Sustainable Urban Development and Regeneration
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Following an anthropocentric approach and the “Demolish & Rebuild” strategy, S.I.D. Consulting aim at building new neighbourhoods or replacing slums and suburbia with high quality and self-sufficient mini-villages, well integrated in the rest of the city.
In such a way we would:
1) Ensure economic development and capacity building
- Helping to eradicate poverty: most invested money remains there, because we mainly use local hand-workers, products and services
- Usage of well rooted strategies for including local inhabitants in the implementation of the projects
- Professional skills building through the artisan-like model
- Self-building and “learning by doing” under the supervision of specialists
- Boosting local economy in the procurement of materials, products and services
- Site implementation in the light of its metropolitan impact
- Regeneration triggering (because based on) local small and medium businesses
2) Ensure social inclusion and respect local identity
- Inclusive neighbourhoods for replacing slums
- Bottom-up & Participative Planning through the cooperation with local organisations (including NGOs)
- Recovering of the human scale for improving life quality
- Urban planning aimed at social interactions, for integrating inhabitants and making them socialize
- Creation of “places”, also conceived for the needs of kids and elderly people, and not just “spaces”
- Help in shifting towards a proactive and responsible approach, where slum dwellers are accountable for the development of the new neighbourhood, conceived as new milestone for the regeneration of the whole city
3) Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Tailor the new neighbourhoods according to the site climatological specificities
- Focus on local resilience and disaster risk prevention
- Compact neighbourhood for tackling motorised mobility, thus creating a walkable no-carbon neighbourhood
Hierarchical construction of mobility infrastructures
- No-carbon or low-carbon buildings, with extremely low energy consumption low-cost, high-resilience e low-maintenance structures
- Usage of the most effective passive HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) techniques for lowering environmental impact
- Maximisation of local assets and lowering of loss of environmental resources
- Avoiding imported special products and materials that at the end of their living cycle are dismissed (and replaced with other polluting products) and need special treatments for lowering their environmental impact, thus preventing environmental problems
- Attention to urban biodiversity
- Intelligent use of water resources and restriction of drinkable water consumption as beverage
- Natural strategies for reducing the proliferation of natural risks (such as mosquitoes for malaria)
- Introduce innovative, cost effective and locally based waste management and recycling strategies
4) Ensure a Spatial Planning in the light of a Biophilic design
- Tight relationships between urban planning and architecture
- Focus on the relationship between projects and local architectural traditions
- Educational and social role of town planning, which turns into a constant cultural driver and an enabler of sustainable development
- Local regeneration in the light of conceiving a city as a complex hierarchical environment
- Sustainable mobility and low-carbon approaches
- Nature as central component of planning, also for its social and climatic impact
- Easiness in building high-quality low-cost and cost-effective edifices
- Insertion of a variety of services (health centres, schools, post office, library, cinema, etc.) and functions (residential, professional, administrative, leisure, etc.), as to say, everything necessary for covering daily needs, that ensure village's autonomy and a very low necessity of extra-neighbourhood mobility, as well as for turning the area in a resource for contiguous neighbourhoods, thus stimulating inclusion.
- Vertical local zoning (aka no-zoning), hierarchical zoning at metropolitan level.
- Typological differentiation of apartments according to the specific social and familiar necessities .
- Gradual substitution of the buildings, so that people living in the area would not be moved away: we first construct the new houses in current free spaces, and then demolish the old edifices.
Moreover, S.I.D. Consulting have an ad hoc strategy for Sustainable Urban Development & Regeneration in Emerging Countries
In such a way we would:
1) Ensure economic development and capacity building
- Helping to eradicate poverty: most invested money remains there, because we mainly use local hand-workers, products and services
- Usage of well rooted strategies for including local inhabitants in the implementation of the projects
- Professional skills building through the artisan-like model
- Self-building and “learning by doing” under the supervision of specialists
- Boosting local economy in the procurement of materials, products and services
- Site implementation in the light of its metropolitan impact
- Regeneration triggering (because based on) local small and medium businesses
2) Ensure social inclusion and respect local identity
- Inclusive neighbourhoods for replacing slums
- Bottom-up & Participative Planning through the cooperation with local organisations (including NGOs)
- Recovering of the human scale for improving life quality
- Urban planning aimed at social interactions, for integrating inhabitants and making them socialize
- Creation of “places”, also conceived for the needs of kids and elderly people, and not just “spaces”
- Help in shifting towards a proactive and responsible approach, where slum dwellers are accountable for the development of the new neighbourhood, conceived as new milestone for the regeneration of the whole city
3) Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Tailor the new neighbourhoods according to the site climatological specificities
- Focus on local resilience and disaster risk prevention
- Compact neighbourhood for tackling motorised mobility, thus creating a walkable no-carbon neighbourhood
Hierarchical construction of mobility infrastructures
- No-carbon or low-carbon buildings, with extremely low energy consumption low-cost, high-resilience e low-maintenance structures
- Usage of the most effective passive HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) techniques for lowering environmental impact
- Maximisation of local assets and lowering of loss of environmental resources
- Avoiding imported special products and materials that at the end of their living cycle are dismissed (and replaced with other polluting products) and need special treatments for lowering their environmental impact, thus preventing environmental problems
- Attention to urban biodiversity
- Intelligent use of water resources and restriction of drinkable water consumption as beverage
- Natural strategies for reducing the proliferation of natural risks (such as mosquitoes for malaria)
- Introduce innovative, cost effective and locally based waste management and recycling strategies
4) Ensure a Spatial Planning in the light of a Biophilic design
- Tight relationships between urban planning and architecture
- Focus on the relationship between projects and local architectural traditions
- Educational and social role of town planning, which turns into a constant cultural driver and an enabler of sustainable development
- Local regeneration in the light of conceiving a city as a complex hierarchical environment
- Sustainable mobility and low-carbon approaches
- Nature as central component of planning, also for its social and climatic impact
- Easiness in building high-quality low-cost and cost-effective edifices
- Insertion of a variety of services (health centres, schools, post office, library, cinema, etc.) and functions (residential, professional, administrative, leisure, etc.), as to say, everything necessary for covering daily needs, that ensure village's autonomy and a very low necessity of extra-neighbourhood mobility, as well as for turning the area in a resource for contiguous neighbourhoods, thus stimulating inclusion.
- Vertical local zoning (aka no-zoning), hierarchical zoning at metropolitan level.
- Typological differentiation of apartments according to the specific social and familiar necessities .
- Gradual substitution of the buildings, so that people living in the area would not be moved away: we first construct the new houses in current free spaces, and then demolish the old edifices.
Moreover, S.I.D. Consulting have an ad hoc strategy for Sustainable Urban Development & Regeneration in Emerging Countries