#architecture space

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

#colombia #brazil #urban #urban landscape #urban planning #cities #civil engineering #green architecture #green spaces #urban heat #urban heat island effect #weather #meteorology #global warming #climate change #climate hope #climate optimism #climate emergency #climate action #environment #environmental news #city architecture #bicycling #native plants #biodiversity #good news #hope #solarpunk #ecopunk #hopepunk

[ai-dream]

#Vaporwave #aesthetic #ai art #digital art #colors #lofi #nostalgia #retrowave #video game #concept art #art #dreamscape #unreality #vibes #dreamcore #liminal #evening #architecture #city #neonwave #liminal spaces #building #skyscraper #cityscape #cyberpunk #night #plants #blue #fog #mist

[juliaknz]

SHOEI YOH EGAMI CLINIC, 1982 Nagasaki, Japan

#shoei yoh #japanese architecture #buildings #japan #architecture #design #architect #art #designer #archdaily #artwork #photography #juliaknz #form #material #urban #urban space #context #building #facade #architectural form

[vintagehomecollection]

The Floral Decorator, 1993

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #home decor #commercial #event space #uplighting #floral #arrangement #trees #circular room #architecture

[egophiliac]

Okay so I've been wanting to tell you that you're literally my favourite twst artist 😭🩷

So my question is, how do you manage to come up with these funny comics? CUZ I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

(P.s: Lovin' the art style ✨)

oh geeze, thanks! 💚💚💚 I'm really glad people enjoy my stupid sense of humor; mostly I just draw things to make myself laugh, and if it makes other people laugh too, then bonus points! usually it's just one joke or mental image that gets stuck in my head (every time I saw Fellow spin his cane, all I could think about was him go-go-gadgeting away on it...) and in my quest to justify it, it picks up other jokes and bits along the way and usually doesn't even end up as the main focus anymore. entire narrative arcs have spun out just so I could use a single bad pun in a throwaway line. this is a terrible way to explain it but I'm not sure how else to put it into words!

and sometimes it's just "weird things my sister has said that I make fun of her for"

#twisted wonderland #reposting old art but i will never not make fun of her for her incredibly pretentious opinions about the local mall's architectural design #yuu listening to malleus be weird about buildings is supposed to be relateable right #that said this is also the only place i get to talk about twst so it is also just...a lot of my thoughts spilling out everywhere #(sorry other fandoms) #(i have spaces where i can debate the various merits of himeno/rita versus morfonia/rita) #(the correct answer is that rita has two hands but i digress) #but where else can i talk at length about these anime disney dipshits who have flawless eyeliner and zero emotional intelligence #me at the top of my lungs: you don't understand that's his DAD #the group dm: w...what are you talking about #there's gonna be a few posts today sorry #gotta get some stuff out before the update tonight/tomorrow morning/whatever happens and becomes all i think about for the next week

[humanoidhistory]

The Rocket Building in Saitama, Japan, built in the 1980s to house an astronomy museum, now mostly apartments.

(Sabukaru)

#architecture #japan #space #saitama #rocket #spaceship #rocketship

[aestheticllyhome]

@reserve_home

#architecture #furniture #interior design #interiors #vintage interior #decor #home #home & lifestyle #flowers #interior architecture #lighting #interiorstyling #interior decorating #interiordesign #living room #living spaces

[buggachat]

#adrien agreste #i tried to list everything i've seen before #but i ran out of space :( i wanted to add architecture but couldn't #god psychology too. there are too many gd majors

[evan-collins90]

AMC Studio 30 Theatre - Houston, TX (1997)

"What the design attempts to do in the 110,000 sq. ft. space is simulate a movie studio backlot and the soundstage where guests become part of the action, and the experience "rekindles the magic and memory of movie going."

Elements from sound stages and studio road cases make up the central lobby space along with a guest service desk. Images of Hollywood's glamorous stars of the past add enchantment to the balcony walls. The space is divided into three themed areas that "transport guests into fantastic worlds of Animation, Action/Adventure and Cyberspace." The food concession stands within each area carries through the theme; "Fizz, Sizzle, Pop"; Wildebeest Feast"; and "Quantum Bits." The 30 auditoria are located off the soundstage lobby and within the various themed areas.

The architecture seems to come alive in the Animation area. The space is designed to resemble an animation cel: "flat, two-dimensional, cartoon-like graphics are outlined with black lines, filled with color and applied on an exaggerated scale." The Fizz, Sizzle, Pop concession's identity and blimp directional signs seem to float in a blue sky with flat, cut-out clouds. The setting for Action/ Adventure recalls a rainforest with heavy hanging leaves, bamboo and rock "carved" directional signs. The custom wall covering features petroglyphs of cave people carrying popcorn, megaphones and movie cameras. The fiber optic eyes peering from behind the leaves in the Wildebeest Feast stand change color. They also appear above rock outcroppings down the corridor. Patrons are invited to explore an abstract, futuristic world in Cyberspace where the floor and ceiling are the same color and brushed aluminum columns rise partway to the ceiling. To create the illusion of "endless space." custom light fixtures project beams of light along the walls and backlit graphic images have neon edges. Various colored lights and a high-tech fluorescent green/orange acrylic sign help to define the Quantum Bits concession area in Cyberspace."

Designed by Kiku Obata & Co.

Scanned from the book, Entertainment Destinations by Martin Pegler (2000)

#design #90s #interior design #interiors #architecture #1990s #colorful #movie theater #houston #texas #themed spaces #multiplex #pop art #y2k #factory pomo #rainforest #cyber #cartoon #wacky pomo

[galina]

Leighton House, Holland Park

#studyblr #studygram #studyspo #study #office #books #study space #museum #museums #Leighton #frederic leighton #architecture #interiors #george aitchison #19c #19th century #1800s

[kendallsroyco]

"I grew up Catholic...and I'm not a very good one anymore" 🤣 my lapsed Catholic self can relate to him sm haha

It's also funny seeing him realize in real time how many times he's played a priest 💀

#charlie cox #daredevil #he's also so relatable saying the thing he's most moved by catholicism is the aesthetic of the spaces and architecture lmao

[turbomnstr]

#mnstrclique #youtube #soulja boy #hip hop #hip hop music #rapper #turbomnstr #underground hip hop #soundcloud #love #dragon ball #dbz #goku #anime #art #retro #series #boop #artists on tumblr #grunge #good omens #space #playstation #architecture #april fools day #smosh #cartoon #manga #relationship #sodmg

[ai-dream]

#Vaporwave #aesthetic #ai art #digital art #colors #lofi #nostalgia #retrowave #video game #concept art #art #dreamscape #unreality #vibes #dreamcore #liminal #evening #architecture #city #neonwave #liminal spaces #building #skyscraper #cityscape #cyberpunk #street #rain #pink #car

[arc-hus]

Metropol Parasol, Seville - J. Mayer. H

#J. Mayer. H #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #concrete #steel #walkway #parasol #public space #town square #public square #light #organic #parametric #cool architecture #amazing places #old and new #sevilla #spain

[vintagehomecollection]

This bathroom serves both a master bedroom and a visiting child. Rather than build two separate bathrooms, resources were combined to make the bathroom as beautiful as possible.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #home decor #bathroom #double sink #round window #shoji screen #bathtub #light oak #cabinets #contemporary #small space #style #home #architecture

[giacuamood]

French Communist Party Headquarter

Architect Oscar Niemeyer

#french #communist #party #headquarter #french communist party headquarter #oscar niemeyer #oscar #niemeyer #architecture #design #modernism #paris #france #paul chemetov #paul #chemetov #interior design #glass #cement #space age #space age design