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Action Plan Unanimously approved.
In project drafting phase.
THINK TANK
At RegeneSyst, we bridge the gap between design and governance, offering cutting-edge design consulting that drives regenerative development, sustainable design, climate resilience, and urban adaptation. Operating as a think tank, we integrate transdisciplinary expertise to craft innovative solutions for cities, landscapes, and communities facing environmental and social challenges.
Through a collaborative approach, we engage with stakeholders, ventures, and policymakers to co-create strategies that foster long-term resilience and positive ecological impact. Our work spans urban adaptation, nature-based solutions, circular economies, and systemic transformations, ensuring that every project aligns with a regenerative and future-proof vision.
Let’s design for impact—reshaping the built environment for a thriving, adaptive world.
Bee Hygrothermal Performance
Cambridge, MA
Urban Heat Island
Madrid's Socio-Climatic Vulnerability
Invisible Fluxes
Re-examining the flows within Ecosystems
Master Plan Futurac
The case study presented here focuses on the North-South Railway Project (NSRP)—a high-speed rail system connecting Luzon’s rural northern and southern regions—reconfiguring its viaduct into a site-specific symbiotic intervention. The selected section of the railway traverses one of the few remaining green areas in Metro Manila, situated between the neighborhoods of Valenzuela, Malabon, and Caloocan—key attraction points for incoming rural populations.
Distrito Naval de Cartagena
Reinventing and relocating the Bolívar Naval District will open the possibility of exploring new dialogues with Cartagena de Indias. This isolated site requires a strategy to either connect or detach, to adapt or blend into its adjacent urban context and waterfront.
Symbolic, functional, visual, and landscape elements are considered to uncover new relationships between the water and the city.
Symbolic, functional, visual, and landscape elements are considered to uncover new relationships between the water and the city.
Aarhus Hub Campus
A 21st Century Forum
In the past, the site functioned as a rail freight complex, a vital node in a vast distribution network. Alongside the tracks, complementary structures emerged—warehouses, sales points, and industrial production spaces, among others.
INTERVENTION STRATEGIES:
"Promoting, as opposed to the traditional model, production as a permeable process. Shifting the role of the spectator to that of an active participant and redefining the mediator as a connector of interactions."
—Langarita Navarro
With this in mind, we propose a 21st-century forum—a Hub Campus, a space for social interaction that fosters multidisciplinary professional relationships among the various agents of its ecosystem. It will serve as a meeting point for students, young entrepreneurs, and the creative sector within a shared productive environment. To achieve this, the project integrates urban stitching, linking the area with the existing city fabric through a network of green-equipped spaces.
The design preserves the heterogeneous yet cohesive nature of the site, forming a system of autonomous spaces that function like the gears of a clock, working together for systemic efficiency. These autonomous spaces connect through streets, plazas, and varying levels, serving one another and generating interstitial gray zones for interaction.
The radial spatial organization enhances the central core, the warmest part of the proposal (thermal onion effect), which captures and distributes external heat through photo-thermal façades and water conduction systems. The building envelope consists of layered stratifications, adapting its materials according to thermal and programmatic requirements. This radial layout directs circulation towards the perimeter, ensuring an uninterrupted core free from transit flow. Instead of dedicated corridors, circulation spaces integrate into functional areas or covered outdoor zones.
The spatial system integrates structure, furniture, and installations, allowing for flexibility according to different programmatic and temporal needs. Spaces adapt throughout the day—for instance, hostel dormitories, unoccupied during working hours, can accommodate daytime activities by incorporating equipped floors with retractable beds, skylights, and built-in storage, enabling a dynamic, ever-evolving environment.
In the past, the site functioned as a rail freight complex, a vital node in a vast distribution network. Alongside the tracks, complementary structures emerged—warehouses, sales points, and industrial production spaces, among others.
INTERVENTION STRATEGIES:
"Promoting, as opposed to the traditional model, production as a permeable process. Shifting the role of the spectator to that of an active participant and redefining the mediator as a connector of interactions."
—Langarita Navarro
With this in mind, we propose a 21st-century forum—a Hub Campus, a space for social interaction that fosters multidisciplinary professional relationships among the various agents of its ecosystem. It will serve as a meeting point for students, young entrepreneurs, and the creative sector within a shared productive environment. To achieve this, the project integrates urban stitching, linking the area with the existing city fabric through a network of green-equipped spaces.
The design preserves the heterogeneous yet cohesive nature of the site, forming a system of autonomous spaces that function like the gears of a clock, working together for systemic efficiency. These autonomous spaces connect through streets, plazas, and varying levels, serving one another and generating interstitial gray zones for interaction.
The radial spatial organization enhances the central core, the warmest part of the proposal (thermal onion effect), which captures and distributes external heat through photo-thermal façades and water conduction systems. The building envelope consists of layered stratifications, adapting its materials according to thermal and programmatic requirements. This radial layout directs circulation towards the perimeter, ensuring an uninterrupted core free from transit flow. Instead of dedicated corridors, circulation spaces integrate into functional areas or covered outdoor zones.
