In this workshop of the Master in Innovation in Habitat (UPV) we explore how to re-inhabit the historic center of Valencia after the collapse of the nineteenth century structures. We imagine a future city that has learned from desert cultures: architectures that capture the sun, tame the climate and negotiate with the extreme, not as a dystopia, but as a possibility.
From Alvin Toffler’s future shock hypothesis, a new city fragment is projected where housing, public space and climate infrastructure are intertwined. Minimal dwellings open to the exterior, collective spaces and habitable landscapes build a constant balance between interior and exterior, privacy and community, technology and nature.
A single premise guides the exercise: 1 housing = 30 m² indoor + 30 m² outdoor.
Architects as cartographers of the future, testing new ways of inhabiting to anticipate, imagine and coexist with the uncertain future.