Installed in the Port Vell of Barcelona is a large avant garde marquee, for the exhibition of 'Smart Future Minds', the title of a dozen innovative and creative designs, visionary projects for the future of the city.
Visitors to the exhibition will see sustainable super hotels, urban community farming, digital transit along the streets, public furniture with crochet hooks, a new 'door' for the new city. All these are but some of the new ideas now shown in models planned for the future city, based on new technology and mindful of healthy environment. The Smart brand of vehicles has organised a series of exhibitions, under the theme Smart Urban Stage, in various European cities: Spain, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, London, and Zurich. For the principal reason to promote the electric car that will be launched next year.
In each city, five prestigious professionals, each with a different category, have the mission of selecting 2 projects that they should complete several requirements for a possible future. The most innovative of each city will earn a prize.
In Barcelona these 5 official commissioner are film maker Isabel Coixet, the architects Benedetta Tagliabue and Vicente Guallart, the scientist Lourdes Vega and the expert in new technologies Santiago Ortiz.
The building B is one of the projects chosen. It's creator, Jordi Torres, has conceived the idea as a habitable culture, sustainable and auto-efficient as symbol of identity like in it's day the doors permitting access to the cities in the Roman Empire.
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