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Reinventing Reykjavík
Teams in Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Paris, Reykjavík and San Francisco have chosen to transform underused sites in their cities into more sustainable and resilient spaces. Living landscape and Fabric are the winning entries for Reinventing Reykjavik in the C40 Cities
Reinventing Cities Global Competition, as announced at the Urban Futures Clobal Conference in Oslo yesterday.
This is part of an initiative launched in December 2017, for local innovators to transform underutilized urban spaces in their communities into carbon neutral and resilient urban projects. Reinventing Cities is an unprecedented global competition to drive carbon neutral and resilient urban regeneration. Together, some 19 cities have identified 49 underutilized spaces for redevelopment, including empty plots of various sizes, as well as abandoned buildings, historical mansions and car parks.
Through the competition, C40 and the participating cities invited architects, developers, environmentalists, neighbourhood groups, innovators and artists to build creative teams to transform identified spaces into new inspirations of sustainability and resiliency. They also had to demonstrate how innovative climate solutions can be achieved - in combination with noteworthy architecture and local community benefits.
Three locations were presented for Reykjavík: Sæbraut a street with a great sea view sites, Lágmúli, which represents an important intersection within a well-developed commercial sector of our capital, and finally the third at Ártúnshöfði - placed right on the banks of a salmon fishing river and embedded within one of the largest rehabilitation areas within Reykjavík.
The winning teams of architects, urban planners, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and innovators were selected by juries in each city, from amongst 82 finalist teams. The winners will transform sites in Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Paris, and Reykjavik into innovative urban spaces that actively contribute to community health and well-being.
The winning entries for Reykjavík are;
LIVING LANDSCAPE is a zero-carbon, mixed-use building that harness the PassivHouse standards and objectives. Upon completion the project will be the largest wooden building in Iceland. Located at the Ártún, Malarhöfði site, Lifandi Landslag, which translates to Living Landscape, will pursue an ambitious biodiversity objective with 75 percent of the site dominate by green space, including a large central garden and green roofs. The mobility strategy aims to expand walking and cycling infrastructure and to allocate 50 percent of its parking spaces to electric vehicles. The winning team consists of: Jakob+Macfarlane. T.ark, Landslag, Efla, Heild og Upphaf.
FABRIC integrates co-living and co-working spaces into a low-energy hub for better, healthier, and greener cities. Constructed with low-carbon building materials, including wood and stone wool produced locally, FABRIC’s develops an ambitious circular economy approach that will result in 95 percent of waste being diverted from landfills. The project will combine biodiversity and well-being with the creation of green walls and roofs, greenhouses and a thermal winter garden that will function as a wind shelter and be used for social events. The winning team consists of Basalt Architects, Efla, Landmótun and Reginn constructors.
C40 received more than 230 Expressions of Interest from 1,200 companies and organizations to participate in the Reinventing Cities competition, including some of the biggest names of architecture and engineering. 82 teams were chosen to proceed to the second round of the competition.
About C40 Cities
Around the world, C40 Cities connects 94 of the world’s greatest cities to take bold climate action, leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable future. Representing 700+ million citizens and one quarter of the global economy, mayors of the C40 cities are committed to delivering on the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement at the local level, as well as to cleaning the air we breathe. The current chair of C40 is Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo; and three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg serves as President of the Board. C40’s work is made possible by our three strategic funders: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and Realdania.