October 10 to 13, 2024
POST-COVID HOUSING:THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY
Guallart Architects has won the international competition for the design of a mixed-use community in Xiong'an’s new city, defining a new standard in the post-COVID era, that can be applied as a raw model in different cities around the world.
The proposal presented under the title "The self-sufficient city", defines an urban model, that merges the traditional European urban blocks, the Chinese modern towers, and the productive farming landscape. This new urban environment where people can live, work and rest, will allow their residents to produce resources locally while remaining globally connected and living a fulfilled life even in times of confinement.
"We cannot continue designing cities and buildings as if nothing had happened," says Guallart, " Our proposal stems from the need to provide solutions to the various crises happening simultaneously all around the world, in order to create a new urban life based on the circular bioeconomy that will empower cities and communities.”
Specifically, the project is conceived as layers of onions, defining different functions needed for human life at different scales, from the resident’s home, to the building, to the community.
The four mixed-use blocks, built with mass timber and passive design solutions, will combine apartments, residences for young and old people, offices, a swimming pool, shops, a food market, a nursery, an administrative centre and a fire station among other facilities.
We developed this project during confinement, when the entire team worked from home...
All buildings will be covered by greenhouses, which will make it possible to grow food for daily needs and generate energy through the sloping roofs. On the ground floor there are small digital co-working factories that allow the use of 3D printers and rapid prototyping machines to produce objects for everyday use. The building will therefore have an internal metabolic system that will integrate energy production, recycled water, food production and material reuse promoting a distributed model for urban management.
Every apartment will have a large south-facing terrace that will act as a thermal regulator and provide a basic space in times of confinement, allowing residents to play, rest and work. Teleworking stations connected to 5G networks will also be created. This will enable the creation of social networks at neighbourhood level for the exchange of resources.
As the director of the office Honorata Grzesikowska states: “We developed this project during confinement, when the entire team worked from home and we decided to include all those aspects that could make our lives better, so that a new standard could be defined.”
Read on with:
Diese Frage wird mir oft gestellt: Wie läuft die Anfangsphase eines Einrichtungsprojekts ab, wenn Sie einen Kunden oder eine Kundin begleiten? Ich werde mir daher in diesem Artikel erlauben, Ihnen meine ganz persönliche Vision zu schildern, die ich im Kopf habe, wenn ich mit einem Einrichtungsprojekt beauftragt werde – egal, ob es für eine Privatperson oder einen Geschäftskunden ist. Im Lauf eines langen und intensiven kreativen Prozesses knüpfe ich immer eine intime Beziehung zu den Adressaten des Projektes. Herzlich willkommen hinter den Kulissen meiner mäeutischen Einrichtungsphilosophie!
Written by: Mélanie Trinkwell, Innenarchitektin
Meine verstorbene Großmutter Simone gefiel sich darin, jede Diskussion zum Thema Ästhetik mit diesem weisen Ausspruch abzuschließen: „Jedem sein schlechter Geschmack.“ In anderen Kreisen, in einer anderen Epoche behauptete Nietzsche, der schlechte Geschmack habe ebenso seine Daseinsberechtigung wie der gute Geschmack – dazu bemerkte Galliano ironisch: „Ich bevorzuge einen schlechten Geschmack gegenüber der völligen Abwesenheit von Geschmack!“ Hiermit möchte ich Sie zu einer Diskussion über ein weitreichendes Thema im Hinblick auf Dekoration und Einrichtung einladen
Written by: Mélanie Trinkwell, Innenarchitektin
Die Erde ist krank und unser Verhalten ändert sich. Zum Wohle des Planeten hat die junge Generation bereits ihre Art zu essen und zu reisen revolutioniert, nun erfindet sie auch noch eine neue Art, sich einzurichten. Es ist daher nicht erstaunlich, dass Öko-Design boomt und die Blase des „Fast-Konsums“ im Gegenzug endlich zu platzen beginnt ...
Written by: Mélanie Trinkwell, Innenarchitektin