Recooperation

“… good housing is more common where it is locally produced through network structures and decentralizing technologies”

Turner, John F.C, Housing by People. Towards Autonomy in Building Environments, Marion Boyars, London, 1976

Recooperation is an holistic proposal for

urban revitalization of mass housing

Where?

Spain

Valencian

Metropolitan

Area

Valencian

Region

Valencia

City Center

Orba

neighborhood

4km

Context

Albufera

Natural

Park

Traditional

Orchards

Spread of

urbanization

natural

park

traditional

orchards

Disconnection of natural

ecosystems!

riparian

forests

traditional

orchards

coastal

lagoon

ricefields

dunes

riparian

forests

irrigation

ditch

2744 housing units

4862 inhabitants

25% of empty houses

Aging population

Unemployment rate: 40%

Strong associative network

Wood industry = local know-how

Energetic inefficiency

49% of public space for cars

Each dwelling: 75 m2

Brick load bearing walls

Territorial

strategies

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

Intensificating the productive orchards

Restoring the irrigation ditch

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

Recovering the riparian forest

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

Creating a riverside park

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

Stitching the eastern wetlands

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

Implementing a green filter of poplars

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

National Park Orchards

Watercourse

The neighborhood as a landscape-connector node!

Connecting the natural, rural and urban systems

Urban

strategies

Strategies for water, wood, energy and productive cycles

`Recycling´ = reinserting a cycle dynamics

New mobility scheme

New water cycle

New productive activities

New renewable energies

Urban

design

Primary school

Wood training center Water treatment

plant

Business incubator

Kindergarten

Social center

Dissuasive parking

Rehabilitated rural heritage

Public space

The city may grow in terms of quality rather than in square meters!

Housing

strategies

New shared spaces

Spatial flexibility

Participatory process

Energetic adaptation

In-between spaces

Community exchange

system

Architectural upgrading

Reversible improvements

Wood and local know-how

Economically sustainable interventions

Manifesto

Low cost, modifiable, non-definitive solutions

Structural elements, enclosures and furniture made in local wood

SPACE

TIME GOODS

Community exchange

system

Inhabitants offer SPACE

Inhabitants obtain shared & private SPACE

Inhabitants offer and obtain

TIME/WORK

GOODS/MONEY

Implementation

Self-promoted changes for every 20 housing units sharing 1 access

Adding layers of shared space

Ground floor

First floor

Second floor

Third floor

Fourth floor

Rooftop floor

Typological

diversity

Rehabilitation with wooden elements and gallery extension

Autonomous satellite room with equipped furniture

Greenhouse extension on the rooftop and shared terrace

Façade renewal with staircase, new plugged-in bathroom, equipped furniture and shared terrace

+

Narrowing house with new gallery and plugged-in kitchen and bathroom

Thank you!

IMPROVISTOS

With the vital collaboration of

Orba Neighbors Civic Neighborhood Association

Alfafar Municipality Universities of Valencia and Madrid

Experts Consultants on Law, Engineering, Sustainability and Participation Professors of Landscape and Architecture

music: ‘Entre dos aguas’ by Paco de Lucía

improvistosnuncavistos@gmail.com