In this first edition, the topic has been Emergency Interventions, setting the stage for the projects in the American Continent, affected by successive disasters, natural or man-made phenomena, occurred in the last two years and still unresolved.
The sites in the competition and the strategies have been the following: Petropolis: Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. HOW CONSOLIDATE AN INFORMAL ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN MUTUAL THREAT; Puerto Saavedra. Araucania Region. Chile. HOW TO RECYCLE A TERRITORY THREATENED BY THE RISK OF NATURAL DISASTERS; San Cristobal. Bolivar. Colombia. HOW TO MANAGE THE INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT OF OCCUPANCY IN AREAS AFFECTED BY FLOODING LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE; Chimalhuacan. State of Mexico. Mexico. HOW TO RESTRUCTURE AN URBAN FABRIC RESULT OF ACCELERATED PROCESSES OF URBAN SPRAWL; and Cercado de Lima. Lima. Peru. REBUILDING A UNPLANNED SETTLEMENT THREATENED BY ANTHROPIC RISK.
Winners:
- Petropolis, Brazil: Estudio López/Castellanos (Lucía Martín López and Gonzalo M.B.Castellanos). Matías Nieto Tolosa. Edgar Ignacio Mazo Zapata, José Ramón Guerra del Moral and Gonzalo Castro Fernández-Palacios.
- Puerto Saavedra, Chile: Álvaro Cuéllar, Anna Gutiérrez Merin and Jordi Safont-Tria. LEMUR_Laboratorio de emergencias urbanas (Benedetta Rodeghiero, Elena Gimeno Bayés and Jordi Marfá Vives). Mariló Sánchez García, Tadea Ipiña Mariscal, Jorge Nieto Pujol and José María Sánchez García.
- San Cristobal, Colombia: Ochoa + Stella Richter arquitectos (Daniel González Ochoa and Antonio Luigi Stella Richter). Elena Gómez Merino, Juana Canet Rosello and Rut Cuenca Candel. Amaya Barrera González and Helena Cermeño Mediavilla.
- Chimalhuacan, Mexico: David Ortega and Alberto Odériz. Álvaro Cuéllar, Anna Gutiérrez Merín and Jordi Safont-Tria.
- Cercado de Lima, Peru: Jaime G. Méndez Quintero and Yesenia I. Teles de Aguilar.