The spatial system integrates structure, furniture, and installations, allowing for flexibility according to different programmatic and temporal needs. Spaces adapt throughout the day—for instance, hostel dormitories, unoccupied during working hours, can accommodate daytime activities by incorporating equipped floors with retractable beds, skylights, and built-in storage, enabling a dynamic, ever-evolving environment.
Más de 101 Hayas I Rouen
In Normandy, there was a forest made up primarily of beech trees. With the arrival of autumn, the wind carried away two of its leaves, which drifted through the forest until they settled in a city square.
The citizens began to interact with them, giving them meaning: one became a greenhouse, while the other turned into a table. In one, they planted seeds, held workshops, and tended to the greenhouse; at the other, they hosted performances, played games, shared meals, and laughed together.
A month later, the leaves vanished, leaving behind the plants the citizens had cared for—101 beech trees that would be transplanted back into the forest, in the hope that, a year later, two more leaves would once again settle in that very same square, in that very same city.
Co-authors: Santiago del Águila, Clara Álvarez, and Manuel Bouzas
The citizens began to interact with them, giving them meaning: one became a greenhouse, while the other turned into a table. In one, they planted seeds, held workshops, and tended to the greenhouse; at the other, they hosted performances, played games, shared meals, and laughed together.
A month later, the leaves vanished, leaving behind the plants the citizens had cared for—101 beech trees that would be transplanted back into the forest, in the hope that, a year later, two more leaves would once again settle in that very same square, in that very same city.
Co-authors: Santiago del Águila, Clara Álvarez, and Manuel Bouzas
Futurac
To enhance Manila’s flood resilience, this project proposes a strategy that multiplies the utility of infrastructure initiatives introduced under Duterte’s administration through a territorial acupuncture system. This approach leverages the way these infrastructures are integrated into the city—via a network of viaducts and bridges that extend over the existing urban fabric and remain flood-resistant.
In this context, a railway viaduct would not serve solely as a mobility corridor but as a multi-functional urban spine, fostering community life, public spaces, amenities, and commercial opportunities for the surrounding neighborhoods.
The case study presented here focuses on the North-South Railway Project (NSRP)—a high-speed train connecting Luzon’s rural northern and southern regions—reconfiguring its viaduct into a site-specific symbiotic intervention. The selected section of the railway passes through one of the few remaining green areas in Metro Manila, situated between the neighborhoods of Valenzuela, Malabon, and Caloocan—key attraction points for incoming rural populations.
In this context, a railway viaduct would not serve solely as a mobility corridor but as a multi-functional urban spine, fostering community life, public spaces, amenities, and commercial opportunities for the surrounding neighborhoods.
The case study presented here focuses on the North-South Railway Project (NSRP)—a high-speed train connecting Luzon’s rural northern and southern regions—reconfiguring its viaduct into a site-specific symbiotic intervention. The selected section of the railway passes through one of the few remaining green areas in Metro Manila, situated between the neighborhoods of Valenzuela, Malabon, and Caloocan—key attraction points for incoming rural populations.
Agritourism
Architecture I Landsaping
Benagalbón I Málaga (ES)
Benagalbón I Málaga (ES)
Málaga
Hangzhou
Hangzhou is undergoing radial expansion from its city center to accommodate the growing population. The construction methods being used are unsustainable, particularly concerning the city’s most valuable ecological asset—its wetlands. The current approach involves sealing the wetland surface, creating an impermeable layer as the foundation for new developments, which disrupts the delicate ecosystem.
Intervention:
A sustainable alternative that prioritizes the regeneration and restoration of as much wetland area as possible. This method integrates a construction strategy that preserves ecological functions while introducing a program aligned with the site's environmental value, acting as a buffer against the city's uncontrolled expansion into these sensitive areas.
Intervention:
A sustainable alternative that prioritizes the regeneration and restoration of as much wetland area as possible. This method integrates a construction strategy that preserves ecological functions while introducing a program aligned with the site's environmental value, acting as a buffer against the city's uncontrolled expansion into these sensitive areas.
4 Muros. Biblioteca
A Cultural and Social Hub for Montecarmelo
This project aims to establish a cultural and social hub at the heart of Montecarmelo, creating a space that both integrates with and stands out from its urban surroundings.
The design embraces a strategy of misalignment, breaking away from the rigid urban grid to emphasize distinct access points and define the building as a singular architectural piece. It establishes a dialogue with the neighboring municipal nursery, opens onto the pedestrian park, and is built using brick, the characteristic material of its context.
The library is organized into four distinct volumes, each dedicated to a specific function: archives, reading areas, children's zone, and a multipurpose space. Each volume features a south-facing wall, which houses all service and transitional spaces, leaving the rest of the area as a flexible, open-served space.
Additionally, the project proposes a community participation strategy, allowing residents to decide how to furnish and adapt these spaces:
"We design the walls—you take care of the rest."
