Ecosistema urbano   United States   Extreme heat is not only endangering the habitat of an infinite number of species, but also altering the very way we use our cities, a problem which disproportionally affects low-income communities. In the spirit of working toward a solution, a modul

Ecosistema urbano   United States   The main element is an inflatable ‘cloud’ placed on a wood structure, which together create a space for learning and for raising environmental awareness. The installation includes lighting and color to represent climate change and air purification s

Ecosistema urbano   Local-In is an open source web and cell phone digital tool designed to promote creative, participatory, and collective creative urban processes that make it easier to consult, explore, and visualize a huge variety of geo-referenced data... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   The studio develops participatory tools and dynamics to promote multidirectional communication between institutions and citizens, so that the process of revitalization of cities is more innovative, creative, and consensual... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   Mexico   The strategic plan to revitalize the historic center of the city defines actions that can be implemented in the short, medium, and long term, and a start-up catalyst project that transforms an underutilized building into a space of collaborative entr

Ecosistema urbano   Bangladesh   The project for the improvement of public spaces in Dhaka proposes the creation of a network of community facilities – educational, social, and cultural – that serve the most vulnerable communities by creating safe environments... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   This dismountable space of information, exchange, and connection is configured by its occupants, who endow it with a distinctive and ephemeral identity, transforming it into a square, an agora, or stage in real time according to collective needs... [

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   The project transforms the Teatinos Campus through the insertion of outdoor infrastructures for education, culture, social interaction, and leisure, applying bioclimatic strategies to improve comfort conditions in the public spaces... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   A network of reactivated spaces is proposed to improve the urban experience in the historic center of Cuenca, UNESCO World Heritage. The initial phase proposes six ‘high priority’ spaces, chosen as the first activators of the revitalization plan... [

Ecosistema urbano   Paraguay   The proposal consists of four parts: a Sustainable Development Plan, a Plan for Urban and Territorial Planning, Pilot Projects – for management and physical intervention – and a 15-month online and in-person participatory process with all the agents.

Ecosistema urbano   United States   In 2017 the Madrid-based practice of Ecosistema Urbano of Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo won the international competition to reorganize the seafront of West Palm Peach, Florida, with a proposal comprising various interventions. One involves the

Ecosistema urbano   United States   The project will transform downtown West Palm Beach by opening up the city to its new waterfront through a broad-scale, multidiscipline, evolutive, participatory, and bioclimatic strategy. 

Ecosistema urbano   Russia   The proposal has a triple objective: to eliminate the pollution in the reservoir through specific solutions; improving the quality of water via natural systems and mobile elements; and reconnecting the city – 500 kilometers south of Moscow – with the

Ecosistema urbano   Paraguay   Winner of the competition to revitalize the historic center of the capital of Paraguay, the Madrid team Ecosistema Urbano proposes a new way to improve the city and create new spaces. Backed by international and local experiences, the project combine

Ecosistema urbano   Norway   The redevelopment of the main square of the Norwegian city of Hamar was conceived more as a process of civic participation than as an architectural project.

Ecosistema urbano   Netherlands   Ten European teams were invited by the Visual Arts Center in Dordrecht – in collaboration with the Amsterdam team Carve –, to present their design proposals for creative and inventive play objects for children of different ages, with the purpose of c

Ecosistema urbano   Italy   According to the ‘Reggio approach’, the environment can be seen as a ‘third educator’. For this reason, the spaces in the school are extendable and adaptable, with in-between areas with no predefined use to generate constantly changing spatial situat

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   IN THE TOWN OF Rivas Vaciamadrid, located 15 kilometers to the southeast of the capital,  the Plaza Ecópolis project comprises three parts: public space, elementary school and toy library, and regenerates a plot – right by an industrial complex and s

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   The frenzied building processes that take Tplace in the new urban developments of major cities contrast with the slow pace of growth of the vegetation, which helps to condition their open spaces. To counteract this time lapse in the case of the new u

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   A reinterpretation of local architecture has guided the construction on stilts of this house-shelter for a former rugby player in Ranón, 19 kilometers from Avilés, on the coast of Asturias. The essence of the hórreo (the typical granary of the region

Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo founded Ecosistema Urbano in the year 2000, a multidisciplinary studio with offices in Madrid and Miami. They define their approach as ‘urban social design,’ in which urbanism, architecture, engineering, and sociolo

The architects Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo of Ecosistema Urbano, who have been teaching for some years now at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), have capped first place in the competition for the redevelopment of the waterfr

El equipo formado por Ecosistema Urbano y el artista Lluís Sabadell ha resultado el ganador del concurso para el diseño de una intervención artística en la plaza Stortorget, el principal espacio público de Hamar, una ciudad situada a 130 kilómetros d