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Dordrecht Energy Carousel / Ecosistema Urbano

Lisa Wronski — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Centre for Visual Arts and Amsterdam design bureau Carve recently invited ten European design firms to develop unconventional, inventive, and playful objects for a new public space in the western Netherlands city of Dordrecht. Responding to the challenge, Spanish architecture firm Ecosistema Urbano designed the Dordrecht Energy Carousel - an energy-generating chandelier of hanging ropes meant to engage kids of all ages in the densely populated suburbs surrounding Governeusplein Square.

Ecopolis Plaza / Ecosistema Urbano

Nico Saieh — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Transformation of a faceless site in Madrid’s urban sprawl, surrounded by industry and heavy traffic transportation infrastructures, into a public space for social interaction providing a building for childcare.

Eco Boulevard in Vallecas / Ecosistema Urbano

Nico Saieh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The whole proposal for the eco-boulevard in Vallecas can be defined as an urban recycling operation consisting of the following actions: insertion of an air tree-social dynamizer, over an existing urbanization area, densification of existing alignment trees and reduction and asymmetric arrangement of wheeled traffic circulation. Superficial interventions reconfiguring the existing urbanization (perforations, fillings, paint, etc.) that defaces the executed kerb development.