Radical Urban Intervention E-Book

RADICAL URBAN THE INTERVENTION RADICAL DESIGN PROJECT Winners + Selected Entries August 30 - November 30, 2020

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Foreword

hese are exciting times for the revitalization of city centers / urban core areas across the world. The world today is 56% urbanized and the UN expects the continued rise of urbanization to 68% of the global population living in cities by 2050. With suburbs losing their attraction, more people are choosing to live within the urban core and work in the city, drive less and improve their quality of life. These paradigm shifts are opening up amazing opportunities to create interesting / vibrant mixed-use developments and open spaces within existing urban areas (infill development). These could be standalone buildings or redevelopment of underutilized building blocks or simply a park system that infuses new life in the city.

ArcDeck sought proposals for ‘Radical Urban Intervention’ for urban

core or downtown areas from planners, urban designers, architects, creatives and anyone related to the real estate industry by way of our second competition: Radical Urban Intervention (RUI).

Participants were asked to select a city anywhere in the world and suggest a design intervention that could radically improve its sense of place and quality of life for residents + visitors. The intervention can be any one of the following proposals: 1. a new building typology that is missing or in short supply in an existing city downtown area / town center (infill site); 2. tear-down and rebuild of existing building(s) to create new one in its place or an agglomeration of buildings (which retains and houses the original uses in a creative way);

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3. suggest a mass transit intervention by way of improving / appending access to downtown and/or connect existing landmark(s); 4. propose park(s) / open space(s) / linear park network(s) on infill site(s) without tearing down any existing buildings or structures.

The competition received registrations from 75+ countries making it a bigger success than our previous competition!

We were amazed with the quality of submissions for the Radical Urban Intervention competition from all around the world. The submissions varied from radical designs for cultural to social to environmental interventions within cities

around the world - which was exactly what we sought while launching this competition.

Congratulations to all the winners!

The submissions were judged on the following 3 basic criteria to create a shortlist of Top 3 and Top 10 entries from 2 categories, i.e. Professional Category and Student Category that aligned the most with them: 1. Innovative Concept / Idea (groundbreaking, radical, disruptive) 2. Applicability / Validity in the Real World (how likely is the idea able to adapt in the real world?)

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3. Presentation / Illustration / Graphics to explain the idea Presented in this book are the Top 3 & Top 10 entries as well as entries that are honorary mentions from both ‘Professional’ and ‘Student’ categories. These entries are also available on our website at ArcDeck.net as well as on our social media handles.

We welcome any feedback relating to the entries or any other aspect of the competition. Please write to us at: hello@arcdeck.net Thank you and we hope you find these entries of value and serve to initiate the dialogue about what’s next for the design industry!

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3 Open space as adhesive Changing a Barrier to a Connection By: Pei-Jou Shih | Taiwan

With more population living in urban areas and COVID-19 hit unexpectedly in 2020, the open space’s quality and quantity become more crucial than ever in the city. How do we, as designers, turn the underutilize land into enjoyable open spaces and provide a platform for people to interact with each other safely? How do we create more outdoor activities for people to gather and enjoy the natural environment? And, how do we restore the torn urban fabric and create a new image for the neighborhood?

Framework: Easy-assembling Modular frameworks are the project’s basic units, starting with a small pilot site and flexibly extending the project scale through JianGua elevated road and the surrounding neighborhood.

Open Space Interventions: In order to blend the liner space under JianGua elevated highway with the park and open spaces nearby, open spaces interventions are added to improve the spatial OPEN SPACE AS ADHESIVE aims to take the underutilized connection such as landmarks, parks, Observation Deck, space underneath and surrounded the JianGua elevated Autonomous Vehicle Shuttle Station, pedestrian bridge, highway as the experiment sites to create alternatives to commercial spaces, Plaza, and outdoor theater. improve the use and re-integrate the fragmented public Other than frameworks and open space interventions, spaces into the urban context. The JianGua elevated OPEN SPACE AS ADHESIVE also includes the supporting highway is located in Taipei City, Taiwan. Completed in system (transportation, media, and greenery) to the early 1980s, it is a critical traffic arterial. However, strengthen the project’s functions. the roadway is highly disruptive to the urban fabric, as it cuts through the very center, a densely developed area, Transportation: of Taipei City. The space below the highway has limited Other than enhancing the existing transportation network. uses and unpleasant conditions, such as a weekend The east side frame systems with AV shuttle increase flower market and parking lot. For this project, I developed existing transportation capacity as new open space will a design concept that looked to change the highway’s draw more people to the area. image, introduce multiple land use functions, and heal the damages created by the roadway.

Media - Screen Wall: Installing the screen wall to the frameworks to transform The OPEN SPACE AS ADHESIVE’s Strategy is to construct JianGua Elevated Highway elevation as media responds to easy-assembling frameworks on the east and west side the neighborhood’s typology, character, and atmosphere. of the JianGua elevated highway to re-organize the site and as the backbone of the whole project. And, a series of Greenery: multi-use open space interventions are developed as the Adding the greenery elements throughout the whole incubator for various activities based on the frameworks. project to reduce the hot island effect in the city. The west With the frameworks and open space interventions, The side framework includes vertical farm units that allow OPEN SPACE AS ADHESIVE can blend the torn urban the residents to grow the plants and increase greenery fabric by JianGua elevated highway and recreate the coverage in the city. neighborhood’s image.

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3 From financial enclave to a unique financial center By: Sun Yaofei | China

Issues: Lujiazui CBD is 30 years old now, the mono-functional financial enclave limits it to become the true center of Shanghai. As a regional financial center, there is a big gap with other international in terms of the inadequate facility and amenities, unpleasant and scattered open spaces and the less chances for talents to communicate and exchange the ideas.

Vision: In the future, Lujiazui will not only become a specialized financial hub for China, but also take on the mission of the new Shanghai center to carry high-density mixed social activities. This design re-controls the architectural space and public space elements through the urban guidelines and cultivates diversified CBD functions.

Everyone can enjoy convenient, charming, dynamic and innovative environment and services.in this case, we proposed 3 principles which are: 1. Typology and morphology innovation The 1st story of redevelopments fronting key streets, pedestrian malls, through block links, and public spaces should inject activity-generating uses; the main road divides the site into 7 sub-units. The plan uses each sub-unit as a continuous shared space; The green axis is introduced into the site to connect the central green space to the city, and at the same time to enhance the experience of the horizontal continuous public space, connect the site’s various node facilities in series; due to the division of the main road, the design introduces The link system connects the fragmented plots through the building podium.

2. Seamless connection The design simplify the traffic flow of the site, each building will only keep one private car pick-up point and underground parking. At the same time, parking spaces are centralized which adjacent to multimodal transportation hub to absorb most of the parking demand, thereby reducing the traffic demand for each building; Each sub-unit plot has its own transfer node which provides multiple modes of transportation to achieve seamless connection; Micro-motor vehicles have the flexibility of use that public mass transportation cannot provide, and increase the flexibility, adaptability of the multimodal transportation system. Through the application of the Internet of Things, the paving of roads and public spaces interacts with cars and people to encourage the flexibility of the space. The design provides a rich and textured walking experience, from urban covered walkways to natural ecological corridors.

3. 24-hour financial center As a vibrant city center, we encourage the composite of functions and the mixing of three dimensions. Following the principle that the higher the more private and the closer to the ground, the more public. The upper floors are equipped with A-class office and luxury hotels, while the podium is more open, encouraging the transformation into a shared entrepreneurial community and supporting service facilities for the general public. Utilize the strong flow of people at transfer nodes to juxtapose transportation facilities such as parking and commercial or public service facilities to form a social platform open to the city.

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FROM FINANCIAL ENCLAVE TO UNIQUE FINANCIAL CENTER EXISTING

FUTURE 1/ The center of urban life-high-density social activities/ functional mix;

1/ Financial park/enclave with mono-function 2/ As a regional financial center, there is a big gap with other international cities;

2/ An international financial cluster led by the financial industry, demonstrating national economic strength and national strength;

3/ The industrial ecology is weak, and the couumnication and exchange of talents between enterprises is blocked;

3/ Accelerate talent exchange and industry interaction (public space forums, etc.);

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5/ The transportation and infrastructure facilities are seriously inadequate.

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1/ Compared with other financial CBDs, most of the buildings in Lujiazui are scattered in the middle of the plots in isolation, with no connection to each other, the blocks do not form a complete urban texture, and most of the open spaces do not realize basic urban functions. Separate building units have also led to the lack of the overall characteristics of this CBD.

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2/ There are multiple subway stations in other financial CBDs in the world, but there is only one subway station in the Lujiazui CBD area. Many financial professionals and white-collar workers, guests and tourists all enter and exit through this subway station, which is seriously congested.

At the same time, the time and accessibility from the subway station to the office building are not satisfactory.

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3/ In other CBDs, each building generally only has one car entrance/drop-off area, and almost every building in Lujiazui has 2-3 drop-offs. due to car bypassing most of facades Losing the possibility of becoming an active interface which is extremely unfriendly to walkers. The open space next to the car aisle was also occupied due to excessive illegal parking.

4/ The buildings and pedestrians in Lujiazui CBD present two main trends: pedestrians path is close to the building, but the edge of podium is closed for activity to generate; there is a large space between the building facade and pedestrians, but they are separated by a large number of illegal parking or vegetation. Both situations lead to a sense of rejection when pedestrians walk on the street, making the psychological distance of commuting longer.

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ZHANG BUSINESSMAN AGE:45 CUSTOMISED BREAKFAST ZHANG is a businessman and has no time to waste. He prefers to have breakfast at his desk, in office, while starting up his computer and accessing the stock exchange agencies. Finally, the new CBD allows him to come earlier in office: there are plenty of car parks now, and his office has an agreement with the “Ring”. Therefore he has a dedicated place just for his car: very convenient and easy to access beside that Zhang love to grab his White Latte with double sugar and Cheese & Ham bagel from the coffee shop on the bridge. Zhang has a systematic routine and is so predictable that the coffeeshop guys know him well by now! They already know what to prepare for him. So every morning they prepare his breakfast and delivery it to him as a take-away.

And for a businessman like him, this unique and personalised treatment is perfect!

XIU ENTREPRENEUR AGE:39

LI RETIRED PHOTOGRAPHER AGE:70

FIRST THING IN THE MORNING

LUNCH AND PICTURES

XIU is a young lady full of energy and passion.

She has a great determination, and that’s why she didn’t want to work for others. She preferred to start her own business as a digital market expert soon.

She buys and sells goods online. She decided to rent a couple of desks and a meeting room in the co-working area at the CDB. She loves to work remotely, but sometimes it is necessary to meet with her employees and, after the WFH experience, she decided to have a face to face conversation at least once a week.

Co-working space is the best place to do that. She needs to book a meeting room once per week! The workspace is clean, well equipped and comfortable to book. After this morning meeting, she has some clients to attend. And then lunch at 13:00! Now CBD has so many food options, but she loves a lovely Brasserie right downstairs!

LI is a retired photographer. She is now 70! Yet full of energy and joy! She worked so many years portraiting people and recording with her photographs many life’s moments across the city and beyond it. She lives close by the CBD. FANG no longer posses a laboratory, and she already has sold the small shop. But she still loves to take pictures and was one of the first Chinese women to embrace the digital era! Today she will meet her friends at the Hawker Centre below the Ring. She likes that place since it offers a wide range of choices: her friends have so many different tastes! FANG loves to spend time there, enjoying a good meal while taking some pictures at her friend’s laughing, playing with their nephews or simply appreciating the beautiful surrounding landscape.

MAX SON OF EMPLOYEE IN CBD AGE:7

JOHN VLOGER BLOGGER AGE:41

AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT

A FLIGHT IN THE FUTURE

MAXIMILIAN or just Max, is a 7 years German boy. His MAXIMILIAN, parents are ex-pats and works for German Insurance Firm.

They live close by the CBD. He frequents the second grade

JOHN is a famous British influencer with millions of followers online. He started his vlog years ago to share his adventures travelling around the world. His success is a mix of super-natural and hyper-technology stories.

He tries to influence the younger, warning them about climate change and social desegregation. His videos and materials are so cool and most of the time are a try breakthrough experience. He is in Shanghai to visit and testimony a new transportation operator in town: the drone-taxi company. He also wanted to stay in one of the famous capsule hotels at CBD reporting this evolution of the iconic Japanese ones. Tomorrow he has a tour at the top of the Ring, where driverless auto drone-taxi are ready to bring him back to airport lounge pad. He is so excited: after the Mag-Lev, this city really has made another pioneer step forward into the future!

of a private school. Max was not born in China. Therefore his native language is German. He needs some help for his Chinese learning. Thankfully there is an excellent Enrichment Centre right at the top of the Ring. Max frequents a Chinese course there in the afternoon. The place is convenient. His parents’ office is in the CDB. After the lesson, he plays in the top garden while waiting to get back home. He loves the playground area and games and has already a lot of friends coming from all over the world.

