"Garden and the city: Amsterdam

The opportunity to create a large green space, an oasis for the city by recovering one of the typical urban voids, abandoned or unused areas, consisting of the inner courtyards of the buildings that form the blocks and thus the modules of the urban matrix of cities. An intervention that seeks to break the limits of the built blocks with a plot of green areas, to give back to the city part of the lost nature. The integration of green areas with spaces to be used for complementary services to residences can, through a large-scale strategy, help reduce mobility, air pollution (also by absorbing CO2), mitigate the microclimate by reducing the "heat island" effect, improve the local ecosystem and the well-being of residents. The easily replicable macro-scale intervention aims to create future synergies between citizens and nature, transforming and improving the model of living in the city. The redevelopment project was based on the enhancement of the main residential building, expanding the commercial spaces on the ground floor and giving it a new façade. The new office volume, totally open and transparent, with a roof garden, blends into the landscape of the inner courtyard.