2018 - Ongoing
Urbinat
Urban Innovative and Inclusive Nature
URBiNAT | Urban Innovative and Inclusive Nature focuses on the regeneration and integration of deprived districts in urban development through innovative Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) – an Urban Inclusive Nature – ensuring sustainability and mobilising driving forces for social cohesion; specifically, on “public space” and on creation of new urban, social and nature relations with and between different neighbourhoods.
To identify NBS that create relevant social, economic and environmental impact and promote human health, the consortium gathers 7 European cities that will develop the co-creation of Healthy Corridors as an innovative and flexible NBS, which integrates itself a vast array of NBS emerging from community-driven design processes. The cities will act as living laboratories, in which ecologic, cultural, social and economic impacts will be assessed.
The project proposes new models of urban development through innovations in the public space, promotes social cohesion through living labs, constituted in the cities, and outspreads within a community of practices and transversal sharing of knowledge. It takes as model processes of experimentation and innovation of methodologies, of co-design and co-implementation, and of interaction between scientific knowledge and wisdom from local communities.
Year:
- 2018-23
Funding Call:
- Horizon 2020
Total Funding:
- 13,019,300 € (to be confirmed)
Team
- Chiara Farinea, Andrea Conserva, Fiona Demeur, Ilaena Napier, Raimund Krenmuller, Lana Awad, Mohamad Elatab, David Andres Leon, Mathilde Marengo, Alexandre Dubor, Areti Markopoulou, Manja van de Worp.
Partners
- Centro de Estudos Sociais (PT), ICETA – Instituto de Ciencias, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto (PT), Camara Municipal Do Porto (PT), CMPH – DomusSocial – Empresa de Habitação e Manutenção do Município do Porto, EM (PT), ITEMS International (FR), Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies, de l’Amenagement et des Reseaux (FR), Nantes Métropole (FR), Universitet Po Architektura Stroitelstvo I Geodezija (BG), Municipality of Sofia (BG), Libera Universita di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (IT), Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (IT), Comune di Siena (IT), Universiteit Antwerpen (BE), Ville de Bruxelles (BE), Univerza V Novi Gorici (SI), Municipality of Nova Gorica (SI), Tecnologisk Institut (DK), Hoeje-Taastrup Kommune (DK), SLA A/S (DK), City Facilitators (DK), Foreningen IKED (SE), Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (DE), Give U Design Art, Lda (PT), Universidade De Coimbra (PT), New Growing Systems, S.L (ES)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776783
Sofia
In Sofia, Bulgaria, IAAC will implement a Winter Garden Pavilion as part of the new healthy corridor. The parametrically designed pavilion will lie in the grounds of a school allowing the children to learn and cultivate their own plants. The timber structure consists of a series of digitally fabricated ribs and a polycarbonate skin that opens through passive means. Inside, a variety of planting areas can be found, including a suspended hydroponic system and soil-based planters.
Porto
In Porto, Portugal, IAAC will carry out nature-based solutions in 6 schools as part of the regeneration strategy. The schools will each receive a designed solution that takes into account their requirements, limitations and feedback from the co-design workshops. Structural systems to house both flora and fauna have been developed, as well as ceramic bio-receptive surfaces. Thus, several digital fabrication methods have been utilized like CNC milling and 3D printing.
Nantes
In Nantes, France, IAAC will realize a series of lightweight structural systems that will house nature based solutions, forming part of the Nantes healthy corridor. The structures will integrate planting, rainwater collection, seating and shading. Through a series of co-design workshops with the citizens of Nantes, IAAC further developed the design to suit the needs and requirements of its future users.