It looks like a little gang taking over the circular top for a couple of hours. In the evening, his parents come to pick him up for dinner. This is his best moment of the day: when they take the driverless car to be driven back home. He found the driverless car WUNDERBAR!

FANGWANG RIDER AGE:24 ALTERNATIVE APERITIVO FANG is a young lady rider. She delivers anything by bike. She put together a start-up with some close friends, all very passionated by cycling! They are super fitted and able to run hundreds of kilometres per day! Wang loves nature, and her cycling passion is her way to live a more sustainable life. She shares this principle with her friends.

Together they do business by distributing and delivering at zero CO2 emissions! At the same time, cycling is a way to know the city and to enjoy undetected and hidden places that she treasures so much.

Tonight they will meet for their weekly reunion at the juice bar: a place serving energetic and organic veggie juices!

A sort of natural “Aperitivo” before the weekend. And they love that juice bar since it’s immersed in one of the best landscape of the city. The place is also. Convenient for the recharging stations integrated into the public space: the right place for those using an electric bicycle ...

LINA RESTAURANT OWNER AGE:51

ZOE LAWYER AGE:35

BASTIANO DANCER AGE:25

NOODLES OR SOBA?

THE PUMPING HEART OF SHANGHAI

... AND SAMBA FOR ALL!

LI NA is the owner of a famous fusion restaurant at CBD. Her restaurant is specialized in Noodles and Soba. They make fresh Noodles and Soba for every meal! They mix Chinese and Japanese food uniquely and beautifully.

Asian customers love it! CBD is a strategic place for her business. Her restaurant seats right at the podium of a giant tower. There’s plenty of customers both for lunch and for dinner, no mentioning the take-aways. LI NA’s life is pretty busy: so many things to take care. But her hard work is paying back! The restaurant is going very well, and she loves its atmosphere, especially in the evening when the frenetic rhythm of work slows a bit, people are more relaxed and friendly, and she can appreciate the light show outside her window. What a fantastic place for a delicious dinner!

ZOE works as a commercial lawyer. She is specialised in taking care of international contracts and agreement for the most critical and prominent company in the market. She is currently at Shanghai for a series of meetings with the Asiatic Branch. They usually would venue the meeting at the Ritz, or at the Bellagio. But this time, Zoe decided to book the platform at the business centre of CBD, since the nature of their clients.

She found the place appropriated and very convenient for everybody. The two days summit run very smoothly: they loved the opening to the green podiums and the easy access to the vibe common ground. She also used her free time to get some souvenirs and presents for her family. Tonight they are going to have a nice drink at the top of Shanghai Tower. The place is excellent!

Ideal for relaxes a bit after so many amendments, negotiations and bureaucratic work! She felt it was a great idea to bring the summit here at CBD: this really is the centre, the pumping heart of Shanghai!

BASTIANO JOAO COMIBRA DE LA CORONILLA Y AZEVEDO is a 100% Carioca young Brazilian Samba Dancer. He was born dancing, as he said! His Latin nature brought to become a professional dancer, acting in colourful performances around the world.

His last performance was done some days ago in Shanghai Dancing Dancing Festival. He decided to took some days to visit the city, especially the CBD, because of its extraordinary high scrapers. He didn’t know about the CBD and was fascinated to walk the place and meet the local culture, food and street vibe before taking the lift to the top of Shanghai Tower.

Seen from above, the Ring looks like a giant Chinese Coin dropped over the park. What a breathtaking view!

Unbelievable! He was lucky to book the nighttime shift to deeply enjoy the light show of the place and the incredible skyline running side by the side of the river.

Bastiano decided to have a drink at the top of the Ring admiring the skyscrapers from below. He can go back to his hotel easily by the metro. Next time he must stay in a hotel nearby!

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3 Envisioning the future queen city: A green-blue loop to address ecological, social and economic inequity By: Yanling Mo | USA

On the eastern shore of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the second largest city in the U.S. state of New York and the largest city in Western New York. The city grew significantly in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of immigration, the construction of the Erie Canal and rail transportation, and its proximity to Lake Erie. This growth provided an abundance of fresh water and an ample trade route to the Midwestern United States while grooming its economy for the grain, steel and automobile industries that dominated the city’s economy in the 20th century. Nowadays, Buffalo’s economy has transitioned to service industries.

mental health; more likely to experience displacement physically, socially, economically, and culturally.

For upcoming developments, to address the inequity issues, corresponding strategies are proposed from four parts which are ecological, social, economic and political.

1) Ecological strategies: Habitat connection (de-fragmentation), multifunctionality of green space - riverfront enhancement (channelization, industry pollution) - shoreline protection (erosion).

2) Social strategies: The First Ward built Buffalo and, to some degree, America. Open space accessibility & connectivity - cultural/historical The industries that blossomed along the shores of linkage (community belonging) - landscape antidotes the Buffalo river and Lake Erie are largely responsible (post-covid / urban shelter / mental, physical health). for creating Buffalo as a manufacturing and industrial powerhouse. Even though they had faded, the rich 3) Economic strategies: memory and cultural heritage would never. However, Diversity (tourism / hospitality / real estate-future housing it still has ecological, social, and economic inequity needs) - Accessibility (transportation). problems: 1) the median household income across the neighborhoods is lower than the city overall and more 4) Political strategies: than 1/3 of residents fall below the poverty line. 2) Few Community Land Trust: equity homeownership, residents have an education beyond high school, which permanently affordable houses - Other non-profit may limit their earning potential. 3) owning a home in organization take the lease from former owner (public these neighborhoods is relatively low cost, many are land or not) to revitalize the historical sites - rent to overly burdened by housing costs, especially renters with have different city events - hire residents to manage low income. 4) Although nearly half of households do and maintain the sites - rent to residents to have small not have access to a vehicle, over a third of adults have business events with low price. limited physical activities, which contributes to poor health outcomes, such as high blood pressure and obesity. 5) Compared to the City overall, neighborhoods residents are less likely to be physically active; more likely to have physical health issues; more likely to experience poor

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10 Park and City Center in San Diego By: Melissa Loredo | Mexico

The main purpose of this architectural project is to create an infill development that will support the existing strong residential community within downtown San Diego.

Overexposed and contradictory to the endemic high and almost tragically squared shaped buildings that skyline Downtown’s appearance a radical urban and mass intervention takes place in a public parking Actual California State and more in concrete San Diego’s space where land use is vanished by appropriation folklore is globally recognized because it provides with and ambiguity, giving place to an interstice to occur inmulticultural spaces which are based upon mutual respect between the continuous and never-ending urbanization and can take advantage of the sweet golden clime. Also, of worlds. Future cities accomplishing and alleviating “Park and City Center in San Diego” frames the new public urban congestion that intersect with the inherent need to space with a unique self-identity that is created along with create urban parks that allocate sustainable development a variety of convenient services and amenities. Further, meeting and finding solutions to individual and society its innovative design evokes a sense of a protected and needs scarce. Contemporary buildings lack quality secure enclosure as a response to specificities identified exterior areas; hence density prioritizes housing, industry, in its context, environment, and existing conditions of the and commerce typologies within a mixed-used building site. environment surrounded by trees and soft landscaping likewise “Park and City Center in San Diego”.

The concept of inspiration refers ultimately to the speech behind great works of art such as “Water Lilies” by Monet, Consequently, an intermediate space in the urban grid a radical and enormous lily canvas distinguished for its invites you to transcend the articulation of the unknown rhythmic compassed composition, form and accurate Perhaps artistic immortality has a direct an almost subjectivity relative to time and space in which this set symbiotic relationship with the economic, social, and of paintings where created. The conceptual architectonic political effects of the heuristic design endeavor to design process began emphasizing the structural function confront mass acceptance within the different scales and and the process of a flower bud that is ready to open and unities of stakeholders. blossom into a mature and usually symmetric flower.

Incorporated into high-quality architecture the figurative A wise man once said: “to understand life we must and philosophical discourse of the first approximation to understand nature”. the conceptualization seeks to highlight organic shapes that accompany heuristic behavioral schemes proper of human walking patterns. Simultaneously, providing with a layering of green spaces across the built “Public square” which can be observed linearly and perceived from long and short distances thus, shuns the idea of a blind wall in an area susceptible to mass transit or in other words the urban moving and living cycle that occurs in metropolitan centers.

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The main purpose of the following Architectural project is to create an infill development that will support the existing strong residential community within Downtown San Diego. Actual California State and more in concrete San Diego’s folklore is worldwide recognized because it provides with multicultural spaces which base upon mutual respect and can take advantage of the sweet golden clime. Also, “Park and City Center in San Diego” frames the new public space with a unique self-identity that is created along with a variety of convenient services and amenities.

Further, its innovative design evokes a sense of a protected and secure enclosure as a response to specificities identified in its context, environment, and existing conditions of the site.

The concept of inspiration refers ultimately to the speech behind great works of art such as “Water lilies” by Monet, a radical and enormous lily canvasses distinguished for is rhythmic compassed composition, form, and accurate subjectivity relative to the time and space in which this set of paintings where created.

The conceptual architectonic design process began emphasizing the structural function and the process of a flower bud that is ready to open and blossom into a mature and usually symmetric flower. Incorporated into high-quality architecture the figurative and philosophical discourse of the first approximation to the conceptualization seeks to highlight organic shapes that accompany heuristic behavioral schemes proper of human walking patterns.

Simultaneously, providing with a layering of green spaces across the built “Public square” which can be observed linearly and perceived from long and short distances thus, shuns the idea of a blind wall in an area susceptible to mass transit or in other words the urban moving and living cycle that occurs in metropolitan centers.

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Overexposed and contradictory to the endemic high and almost tragically squared shaped buildings that skyline Downtown’s appearance a radical urban and mass intervention takes place in a public parking space where land use is vanished by appropriation and ambiguity, giving place to an interstice to occur in-between the continuous and never-ending urbanization of worlds.

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10 Valparaiso Public Park, Chile By: Xie + Pezo | Chile

Valparaiso, a city of nearly 300 thousand inhabitants, is Chile’s main port. The bay is surrounded by hills that generate a sort of natural amphitheater. In this astounding scenario, the city unfolds between a plain near the sea which is mainly composed of early 20th century buildings and a chain of hills covered with small houses, creating a landscape of “pixels” that follow the geography. Our conflict relates to the National Congress building, situated in this city, which origins go back to a dark period in which the country was under military government orders, so it ś historical load keeps a negative legacy within the urban memory. From the architecture, one of the main characteristics of the building, and at the same time it ś biggest problem, is that even though its magnitude was appropriate for a National Congress, it was way too big and tall for a city like Valparaiso.

Even though the site was spacious enough to hold the building, the scale of the construction far exceeds the average of the buildings in Valparaiso, blocking and interfering the ocean views. Besides, programmatically speaking, it doesn’t have any relation to the city nor its citizens. The contradiction that a public building with a supposedly public park is latticed is not coherent with the “citizen building” speech that is trying to deliver, nor does the political class that works inside the building relate whatsoever to the citizens, so if they removed the fences people would rush in the building to burn it down and destroy it.

The Congress of Valparaiso represents the anger of the people and also the unequal situation of the country, embodied in a way of doing architecture. The project looks to generate a true citizens space for social contact and the enhancement of pre-existing buildings, besides from topping off a series of squares that articulate a kind

of “human corridor” in which the street commerce is key.

In order to achieve this, it is necessary to remove the congress.

It is a question people have always asked themselves: How would Valparaiso be without the Congress? We imagine it like this. A citizen’s park resulting from the vacant space left by the façades of the environment, much like the old Italian ”piazzas”, this vacant lot would become the first large park for Valparaiso, and will never be fenced.

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10 La MariposaThe catalyst for downtown Los Angeles By: Stephen Popovich Associates Inc. | Canada

The Arts District of Los Angeles, California is bounded on the west by Los Angeles’ Downtown core, and the Los Angeles River to the east. From the District’s origin as active vineyards in the mid 1800’s, through citrus fruit warehousing and distribution in the early 1900’s to manufacturing and rail freight facilities, it fell into decline in the mid-20th characterizing the District by vacant buildings and depressed property values. A change in the City’s Land Use policies in the early 1980’s created the rise of a local artist community who flourished with the affordability the vacant industrial buildings provided as studio and living spaces.

