Winning team: BearBuilders
Team members: Anna Wilcox, Amanda Tsang, Dalon Li, Thein Lei, Yu Yan Hang, Gayle Boyd & Hailey Tsuchiya | University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Zachary Lamb, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning | University of California, Berkeley
The team’s solutions aim to transform Vale do Pinhão, Curitiba's primary industrial area, into a green innovation hub. The three main strategies included
- Enhancing accessibility through multi-modal transportation options to ensure everyone can easily navigate Vale do Pinhão. Enhancing accessibility through multi-modal transportation options to ensure everyone can easily navigate Vale do Pinhão.
- Bolstering resilience against intensified weather events by reducing reliance on the energy grid, creating a greener neighbourhood that benefits from natural cooling through evapotranspiration and shading, and sustainable infrastructure initiatives. Bolstering resilience against intensified weather events by reducing reliance on the energy grid, creating a greener neighbourhood that benefits from natural cooling through evapotranspiration and shading, and sustainable infrastructure initiatives.
- Establishing an innovation hub designed to attract people and empower them with the resources they need to bring their ideas to life.”Establishing an innovation hub designed to attract people and empower them with the resources they need to bring their ideas to life.”
The team noted that the most rewarding part of this competition “has been the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from experts, teammates, and a Brazilian friend. As it was our first experience with urban design, working on a project of this scale, focused on significant environmental and social goals, was incredibly valuable. We gained practical insights into implementing sustainable design in urban settings.”
Special mention | Interscalers, Istanbul Technical University
- Team members: Selin Aslan, Gizem Baydı, Övgü Resmiye Gülaçar, Kaan Kağızman, Eda Görün & Dilan Cengiz
Special mention | EcoUrbanistas, Universidad de Buenos Aires & Sapienza – Università di Roma
- Team members: Moises Felipe Teles da Silva, Ana Nieda dos Santos Melo & Raul Antonio Bonifácio
Recently, city policies have been implemented to encourage start-ups and other innovative companies to grow in the area. This project offers students the opportunity to consider how to continue these efforts and transform the area into an Innovation Hub.
- 57 hectares
- The area has a population of around 1,200 inhabitants.
- Most of the businesses located in the area belong to the service sector (34%).
The City would like to develop the area into an Innovation Hub, integrating its rich heritage with new uses, following a sustainable urban model. In their projects, teams are encouraged to develop a plan for the area that will:
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Transform the site into a sustainable and accessible innovation hub;
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Prioritise sustainable & active mobility (boosting cycling and pedestrian networks, sidewalks & electric vehicles);
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Encourage the creation of start-ups & co-working spaces;
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Create green jobs and income for the city;
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Develop infrastructure resilient to the impacts of flooding, drought and urban heat common in the area;
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Incorporate low-emission practices & green energy (to align with the City’s goal to become net-zero by 2050)
The jury panel who evaluated all submitted projects consisted of the following members:
- Daniela Tahira Munhoz da Rocha, Architect and Urban Planner in the Department of Projects | Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba
- Gisele Rosário Medeiros, Coordinator of PlanClima | Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba
- Carla Choma Frankl, Architect and Urban Planner in the Department of Projects | Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba
- Fernanda Barbosa, Programme Manager, Climate Action Implementation | C40 Cities
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