This project set the bar high. The aspiration wasn’t just to clean the air, but to create a new “urban lung” for the city, combining scientific innovation, social connection, and climate resilience. Circularity had to guide every design decision, reimagining an industrial site as a vibrant, healthy place for the community.

But turning vision into reality was anything but simple.

• Key aspects of the layout, the facades, and the landscape changed almost daily as ideas from RAU, Openfabric, and Studio Modijefsky converged.
• The ambitions were huge (air-cleaning facades, cooling green corridors…) yet the available design information was often in flux.
• Multiple design voices meant constant negotiation and balancing different priorities and feedback, all under an intense two-week deadline
  
  

We had to fill gaps with our own design intuition and help bring coherence to a story with many authors. At times, it meant adding details on the fly; at others, it meant stepping back to align the whole team around what mattered most. Our challenge was to visualize a project while shaping a narrative that could unite ambition, complexity, and an unfinished puzzle, while never losing sight of the client’s ultimate vision.