Creating an intervention that: • Is a catalyst for Urban Revitalization and Renewal • Promotes a Measured and District appropriate Infill Development CONCEPT/IDEA: • Create a propose driven open space system based on the principle of a linear park network.

• Generate a renewed awareness for the significance of the District recognizing the District’s potential for Urban Renewal and Revitalization

THE INTERVENTION: Our strategic intervention is built upon the core principles • Interconnected ellipses linking the District’s significant of preserving, integrating and connecting the historical historic and cultural landmarks. and culturally significant buildings and community • A continuous looped pedestrian network linking to local elements. Our approach emphasizes the integration of mass transit hubs, (SCI-Arc, Metro Division 20 Line, 1st heritage structures as a founding core principle where Street and 2nd Street Viaducts and Los Angeles River). historic cornerstones of the district are anchors for our • While connecting the District’s heritage elements, also intervention. Places that commemorate and celebrate integrates underutilized urban spaces and reinforces the heritage of the District. The strategic location of the the District’s connection with the Los Angeles River.

District, relative to Los Angeles’ downtown core and the • The loop provides a range of public open space Los Angeles River, reinforce the District’s connections opportunities and experiences while weaving its way within the City’s urban fabric attracting real estate through the District and interconnecting with the City at investment, promoting connectivity to the City-wide large. mass transit and open space systems thus infusing • The diversity of size and configurations of outdoor an initiative to restore, enhance and sustain social, spaces along the loop provide both active energized environmental and economic value within the District. Our areas (Railway Amphitheater, Los Angeles overlook) strategic intervention is aimed at redefining the character while provide contrasting opportunities for passive and of the place being a catalyst for change, renewal and reflective spaces. revitalization of the District.

• The horizontal space fluctuates from linear to meandering encouraging and providing for a variety GOALS: of activities and spaces adaptable to all ages and Endearing historical, cultural and social connections demographics. within the future vision for the District Bringing forward • The 3 mile network of pedestrian and cycling trails prominence and appreciation of the community’s heritage. connects the District’s cultural nodes with core City infrastructure and access to primary public transportation system affording a more compact pattern of land use at grade.

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10 Piccadilly Circus, London The London Museum of Film & Photography By: Studio IB | UK

Introduction Piccadilly Circus is the postcard image of the world centre that is London and has been the subject of many urban interventions since the eighteenth century. These design initiatives persist to this day with recent complete site demolition: this competition proposal advocates radical urban intervention to redefine an urban core site in relation to the current climate, pandemic and socio-economic crises that currently grip world cities.

Site Piccadilly Circus is a meeting point of six roadways framed by six buildings, where the urban typology of the circus, literally meaning “circle”, is unique to London in resolving the intersection of urban phenomena.

Piccadilly Circus began in 1819 as Oxford Circus South in the North-South route of Regent Street planned by John Nash to link Regents Park to the Prince Regent’s Carlton House at St James’ Park.

The later addition of Shaftesbury Avenue as an East-West route destroyed Nash’s original circus; the open space leftover was renamed Piccadilly Circus and occupied by a new statue known as Eros. Hence, Piccadilly Circus has never benefitted from a homogenised design, meaning the fragmentation of the Circus is subject to urban design initiatives to this day.

In 2019, the site behind the Piccadilly Advertisement lights was demolished. The site is named after the former Monico restaurant and hotel, a 0.34 hectare triangular shaped site part of the Soho and Chinatown conservation area, adjacent to the Regent Street conservation area.

The site is within the Central Activities Zone and West End International Centre. The area is served by the Piccadilly Circus tube station with additional infrastructure Crossrail 2 predicted by 2030.

Piccadilly Circus is an intersection of roads and buildings, but of urban planning and townscape issues, environmental and historical policy and social and cultural life representative of the city as a whole.

Goal The site behind the retained and recently modernised Piccadilly LED screen is currently demolished brownfield land. This proposal sees an opportunity to create a radical urban intervention that will: 1. Infill the site – renew site massing as part of city fabric with new roofscape; 2. Revitalise the urban setting – Increase access to public infrastructure, pedestrian routes and key vistas; 3. Renew social and cultural fabric – Safeguard local media businesses key to Soho.

Proposed Intervention The proposal is based on the following principles: 1. Safeguard and extend the LED advertising sign fronting Piccadilly Circus; 2. Create new tube station access directly into site, linked to Soho; 3. Divide site between media offices and a Museum of Film and Photography, with additional rooftop viewing platform and cinemaplex.

Summary The current demolished state of the site at Piccadilly Circus is a chance to imagine a Radical Urban intervention that contributes to the history of urban changes that make up London’s city core. Through this, the proposal looks beyond London to consider the role of urban intervention in the definition of the future city as a whole.

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1950s: Piccadilly Picturehouses

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10 Urban Retrofit in Al Nasser St. Damascus, Syria By: Rahaf Khawaji - Mou’ayad Alyghshi | Syria

The city of Damascus is the oldest inhabited capital in the world and because it is the epoch of various civilizations throughout history, it was necessary to study the urban and architectural center of this city in a manner different from the traditional studies.

This project examines the possibility of urban modification in the historical fabric of Nassr Street, while preserving the spatial memory of Damascus Street , through a variety of urban and architectural interventions, scenes framed between the past and the present.

The intervention was made with Four main points: First point: studying the historical buildings that can be preserved with re-employment, in addition to restoration of some old buildings that needed.

Second point: studying an architectural expansion of the existing buildings, but so that the expansion is of a radical modern character.

Third point: the addition of distinct urban elements to the most important points and joints of the axis, as these elements were of a radical nature affecting the novelty of the axis.

Fourth point: the proposal of an interactive axis that passes through all the proposed activities.

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10 Metro Greenhouse By: Marcos Escamilla-Guerrero | Mexico

Main Idea This idea surges in first place by conceiving Chicago as an urban laboratory. The main driver of this idea is the food production, along with the concept of reusing or adapting existing structures. Also, an important factor to take in count is the well famous “CTA” (Chicago Transit Authority) and “The Loop” in Chicago’s Downtown, which is essentially an elevated metro that runs between the buildings of the city in a route of 3.3km. This transportation infrastructure although it is functional and has been there for years, is also ugly and very noisy, that is why a huge impact could be achieved if an intervention is done over it. Another important thing in this project is the idea of improving the city through art, which in this case is materialized into an elevated art gallery that is seen from the ground or pedestrian level as well as while riding the “CTA”. With this new art gallery, people could be able to see beautiful masterpieces in their everyday way to their job or home, making the city more enjoyable and pretty.

Finally, the modularity of this idea is a key factor in order to be reasonable. The proposed module is the result of an adaptation to the existing structure that supports the railways, a module is 12 by 12 meters, so in that sense, each module is reasonably buildable and affordable.

This way of dividing the “Greenhouse” into sections of 12 meters allows it to be flexible in its construction schedule and could be built through the years as budgets and conditions allow it. **The concept can be adapted to any other elevated train or metro infrastructure around the world.

Why? As time goes on, the necessity of producing food for the increasing population in the world is becoming more and more important. That need can not continue to be ignored, and we as architects, urbanists and designers have the obligation to find affordable ways to incorporate producing means in order to help in which will be a food supply crisis.

Being able to take advantage of existing infrastructure seems to be the most reasonable way to achieve this.

Placing a “Greenhouse” over the metro is not just a matter of design or utopian urbanism, is a declaration of which should be the main concern in our cities. For a second let’s imagine how wonderful could be to achieve a harmonic coexistence between an urban ecosystem along with an agricultural production system. Again, making a city greener should not just be a matter of esthetic or design, but rather it should be a matter of function and purpose.

METrO GrEEnHOUSE 1 - THE TOPPING LAYER OF THE MODULE IS ABOUT URBAN FARMING AND NEW WAYS OF PRODUCING FOOD, SUCH AS HYDROPONICS.

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3 - AS IMPORTANT AS MODULARITY IS, MAKING MORE BEAUTIFUL A CITY WILL ALWAYS BE A MAIN DRIVER. IN THIS OCCASION A PUBLIC AND POPULAR ELEVATED ART GALLERY WILL BE THE MEDIUM TO ACHIEVE IT.

4 - MODULARITY IS A KEY DRIVER FOR THIS IDEA. AS IT IS A VERY AMBICIOUS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT, IT’S PROPOSED NATURE ALLOWS IT TO BE CONSTRUCTED MODULE BY MODULE AS TIME AND BUDGET PERMITS. 5 - AS MANY BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO ARE UNTOUCHABLE, THE MAIN ACTION AREA IS MENT TO BE THE STREETS AND AVENUES OF THE DOWTOWN AREA. BETTER STREETS MEAN BETTER CITIES.

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HIERARCHY OF CTA LOOP - AS SHOWN IN THE IMAGE, THE ACTUAL NECESSITIES ARE VERY WELL ORDERED. THE INDIVIDUAL TRANSPORTATION HAS BEEN LEFT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE AVENUE, MEANWHILE THE MASS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, BEST KNOWN AS CTA IN CHICAGO, IS IN THE MIDDLE, KEEPING ITS ACTUAL IMPORTANCE LEVEL. FOR LAST THE ACTUAL AND FUTURE NEED OF PRODUCING FOOD IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY AND IN AN URBAN CONTEXT IS THE TOP PRIORITY IN THESE DAYS, THAT IS WHY IT IS IN THE TOP OF THE NEW AVENUE CONFIGURATION.

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10 6th Street Arts Alley By: LAA Office: Landscape, Art + Architecture | USA

The 6th Street Arts Alley project synthesizes public space and public art to create a new strategy for urbanization in Columbus, Indiana. A small city with a population of just under 50,000, Columbus is nonetheless home to over 60 significant works of architecture, art, and landscapes commissioned and built over the last 80 years. Within the historic downtown, 6th Street is now home to a burgeoning arts and design scene, with several community organizations, creative businesses, and studios concentrated within a one block radius. Our proposal aims to transform this existing street into a flexible space for relaxation, informal gathering, and events.

The proposal can be built up over time with elements that comprise a tool kit for tactical urbanism. An asphalt mural marks the ground with a colorful pattern that unites a street and parking space into an improvised plaza. This pattern also folds vertically and occupies fragments of surrounding building façades. A custom suite of furniture elements, including modular seating, tables, and planters, can be organized into various configurations for everyday use or special events. Finally, a canopy with integrated lighting creates an intimately scaled threshold at the junction with the city’s main commercial thoroughfare. This overhead plane provides shade during sunrise and sunset and activates the street during the evening with glowing halos of light.

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The 6th Street Arts Alley project synthesizes public space and public art to create a new strategy for urbanization in Columbus, Indiana. 6th Street is home to a burgeoning arts and design scene, with several community organizations, creative businesses, and studios concentrated within a one block radius. Our proposal aims to transform an existing street into a flexible space for relaxation, informal gathering, and events.

Kit of Parts The project can be built up over time with elements that comprise a tool kit for tactical urbanism An asphalt mural marks the ground with a colorful pattern that unites a street and parking space into an improvised plaza. Flexible furniture and planters can be organized into various configurations for everyday use or special events. Finally, a canopy with integrated lighting creates an intimate scale and activates the street at night.

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10 Benghazi old town: The Old Town in Benghazi is considered as the official center responsible for origin of the city. The extension of the city along the Mediterranean coast has enhanced the geographical significance of its location. The architectural features within it have been formed by various consecutive eras and due to successive historical events.

Regeneration of Benghazi central waterfront By: Marcos Escamilla-Guerrero | Mexico

The Old Town remains the cultural, identity and even the commercial center of Benghazi. As its place being containing and linking to important neighborhoods, which promote the dynamism of the city and have turned it into a crucial point for locals and tourists as well. This strategic place provides an overview of which the city has been as a result of former historical events.

However, the city has still retained some of its lustre.

After the Civil War in 2014, the city received more than its share of extensive damage and some of its architectural features had been disappeared. Despite all that, it remains a destination and a point of pride for the locals and a reflection of their identity. The town is associated with several activities. These activities include the coastline locally named as “kornaish”, the commercial port and the ring road that runs to the edge of the city, considered as an active route facilitated reaching at administration buildings, business structures, tourism-related and diplomatic premises. Thereby, it would be a bit delicate to help regeneration of cultural and commercial aspects. It is even more important in domestic terms.

Design philosophy: Therefore, a design philosophy has emerged as a proposal to focus on the regeneration of the Old Town. It operates on paying attention to the moral values of the area and maintains the architectural character of the city. But in addition, more radical reforms are greatly needed for the integration of pedestrian traffic and the connection of the city with the Kornaish which would make it a more attractive tourist destination.

The core idea is not only to integrate and connect the city and development in a synergistic manner, but also to remove visual barriers as part of the design process.

