Designing For Life

The more complete credits for the two competition entries represented in Maria Isabel Espinosa's 12 July presentation goes to the three teams that participated in their conception and development: Maria.I.Espinosa Estudio + Micucci Arquitectos Asociados + Boca Arquitectos (Manuel Barrios y Iliana German).
The concept of Habitability-Activity-Mobility (HAM) was developed in Barcelona by Prof. Carlos Llop. For a deeper explication of these ideas please visit The Territorial Mosaic City.

- THE TERRITORIAL MOSAIC CITY The TERRITORIAL MOSAIC CITY – Project of contemporary territories, is a research project that is being developed in DUOT (Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori) of the UPC.

Water management, the scheduling of activities, waste management, security and safety through a network of sightlines and pull boxes,, children, social inclusion, universal design, night time lighting, is there anything this remarkable team has not considered?

Elisa Silva and Ines Casanova propose an all-encompassing perspective in which design is the process by which systems, relationships and linkages of the urban networks of Caracas all come together, from mobility, to self-sustaining institutional and financial management relationships, and the socio-cultural-spatial field for catalyzing the bibrant expansion of collective urban life. The proposal engages in conflict analysis and the ways that groups constructively engage to produce a designed reconciliation. Brilliantly colored buses and a hot air balloon serve to bring together all stakeholders around the shared spaces, netowrks and the airspace of the park. A data visualization of the funding and financial management flows and relationships stretch the normal understanding of "design." Drainage too!