The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (OHB) has several research laboratories that analyse housing trends in the metropolitan region of the city. The Renovation Lab develops research on the potential for housing renovation, including how the housing stock could be increased through renovation and retrofitting initiatives. This lab analyses cadaster and licenses data to visualise and […]
CENTRINNO is a research project focused on industrial historical sites under transformation. It will showcase the potential of these cultural landscapes to become new and inclusive hubs of entrepreneurship, manufacturing and innovation for city residents and small producers while fostering sustainability and social inclusion. The project is funded by the EU H2020 program and is […]
Informality; Global South; segregation; spatial justice; urban morphology Journal Paper co-authored with Birgit Hausleitner and Marcin Dąbrowski, published in Urban Planning Vol 5, No 3 (2020): Cities of Inclusion—Spaces of Justice Abstract: Planning practice in the Global South often defines a border between formal and informal developments ignoring the complex and nuanced reality of urban […]
Stakeholder; Waste collection; LCA; Local impacts; Multi-criteria decision analysis; Circular Economy Journal paper co-authored with Davide Tonini, Alexander Wandl, KozmoMeister, Sue Ellen Taelman, David Sanjuan-Delmás, Jo Dewulf and DriesHuygens, published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 160. Abstract: Food waste represents the largest fraction of the municipal solid waste generated in Europe and its management […]
Research by design on alternative on-demand mobility systems. Led by 1010au and commissioned by the Province East-Flanders, Atelier OVK, Belgium. The Oost-Vlaams Kerngebied, a network of cities and municipalities around Ghent, expects a population increase by 15 to 25 percent by 2050. This research by design is part of the Atelier Oos-Vlaams Kerngebied (OVK) effort […]
Reflow is a research project that seeks to understand and transform urban material flows, co-create and test regenerative solutions at business, governance, and citizen levels to create a resilient circular economy. Funded by EU H2020, the project involves 27 European partners. Diverse approaches to circularity are tested in six pilot cities across Europe focusing on […]
The project REsource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism was funded by the EU under a H2020 scheme. Its main objective was to provide local and regional authorities with an innovative transdisciplinary and open-source geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) developed and implemented in living labs in six metropolitan areas. The GDSE allows creating […]
Lima experienced an explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the public sector nor the private housing market provided decent […]
This proposal aims at structuring an green-blue-gray matrix along the Carretera Real, or Royal Road, together with the urban areas of four small towns of the Baix Llobregat in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, the farm land, and the existing ecological corridors in the area. A mobility and urban renewal approach was combined with the […]
Analysis and proposal for the Lea river valley in London. The work developed as part of a research by design studio at TU Delft, in collaboration with Ricardo Avella, and guided by Birgit Hausleitner and Taneha Kuzniecow. The work consisted of two parts. The first one included a layered analysis of the urban development of […]