17 — PLATJA DE PALMA (ES), WINNER — AGORA 4.8 > SEE MORE P141
19 — OULU (FI), WINNER — KALJAMA > SEE MORE P137
18 — NEU-ULM (DE), WINNER — THE PRODUCTIVE HEART OF NEU ULM > SEE MORE P133
20 — AMSTERDAM H-BUURT (NL), RUNNER-UP — H-BUURT MAKERS > SEE MORE P104
kind of manufacturing which adds value locally. The city as a factory reconnects knowledge, innovation and production, providing low-skilled employment, inclusiveness and social equity: a landscape for a circular economy. In Amsterdam H-Buurt, the runner-up H-Buurt Makers (fig.20), plans a diverse mix of middle-income residential buildings sitting atop a collective glass shed with affordable incubators of production. The shed is a space for clustered small and low-end productive units ran by neighbours and locals, surrounded by shared areas for distribution and logistics. The traditional court is now a central storage area. A short circuit community is established, and waste and energy loops are closed. In the winning proposal Productive Update (fig.21) in 21 — ZWICKAU (DE), WINNER — PRODUCTIVE UPDATE > SEE MORE P145
the city of Zwickau (DE), a series of programmatic infill vacant plots with additional elements to the
Innovative urban imaginaries and hybridization models
existing residential blocks that host a new economic
are linked to public space to create new forms of
tissue based on the knowledge and mobility industry,
making in town and a new common perception of the
with start-ups for fast prototyping and fabrication on
public realm, where distribution and production are part
demand.
of consumption. A warehouse can be as memorable as a civic facility is.
As a conclusion, a range of innovations, from political models to building typologies, is needed in order to
TYPOLOGIES
manage the new and shorter distances between
Demographic, cultural and social trends suggest and
production-distribution-consumption, as well as to
forecast that the productive economy will, in the future,
negotiate the interest of private owners, investors and
be strongly anchored in the urban fabric, including the
local communities in the circular economy.
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