Innovation and Sustainability

Innovation
and Sustainability

About

NXC Next City Lab is a research lab and innovation hub for the next generations’ cities, addressing the issue at every scale of design, with particular focus on every aspect of sustainability.

NXC Next City Lab works together with a qualified team of professionals specialized in different field of design, who look upon the environmental sustainability as an added value for every project. NXC Next City Lab provides consultancy and support to private and public stakeholders to pursue projects in developing countries.

What we do:

Architecture + -

In the field of architectural design NXC - LAB develops projects with a strong focus on energy and cost containment, green buildings and new living proposals.

Urban Design + -

In the field of urban design, reuse and integration between architecture and landscape, between manmade and nature, are fundamental themes for every project. The SMART City topic refers to a bright city, a model of urbanization where digital technologies live together with green, private and public spaces, improving the quality of living for citizens.

Reuse and Urban regeneration + -

The reuse and recovery of abandoned areas and buildings is the most effective way to safeguard natural resources and reduce their waste.

In the inevitably multicultural and multi-ethnic society of the future, urban regeneration cannot ignore the need for greater social and intercultural integration. By placing the reuse of abandoned areas and buildings at its center, it can create innovative and inclusive places.

Product design + -

In the field of product design NXC - LAB has developed projects about green and electric mobility, a wealth of experience acquired with its project partners.

Projects

Urban Regeneration and Smart City Infrastructures and Landscape Public spaces Parks and Landscape Architecture and Landscape Green Mobility Sustainability Design for cooperation

Urban Regeneration and Smart City

Technology at the service of the quality of life.

“Reuse, transformation and re-functionalization are the main form of saving the natural resources of our planet and the only way to give continuity to history and to build the identity of a territory that is built on itself.”

Infrastructures and Landscape

Infrastructure is a great work of land-art within the landscape.

From the time of the Roman aqueducts to the construction of the most contemporary bridges and rail transport lines, it is clear that an infrastructure is not just a work of engineering but is, mainly, a great work of land-art within the landscape.

Public spaces

A new relation between private and public space.

“The square, the public space are the places through which a city meets and represents its level of cultural advancement and artistic sensitivity.”

Parks and Landscape

“Landscape = Nature+Human Intervention “ (Edoardo Gellner)

The project of a park is based on the contemporary urge for places to relate with nature and outdoor spaces.

Architecture and Landscape

Dialogue between nature and artifice.

Architectural projects can embody a place uniqueness, taking shapes and geometries which reflects local traditions and history. The architectural element becomes a landmark, physical and materic expression of the place where it is built.