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ECO-Resistencia
National Competition for Urban Regeneration and Tactical Urbanism
Award: 1st Prize

Client
Resistencia Municipality
Endorsed by
Federacion Argentina de Arquitectos - Fadea

Program: Rethinking the City of Resistencia, public space, green zones, micro-mobility
Year: 2021
Area: 4.000.000 sq.m.
Project Location: Resistencia City, Chaco. Argentina
Authorship: Karla Montauti + Elizabeth Vergara
Advisors: Guillermo Tella (Urbanism & Mobility), LPyDP Leandro Castillo (Landscape & Sustainability), Ana Falú (Urban Inclusion), Scott Francisco (Cities4Forests).
Assistance: Melany Vergés, Carlos Joel Fernández, Lucas Pablo Bertoli.
3D Visualization: Pablo Zapata and Karla Montauti
Hand Drawings: Karla Montauti

ECO-Resistencia.
Ecological, Cultural and Organized.

Public Space is what defines the existence of the city.

The central axis of the proposal is to establish an smart strategy with very few operations achieving huge repercussions in the existant Urban Space Grid for the life of the people.

Conceptually, the idea of the project was framed in the redistribution of existing resources, taking the rigid modular grid of city blocks and grouping them into supra modules of 4x4, 4x3 and 3x3 blocks. The intention is to create micro-neighbourhoods of mixed and dynamic uses, where citizens solve 80% of their daily activities in less than 12 blocks around. The best strategy for mitigating CO2 emissions and optimising mobility is precisely avoiding the need to move long distances. We promote Eco-mobility by overcoming the old 2meters bike path to 3.30meter bio-path for bicycles, hoovers, electric skateboards, etc.

In addition to this organisational action, we establish a re-connection with the essence of the natural territory. Avoiding the separation between rural and urban, the proposal establishes a Naturalisation of the City by incorporating a Network of Micro-Forests as devices that guarantee absorption in the face of constant floods and triple the access per inhabitant to the green space established by the WHO.

We propose a city not only for human beings, but for all living beings. ECO Resistencia's mission is to fill the streets with life.

2021-06-10_Summa+ Book Magazine

2021-04-09_Clarín

2021-03-24_Plataforma Arquitectura

2021-03-24_Arch Daily Mx

2021-03-24_Arch Daily Co

2021-03-24_Arch Daily Pe

2021-08-09_Area Urbana

2021-04-13 La Voz del Chaco

2021-04-01_Arquimaster

2021-03-30_Cisca

2021-03-15_NovoChaco

2021-03-15_Presidencia del Concejo

Resistencia City Centre Today. A grid intersected by the the natural streams from the wetlands at the north

The City Centre grid is sadly built above floodable areas from the wetlands

The City gets flooded every year during the rains season due to the lack of planning considering the environment

In addition, the streets are full of cars and motorcycles using the public space for parking

what if.... we just bring some of the wetlands back?

The concept is to bring a piece of the sorrounding wetlands back to the urban grain

We introduced the microforests, a piece of the natural territory, where the cars and motorcyles where parked

By placing 2 microforests per residential street, to do this we had to create Macroblocks