Environmental strategies in the proposal for the management of the neighborhood of the Levante Sector of Figueras

Figueres, Girona

Environmental advice for determining criteria for reducing CO2 emissions in the design of new buildings in the urban area to be transformed in the Levante Sector, Figueres.

Development: Figueres Town Council

Client: Polytechnic University of Catalonia – UPC, (directed by Albert Cuchí, DCA1)

Year: 2010

Location: East area of the city

Approximate area: 200,000.00 m²

Other participants: Lluís Brau (urban planning project), Rafael Cáceres (architecture project) and Salvador Rueda (urban ecology)

Photography rights: Agència d’Ecologia Urbana de Barcelona