Throughout designing a ground tunnel extends from the most vital points to the frontline of the city buildings and transfer vehiclular traffic underground. Even more to consolidate effectiveness to the Kornaish area and distribute its events to reduce overcrowding of activities.

Also to form a more critical spatial being suitable for marines movement. The city then needs green areas to be added to enhance the biomimicry of attraction and interaction with the surrounding environment. And this would eventually help in preserving the natural balance of the area.

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10 Ciliwung Showscape By: Avi Sovia | Indonesia

Manggarai, a district in the capital city of Indonesia is famous for its street brawl. This area has been existed since the 1970s and occupied mostly by Betawian people. Nowadays, Manggarai has become a highdense settlement area in Ciliwung’s riverbanks divided by kampung. The most-reported street brawl comes from three frontal Kampung between Pasar Manggis, Manggarai, and Menteng Tenggulung. Many things can cause street brawl, from simple provocation to acquiring each other parking spot. There are several kinds of research done with this social phenomenon but not much happens.

The public has labeled this area as a battleground between people, especially for youth that less productive in their community. But, does this means urban space needs to be contested upon? Doesn’t public space mean we all could enjoy it together in harmony?

With this design, we are excited to revitalize Ciliwung’s Riverbank as an urban core area between kampungs.

There are few approaches to solve street brawl in Manggarai and improve their lives quality. Those could be achieved through exposing the river, limiting vehicle, expanding space, and making other opportunities to arise.

First, the area around Ciliwung’s riverbanks should be exposed to the public, this would encourage people to engage socially and invites potential visitors. On the weekends, this place could provide street stalls and festivals. Next, only Trans Jakarta Public Buses would be

the only motorized vehicle which could pass through, this could make the area more pedestrian-friendly and making the place less intimidating. On the other hand, there would be parkour infrastructure from the scaffold and floating platform. This area is specially targeted for youth to channel their energy and vigor. Lastly, a local kayak could become alternative transportation within Ciliwung’s River.

This means to open more economic and social interaction between people in kampungs.

To engage the inhabitants in the process, we propose five steps plan. In the beginning, people need to gather waste via volunteering activities. The activity itself acts as a starter for their social interaction. Then the waste accumulated could be recycled into a raft that continues gathering waste regularly. After that, with the help of the government and stakeholders in their community, people could discuss how to empowerment themselves. This includes an economic plan and consolidation for the street brawl. Subsequently, the waste that continuing in the recycling process could be made into street furniture, floating platforms, and also parkour infrastructures. This sustainable approach could encourage people to be more aware of their living environment.

With those designs, we intended to make this area as a show scape for people, particuarly targeted at adolescents to discharge their frustration, and expanding their creative abilities.

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10 Cleveland Sanctuary By: Zhelin Li | China

City of Cleveland, is one of the major cities in Ohio. A city that used to be one of the most prosperous business centers in the U.S. due to its “talented” location and associated transportation system. However, facing both worldwide and nationwide markets and policy change, Cleveland as well as other “steel cities” have now become “rust belt cities” that “shared several difficulties, including population loss, lack of education, declining tax revenues, high unemployment and crime, drugs, swelling welfare rolls, deficit spending, and poor municipal credit ratings.”

However, climate change seems to be bringing these cities new opportunities. Studies have shown “massive lakes, like the great lakes act like heat sinks that moderate the temperatures of the surrounding land.” According to these studies, we could assume that cities like Cleveland are about to become the destinations of climate migration. Solving existing urban problems and then preparing the city to be ready to embrace more population becomes important.

Brownfields as well as other underused industrial lands are the “heritage” of that great time and still have great potential to form a better future. This project was intended to find a systematic way of transforming industrial lands or brownfields into a real “sanctuary” that both human and nature could benefit from.

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3 Disassembling the museum Climate stories in public transit By: Diana Guo, Mingjia Chen, Savannah Wu, Thomas Huang, Yichan Wang | Canada

This is an open invitation to explore, learn, and take action.

Our proposal is a model that strategically disassembles and locates the museum along the transit system, starting from the airport and extending along the subway, bus, and train stops through partnership with Glasgow’s public transit agency. We encourage visitors to take public transit and immerse in the Glasgow Science Centre’s programming related to the COP26 upon immediate arrival. This model can be adapted for future climate exhibits around the world. We adapt the museum’s exhibit into multimedia displays, shown on existing screens and infrastructure to engage the public and co-create new approaches to conservation and management of natural and cultural heritage.

Manifesto Interactive By decentralizing the museum, we recenter it back in the eyes of the public, and provide educational content for those who use public transit for their daily commute.

We hope to create a framework for exhibitions which Glaswegians and visitors can contribute to.

Digestible To avoid overwhelming our audience with information, we propose to curate bite-sized chunks of knowledge that are accessible in everyday life. Each disassembled gallery is presented as a ‘5- minute read’ - the time of a typical public transit wait time, during which one can absorb all the information from the exhibit.

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Exhibits follow accessibility standards by including programming for all ages, sensory channels with audio, subtitles, tactile components, and various languages. The exhibits will emphasize equitable climate action, both in terms of deployment location and inclusive content, centering people and the connections between climate change and global inequality. Locals and visitors alike can explore the collections and cultivate them into a piece of infrastructure.

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In 2019/20, 28 million people travelled through the SPT transit system. Our mini museums/exhibits aim to further increase the use of public transit systems by serving as destinations in and of themselves. By decentralizing the Systematic museum, energy consumption in the museum is reduced, Public transportation is an organized system that as each mini-exhibit is now located within walking contains multiple nodes and a constant flux of people. Our distance to each Glaswegian throughout the city. The new programming will be organized into themes, based on the Glasgow museums can now come to you! existing climate-related exhibitions at the Science Centre, such as Powering the Future (energy), Evolving Industry (advanced forming), and Resourceful Planet (bioplastics, recycling). The exhibit will be formed using the existing modular panels on the envelope of the museum building.

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3 Integrated Transit Hub By: Nirmal Kumar | India

OVERVIEW Transportation is an integrated part for the functioning of the society. Transportation system improves the social, economic, industrial and commercial progress and further transforms the society into an organized one. The proposal aims to achieve a sustainable design solution of the Central Square, which provides access to safe and healthy public spaces for all its citizens. The proposals were aimed to resolve these issues in the area and provide a sustainable environment for the future. It also aims to create new business opportunities and increase the qualityof urban life .Based on the urban study the following observation have been made: i. High traffic congestion in Pallavan salai bridge and the traffic signal in-front of Chennai central railway stations ii. A need for an open space which stimulates commercial growth and promote inner-city revitalization INTEGRATED TRANSIT HUB An Integrated Transit Hub is identified as a transport node, which integrates various modes of public transport systems as well as it is integrated with passenger transit based activities. The hub serves as a single system that enables seamless passenger transfers.

The major advantage of a hub are the shared resources and passenger facilities ,which decrease the land use requirements while it increases overall capacity of the system.

Developing a Transit Hub integrating the railway station, regional bus service and metro station, gives boost to the city’s public transport network and decreases its dependability on the private vehicles. Thus, it impacts by reducing city traffic congestion, pollution and increases safety on streets.

The aim of this proposal is to create a nodal integration between the transit hub and public space serving as a major lung space for the district. The site is approachable for the passengers from multiples entries but for vehicles and buses from singular entries. The transit hub also houses a number of shops providing an opportunity for the local vendors to upgrade, and for new companies to establish their shops in this highly potential area.

BUCKINGHAM CANAL DESIGN Historically, the Buckingham canal was an important trade route. But now it has become a dumping ground for society’s waste. Rivers have always been a critical part of urban fabric, as it provides a city with a number of important resources. It has been established that they played a significant role in shaping the human civilization.

It is disheartening to see these lifelines forgotten or not taken care of by the people.For years, especially in a city like Chennai, people have turned their backs to the river, where these precious gifts from nature should be relished and crowned with city’s interaction.

Human practices along the river banks such as bathing, washing along with industries that were previously setup during industrialization and unregulated discharge of drains in the river are the core problems behind the fall of the river. The banks of the Buckingham canal has been redesigned with walkways, seating and gardens, so that it becomes one of the recreational place in the district.

It also serves as landscape corridor with gardens which provide more comfort for the users while accessing this space. The space under bridge has also been utilized as major garden space.

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3 The project challenges and changes the perspective of the current healthcare system from being a measure of cure to an extension of the health and wellbeing of the community. The healthcare industry in the US accounts for 10% of the total greenhouse gases generated. There are two major issues that are ignored by the current healthcare system - The high carbon footprint generated by the system and lack of accessibility (physical and monetary) that makes people sicker and more dependent on health facilities in the long run.

Dispersing Wellness By: Mansoo Han, Niharika Shekhawat, Shailee Shah and Ting Zhang | USA

inviting for patients and reimagining the space for the public. To make the building structure more efficient and sustainable, we retrofit the existing underutilized structure by reprogramming and upgrading the facade system. We propose programs such as a daycare center, wellness pavilion with classrooms and training spaces for librarians and firefighters, telemedicine helpline center, communal kitchen, conference room, and playgrounds. The parking lots on the site are converted to green spaces for health fairs where mobile health vans are stationed. Upgrading to a double skin facade will reduce In the Hudson Valley, NY the concentration of hospitals in carbon emissions by12% and farm gardens and solar urban areas is much higher than the rural areas presenting panels on the roof will further reduce by 50%. In rural citya huge health care disparity. The geography of the region center, we propose to extend health services by adding drives people’s health-seeking behavior making residents a shed typology that is flexible, cheap and easy to build travel up to 1.5 hours one way to access basic health adjacent to public institutions such as libraries and fire needs. Moreover, hospitals in urban centers are upto stations as they are fairly dispersed in the region. It is 30% vacant, which can be more efficiently repurposed. designed to be a high performance, healthy communal The project seeks to tackle these issues specifically in environment while minimizing energy use. This shed will Columbia and Greene County as they have the lowest comprise of a storefront health center serviced by trained access to healthcare facilities, the lowest physician to firefighters/librarians, where residents can go for their patient ratio, and higher travel distances for health needs. routine check-ups. In the case of Prattsville where the major health issue is social isolation, the shed also serves A large percent of emissions can be reduced through as a communal living room space where programs that preventative healthcare and supporting measures that facilitate connectedness can be carried out. would make people healthier, therefore making them less reliant on the healthcare system. In Columbia Through the extension of health services in public County, we reimagine the sole health care provider, institutions and dispersing a wellness network in each Columbia Memorial Hospital as a ‘Park’; not only as neighborhood, we aim to make healthcare accessible to all a place for curing diseases but also as a center for while promoting healthy living. dispersing wellness. We intend to make the space

DISPERSING WELLNESS Team members: Mansoo Han, Niharika Shekhawat Shailee Shah and Ting Zhang Project Video: https://vimeo.com/380161906 The project challenges and changes the perspective of the current healthcare system from being a measure of cure to an extension of the health and wellbeing of the community. The healthcare industry in the US accounts for 10% of the total greenhouse gases generated. There are two major issues that are ignored by the current healthcare system - The high carbon footprint generated by the system and lack of accessibility (physical and monetary) that makes people sicker and more dependent on health facilities in the long run.

In the Hudson Valley, NY the concentration of hospitals in urban areas is much higher than the rural areas presenting a huge health care disparity. The geography of the region drives people’s health-seeking behavior making residents travel up to 1.5 hours one way to access basic health needs. Moreover, hospitals in urban centers are upto 30% vacant, which can be more efficiently repurposed. The project seeks to tackle these issues specifically in Columbia and Greene County as they have the lowest access to healthcare facilities, the lowest physician to patient ratio, and higher travel distances for health needs.

A large percent of emissions can be reduced through preventative healthcare and supporting measures that would make people healthier, therefore making them less reliant on the healthcare system. In Columbia County, we reimagine the sole health care provider, Columbia Memorial Hospital as a ‘Park’; not only as a place for curing diseases but also as a center for dispersing wellness. We intend to make the space inviting for patients and reimagining the space for the public. To make the building structure more efficient and sustainable, we retrofit the existing underutilized structure by reprogramming and upgrading the facade system. We propose programs such as a daycare center, wellness pavilion with classrooms and training spaces for librarians and firefighters, telemedicine helpline center, communal kitchen, conference room, and playgrounds. The parking lots on the site are converted to green spaces for health fairs where mobile health vans are stationed. Upgrading to a double skin facade will reduce carbon emissions by12% and farm gardens and solar panels on the roof will further reduce by 50%.

URBAN: HOSPITAL AS PARK 1 PROGRAM TRANSITION The overall strategy is to repurpose not fully utilized building by cluster hospitals operational programs into the main functions building and reprogramming other two buildings - Research center to a daycare center, family care and Office building to a wellness pavilion.

