AIR QUALITY

Clean air is essential for a healthy living environment. Lowering gases and particles, using less carbon-based transport modes, as well other environmental impacts that are caused by urban lifestyles should be reduced to the minimum.

POROSITY

Climate change demands the adaptation of existing urban networks. The porosity of urban pavements is important for urban ecology and water retaining systems. Customisation is needed, depending on dry or wet local weather/climate conditions. The presence of water in the street has an environmental value but also a playful one.

INFILTRATION

A good water system re-uses rainwater and water streams to provide watering for plants and trees, as in green retaining basins.

FLEXIBLE ADAPTATION

good water system should function in all seasons.
In order to manage peak load precipitation, water systems – of rainwater infiltration – should be flexible. Like combining a bike lane with a storm water system.

COLLECTIVE SYSTEMS

Integrated systems can exist with the combination of some large collective and a lot of small private systems/units, or for example in: reuse of water, sustainable heating/cooling system, and solar energy. The street as space for all kinds of urban networks can therefore also change.

POMPIDOU STREET

Integrated systems can exist with the combination of some large collective and a lot of small private systems/units, or for example in: reuse of water, sustainable heating/cooling system, and solar energy. The street as space for all kinds of urban networks can therefore also change.