the house are old policies, the types of guns inside a set of october 12 o d w. 2 the best to live in columbia is capital good times to comp, traffic, sustainability, agriculture and harmony with nature. the housing crisis orifices the solution. the many cities around the world have one thing in common, housing shortages, billions of people, not adequate housing. meanwhile, with remote work on the rise, a large portion of office space is sitting empty. so why not combat those offices

into apartments? while many of us are now back in the office, working from home is here to stay. for instance, 35 percent of us workers who can work from home still do. but vacant workspaces aren't a new problem. long before the pandemic, aging offices were already becoming less desirable because it's been for about the last 10 years, a trend to the cold flight to quality. stephen painter, an architect at one of the world's biggest firms, focuses on adaptive reuse. people when renewing a lease is in the buildings, are going to be lots of them being built because they offer that kind of amenities and kind of locations, people and all these empty officers aren't just a waste of space. they mean less of rent for owners, lower tax revenue, and the decline of entire neighborhoods. we have beautiful buildings. we have a wonderful plaza as we have sort of all of the physical assets. we just have

vacant buildings. and so you don't see that vibrancy used to, you know, kind of look down these key car doors, and you would see just streams of people, you know, coming down the street. and you don't see that as much anymore. literally london, we use a planner in san francisco, another city addressing high vacancy levels, almost 95 percent of our tax revenue comes from a business tax from downtown about 80 percent of our g. d. p came from from downtown companies in 2021. it is our economic engine, and so it needs to strive so the city can thrive roughly a 3rd of the offices are vacant in the city. the 3rd most expensive housing market in the us. at the same time, the construction of new housing is causing a whole different host of problems. construction accounts for 13 percent of global energy related carbon emissions. more than 5 times that of the ation industry. ready in order to meet climate targets, but also other sustainability targets,

we will need to actually stick with what's already built to bring in my head for research as urban sustainability at stock homes, royal institute of technology. even if this new production of housing and buildings is done with very energy efficient and an optimized technologies, this won't be enough. we will also need to reduce the total amount of new production. and this is what brings us to frankfurt. here in office tower built in the 19 ninety's will soon be reborn, is around 150 furnished apartments. can you mean as the developers regional european head believes it's the way forward the data point? the environmental factor is obvious, since the building show is already standing in a shell alone, usually accounts for about 50 percent of emissions during construction. that is

a fairly significant portion of the things posted on time. but it doesn't only save on emissions, re vamping and office building can be up to 30 percent. cheaper and construction can be done in half the time. but it varies. this one wasn't much cheaper than a new bill, but faster. so fed up side. i think the time factor is really critical. yeah, it allows us to start generating rental income through the property pretty quickly . repurposing an old building to serve a new function is called adaptive, reduce and can extend to structures life. think of turning old factories into artists locks or warehouses into ubiquitous st. food halls. retrofitting an existing structure is a lot more complicated than planning. everything from scratch. as developers have found out, apartments and offices part always a $1.00 to $1.00 fit depends on when and where they were built. modern open plan offices weren't built for living in 1st, you have to divide up large areas while ensuring rooms get enough sunlight. and you

can't just have one big bathroom for a whole for each room needs ventilation, heating and power to and for all, you know, the old building is full of as best of stephen painter. the adapted for use specialist as even developed an algorithm to measure whether offices or good candidates to be reincarnated as housing. this means to end up with shiny new apartments. many conversions essentially rebuild everything except existing foundations and facades. these constraints make many offices just too much work to convert. according to painters research. roughly 30 percent of offices are ideal candidates. if you look at the us market where we're doing a lot of this look is about a 100000000 square feet of office space. and if you come by just the vacancy of about 70 percent of that, you can create 6 and 7000000 new homes. but just turning offices into apartments

isn't going to be enough neighborhoods that are just office blocks can be a bit inhospitable, crawling with finance bros. by de morphing into a ghost towns outside of business hours, ensuring people live not just work. there could change that. like in this district of frankfurt, once filled just with offices? no, it's residential to fit it and it would have been interesting to be there on a saturday afternoon. you'd be totally alone. all of the infrastructure was unnecessary. a trend was still running, even though it was empty. frankfurt re zone the area turning parking lots in the green spaces and kindergarten is more apartments and shops are under construction. and the end there will be $6000.00 departments here. other. the other stuff that may lead now that the areas lively or the offices that actually become more attractive. so it's easier to rent them out. he's the 1st to have meetings his best on the canadian city of calgary, which started working with painter to revitalize its downtown in 2021 is