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To tackle the energy systems that can reduce 12% of the carbon emissions. We proposed to retrofit the facade of the hospital - a double skin facade to make it more energy efficient in terms of heating and cooling. The double skin facade is connected through a series of ramps that form a connection between the buildings. All the buildings have been converted to have farm gardens and solar panels on the roof that help achieve upto 50% of the carbon emissions reduction in the energy systems of the facility.

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COMMUNITY PAVILLION TRAINING, PUBLIC KITCHEN, TELEHEALTH OFFICE 18,500 SQFT

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In rural areas, we propose to extend health services by adding a shed typology that is flexible, cheap and easy to build adjacent to public institutions such as libraries and fire stations as they are fairly dispersed in the region. It is designed to be a high performance, healthy communal environment while minimizing energy use. This shed will comprise of a storefront health center serviced by trained firefighters/librarians, where residents can go for their routine check-ups. In the case of Prattsville where the major health issue is social isolation, the shed also serves as a communal living room space where programs that facilitate connectedness can be carried out. Through the extension of health services in public institutions and dispersing a wellness network in each neighborhood, we aim to make healthcare accessible to all while promoting healthy living.

HIGH CARBON FOOTPRINT & LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

3 GREEN PARKING The parking lots on site are converted to green spaces. The park will also have an ongoing health fair where the mobile health vans will be stationed. Residents can get their routine health check up while at the park during scheduled times of the day.

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10 Delhi’s Project Ventilator: A scope to breathe again By: EUclidean | Bangladesh

Delhi has always been a big, busy, polluted city.

Exploding urban population growth results in more cars, more construction and industries spreading dust and contaminating the environment. But in the last decade, crop burning issue from the neighboring state to save ground water making it even worst. It trapped on the ground and it mixes with the urban pollution and all that together makes the most hazardous air pollution of almost anywhere and putting the lives of million at risk.

circular trails which promotes walking and cycling, a fuelbased car free city.

These ventilators capture the polluted air, passing it through a filter media that removes particles like dust, dirt particles and even viruses like coronavirus and release clean air. So that people can gather here without any fear of contamination and can breathe the cleanest air of Delhi.

It can produce its own energy needed to run through solar This smog makes people so frightened that even places cell, wind turbine and pavegen technology and also can like city centers becoming empty. People go out only to supply the energy to electric car charging booth installed earn their livelihood and breathing the poisonous air. This in the parking area thus promoting carbon negative Pandemic had added more fuel into it. Thus, the city is sustainable city. The structure collects the rain water and losing its core heart and public interaction became limited. also produce water from air through AWG and harvest it Then here’s this project Ventilator steps in to help Delhi in underground reservoir and then supply it to decrease ‘breathe’. the pressure of Delhi’s water crisis. Vertical farm situated in underground makes this more productive and creates a This project provides a healthy atmosphere in all section, chain with food shops. socially, economically and environmentally to achieve the goal of sustainable Delhi. This fungi-shaped structure This project is totally made of 3d printed and antimicrobial is inspired from fungi’s symbiotic nature as this Project materials like Bronze which promotes less construction Ventilator and city benefitted from this mutualistic and industrial pollutants. Phosphorescent materials are relationship, though in different ways. In Delhi, city centers used to save energy and creates an ambient environment mainly based on the market places, both formal and to attract people at night. With all these features integrated informal like Connaught Place. It’ll occupy the nodes of into this project, which provides solution for Delhi’s biggest city’s diagonal road pattern. This project focuses on the problems, it will spark a new life into the city. revival of these market places creating a stable place for the street vendors in a vertical street shop ambience.

It also accommodates cycling and pedestrian friendly

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10 The modular low-cost housing units act as URBAN LUNGS to purify the air in Mumbai and provides ecological balance. The GREEN BELT ensures overall resilience for Mumbaikers by providing natural public spaces and lowcost housing solutions for the poorer section of the urban spectrum. The enhanced portion of vegetation throughout the city DOWNTOWN INFILL areas also provide integrated renewable power production strategies that support the low-cost housing units and the city at large. The Urban lungs also provide social, educational, and infrastructural The scale of traveling is changing drastically and countries facilities for the growing working force in the low-income groups in the ever-growing city of Mumbai. are closer to each other than ever. India is on the avantgarde of technology, innovation and embraces its age-old The built form of the JUNCTION is a collection of culture of “ATITHI DEVO BHAVA” meaning “guests are like individual forms stitched through a collective program.

God”.

The forms consolidate the functions vertically and make room for vast social spaces where everyone can join MUMBAI, being the financial capital of India propagates this ethos more significantly than ever. The design in the collective narrative. The VTOL aircrafts used for concept revolves around human INTERACTION and fast passenger and freight transport nulls the need for long runways and thus opens up vast urban spaces for FRATERNITY. Contrary to designing according to sustainable and resilient growth. High-speed HYPERLOOP mechanical efficiency, it centers the human capacity transport system integrated into the hub for international of growth and social unity and thus enhancing the and domestic travel. The spatial organization of the forms programmatic function of a JUNCTION. Rather than just creates pockets of multipurpose spaces and ensures the being a transportation hub, it becomes a HUMAN HUB where people come to meet, greet, love, cry, know, wonder, use of the spaces stay relevant with time. The modular feel. It does not alienate its visitors by its massive scale, approach to design and integrated solar and wind power rather welcomes them into its warm embrace through the gain strategies facilitates sustainable and resilient growth in the future. spatial relationship between nature, light, function, and interaction.

CULTURE is the amalgamation of the collective psyche of a large group of people sharing a common identity.

Since the dawn of Indus valley civilization, Indian culture comprised a sense of unity, interaction, and well-being.

Since then, many ethnic groups have come into the subcontinent with their distinct way of living and has been integrated into the whole Indian culture with individual identity and manifesting that the only thing constant is CHANGE.

Urban Lungs By: Sudipto Das | Bangladesh

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CULTURE is the amalgamation of the collective psyche of a large group of people sharing a common identity. Since the dawn of Indus valley civilization, Indian culture comprised a sense of unity, interaction, and well-being. Since then, many ethnic groups have come into the sub-continent with their distinct way of living and has been integrated into the whole Indian culture with individual identity and manifesting that the only thing constant is CHANGE. The scale of traveling is changing drastically and countries are closer to each other than ever. India is on the avant-garde of technology, innovation and embraces its age-old culture of “ATITHI DEVO BHAVA” meaning “guests are like God”.

MUMBAI, MUMBAI being the financial capital of India propagates this ethos more significantly than ever. The design concept revolves around human INTERACTION and FRATERNITY. Contrary to designing according to mechanical efficiency, it centers the human capacity of growth and social unity and thus enhancing the programmatic function of a JUNCTION. Rather than just being a transportation hub, it becomes a HUMAN HUB where people come to meet, greet, love, cry, know, wonder, feel. It does not alienate its visitors by its massive scale, rather welcomes them into its warm embrace through the spatial relationship between nature, light, function, and interaction.

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People living in slums are estimated to be as high as 41.3% in Greater Mumbai, meaning that over 9 MILLION people live in these slum areas. The population density of Mumbai is approximately 73,000 /square miles, which makes Mumbai one of the most densely populated cities in the world. So as Mumbai is growing in population the demand for land is going to high and higher, taking this slum problem in Mumbai to ineffable proportions in the future.

URBAN LUNGS is a solution to this problem that provides low-cost housing solutions for this huge number of slum dwellers.

The MODULAR low-cost housing units act as urban lungs to purify the air in Mumbai and provides ecological balance. The GREEN BELT ensures overall resilience for Mumbaikers by providing natural public spaces and low-cost housing solutions for the poorer section of the urban spectrum.

The enhanced portion of vegetation throughout the city DOWNTOWN INFILL areas also provide integrated renewable power production strategies that support the low-cost housing units and the city at large. The Urban lungs also provide social, educational, and infrastructural facilities for the growing working force in the low-income groups in the ever-growing city of Mumbai.

The built form of the JUNCTION is a collection of individual forms stitched through a collective program. The forms consolidate the functions vertically and make room for vast social spaces where everyone can join in the collective narrative. The VTOL aircrafts used for fast passenger and freight transport nulls the need for long runways and thus opens up vast urban spaces for sustainable and resilient growth. High-speed HYPERLOOP transport system integrated into the hub for international and domestic travel. The spatial organization of the forms creates pockets of multipurpose spaces and ensures the use of the spaces stay relevant with time. The modular approach to design and integrated solar and wind power gain strategies facilitates sustainable and app resilient growth in the future.

V T O L S TAT I O N Automated unmaned aircrafts and automated platforms that goes up and down according to need and function.

H Y P E R LO O P TUBES Hyperloop is a sealed tube or system of tubes with low air pressure through which a pod may travel substantially free of air resistance or friction.The HyperHyper loop conveys people or objects at airline or hypersonic speeds while being very energy efficient.

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The JUNCTION KNOWLEDGE CENTER It includes library,museum,tourist information,auditorium space,VR/AR experience ar

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WORLD VILLAGE Hostel rental place for people from all walks and ethnicities of the world.It promotes interaction,cultural exchange and unity for all.

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Dedicated underground road for freight transport to and from the city,

A multistory building with state of the art HVAC systems and provides office spaces,gyms,indoor playgrounds,multipurpose halls,healthcare fascilities,lounge spaces,marketplace.

vertical take-off and landing aircrafts is used for rapid passenger and freight transport.Due to dominance of ecommerce products are now delivered with drastic speeds using unmanned VTOL for transport and automated drones for delivery.

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CUSTOMS CENTER All types of checking,boarding pass counters,airline offices are consolidated in this built form. Due to AI face recognition and biomatrics physical checking is no longer needed.

MARKETPLACE CAR PA R K I N G Vertical automated car parking facility for the dense downtown office areas.

Informal commerce and mom and pop stores are an integral part of Indian culture.The space under the vertical park is a marketplace for small shopes and hand made crafts and souvenir shop. sou

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10 CONTEXT Venice, Italy, “The Floating city” is one of the most iconic places on earth and has been ranked many times the most beautiful city in the world. Venice is renowned for the beauty of their settings, life on water, winding canals, beautiful bridges, striking architecture and known for several important artistic movements.

Treensformation By: Mahesh Dhanasekaran | India

PROBLEMS 1. Tide peaks causing floods above safe level, sometimes results in many deaths.

2. Watery walking experience daily routine of walking on salty-green- water is a terrible adventure for venetians.

3. Lack of vegetation. No space for it.

4. Leaving Venice people the city scores more tourists than actual venetians. Additionally, Half of the Venetian population left in the last 50 years making Venice “a Dying city”.

5. Over tourism causing too much crowd, gradual environmental/monumental degradation, pollution.

6. Cruise ships sailing too close to buildings long waves created by ships erodes the foundation 7. Petrifying, weakening foundations of buildings will result in destruction of precious historical monuments.

8. Sinking city natural causes + global warming: pushing Venice to sink at an alarming rate of 2-10mm/year.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: TREENSFORMATION CITY LEVEL CHANGES 1. City will be free from floods for centuries and people can finally feel solid under their feet. People can sit, walk, relax and enjoy on the long green strip of recreational loop around the city.

2. Canal entrance’s design prevents cruise ships from entering inside.

3. The loop distributes the tourists all over Venice, reducing crowd and increasing lifespan of properties.

4. The loop acts as high-duty protective cover for the perimeter building’s eroded foundations.

GLOBAL LEVEL CHANGES Venice will be used as a huge living example to convey the importance of trees that save a city and also make the world aware of the serious global warming issue.

Similarly, other dangerously sinking cities in the world like Jakarta in Indonesia, Lagos in Nigeria, etc. can also be treensformed.

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10 Filling the void

Utilising dead space in the city By: Aleezae Rashid and Ali Ahmed | Pakistan

Within our forever-expanding urban cities, one can notice voids left in the shade of massive structures sprawling all over the urban landscape. One such space in the city of Lahore can be seen as a universal typology, found in cities all over the globe. The voids left underneath flyovers. The site we chose for this project was the Jinnah Flyover, located in Cavalry Ground in Lahore. Recently, the bridge was closed for maintenance, and one had to cross underneath the flyover to reach their destination. Having done so numerous times, we were able to observe this ‘dead space’ closely.

Based on our initial observations, the space was being used primarily by the homeless, waiting passerby’s, street vendors, drug addicts and shop owners for a variety of purposes. People had parked their motorbikes, barbers and wheel mechanics had set up shop next to the columns, and the homeless and idle passerby’s sat under the shade of the massive flyover overhead.

