R-Urban is a bottom-up strategy that explores the possibilities of enhancing the capacity of urban resilience, meaning the ability to face current crises, by introducing a network of resident-run facilities to create complementarities between key fields of activity such as economy, housing, urban agriculture and culture. R-Urban initiates locally closed ecological cycles that will support the emergence of alternative models of living, producing and consuming between the urban and the rural.
The R-Urban projet has been developped since 2008 by Atelier d’Architecture Au-togeree in Colombes, a 83 000 inhabitants city located in the North of Paris, incluing three civic hubs managed by local residents. Agrocité is a unit of urban agriculture which consists of a micro-experimental farm, community gardens, educational and cultural spaces and devices for energy production, composting and rainwater recycling. Recyclab is a recycling and eco-construction unit constructed around a series of equipment for the recycling of urban waste and their transformation into materials for eco-construction. Ecohab is a cooperative housing build under ecological priniples. R-Urban network is currently extended in London and Ile de France and it might evolve in time into a civic resilience movement.
The R-Urban projet has been developped since 2008 by Atelier d’Architecture Au-togeree in Colombes, a 83 000 inhabitants city located in the North of Paris, incluing three civic hubs managed by local residents. Agrocité is a unit of urban agriculture which consists of a micro-experimental farm, community gardens, educational and cultural spaces and devices for energy production, composting and rainwater recycling. Recyclab is a recycling and eco-construction unit constructed around a series of equipment for the recycling of urban waste and their transformation into materials for eco-construction. Ecohab is a cooperative housing build under ecological priniples. R-Urban network is currently extended in London and Ile de France and it might evolve in time into a civic resilience movement.
