URBAN SYNTHESIS : MULTIPLE SYSTEMS

However, over the last 20 years, Madrid’s urban sprawl has invested the suburban areas with an increase of +105% of the constructed land. In the meantime, the population only increased of + 6% which reveals a major disfunction in the latest urbanism actions known as PAUs.

The Chamartín area is one of the less densely populated districts compared to its closed positioning from the city centre. One of the major reasons behind this has been the fracture created by the railways on the northsouth axis.

In 2019, the project Madrid Nuevo Norte was presented by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners which started the design process. Construction should begin in 2021, and may be completed by 2045.

It is within this slow temporality that symbitotic living proposes to introduce questions such as water consumption and urban farming, as well as biodiversity protection and maintain as key elements that would led the design development to remain relevent by its completion.

Moreover, the use of inflatble structures enable temporary and adaptive responses to the fast paced development of cities and their main infrastructures. Slender housescrypers propose a different way of inhabiting density while shifting the paragdime of residential areas. On the ground level, hills localy reuse the exacavated earth and constitute a biodiversity reserve for vegetals and animals.

Finally, the north area is dedicated to be a land reserve to enable further planafications and the potential need for vast farming areas within a close distance from the city center.