Based on the context and current usage of the space, we proposed certain additions: Parking Space The space had been used primarily to park bikes, and so we proposed the installation of metal pipes to provide a proper space for the people to safely leave their vehicles.

Tyre/Barber Stops All the barbers and wheel mechanics had set up small chairs, tables and broken mirrors next to the flyover’s columns to work, so we proposed permanent additions to these spaces in the form of concrete tables, chairs and pegs/mirrors attached to the column for storage.

Congregational Area The narrow space underneath the flyover culminates into an intersection, where a circular round-about becomes a space of informal congregation for friends and passerby’s.

We thought of re-designing the space to provide benches where one could sit, or even sleep. We proposed the addition of planters and a small pond in the center to create a comfortable micro-climate, which would make the space more usable in the hotter summer months, and to filter the noise and pollution from the heavy traffic surrounding the space. With the installation of a projector and a screen mounted to the column, movies and art could be projected for the people of the city to enjoy. The space can eventually be used for outdoor art and theatre shows because of its circular layout.

This intervention, one aptly named ‘Filling The Void’, is aimed to redesign ‘dead spaces’ in the city to improve its resident’s lifestyles, and hopes to inspire architects to observe their cities and provide solutions to existing problems, ones often hidden underneath massive urban Market Place structures as such. This ‘dead space’ does not have to be Many vendors had set up shop on wooden carts and most considered waste. It can, and should be, utilized. walked around selling a variety of products, obstructing the traffic. We proposed a proper space for these vendors, which could eventually grow into a market.

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UTILISING DEAD SPACE IN THE CITY

Within our forever-expanding urban cities, one can notice voids left in the shade of massive structures sprawling all over the urban landscape. One such space in the city of Lahore can be seen as a universal typology, found in cities all over the globe. The voids left underneath flyovers. The site we chose for this project was the Jinnah Flyover, located in Cavalry Ground in Lahore. Recently, the bridge was closed for maintenance, and one had to cross underneath the flyover to reach their destination. Having done so numerous times, we were able to observe this ‘dead space’ closely.

Based on our initial observations, the space was being used primarily by the homeless, waiting passerby’s, street vendors, drug addicts and shop owners for a variety of purposes.

People had parked their motorbikes, barbers and wheel mechanics had set up shop next to the columns, and the homeless and idle passerby’s sat under the shade of the massive flyover overhead. Based on the context and current usage of the space, we proposed certain additions.

This intervention, one aptly named ‘Filling The Void’, is aimed to redesign ‘dead spaces’ in the city to improve its resident’s lifestyles, and hopes to inspire architects to observe their cities and provide solutions to existing problems, ones often hidden underneath massive urban structures as such. This ‘dead space’ does not have to be considered waste. It can, and should be, utilized.

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Market Space underneath the flyover for the stret and cart vendors to have a proper space to sell their goods without obstructing the traffic. Lined with planter-benches, the noise and pollution from the adjacent road is filtered considerably. Gaps are left open for circulation. Lights have been installed for the usage of the space at night as well.

Circular round-about underneath the flyover converted into a congregational space for the city’s residents. Planter-benches and pond added to create comfrotable micro-climate for the usage of the space during hotter summer months. The layout of the benches allows for an open central space for congregation. The projector installed can project art and movies for the residents to enjoy, and the space can eventually be used for outdoor art shows, plays and cinema.

Wheel Mechanic stops created next to the existing columns of the bridge. The table and pegs attached to the wall are cast in concrete to prevent them being stolen or moved.

Bench made of concrete and recycled steel, hinged at the front so that it can be converted into a bed for the homeless at night.

Motorbike stands that can be converted into ‘charpais’ (beds) at night.

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Spaces for the barbers created next to the columns. The table and chair have been cast in concrete and the dimensions have been ergonomically designed, with a mirror mounted to the wall.

Parking Space created for the residents to park their bikes safely. Later at night, they can be converted into charpais for the homeless, as is shown in the sketch on the left.

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10 Up Above By: Shantanu Parikh, Chintan Ahir & Payal Merja | India

The old city of Ahmedabad is a built dense fabric of houses and connected streets. They are called pols. They have hierarchy of spaces based on privacy and protection.

But due to increments done by adding floors over the original houses; the streets have become narrower and houses deeper where the sunlight barely reaches with some of the houses in the streets left in a bad condition.

There are open spaces left but those are as a result of the haphazard development. Due to which the streets feel claustrophobic at times and no connection directly to nature. While the terraces of the houses remain unused other than kite- flying festival, these connection of terraces due to row like configuration of houses provide an opportunity of creating an urban plaza at roof level.

The aim of this project is to use the terraces of these streets of houses in pols to generate an elevated urban plaza with pixels/ frames of 3m x 3m x 3m connected together in clusters of various functions, and with that renovate and save the heritage structures while enriching the lives of the residents.

Resemblance and heritage The modules are flexible and can be joined with each other creating endless loops of urban renewal rooftop plazas without harming the heritage and originality of the pol houses.

Proposed design characteristics:

Colors of life Indian cities are known for their vibrance and expression in terms of colors. The festivals such as Uttarayan: Kite flying, Navratri: Nine nights of dance, Holi: Festival of colors are filled with colors everywhere, right from the clothes worn to the props used. A feeling of a new day arises and connects people.

Urban layering While the pol houses have used the land as resource to build ground up; the design has been proposed on top of these houses, to eliminate the use of any more ground in the dense fabric while also creating amenities on the lesser used terraces.

Built typology While the pol houses are dense, the hierarchy of built form goes from a solid façade to a transparent courtyard. While the proposed design has been created with the hierarchy of transparent frame like modules to solid amenities for function from outside to inside.

Benefit for all/ energy rooftop While the house owners provide their terraces for the creation of public squares; the module floors are constructed with energy generating tiles which through movement by stepping of people generate energy which can be used by the house owners below giving them an incentive and enthusiasm to participate in the project.

Functions Twelve functions have been identified as a starting point to the amenities such as: Picnic, refreshing tunnel, Green area, Play area, Food stalls, Place for buskers, place for couples, kiosk, market supporting local business, artist workspace, DIY area and book reading.

Similarly, with the use of colors in frames in modules which light up at night glow with various colors assigned to each of the twelve functions guiding the visitors through a story of emotions and one can revisit the festivals any time of the year.

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The old city of Ahmedabad is a built dense fabric of houses and connected streets. But due to increments done by adding floors over the original houses; the streets have become narrower and houses deeper where the sunlight barely reaches. While the terraces of the houses remain unused other than kite- flying festival, these connection of terraces due to row like configuration of houses provide an opportunity of creating an urban plaza at roof level. The aim of this project is to use the terraces of these streets of houses in pols to generate an elevated urban plaza with pixels/ frame modules of 3m x 3m x 3m connected together in clusters of various functions, and with that raise awareness of the heritage structures while enriching the lives of the residents.

While the house owners provide their terraces for the creation of public squares; the module floors are constructed with energy generating tiles which through movement by stepping of people generate energy which can be used by the house owners below giving them an incentive and enthusiasm to participate in the project. In turn, this gesture leaves open spaces for people at street and terrace level to use and interact with.

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While the pol houses are dense, the hierarchy of built form goes from a solid façade to a transparent courtyard. While the proposed design has been created with the hierarchy of transparent frame like modules to solid amenities for function from outside to inside.

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The pol houses i.e. houses in the old city of Ahmedabad are complex networks of dense urban fabric which have used the land as a resource to build ground up since ages. The modules of the design have been proposed on the terraces of these continuous houses to avoid the use of any more ground while also creating amenities as public plaza.

The flexibility of modules help in joining and creating endless loops of urban renewal rooftop plazas without harming the heritage and originality of the pol houses. Indian cities are known for their vibrancy and expression in terms of colors with festivals such as kite flying and holi. The modules emit lights based on the functions throughout the design helping in easy navigation and revisiting the joyfulness of festivals throughout the year.

Source of unedited pol imageswww.picuki.com

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10 Kizilay Collective

Revitalization of a capital’s square and promenade By: Ozge Bayam and Elif Mihcioglu | Turkey

IN THE PAST Ankara became the capital of Turkey, making Kizilay district the city center of Ankara. With the Republic of Turkey’s foundation in 1923, Kizilay Square has become a historical and cultural key point. Kizilay Square, as the new city center, was the primary open space where society’s art and cultural needs were provided together with the commercial ones. The Square intersects with the major urban axis of Atatürk Boulevard. Zafer Square was another open space, actually a park with an Atatürk statue on the north side of Atatürk Boulevard. Both squares had many green areas, and citizens used to spend time at Kizilay to stroll, attend concerts, sit at the cafes, meet, and come together. After 1979, with the increase of trade, green areas and socialization areas decreased and the transportation started to become more intense expanding its network.

people used to come and spent their time does not exist anymore. The squares are almost evacuated at night due to the existing dominance of daytime functions causing security problems and people are afraid of being around this area at night.

IN THE FUTURE Kizilay is a precious area with its central location in the capital and historically. In recent years, Kizilay district and Kizilay Square have experienced a considerable transformation that moved away from its original qualities and its identity. This project aims to regain Kizilay Square’s historical identity and revive socio-cultural experiences in collective memory.

The pandemic is our current reality. This project aims to turn this ‘chaotic square,’ which is degraded as a ‘square,’ into a livable, usable, sustainable, and social primary urban node. This proposal is designed as per today’s pandemic, TODAY Today, Kizilay Square lost its significant quality as a where the indoor areas are mostly transformed into open ‘square,’ transforming into a dull, chaotic, and cramped spaces, where one can safely spend time in terms of transit hub. Zafer square, in parallel, became only health, and the whole transportation system is moved underground. The project proposes a multi-layered and an unused concrete platform. Pedestrians cannot mixed-use square, which contains an art and culture axis experience both ‘squares’ due to the priority of vehicles with shops and stores, food and beverage places, and and heavy traffic. Kizilay Square is a vast roundabout revival of housing use at this significant transportation that distributes the transportation network to the city.

The functions around Kizilay Square mainly focus on hub. It commits to design a green, sustainable space where people can stroll and spend a pleasant time by shopping, educational facilities with the lack of socioconnecting Zafer Square and Kizilay Square with an art cultural activities, and green open spaces. There is an underground bazaar on one side of Zafer Square under and culture axis, bringing back the missed memories of the concrete platform. The green square of the past where the past.

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2 4 Kızılay Shopping Mall, a bulky mass with an underused content, filled and reduced the open space, disturbing the human-scale in this area. The same area was once a vast green park, and citizens used to spend time at Kızılay. Instead of this closed and huge massive Kızılay Shopping Mall, a pandemic-friendly, open, multi-layered square is proposed. Current functions; shops, department stores, food-beverage places are kept, and new functions; an open-air multi-functional stage, semi-open exhibition, and art complex, as well as art galleries, street art are added.

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Due to the pandemic, we have learned profoundly how vital, healthy, and sustainable is to produce our own food. Vertical gardens provide farming for residents; they can get fertilizer from the waste food recycling system and get water from the rainwater harvesting system. Besides, today's 'Emek Office Building' does not have any balconies or terraces. These vertical gardens also provide an open-well ventilated environment for residents

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ZAFER SQUARE:existing underground book & art bazaar with new green and open exhibition spaces on the ground.

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COLLECTIVE BRIDGE : guvenpark to sunken plaza wıth transparent botanıc ramp

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Turkey's first skyscraper, known as 'Emek Office Building', is used under its potential. So, housing is proposed to support Kızılay Square's use without security hesitations and accessible by any citizen 24/7. Vertical gardens and an urban elevator with observation terraces are proposed on the blind façade of this building; since the urban vista at this point is broad and impressive for the citizens to enjoy the view of the whole district and the city.

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All through the linear axis, kinetic pavement is used, electricity is generated whenever anyone steps on the pavement slab, and the energy is then used to power nearby lamp posts and metro station lighting.

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tic square,' which is degraded as a 'square,' into a livable, usable, sustainable, and social primary urban node. This proposal is designed as per today's pandemic, where the indoor areas are mostly transformed into open spaces, where one can safely spend time in terms of health, and the whole transportation system is moved undergroundThrough this proposal, the project area will become vibrant, and Kızılay Square will be the city's symbol once again, offering a brand new environment and perspective for the city and the citizens with its sustainable and innovative design approach, following the past traces at the same time.

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○ The proposed underground tunnel is both for private vehicles and for

public transportation, giving priority to pedestrians. The new transportation system proposal offers a healthy and eco-friendly downtown with reduced exhaust gas emissions in the district. Keeping the existing access points, the new Kızılay Square provides the metro entrances from the proposed sunken plaza and tram, bike, and scooter paths at the ground level, connecting both squares.

