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   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   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

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

Belinda Tato   José Luis Vallejo   Frente a las maneras tradicionales de intervenir físicamente sobre la ciudad, el urbanismo instantáneo y efímero opta por incidir en los hábitos y los procesos sociales de los ciudadanos.

Belinda Tato   José Luis Vallejo   El uso democrático de las herramientas digitales permite generar un concepto flexible de espacio público basado en la participación espontánea de los ciudadanos.

Adela García-Herrera   Uno de los objetivos prioritarios de la Fundación COAM es ofrecer una plataforma de difusión del trabajo de los arquitectos madrileños. Y esa loable aspiración ha cristalizado en ‘Monoespacios’, un ciclo expositivo coordinado por Ignacio Borrego, Nés