“Future of cities”_Copenhagen_p

New Planning = ∑ (Micro Projects)

Student competition for ideas

Copenhagen, Denmark July 2007

Academic project: in collaboration with Ben & Jáquez architects and urbanists_ Organised by IFHP (International Federation for Housing and Planning) (Student)

Planning + Building + Urban Quality + Housing

A generic solution is proposed to confront the uncontrolled growth of future cities, helping them to preserve their identity and making them more compact. The idea is based on the existence of wide highways in all cities all over the world creating true barriers within the different neighborhoods.

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A new megastructure that combines public and private transportation, housing and public equipments for the city is proposed in those spaces occupied by cars. This new megastructure will be developed in several micro projects whose addition will generate the final structure.

The proposal studies the case of Santo Domingo, as an generic location, using a comic to tell the story of a boy who arrives in the city and grows up at the same time as the megastructure is developing and becoming true.