○ One other sustainable strategy is transforming food waste to energy;

the proposed area includes many restaurants, cafes, and housing units.

Food waste is proposed to be collected and converted into biogas, which can be used for electricity and heating, and biofertilizer, which can be used for vertical gardens.

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10 This project is located in Chongqing, China, as a present of MCN culture. The life in Chongqing is filled with attention, self-expression, celebrities and so on. The terrain of Chongqing is filled with elevation differences, it is possible for this project to get the attention from different levels.

There is a joke in Chongqing: 18th floor in your flat might be the first floor in another flat.

City “Show” Hive

By: Zihan Ye | China

During construction, this city public skyscraper is divided into uncountable period, it can be classified into four parts.

Different parts are built for different functions and serve specific groups of people, for ex.: passengers，officers, building managers and government.

For the first part: how to get investments to continue construct the last part, attract attention from the whole city would be the first thing. It would contains interaction, show, and a colorful game to achieve this goal. Once it gets enough investment and the last building is able to afford the building cost, the first part would change function into keeping active of this place.

For the second part: it serves for building managers, the public colorful equipment are able to show themselves from different direction from outside, so that it can absorb the attention from outside and get investment, once the outsides are filled with the third part(square boxes and frame), it turns to function.

For the third part: officers build by themselves and collaborate with each other, with the camera in the frame or the attention from different levels, the “construction show” is seen by the audiences at the scene or through an app. For ex.: physical construction officers can build their unique boxes and show their abilities on physical construction, internet officers can provide virtual help like digital analysis and so on.

For the fourth part: once they get into the public office,they can get thumbs-up or gifts through the system, it is a kind of exchange for something through interaction which would be a good tactical way to stay active.

Interaction and specific service are all through the periods, which makes it an aggressive intervention within the city.

The passengers in the city would be influenced from the beginning, whether you are just a passer-by or would like to work here, or perhaps invest here.

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10 10,000 Trees

By: Ritzo Law | USA

10000 TREES is a proposal that addresses both ways to prevent the rise of global warming, as well as ways to react to the changing world we will inhabit. Sited in Field’s Point, Providence, this 34 acres industrial and isolated site will be heavily impacted by sea-level rise. The project investigates the development of a carbon-free new waterfront district by adopting a canopy and a ground resilience strategy. The modular system umbrella structure, together with different ground conditions, create different spatial experiences within the system. While the canopy generates solar energy with thin-film solar panels and collects rainwater, the ground features a gradient of soft to hard edges to form protective, communal, and production spaces. The center waterbody provides gathering space and direct access to the water.

Meanwhile, the canopy system spans across the whole site and features a change in scale for the modules to create different spatial experiences within the system.

Inspired by turning this industrial site into a landmark, the scheme looks at designing a waterfront that’s welcoming to the public. The columns act as the frame in the system, while programs are volumes that get inserted. The new waterfront district features various attractions featuring an aquatic center, market, and retail stores.

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10000 TREES is a proposal that addresses both ways to prevent the rise of global warming, as well as ways to react to the changing world we will inhabit. Sited in Field’s Point, Providence, this 34 acres industrial and isolated site will be heavily impacted by sea-level rise.

The project investigates the development of a carbonfree new waterfront district by adopting a canopy and a ground resilience strategy.The modular system umbrella structure, together with different ground conditions, create different spatial experiences within the system.

While the canopy generates solar energy with thin-film solar panels and collects rainwater, the ground features a gradient of soft to hard edges to form protective, communal, and production spaces.The center waterbody provides gathering space and direct access to the water.

Meanwhile, the canopy system spans across the whole site and features a change in scale for the modules to create different spatial experiences within the system.

Inspired by turning this industrial site into a landmark, the scheme looks at designing a waterfront that’s welcoming to the public.The columns act as the frame in the system, while programs are volumes that get inserted. The new waterfront district features various attractions featuring an aquatic center, market, and retail stores.

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10 Brewing Flower Power Seeding Meadows on Infill Development Lands: An Ice Teaporium Celebrating Women’s Rights in Urban Space By: Diana Guo, Tianwei Li and Joanne Li | Canada

In the age of infill development, many sites are now full of toxic, infertile soils. A design intervention that merely builds on top or replaces these brown fields is not enough.

In our proposal, we attempt to revitalize these sites with tactical structures that can (1) serve as a point of interest to revitalize previously industrial sites for new urban activity and (2) restore infill development soils and re-seed the land into a vivid meadow that engages with the urban public realm at large.

ARCHITECTURAL FORM AS PUBLIC SPACE: Recalling the geometries of the first tearooms run by women, such as the Willow Tea Room in the U.K. and the condiments that accompany tea beverages (ice and sugar cubes), our cubic pavilion is a Teaporium celebrating the important role of tearooms in advancing women’s rights and the feminist claim to public space since the 1800s.

REVITALIZING URBAN SPACES WITH PUBLIC PROGRAMMING: We propose to integrate ice, a natural winter element, as a vessel to display the teas served in the original female-run tearoom businesses—each hanging ice cube embeds a blend of floral teas and seeds, forming a cloud

where people can select their favorite blend to brew into hot steaming cups of fresh tea. Clusters of moveable ice furniture and heaters are placed in and out of the Teaporium, allowing visitors to enjoy their hot beverages in the winter landscape, engaging park visitors in an immersive olfactory and tactile experience. In the winter, abandoned industrial lands or new in-fill developments would benefit from engaging the public with activities that can attract and provide a point of interest for urban dwellers.

RECLAIMING INFILL DEVELOPMENT WITH SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE: In the spring, when the ice melts away from the structure, the seeds embedded in the cubes fall and disperse in the surrounding landscape, and the remaining meltwater is absorbed on-site as a sustainable source of water for the floral seeds to germinate from the ground, blurring the transition between natural/artificial, interior/exterior.

The resulting form is a fluid, colorful meadow of flora and fauna – a lasting memory of the Winter Teaporium and history of women’s rights embedded in the landscape, a seamless pavilion and must-see installation for park visitors.

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10 ABSTRACT/MEMORY We propose the atomization of modular-programmatic shadings in a system that generates an interior route based on the comfort of the shade by means of different totalities and heights.

Atomizing Shadows

By: Fernanda Cabezón, Belen Faba, Scarleth Pailalef, Josefa Silva | Chile

These elements are thought of as a way of delivering the environmental comfort that the visualized context for the year 2050 foresees, in the same way as their materiality.

Thus, the different tessellations of the membrane on the roof of each of the modules are designed to provide the Located in Plaza Dignidad in Santiago, Chile; it greatest possible comfort for the activities carried out contextualizes a vision for the year 2050, where the under the roof. There is also a difference in the height scarcity of water resources and climate change will imply of the units, which are directly related to the number a smaller amount of public space based on green areas of people who will live in each of these spaces. In this and a substantial increase in temperature locally and relation, the differentiation of the different programs is globally. Thus, taking into account the new needs that shown with colors in each one of the membranes, in arise and will arise from this, the project responds to the order to highlight even more the atmosphere of comfort problem identified through the creation of a large shaded that exists in each one of them. At night this element is area made up of multi-programmatic modular units. not indifferent, because it is in this schedule where the “bubbles” illuminate the night sky, thus generating an The proposal is born from an analogy to the natural illumination that does not forget the initial colors that can behavior of soap bubbles and their dynamics of dispersing be appreciated during the day. when they burst. Hence the concept of “atomization”: the capacity of the element to fragment into smaller units The material, on the other hand, consists of aluminum for from a larger unit, the bubble. the structure, and polypropylene plastic for the roof. Both materials are thought due to the low cost of resources The project considers several design strategies that that it means and the capacity of each one of them to respond as a whole to the proposed system and the be recyclable and durable. Thus, the sustainability and context considered. Taking into account the concept, practicality of each one is prioritized, optimizing resources the project is carried out from a base that serves as a for a future scenario. The project is seen as the future of subsequent structure and the location of these “bubbles” architecture, that which responds to a quality public space in a larger system ordered by an initial hexagonal grid, with the greatest possible optimization of resources. selecting individual modules that are joined together to form the total system, these being the containers of the proposed program.

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Bridge the gap By: Rosa | Germany

Now, more than ever, current conditions call for new strategies when it comes to establishing a connected society.

While connectivity is being developed further on the technological side, we seem to be losing the skills to connect in the physical realm. Furthermore, algorithms as well as social structures keep us within our comfort zones and exposes us to constant validation of our own opinions. The lack of connection with the people around us and the division into “we” and “the others” is a universal problem. That is why this project aims to implement change on a small scale by reshaping the space where social interaction used to be common – public space.

Implementation The idea is to disrupt the daily routine, break the isolation and form a physical connection that encourages social exchange, be it a small gesture like a smile or eye contact, some exchanged words or even a good conversation. The light works as an intervention to grab and redirect the attention back to your surroundings.

The concept is based on adaptability and flexibility in its applicability. The interdependent model of a collective experience triggered by two individuals can be adapted and implemented in many public spaces that hold possibilities or are even designated to be places of dwelling but aren’t used in that way anymore.

The experience of the design project gives an impulse. The ideal outcome is a heightened sensitivity towards the participants’ surroundings and an open-mindedness in future social interactions.

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4. the light redirects the passengers’ attention towards each other 5. the shared experience creates a connection between at least two people 6. the given impulse breaks down the social barrier and is a potential conversation opener 7. ideally, the participants develop a heightened sensitivity towards their surroundings and incorporate a sense of openness into their future public social interactions

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“A cultural route where we discovered vista points while traveling by tram among historical buildings.”

A steppe has been stretching in the middle of Anatolia.

These roads, on which the Hittites, Phrygians, Romans, Seljuks and Ottomans have come and gone for thousands of years, have witnessed a historical process even before Ankara became the capital city of Turkey. Ulus, which is a multi-layered city, has become the first trade center in Anatolia and recently, Ulus has continued its main functions as trade, education and social center of the capital city.

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By: Şule Nur İyigün, Selen Yüksek, Zümrüt İlbey, Gizem Ören | Turkey

The Ulus square is at the crossroads and at the center of the trade, culture and education network. But nowadays people can only use this public space to feed birds.

Our aim is to make Ulus Square a place that hosts city occasions, a place that will feel the pulse of the city.

Our proposal is, to create a city-scale cultural route in order to preserve the value of the Ulus, as the historical and cultural symbol of the city, in historical continuity and to remember the forgotten multi-layered city value. At the same time, we draw attention to the Ulus city silhouette with the perspective and awareness it presents to people by creating frames at the vista points on the route.

We propose a tram that supports the cultural route.

This cultural route is on public spaces which have been abandoned, lost their characteristics and need to be regulated. With the spatialization proposals we have created, the tram in Ulus, which is an example of a multilayered city structure, defines the visual process of Ulus with its movement between historical buildings in chronological order.

Not only for transportation purposes, but also to increase the experience of Ulus, we offer tramway as a transportation solution by reducing the minibus traffic here.

Predicting that the multi-layered feature and value of the Ulus city will continue for centuries, we have ensured spatialization at the stop points with modules that can appeal to future generations and at the same time that allows the city’s social activities, that are formative and changeable. This spatialization is achieved by combining the unit modules according to the required function and gaining a new function to the extent we determine.

We strengthened all our solution suggestions for the city of Ulus with its yellow color. As a result of the analysis of the meaning and energy of yellow color in spatialization; As a representation of self-confidence and movement on the days when we need to be active in the trams, to draw attention to the route and leave a trace in the memory by putting people in an area under the domination of yellow in the cultural route, to create a focus for the function defined in the modules, to give excitement, to spread energy and to increase success for production areas. we used it for the purpose. At the same time, we ensure that the spaces have a holistic perception by using a single color.

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Some locations have the paradox to be complicated to rebuild while being in a strategic place of a city. That is the situation of the old swimming pool of Dax and the Jaï Alaï dedicated for basque sports and used as an exhibition center. This wasteland has a symbolic value by its direct connection with three major cultural aspects of the city, Thermalism, Rugby and Bullfighting. Different levels of urban transition may highlights some of the best qualities of the territory.

Transitions

By: Aubin Souday | France

Progressive shape The general shape is getting higher from the city center scale by six levels, to ninety on the boulevard, opening to the charming Adour River landscape and its lush vegetation. The facade along the street facing the centennial arena propose a style, which reminds some local architectural codes. On the other side, the core gets more liberty around the warm bath, due to the participatory housing terraces and apartments.

