Madrid City OasisExploring How a City Redefined Resilience, Making Extreme Heat and Drought Old News.
Introduction
What if?
What if all new buildings in Madrid were designed with bioclimatic principles, incorporating passive cooling and heat-resistant materials?
What if Madrid invested in creating "resilience gardens" in every neighborhood, using native and drought-resistant plants to provide shade and cooling?
What if Madrid installed a network of real-time heat alerts, shade route suggestions, and cooling public pods for a quick cool-down on scorching days?
Weak signals
Bioconstruction and Biomimicry-Based Urban Planning
Designing building exteriors that can adjust to changing environmental conditions.
Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Designing cities with green corridors, water features, and reflective surfaces to reduce overall urban temperatures.
Self-Regulating Ecosystems
Buildings are designed to adapt to ambient conditions, similar to how organisms regulate their body temperature.
Prototype
We wrote a speculative interview with Isabél Sánchez, the Secretary of Deep Climate Action (SDCA), in which:
- • Describes how innovative urban policies have been implemented to tackle extreme heat in the city of Madrid.
- • Explores how to integrate infrastructure and technology without compromising the city's identity.
- • Launch a debate on the feasibility of these measures, their side effects and the involvement of citizens in climate adaptation.
Isabél Sánchez, the Secretary of Deep Climate Action.
Cooling public pods are designed to blend into the city’s everyday landscape, offering a way to escape the heat.
Narrow, shaded streets help keep the city cooler, and public furniture with greenery and solar panels adds a sustainable touch.
A lively community garden tucked away in the middle of the city. The space is brimming with plants and vegetables, carefully organized in raised beds and pots.