Reinventing Cities

Global competition to drive resilient, carbon-neutral urban regeneration, created by the C40 Climate Leadership Group.

Project information

C40 Climate Leadership Group and the support of Climate KIC and ofo.

Work areas

Urban development, Circular economy

In collaboration with

Locus (UPM), Enorme Estudio, Güash, Cocinar Madrid, Flast

Status

Finished in March 2018

Description of the competition

Reinventing Cities is a global competition to drive resilient, zero-carbon urban regeneration, created by the C40 Climate Leadership Group and supported by Climate KIC and ofo. The competition uses underused spaces for redevelopment and transforms them into new examples of sustainability and resilience.

Proposals

Icatalist entered the competition for two spaces, the Orcasur Market and the South Campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM

Description of the competition

Proposals

Icatalist entered the competition for two spaces, the Orcasur Market and the South Campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM

Project information

C40 Climate Leadership Group and the support of Climate KIC and ofo.

Work areas

Urban development, Circular economy

In collaboration with

Locus (UPM), Enorme Estudio, Güash, Cocinar Madrid, Flast

Status

Finished in March 2018

Market of ORCASUR

The intervention was proposed in a municipal market located on a 1,880 m2 plot in the Orcasur neighbourhood in the district of Usera. A space owned by Madrid City Council located in a very vulnerable residential neighbourhood, which due to its potential for revitalisation and transformation is included as an “area of opportunity” in the Strategic Plan for the Urban Regeneration of Madrid.

An innovative proposal was presented, Orcasur Mercado Abierto included the revitalisation of the market on the ground floor and new activities on the other floors. The common desire of the team was to participate in the invention of a metropolitan space by changing the rules of urban projects.

The main objective was fundamentally environmental and social, the aim was to achieve a facility that would benefit the population of the district, integrating the residents of the neighbourhood, generating new employment opportunities, helping local entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy.

South Campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM

The intervention on the south campus of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid was in the Arboleda area. An “area of opportunity” within the Strategic Plan for the Urban Regeneration of Madrid because of its potential to improve the urban structure of the district of Puente de Vallecas.

Our project Arboleda Smart_DRID was the vision for the South Campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid UPM in the Vallecas neighbourhood to become the innovation node around Artificial Intelligence (AI) talent and its applications in new products and services for society, business, decision making in the field of urban administration and talent/knowledge. In short, an innovation ecosystem open to society. It was a “country” project as part of a vital and innovative society.