Three rear courtyards, each linked to the activity of its corresponding volume, enhance the connection between the library and the city through the pedestrian park. These courtyards play a crucial role in thermal comfort regulation year-round. The northeast-facing glass curtain captures indirect light, reflected off the opposite brick wall, while the southwest-oriented brick walls absorb and store heat in winter, releasing it indoors through thermal inertia.
Co-authors: Santiago del Águila, Manuel Bouzas, and Ana Meléndez.
This project aims to establish a cultural and social hub at the heart of Montecarmelo, creating a space that both integrates with and stands out from its urban surroundings.
The design embraces a strategy of misalignment, breaking away from the rigid urban grid to emphasize distinct access points and define the building as a singular architectural piece. It establishes a dialogue with the neighboring municipal nursery, opens onto the pedestrian park, and is built using brick, the characteristic material of its context.
The library is organized into four distinct volumes, each dedicated to a specific function: archives, reading areas, children's zone, and a multipurpose space. Each volume features a south-facing wall, which houses all service and transitional spaces, leaving the rest of the area as a flexible, open-served space.
Additionally, the project proposes a community participation strategy, allowing residents to decide how to furnish and adapt these spaces:
"We design the walls—you take care of the rest."
Three rear courtyards, each linked to the activity of its corresponding volume, enhance the connection between the library and the city through the pedestrian park. These courtyards play a crucial role in thermal comfort regulation year-round. The northeast-facing glass curtain captures indirect light, reflected off the opposite brick wall, while the southwest-oriented brick walls absorb and store heat in winter, releasing it indoors through thermal inertia.
Co-authors: Santiago del Águila, Manuel Bouzas, and Ana Meléndez.
Los Bates
It challenges the paradigm of closed classrooms and standardized education programs, embracing a holistic approach rooted in innovation, collaboration, and integration to meet the needs of 21st-century citizens.
This vision is realized through a homogeneous network of classrooms, evenly distributed beneath a central agora, leaving the main pathway as a shared playground for exploration. Here, students of different ages and genders can collaborate, interact, and engage in the disciplines that inspire them most.
This vision is realized through a homogeneous network of classrooms, evenly distributed beneath a central agora, leaving the main pathway as a shared playground for exploration. Here, students of different ages and genders can collaborate, interact, and engage in the disciplines that inspire them most.
Tinajas
The proposal focuses on repurposing large-scale agricultural clay vats—widely available and cost-effective in the second-hand market—alongside steel rods to create social interaction nodes.
Thanks to the thermal inertia and porosity of ceramic, these structures enhance thermal comfort within the space.
In colder seasons, the ceramic material absorbs and stores solar heat, allowing inhabitants to rest against its warm surface and experience its retained warmth.
In summer, the combination of vaulted steel rods and a light textile covering creates a shaded, well-ventilated space. Additionally, by moistening the vats, the natural evaporation effect mimics the botijo, providing a cooling sensation through passive water evaporation.
Thanks to the thermal inertia and porosity of ceramic, these structures enhance thermal comfort within the space.
In colder seasons, the ceramic material absorbs and stores solar heat, allowing inhabitants to rest against its warm surface and experience its retained warmth.
In summer, the combination of vaulted steel rods and a light textile covering creates a shaded, well-ventilated space. Additionally, by moistening the vats, the natural evaporation effect mimics the botijo, providing a cooling sensation through passive water evaporation.
Habitar Discreto. Cabin en el Escorial
A sanctuary hidden within the San Lorenzo del Escorial forest.
Located on the outskirts of Madrid, in a landscape where rocks have shaped history alongside Philip II, this place holds a deep connection to Spain’s past. Legend has it that the king chose a rock, had it carved, and transformed it into his observatory, overseeing the construction of the monastery he had commissioned. Today, we know it as Philip II’s Chair (La Silla de Felipe II).
Just a short walk away, among the dense woodland, clearings of light break through the canopy, inviting us to look up and take in the surroundings. In one of these openings, along the edge of a path, we arrive at a plaza that leads into a courtyard—a space that feels private and serene, warm in winter and cool on summer nights.
This place embraces us, urging us to touch the ancient rocks that shape it, to feel the energy they have gathered over time, whispering the stories of the land.
Located on the outskirts of Madrid, in a landscape where rocks have shaped history alongside Philip II, this place holds a deep connection to Spain’s past. Legend has it that the king chose a rock, had it carved, and transformed it into his observatory, overseeing the construction of the monastery he had commissioned. Today, we know it as Philip II’s Chair (La Silla de Felipe II).
Just a short walk away, among the dense woodland, clearings of light break through the canopy, inviting us to look up and take in the surroundings. In one of these openings, along the edge of a path, we arrive at a plaza that leads into a courtyard—a space that feels private and serene, warm in winter and cool on summer nights.
This place embraces us, urging us to touch the ancient rocks that shape it, to feel the energy they have gathered over time, whispering the stories of the land.
Estructura ligera
Lightweight Structural Node with Structural Glass and Tension Cables
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