E14 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Air Matters

Madrid (ES) - Special Mention

Team Representative: Miguel Martín Sánchez (ES) – architect & urban designer
Associate: Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros (ES) – architect, urban designer & researcher 

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J.M. Sainz de los Terreros & M.M. Sánchez

We approached the topic of ‘production within the city’ from a distinct place: we wanted to foreground the importance of climate change adaptation in building the city, and in doing so, air was the material with which we proposed to build new urban environments. In the project, air is, at the same time, a product and an agent. Urban air is cleaned, moisturised, refreshed and aromatised before it is given back to the squares of the city. In the process, new by-products are produced—such as sulphur or nitrogen, that could be used in chemical industries. Also, cleaned air is produced in the core of the city.