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Mobility
arise,” predicted Bjarke Ingels. “As soon as cars begin moving
in harmony with each other, the car traffi c becomes four
times as compact.”
Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli presented his visions of an
empathetic relationship between mobility, the environment
and architecture in the form of urban scenarios – a concept
in which every aspect of the city gets by without producing
CO2 emissions and in which homes provide a renewable
energy source for urban mobility.
The Standardarchitecture architectural fi rm presented
the “Harmonious Beijing” vision, in which residential towers
with green facades are directly connected with subway rings.
Downtown traffi c is kept constantly fl owing with electric-
powered travel belts, upon which self-powered electric
cars – “travel belt bubbles” – are brought to their desti-
nations, along with bicycles, pedestrians and other transport
users. Today this might seem as utopic as science fi ction,
but Zhang Ke, founder of Standardarchitecture, reminds
us that 200 million Chinese have been urbanized in the last
ten years, and that another roughly 400 million will be
added to that in the next decade. City planning in China
works on a diff erent time scale than in Europe.
DOROTHEA SUNDERGELD
Enric Ruiz-Geli
Cloud 9
The Catalan architect studied
at the Escuela Técnica de
Arquitectura in Barcelona and
founded his fi rm, Cloud 9, in
1997 in this Spanish city. He
is considered a specialist in
sustainable architecture. With
his innovative facade facings,
using such materials as high-
tech plastics or ceramics, he
creates self-suffi cient resi-
dential buildings and public
structures that generate all of
the energy they need. These
are visions that fi nd a recep-
tive audience. Ruiz-Geli has
received honors including the
Research and Development
Award of the Southern Cali-
fornia Institute of Architec-
ture (2008) and the Catalan
Premis Medi Ambient for Sus-
tainable Architecture (2009).
The international jury discusses the concepts: The winner of the
fi rst Audi Urban Future Award is Jürgen Mayer H. from Berlin.
The jury
Thinking for
tomorrow
Saskia Sassen, sociologist,
New York
Fernando de Mello Franco,
architect, São Paulo
Rahul Mehrotra, architect,
Mumbai, Cambridge
Andres Lepik, MoMA, New York
Christian Gärtner,
curator, Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Werner Widuckel,
former Member of the Board
of Management for Human
Resources, AUDI AG, Ingolstadt,
jury member
Rupert Stadler, Chairman of
the Board of Management
of AUDI AG, Ingolstadt
Stefan Sielaff , Head of Audi
Design, Ingolstadt
Jun Ma, Professor of Automotive
Technology, Shanghai
Wolfgang Egger, Head of Design
for the Audi Group, Ingolstadt
Participants, clockwise
from top right
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Take a look at the highlights of the fi rst Audi Urban
Future Award here: www.audi.com/ar2010/aufa
PHOTOS | ERIC GREGORY POWELL; STANDARDARCHITECTURE; AUDI AG; SABINE REITMAIER; CLOUD 9