory meaningful to how we collectively evolve our communities. By mapping oral histories in Cyprus, we move memories from minds and books to the landscape. By mapping memories to an area of influence, they can overlap one another and other relevant economic, policy, conflict, and environmental data sets. We can propose design or policy responses that largely rely on the authentic voice of locals, building a future in continuity with local living memory.
a former luxury hotel is converted into a housing and employment project for the inclusion of homeless people. around the centre of the project, permaculture-farming, more and more functions settled in the course of the project development. architecture as process for with-and-through-one-another / The hybrid concept at VinziRast am Land shows what architecture can achieve when it identifies and exploits opportunities beyond the drawing board.
Sculptural Installation Garden 2123 is a sustainable public garden, designed to create inclusive space for communities and a platform for empowering societal memory via innovative strategy of reusing materials, leftover in the processes of regeneration of public spaces. It accentuates the immaterial inheritance and creates environment for bonding relationships between different cultures, generations and communities, enhancing a sense of belonging.
Prague spots is a project that aims to support a sustainable urban environment by supporting urban communities, developing culture, and focusing on the active involvement of all age and social groups of society. The purpose of the project is to revive the neglected, non-functional, or unused public space of Prague in cooperation with local actors.
The Anttila Farm Incubator urban concept stems from the will to create an efficient fusion between the urban and the rural environment, offering the inhabitants the activities and peacefulness of the rural setting with the commodities and density of a semi-urban settlement. The creation of a cooperative agro-productive community is the starting point to achieve this concept by assuring the economical sustainability of the site while keeping the culture and heritage of the site.
