Roca City Gavà Viladecans
Ecodistrict Roca City between Gavà and Viladecans
A sustainable city is also a city where people can live and breathe, work and walk. Some cities around the world have begun to set the goal of becoming carbon neutral: green mobility, reduced CO2 emissions, total waste recycling, improved quality of river and seawater, use of rainwater, production of energy in the city, increased urban biodiversity and, of course, infinite public space projects and buildings designed using solutions based on nature.
City of cities
In our imagination, the cycle of a material is easy to understand: from a used object that we used to consider waste material, we took the necessary material for a new, ready-to-use product. But how does this philosophy apply to the city? Current urban areas constantly interact with the environmental matrix that we want to promote and with the large infrastructures that are often located between them. The project of these limits, which many find residual and unusable, can be strategic in giving these places new life, implementing quality uses and resolving connections with green infrastructure.
Nature-based solutions
In contrast to traditional ecologism based on the rule of the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) to slow down the exhaustion of natural resources, in recent years we are committed to solutions that generate a closed lifecycle, with a positive balance which is free of waste. It is the concept ‘Cradle to Cradle’ where everything in nature everything is useful and part of an eternal cycle related to the energy of the sun, called ‘upcycling’. Batlleiroig is committed to designs and solutions based on nature to achieve a closed cycle free of waste and with a high resilience to environmental dynamics of its projects.
Nature-based solutions / Related projects
Carbon neutral balance
The Carbon Neutral Balance refers to achieving zero carbon dioxide emissions, balancing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere with the equivalent amount removed. We put it into practice the effort to eliminate the concept of waste and promote local, recyclable materials that have a minimum consumption of CO2 in their manufacturing process.