a case in point calorie had about 38 percent. you can see in their office market and i was assigned one of the worst and well and a very quickly actually for a program together which gives you 75000 square foot to combine the building and move forward with the red tape out of the way to make these projects move more quickly, the 1st 5 projects and now under construction, represents about 750 new homes. then they have 10 more pretty much of this housing will be affordable and built with families in mind. however, adaptive reuse often has even more red tape than new builds. painter says that will have to change the turns around as an example. there's a room in the downtown you can offer to your office space. it's protected as appointment that was created in the seventy's and they just never got it because it was 90

changes. now there's a desperate need to change and that's, that's kind of holding up. these parties happening such arbitrary regulations are quite common and approval for conversions. often takes as long as it would for a new build, even though the structures already in place. according to recent studies, cities all over the map have lots of office space that they can potentially convert . frank, forget it with careful city planning. and the more that's learned implementing such projects, the greater the savings, many property developers have already expressed. an interest series like san francisco in calgary already support is very promising. approach the,

the needs of paradigm shift in the way, be, and living with separate from nature to not having planned it findings told me the guy a broken bomb be into school in the college in the us or as a consent into the us the work i did was a analyzing toxic emissions into a waterland, and my direct drew was to analyze the data. when you look at so much data, if it's a big daunting also because then, you know, the question is, where do i as an individual plan? can i make that change?

that's when i come back to their phone because we've always had this phones since thinking young to it knowing too much and i wanted to get people everybody, what i knew. but nobody went to the same by 2 because i am, i wasn't on king which strong city background. i didn't speak the language of the didn't have the speech. so for from i'm in a bit. yeah. good society. over my time, my community saw that i'm not going any list. so they started to now pay attention to what i have to see the i think what our needs right now is being harmonious with nature. not taking the new need the modified practices use to return to small forties tonight

using the photos to that teacher to, to mimic that environment, to, to extra agree that this when both meet your needs, this human intervention. and that's something that the harvest, once a week, the heaviest, fresh produce most unknowns, so that it's as fresh as possible. the package and leaves as best as possible. would it up into the launch of bank and then transport it early morning via 1st bus and then train those from the 5 was starting to become a waiter for a lot of waste food waste at the, from me, nor destroy no from cuba spend then cubes and gives it a lot and very often produces and not able to get that lot

and consumer why that lot just in the life we need to start resolving food and extending the life of the food. but that for preservation also allowed for another source of income. the so much conversation about the, the wood in climate change and the, the experience be as pharmacy quite directly hope things are changing with nature. and also that is a good need a few for us to redefine how we live our life. the you need to the city as a to this farm is that the lumina heavy to see is the man they can fit to the table invoice. they thoughts and over the years, activity instructor voice much more than the it'd be wednesday. those we may

not invite you to fall and we share space and talk about everything. and what i've seen that's done is communities. the women will work on this and it's need the most solidified in themselves. it's giving them a voice in a village that they're financially secure. on the 2nd. ok, bank account and sequence savings gets changed. that whole me in the homestead. no longer just you know, the one making the best times during the cooking channel that they are responsible, even financially the a good wish separate from nature, the piece i had to say

advice, someone i would say have try to find that because it's, it's that it's it's within all of us, the housing you cause a dream for many people around the world. but what happens when that dream comes true? because local streets pollute, the create noise and every yeah, around $18000000.00 more were built. that's a huge part of my soul. in columbia, as capital book, a tall people have had enough welcome to go, go to the capital of columbia and the metropolis with some of the worst traffic in the world. the new innovative concepts to change that in the sense that each a neighborhood, the pilot project body has to be toddlers. which means live. the neighborhood was

tested on the 38 hector area, and financed by the city. the world's bank was an advisor for the project. come really, how do you like it here? what you were level for i like it is very quiet. is peaceful when you woke about there's no noise. we really without much noise without much pollution because it is really quiet and peaceful on the street. when we look at the new look us dano is an engineer and have you where to is an architect. both are part of an urban planning project that began in 2022. it was inspired by the super blocks in barcelona and the low traffic districts in london. at 1st it was tested on 8 city blocks in boca time. since then, they've added 3 more neighborhoods. somebody found the sold the burials vitale. this project was introduced and essentially pay that was traffic in old directions . the vehicles used it as a short cod because both of the traffic app would guide them around the

neighborhood to avoid traffic jams. in other areas. we definitely have more traffic in the past. not today, you hardly see any cars here, but the streets have not been close to traffic. the direction of traffic has been changed so that the neighborhood is turned into a kind of may use, making it difficult for drivers to get from one side to the other. out in a battery, we started it on the new road layout, and the loops allow us to distribute through traffic across bigger street instead of equal a c. and that prevents drivers from using san felipe a is a short cut? yes. yes. here you gotta keep us in port, keep go on, somebody pick them on. one bottle really at the local time is considered one of the worst cities for traffic in the world, a rotating driving. then based on the last digit of a car's license plate,

