E18 Portrait - Colectivo Colonia

Madrid (ES) - Special mention

Colectivo Colonia

Associates: Jaka Korla (NL) – architect, Martin Valinger Sluga (SI) – urban planner

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"The project re-sources the 100,000 m2 of underutilized, fragmented spaces in Colonia Casa de Campo by transforming these voids intoa  vital social, ecological, and mobility infrastructure. The CreateColonia tool's systematic spatial analysis facilitates intelligent re-sourcing, ensuring potentials, needs, and desires are successfully negotiated, and every space is used to its maximum potential. The project is regenerative as it fosters a resilient urban commons by reimagining existing territory through community-led collective action."

The collective transformation of urban fragments, Credit authors
The CreateColonia collective visioning tool, Credit authors
The catalogue of tactical and structural spatial actions, Credit authors