CLIMATE SAFARI

TEAM PORTRAIT

VIDEO (by the team)

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
We are living a social, economic, and even health, global crisis. Europan, under the title ‘Living Cities’, is the ideal format to reflect on the current time in which we live. This way, the challenge is how to develop strategies to face social and ecological collapse. For us, it is an opportunity to show how a collectively solution like CLIMATE SAFARI can create a vital town based on social, economic, health and environmental justice, where to try an architectural strategy that defines a new urban identity capable of hybridizing different situations where ideation, design, production, leisure and housing occur simultaneously in a highly natural environment.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
Waalwijk proposed a site that implies a double challenge. In this sense, our proposal considers to resolve the relation with the contiguous historical city, as well as the relation to the other side of the Highway, taking advantage of an adjoining industrial park. To sum up, this site is adjacent to the main ring of the city, a strategic and suitable location for a new bus station, perfectly connected with the Highway. This Highway marks a clear separation between the city and the industry. Therefore, CLIMATE SAFARI develops an ambitious solution that lets solve both parts of the city: it not just proposes a cross for the industrial park for bicycles and pedestrian, but pretends to create a HUB transfer between the urban and industrial areas, through a series of supplementary programs. Consequently, the city and the industry could benefit from each other.

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