has hardly convinced citizens to leave their cars at home and switch to public transport the out of respect for others. please get back in line. some of the reasons may be that the transfer you then your bus system is overcrowded on seats and expensive to decades ago. city officials, so exclusive bus lanes would be a better, cheaper alternative to building a subway. but in the end, the system didn't work. and bobo, tom with its 8000000 inhabitants, and more than 2 and a half 1000000 vehicles is still waiting for a subway. the fact that there was a green oasis here in the middle of all this traffic is rather unusual. but it's the result of long term planning to transform the neighborhood at the center of the city. said job with not letting them know that the look at how i live. it is

a visa suspect, but it keeps getting bigger. it's not just about this axis, you can see that the shops on the cross streets have also sets out the tables outside to see the tables look very nice and give everything here more color and more life coding must be and instead of the areas were designed by the residents themselves for the benefit of pedestrians with painted flower pots and bicycle racks on the street. they're all measures that are cost effective, simple and quick to implement things on the when yeah, we worked with the community from the beginning. i mean, they told us the problem of what my bill is. he was like in the neighborhood. i mean, yeah. a yeah. but then we made this design and tested out in a few pilot projects in columbus when we implemented it here, that was a bit of fear and the community in front of it, especially among businesses younger for the kids they sold that people wouldn't come into the neighborhood, and you know,

i have which would lead to less income committed to see on pick out a car according to us, the focus on the contrary to this change has helped us on this seems to be more of a residential area. now it's used more commercially. the houses have been converted into galleries, which also helped a lot for valid. yes, he is with them in the forward is in leather. inform us as the change has been try again to can such a short time, a business has increased to the art scene has grown. the whole district has developed very quickly for the benefit of the community more, more, more, more, more, more, more videos, a buyer. and this is your thought. everyone knows the delivers, the residents can go for walks more easily, right? the yellow is kind of the car is now drive slower and we can walk around and enjoy the neighborhood more than most of bobby must come. well yeah. today done, sheila is driving to both the port of any in another book which on neighborhood where work is underway on a 2nd tomato project is interviewing. yeah. let me show you

that here. how did it go? what happened to you for the good? sorry, i'm a little late. i was in the trends millennial, and it took me awhile to get to bed. here we all. i wanted to ask you how everything is going oh, the most affordable need is in both a proven. yeah. as an important neighborhood for children, we have full schools, we have a kindergarten at the district university. i done everything is very close. you don't have to get phone me when now improving accessibility in the neighborhood. and so i buy buying opinion basically, you know, the red yellow get ready and green. and i wanted to see how the children, those groups were doing with our activities. this whole has

a lot to do with sustainable mobility and traffic safety. the idea is that the children's das, engaging with these top, helps at a very early age and take them home with so that they can be rolling on less than that. parents became part of the body of speech. are these project seems to transform additional city neighborhoods and gradually create a different sustainable boca time. the island level kenya is combining a passion for ox. was careful how environments collecting discarded, flip flops is the 1st step to process. he has invented to turn plastic pollution into something useful. uganda like many places around the world is listed with hundreds of thousands of classic flip flops. this one, this farmer pulls out of his field is about to be given a new creative purpose,

name name. it was somebody surprised this girl collection. we see her getting out beautifully, things will die. so never can. he attends the flip flops in to paint, which he uses to make works of arts and other objects for the offices. it's a way of coping with the mess. people have been making of the wealth around them. and besides the saving of that environment. um we are promoting the cultural recycling in our country. so this would be, could be something very interesting if either a to scan actually come on and try it out. i to flip flop collection point now, but can you begins to reclaim the original bright colors that's enticed people to buy the food with in the 1st place, scrubbing the flip flops. why has and leaving them in the sun to dry is a laborious job, but it's crucial for her project. transforming them into art materials. back in the

studios, she uses a bell, send the machine to reduce the food with to a fine dust, which she collects and mix these with a bind to to make paints. it was such as the reality of described as, flip flops never kenya has been able to create the pallets of both colors with which she express herself. she has also brought in other materials into her artworks such as stripes of discarded vehicle tires novel kenya is making a name for himself in the compiler, all 12 and internationally with ok. she makes from flip flops of flip as, as they know locally hot technique is so unique and there is and that's why i laugh. i love it because of that text. yeah. and another thing is, um, sure, cause of that environment. so by using the past and t as, yeah,

instead of binding and, and on and filling them my way back to that, that she turns them into life. never kenya hurts that. how often raise awareness of all effects a nature and change people's attitudes towards per adults that we no longer have a useful to, to save nature. people have mismanaged with a lot and we're here to tell them that this can be interested around and after the functionality that they actually know about, they can maybe do something else on these. this is an ending life and ending life. besides her paintings, allen, the kenya also designs and adult inspection items. the uganda and all to this new kid apps more useful her recycled pain with so many flip flops,

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