{"id":6129,"date":"2021-06-11T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/2021\/06\/11\/growing-schools-prototype-a-socio-ecological-framework-addressing-the-current-urbanization-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:06:51","slug":"growing-schools-prototype-a-socio-ecological-framework-addressing-the-current-urbanization-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/2021\/06\/11\/growing-schools-prototype-a-socio-ecological-framework-addressing-the-current-urbanization-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Schools Prototype: A Socio-Ecological Framework Addressing the Current Urbanization Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"Colombia has suffered an armed conflict for over 50 years. As a result, more than 1 million children lack access to education with a deficit of 3\u2019000 schools and more than 8 Million civilians displaced from their homes. Growing Schools Prototype is a strategic up-scaling concept for replicating schools adapting to different climates and consolidating and growing communities into legitimate neighbourhoods.<\/em>\n\n\nIn 1929, Le Corbusier claimed to have sketched the urban design for Rio Janeiro from an airplane. Le Corbusier\u2019s aerial discovery of South America from a faraway above gave rise to a design with superimposing infrastructures over the existing landscape and social fabric.\n

How can Current Urbanization Challenges in the Global South be Addressed from a Socio-Ecological Contextual Framework?<\/h3>\nInvited by the city of Cartagena, we have developed a strategy to re-design and re-urbanize a 4 km2 area in Ciudad Bicentenario: the new biggest project of social housing in Colombia, which, over the next decade will transform into a city for up to 50\u2019000 citizens. Ciudad Bicentenario has welcomed so far 16\u2019000 migrants, 50% of them children of school age and deprived of education access. An urgent lack of 3\u2018000 schools in the country requires building prototypes for schools providing learning spaces and contributing, at the same time, to create a new sense of community. In the context of our stakeholder group, we have co-designed a school that pushes the limits of its typology becoming a broader integrated social infrastructure. How can we make available a learning facility after its daily schedule? Our Growing Schools Prototype provides a framework for community programmes such as sports, culture, work, health, and agriculture and a network of integrated ecological infrastructures for mobility and public space. We aim to curate a culture that looks at the broader benefits of the space, rather than focusing on individual activities. Utilizing a similar material palette to the one used generically in the rapid building of schools by construction companies, we re-design prototypical details that embrace the challenge of staying below the maximum temperature of 28\u00b0C inside the classrooms.\n

Avoiding Flood Risks<\/h3>\nAs most of the city of Cartagena is at risk of flooding due to the reforesting mangrove forests around La Virgen lagoon, and the negative effects of rising sea levels, entire informal settlements are being destroyed. As a response, new developments like Ciudad Bicentenario, 8 meters above sea level, are essential. We are re-imagining\u00a0ecologic urbanizations around the lagoon\u00a0instead of cities along the coast. In the effort to reconstruct and recuperate the lagoon, a radial water canal stretches into the surrounding urbanizing landscape and creates a public space along the main fa\u00e7ade of the Growing School Prototype.\n\nAfter 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia, it is key to translate the peace process into a physical process of reconstruction and integration for re-building the society. Transforming lives through education and growing schools into a model for ecological urbanization through architecture.\n\n\n
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The programme includes necessary services for the community as well as integrated public spaces \u00a9 Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Embracing the challenge of staying below the max. temperature of 28\u00b0C in the classrooms \u00a9 Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich (Enlargement by klicking on image in slider)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Re-imagining Cartagena as a new ecological urbanization around the lagoon \u00a9 Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nBlanca Garc\u00eda Gardelegui<\/a> is conducting research at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design<\/a> from Prof. Hubert Klumpner.<\/em>\n\nGrowing Schools Project is part of the Urban Transformation Program Colombia (UTPC), a collaboration of the State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation and Development (SECO), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), led by the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Klumpner, Diego Ceresuela Wiesmann (A. Brillembourg 2014- 2019); UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE OF BARRANQUILLA (UN), Prof. Manuel Moreno, Prof. Sergio Chirivella; UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA OF MEDELLIN (UPB), Prof. Dr. Alejandro Restrepo Montoya. Together with local municipalities and NGOs, we design and build prototypical architectural projects to promote urban transformation. In the support of local culture and capacity building, we empower the peace process and the inclusion of vulnerable communities.<\/em>\n\nSources:<\/em>\nhttps:\/\/www.unidadvictimas.gov.co\/es\/registro-unico-de-victimas-ruv\/37394<\/em><\/a>\nhttps:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/echo\/where\/latin-america-caribbean\/colombia_en<\/em><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colombia has suffered an armed conflict for over 50 years. As a result, more than 1 million children lack access to education with a deficit of 3\u2019000 schools and more than 8 Million civilians displaced from their homes. Growing Schools Prototype is a strategic up-scaling concept for replicating schools adapting to different climates and consolidating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"departemente":[138,159,178],"newsletter_ausgabe":[303],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-artikel","departemente-departement-architektur-d-arch","departemente-institut-fuer-landschaft-und-urbane-studien-lus","departemente-prof-hubert-klumpner-institut-fuer-landschaft-und-urbane-studien-i-lus","newsletter_ausgabe-nl-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":23,"label":"Newsletter-Artikel"}],"departemente":[{"value":138,"label":"Departement Architektur (D-ARCH)"},{"value":159,"label":"Institut f\u00fcr Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS)"},{"value":178,"label":"Prof. Hubert Klumpner"}],"newsletter_ausgabe":[{"value":303,"label":"NL 50"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Embracing-the-challenge-of-staying-below-the-max.-temperature-of-28\u00b0C-in-the-classrooms-scaled-1-1024x475.jpg",1024,475,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Yaxin Hou","author_link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/author\/houya\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":23,"name":"Newsletter-Artikel","slug":"newsletter-artikel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":680,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":23,"category_count":680,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Newsletter-Artikel","category_nicename":"newsletter-artikel","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter_ausgabe?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}