Enabling big changes with small intervention for bottom up urban growth
A city in disorder (ataxia) Urban illness has no single solution to return to a well being state. This state of course has the citizens as the first and most impacted individuals along. My home town in Cyprus, Limassol, is a city that has rapidly developed with cars in the center letting the urban quality of life to deteriorate.
The strategy is to study one of the main mobility veins of the city and trigger a richer life around it. The street Ay.Fylaxeos was chosen for providing a bottom up proposal as part of the rehabilitation of urban life for the citizens.
Scale matters. The pavilion designed addressed comfort and functionality issues of the local climate and culture. The model of triggers would be suggested in more and diverse programs for an urban rehabilitation towards an order. Even though it is an urban scale issue, the seeds are to be planted at a human scale.