Valencia and the New European Bauhuaus: thinking globally, doing locally
Our chief of Environmentalism and Bioclimatism assists to a congress at the Territorial College of Architects of Valencia
A few months ago, the colloquium “Valencia and the European Bauhaus” was held in Valencia, organized by the European Climate Pact Ambassador Carmen Marqués. The conference was held within the framework of the second edition of the New European Bauhaus Festival that was taking place in Brussels at the time.
By the European Comission’s own words, the New European Bauhaus is “an environmental, economic and cultural project whose aim is to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment to contribute to the fulfillment of the European Green Pact. Its core values are therefore sustainability, aesthetics and inclusivity.” The project is a by-product of the pandemic; one of the consequences of the 2020 events that made us rethink the way we live with each other and develop common projects for the future.
The presentation was attended by members of the Valencian Architects Association and the European Climate Pact, including our very own Pedro Miguel Guerrero Serrano; responsible for Environmental and Bioclimatic investigation and development in todobarro.
Initiatives to turn theory into practice
The New European Bauhaus is a theoretical, conceptual initiative that aims, in the words of Ursula von der Leyen, to “bring the European Green Pact closer to minds and homes”. To this end, initiatives like this one are necessary to bring abstract concepts down to earth with concrete and tangible (in short, achievable) proposals.
According to Pedro Miguel, the conference dealt with topics such as the importance of urban trees and how to manage them, the rehabilitation of historic buildings and the recovery of vernacular architecture under the premises of bioclimatism, and how this is associated with materials manufactured in a circular economy process.
Pedro Miguel, who in addition to leading the Environmental and Bioclimatic R & D in todobarro is Secretary and researcher of the Chair of Climate Change at the UMA, presented the lines of research being developed at the University of Malaga and todobarro.
The sustainable company we want to be
If there is one thing we know for sure is that the product we make is as important as the way we make it. We are very confident that the way we do things matters. We are fortunate to work with a material that allows us to develop a business model in which we believe as much as in the result of our work.
It is the presence in our team of people like Pedro Miguel that allows us to move closer every day towards a truly sustainable business model, without getting carried away by or lost in rhetoric. The advantage we have is that the pillars on which the European Commission’s efforts for a more sustainable future are based are the same as those on which our work is based by its very nature: developing bioclimatic architecture, recovering vernacular architecture, and sustaining circular economy models to support our production processes.
