Category: Research

  • Water Wall

    LOW COST COOLING MARKETPLACE 1ST PRIZE  at the Place and Displacement International Competition for a Refugee Marketplace hosted by Ideation Worldwide (under IDeA), in collaboration with Yale MacMillan Center and UN Habitat, UNHCR, UNOPS, presented and discussed at Ideas in Action Summit in New York City. Year 2017 Place: Kakuma, (Kenya, Africa), Latitude: 3° 42’…

  • DHARAVI – MUMBAI

    WATER COMMON GROUNDS FOR AN ECOLOGICAL REGENERATION Year 2015 Place: Dharavi, (Mumbai, India), Latitude: 19.044218, Longitude: 72.855980 Dharavi is a huge informal settlement of Mumbai. More than 18 billions of people live today in this city, and the 15% of the total inhabitants of Indian slums. The story of the city and its evolution until…

  • CIDADE DE PLASTICO, SALVADOR DA BAHIA

    NEW SUPPORTS TO LIVE THE COASTLINE Year 2014 Place: Perì Perì, (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil), Latitude: -12.860223994713328, Longitude: -38.47897052764893 This project compares with the special territorial implications that informality has produced along the coast of the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia, focusing on a small urban segment occupied by the invasion known as Cidade…

  • KANCHA

    THE INNER CONDITION OF A PUBLIC SPACE Year 2013 Place: Cusco, (Perù) Latitude: -13.52436, Longitude: -71.97231 Shared in: https://territoridellacondivisione.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/sharing-new-public-spaces-in-cusco-peru Cusco is a 300,000 inhabitants Peruvian city. It extends for over 10 miles along a narrow valley formed by the Rio Huatanay. The city expands linearly to the east of its incaic historic center without any…