Good intelligent urban planning has the ability to amaze, to reflect a culture and the values of a community, influence or “force” people to Engage with your everyday environment. A design coherent or social initiatives in the spaces public services strengthen a community, undoubtedly nature and the ludic space form an important part of this effect which must be coexist.
This is what Place By is about Design , a competition of “Eco design and social actions” before the public space in the cities. So we leave several examples of public spaces in which social intervention has substantially improved both its appearance and the way it works understand the space itself and its usefulness… How take advantage of public spaces?
We show part of the finalist projects of the Place By Design where the eco-urbanism of space audience enhances the ability to create the playful urbanism .
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The objective, to take advantage of spaces that we believe that they cannot be used. get a space rest and be able to swim in the rivers of the cities through an artificial pool that filters the water that runs by the river. No chemicals or additives, just power refresh with natural water in addition to contributing to cleaning of the water. Project for the city of New York.
The project consists of a farm with vegetation in the style of with garden with vertical structure with the intention of evoke giant trees. The Urban Skyfarm offers a space for garden for the community in an urban environment and at the same time improve air and water quality. A real echo urbanism !
In this case we are going to Denmark, a park that at the same while their ditches serve as drainage allowing the water management in a plain, at times when it is seco is a playful space for skating.
A perfect example of reuse of space , in which an urban infrastructure it can also serve as a bridge to a playful element.
Informing is a necessity, and this is the objective of this project carried out in Houston that through “Cheerful” urban infographics give knowledge the user of the benefits of a garden, cycling or shaded areas among many other things.
In this case the project is an application from Shanghai (China) that allows the user to search parts of a city in which the space at public responds to sensations, memories or feelings that users have been finding in different corners of a city. The motto, do not waste any space that adds value!
Another example of space well used. Through of an abandoned lot is reused for recreational use through a space for bicycles with lanes different difficulty and green areas.
Control of stormwater, an environmental education In addition to green areas, communication between members of the neighborhood and offers driving tips, difficulty levels and educational information. The economic cost is very viable given that a large part of the site are bicycle lanes built through earth movement. 100% eco-urbanism .
Proposal… “The park of the painting” based on an abandoned commercial premises of large dimensions with its outdoor area, it was a creative outlet into space and an educational platform for the artistic and neighborhood community. It turns into a meeting place for artists where they can express their art instead of a private space .
It is currently one of the largest artist galleries in the outdoors in the USA and very popular on Instagram.
The goal is to exchange books in the open air with a literacy and communication background of an area depressed. Locate reading spaces with rest areas and relax on public roads. So far there are available 20 fully public and street libraries.
This really is taking advantage of the space !… Based on exterior tiles that collect kinetic energy from user footsteps to power anything. The small movement of the tiles of only approximately 5 millimeters generates about eight watts of power per step, which can be stored in batteries.
It is the “First Underground Park”. An initiative of refurbishment of a disused metro line based in New York converted into a green area in response to needs of a neighborhood that lacked natural public spaces.
At the time we already talked about urban planning alive and ecological but of course the possibility of reactivating those spaces audiences that are theoretically lost is more than viable and here we have a few examples of a eco-urbanism consistent with the city.
