Students: Sandra González Álvarez; Alberto Fuentes Valcárcel; Salomé Suárez Vilas; Omar Pumar Mosteiro
Tutors: Cristóbal Crespo González
Project: Stitches
School: Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura

Face the challenge presented by this contest: "Architecture in transformation. The Disappearance of Architectures", we see a chance to take a step beyond architecture, facing a serious problem nowadays, production of Co2 from our cities.

This proposal, "stitches", will try to integrate two concepts that history has spread, flora and fauna will be integrated with our cities’ architecture, not as a mere adjunct, but as a single structure. This project makes us think about how throughout human evolution places that architecture has colonized (defined architecture as space where human life develops) it provokes the disappearance of plant and animal species that existed there previously.

“Stitches" is a proposal that tries to dampen and offset Co2 emissions; following the strategy of incorporating into our architecture vegetation. To do so will try (will try to, or just : ) We will SEW the city with new vegetable spaces; as the existing cities were not prepared to carry plant elements in all its extension, we will create metal structures, L- or C-shaped that will be sewing already existing spaces of the city, providing them with vegetable elements and even generating new spaces. We will use existing roads to cushioning vision of road traffic in those who exist, or generate shadows or stay spaces in walkways.

"Stitches" is designed to return the generating function of oxygen and Co2 absorption this requires that vegetation recovers its space between urbanization.

"Stitches" is applicable in any urban area. With these green stitches that we generate, and we might incorporate those sterile areas of the city (walls, empty urban, handrails...) creating new sensations and experiences in our roam our urban spaces, it generates new visual, a new perception of architecture is created and even we provide with color, smell and light our living spaces.

"Stitches" will be applied to three different cities, with three very different scales. We will use New York, Paris and Beijing as laboratories of our proposal; and we observe that in each of them, scale and dimensions of our stitches it’s different.