This area offers an alternative path to reconnect the downtown with the 1970s district of the Berges by a “classic” program made of commercial spaces on the ground floor and residential program above. The general disposition connects the quarters, and at the same time, it generates a direct path from the arena park to the stadium. This disposition with a new plaza tends to be a new meeting point for the most important events, such as Ferias, and matches.

Between continuity and evolution It involves keeping the existing architectural elements to change or not their program. The inner street gravitate around the old municipal pool converted into a public,

cheap spa place for the population. The Jaï Alaï keep its first functions, basque games, and exhibit center while being refurbished with wood panel walls enveloping the existing steel structure.

Instead of observing the flooding as a potential risk for decades, how can we rethink the city with it? The ground floor is composed by a between grounds that prevent the goods to be damaged by a potential flood, and allows more spaces. Its height is based on the last century flooding height measured. Its minimalist concrete style with adaptive curtain walls allow more liberty for any shop design.

Transition of the resources The northern territory of Dax is the Landes forest, essentially composed by maritime pines, used for chemical industry. It will be a new paradigm for this region to value the capacity of wood for building aspects.

The structure of the floor structure is made by CLT walls and posts systems. The joists allows building facade to transform. This typology provides a modularity that makes possible the diversity of the housing programs.

This new way of construction highlights the great capacity of wood, for its structural performance, and natural cozy atmosphere. Each building has its own facade cover from brick to Shou Sugi Ban burned wood with different.

Geothermal energy is the other major natural resource unique in Dax that could be used not only for the public spa, but also to warmth the new constructions.

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Transitions TRANSITION OF THE RESOURCES The northern territory of Dax is the Landes forest, essentially composed by maritime pines, used for chemical industry. It will be a new paradigm for this region to value the capacity of wood for building aspects. The structure of the floor structure is made

by CLT walls and posts systems. The joists allows building facade to transform.

This typology provides a modularity that makes possible the diversity of the housing programs. This new way of construction highlights the great capacity of wood, for its structural performance, and natural cozy atmosphere. Each building has its own facade cover from brick to Shou Sugi Ban burned wood with different. Geothermal energy is the other major natural resource unique in Dax that could be used not only for the public spa, but also to warmth the new constructions.

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Instead of observing the flooding as a potential risk for decades, how can we rethink the city with it? The ground floor is composed by a between grounds that prevent the goods to be damaged by a potential flood, and allows more spaces. Its height is based on the last century flooding height measured. Its minimalist concrete style with adaptive curtain walls allow more liberty for any shop design.

PROGRESSIVE SHAPE The general shape is getting higher from the city center scale by six levels, to ninety on the boulevard, opening to the charming Adour River landscape and its lush vegetation. The facade along the street facing the centennial arena propose a style, which reminds some local architectural codes. On the other side, the core gets more liberty around the warm bath, due to the participatory housing terraces and apartments.

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Embedded Energy The mounds of Buffalo, NY in 2050 By: Aubin Souday | France

At the beginning of the 20th century, Buffalo was one of the most populous cities in the U.S. But like other industrial settlements, suburbanization and globalization led to a decline in the city’s economy and an emptying out of its urban population. Nonetheless, the city has several characteristics that contribute to liveability: a park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, its location on the shore of Lake Erie and its proximity to Niagara Falls.

Today Buffalo is looked to as a potential “haven” for people migrating due to climate change. But earlier planning decisions are now liabilities to Buffalo’s bright future. Industry contaminated the waterways and Expressways severed the park system, creating barriers to access, dividing neighborhoods and keeping residents from enjoying the city’s greatest assets.

Radical approaches to these goals are reflected here in “Embeded Energy”. The new jewel in the Olmsted Park system is a Salvage Park where mounds and creekside topography are created from rubble and waste from housing renovations completed in the adjacent Upper West Side neighborhood.

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Urban Intervention in Matanzas City, Cuba By: Daniel La O | Cuba

An immense abandoned area in the center of the city will always be a good space to carry out an urban intervention.

The space that concerns us for this project is located in the heart of Matanzas City, in western Cuba. We are talking about a space occupied by the facilities of the city’s old railway station and other surrounding areas, which for years have remained inert, due to the carelessness of the city’s authorities, something common in Cuba today.

We are talking then about an important space in the city, demarcated by the bay, a river, a beach, and good part of the housing and service infrastructure of the area, very close to the historic center and at the same time close to one of the most active areas from the city.

It’s an ideal place for an urban intervention, which would incorporate a wide area into the active city’s life and would help to decompress and expand economics and services activities, a key aspect, which has been a subject of conflict in recent years, for the crowding of huge numbers of people and activities in the tight spaces and streets dating back to the colonial era, which is where social life mainly takes place in this part of the city.

Then the guidelines to be followed will be clear, create an intentional flow of activities and services that attract and disperse people throughout this new space, offering dissimilar possibilities for all types of people and for dissimilar interests. Being so close to one of the current busiest areas of the city, the most correct way to achieve it seems to be, to study what that context offers, so bustling and crowded, and to unravel what this new space can offer, so that you can guide this flow of people towards this new agglomeration of activities and services.

The first strategy is to identify what activities already occur in this area, and think about how to modify and expand them so that they reach a greater audience, in this case we have the boating and sailing school, the remains of the railroad facilities, areas for sports use, and other structures, which expand their range of activities to meet the needs of a larger number of people.

On the other hand, we have the question of the activities that will be incorporated, and after the analysis of the context, a group of activities with great potential for exploitation are identified, activities related to art, such as a set of exhibition rooms and culture centers, activities Related to education such as a media library, and others of various kinds, would be very well accepted in this new area, outdoor activities and leisure activities would be a good attraction linked to the beach areas. Also guaranteeing small structures scattered throughout the space with the intention of being used by small businesses that can be incorporated into the area’s activities, providing greater versatility and flexibility to the whole space.

Urban Intervention Matanzas City, Cuba Here we have the most active spot in this part of the city. It’s a zone of confluence of many spaces and activities that give life to the zone.

Here a theather, bars, museums, and other share the streets an squares creating a very popular space.

Making this zone, our start point to the circulation and distribution red that will ocupate and sparce people through the whole new insertion.

The first conection we make with the actual used spaces it´s a green space revitalization. Implementing some of the activities that spontaneosly the city has assign to it.

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Across the river, using as a platform the old train station and it´s former instalations it´s placed a extense network that will provide a high facility to people to move among spaces and uses.

The intention it´s to create interaction´s centers and make them interact each other through sistemics conections.

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One of the main objectives in this intervention it’s to reuse the former train station’s facilities, abandoned at this time.

Old vagons are used as a little business emplacements, the maintenance’s spaces improve as a museum.

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SEME-BIOSE Beyond Resilience

By: Franklin Yemeli | Cameroon

Coastal ecosystems and environments are among the richest in biodiversity on the planet. However, frenetic urbanization and population explosion are now having a huge impact on their dynamics. Under the effect of climate change, the contrast between land and sea is also accompanied by the contrast between great opportunities and vulnerability. The rise of sea levels is combined with the fragility of ecosystems. Under the repeated blows of the sea and favoured by the inaction of people, many beaches are now almost on the verge of disappearing.

Statistics show a retreat of more than 10 meters per year in some areas.

Developing countries are increasingly concerned, but not sufficiently prepared to deal with these problems. This is the case of Senegal where the affected communities are very often poor and derive their income mainly from the sea. Adults who see the youngest children playing in the sand on the remaining stretch of beach are nostalgic for the time when they did the same, but several tens of meters away. The coastline has receded a lot since then.

Today, they no longer know how to relate these childhood memories. In many places, the beach has almost completely disappeared, the dune barrier no longer exists, houses, mosques and other cultural spaces and even cemeteries have been swallowed up by the sea.

Some solutions already tested in this context include dikes and breakwaters. They have advantages and disadvantages but are mainly used for protection.

Architecture in response to these challenges can help to implement solutions that go beyond resilience. How to protect the land from the onslaught of the sea without creating segregation between land and sea? How can coastal development be integrated into the protection program?

The approach considers natural phenomena and the needs of populations in the design process. Rather than starting from scratch, we ask ourselves the question:

“Why do some coastlines deteriorate while others resist very well? ». In fact, some sandy coastlines are protected by natural islands that act as living breakwaters. Artificial islands would therefore be an effective way to protect shorelines from erosion. Other strategies are put in place to give back to nature its rightful place and to provide those who have lost their homes with a comfortable new home. In this “land-sea” approach, the combined actions make it possible to reduce wave action, prevent erosion, rebuild the entire coastline and promote the development of sea-related activities.

The various interventions are organized on five levels: The demolition of ruins and dangerous buildings located at a non-conforming distance from the seafront allows the beach to be freed and the pressure on it to be reduced.

Urban estates with ecological architecture and made up of evolutive housing allow for the relocation of displaced people further away from the shoreline. Installation of windbreaks allows the natural restoration and stabilization of the dune barrier on the back beach. The creation of artificial reefs and the restoration of the mangrove swamp promote the development of biodiversity, the attenuation of waves and optimize sedimentary deposition in the deltas. The creation of artificial islands helps to control swells and prevent sand from being carried offshore while developing economic and social activities. An offshore extension through a floating architecture aims at optimizing and democratizing the activities related to the blue economy. In addition, the foundations of the footbridges leading to the islands are designed to stabilize the beach and the deltas, optimize sedimentary deposition and create spaces for walks without disturbing the littoral drift, which in itself constitutes a balance.

Walking on them is an extraordinary experience through the spectacular views they offer over the landscape. Thus, while the sea level rises, we emerge. Life with the sea ceases to be a struggle and becomes a symbiosis.

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Climate Forum

By: Venturi Team | Chile

Project is a climate forum that protects people from the extreme temperatures caused by global warming in the middle of 2050. It focuses on controlling factors such as solar radiation and wind to provide optimal spaces in thermal comfort conditions. A series of unitary structural elements arranged on the axes of the predominant wind vectors. These generate a roof that protects from radiation, captures solar energy through photovoltaic panels and, when it reaches the ground, consolidates an underground forum for meetings and social interaction.

For its part, each “structural tree” captures the wind flows from the upper face of the roof, directing it towards the centre of the framework, bringing it closer and cooling it down inside and then releasing it inside the forum, acclimatising the space passively without requiring additional energy in a context where the shade becomes vital for the social life of the inhabitants.

Climate change has reached the peak of its development and with it, the extension of the Atacama Desert has expanded towards the south bringing high temperatures and arid landscapes to the centre of the country. Solar radiation is increasingly harmful to living beings and ways of living in the city have changed. It is now almost impossible to go outside in broad daylight, and people take shelter in their air-conditioned homes. The market and technology have tried to keep people in touch and have only succeeded in doing so virtually. The political and social activities that by definition took place in the city’s public space were displaced by solar radiation and temperature, condemning the inhabitants to a life indoors in a kind of permanent climate quarantine. The large meetings and assemblies seen after the historic

18th October 2020 are scarce. Thus the climate control deficit has had political consequences on the bulk of the population. In the middle of the 21st century, the use of public space is different from today.

The control of climatic conditions of radiation and wind requires simple strategies that allow the generation of space in accordance with human comfort requirements.

Covering a surface to project a large shadow that allows the temperature under the cover to be reduced. Bury the main space to take advantage of the thermal inertia of the earth and moderate extreme temperatures.

The essential logic for our proposal was to study the wind directions together with the solar radiation. To do this, we sought the maximum capture of wind flows by means of a wind-catcher cover that was at an angle of attack that would allow the flow to be directed through the top and introduce the currents into the forum. On the other hand, it is shown how the roof extends in a linear way to provide a considerable surface of protection and shade towards the parks and buildings of the context, directly influencing the free and liquid occupation of the public space.

STUDENT CATEGORY HONORARY MENTION

Intervention in Post-Industrial Neighbourhood By: Rachelle Roake | USA

Post-industrial neighborhoods here face legacies of industrial pollutants, redlining, and disinvestment, a familiar plague across the US. These designs explore new ways to protect residents from particulate matter pollution and activate vacant land with flexible use space suitable for mobile services, such as mobile medical facilities, food trucks, food distributors, and hair stylists. These interventions are for a neighborhood that the city is actively paying people to leave.

These ideas seek to help residents stay in place safely and provide desirable services and amenities within walking distance, while building resilience for more extreme heat and precipitation in the future.

DETROIT GOAL: PROTECT AND EMPOWER RESIDENTS IN A DISINVESTED, POST-INDUSTRIAL NEIGHBORHOOD

CONNECTION Stormwater basins capture localized flood Wifi and charging stations Shade trees store carbon events, store carbon, and provide beauty connect residents and provide wildlife habitat

Artistic bollards prevent illegal dumping and make the garden look well-cared for

Main residential streets are repaired and adapted to allow community gathering

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