ReinventingCities”

DESCRIPTION

The main theme that emerges from this competition is, in fact, that of balance. Balance between carbon dioxide produced and absorbed, between costs and revenues, between built environment and nature, between public and private. All these relationships have a significant impact on human life. However, the world today is negatively imbalanced in each of these aspects. Therefore, a simple neutral impact is not enough; we must think big, beyond the area in which we operate, and reverse the course. If we truly want to improve the future that awaits us, we must develop a project with a positive balance, favoring climate, economy, nature, and community.

Of course, real change is possible only if we adopt scalable ideas and architectures capable of truly adapting to different physical, regulatory, and cultural contexts. Each place will undoubtedly require its interpretation of the original concept, but this does not simply mean adding the word “reproducibility”; it means creating an idea that can adapt without losing its essence. To be replicable, architecture must free itself from the constraints of the terrain (which can then return to its natural state) and foresee the possibility of creating relationships with the context, both physical and cultural, while maintaining a predetermined overall organization. Therefore, we should not think of a rigid solution, but rather a system with certain degrees of freedom, capable of reconfiguring and adapting to people’s worldview.

The project covers 110% of the CO2 emissions it produces throughout its lifecycle. It creates an economic activity that provides low-cost housing for students, effectively transforming the entire area, currently used as a parking lot, into a public park, and establishing mechanisms of interaction with the social context. Both the architecture (during the design phases) and the landscape (throughout its lifecycle) are intended to be influenced by people, allowing the architecture and the space in general to express the viewpoint of those who inhabit them once again.