Knowledge

A documentary series that reflects on the city. Cities are our raison d’être. We reflect upon how public spaces can be better connected, greener and more human. It’s about our history and our future. How we defend values that inspire us to act responsibly. Because we are passionate about cities and want you to take part.

The city flows. One place comes after another. Routines are disrupted. People change. Spaces are transformed. They evolve. And so do we. Devise a project to improve. Let us help you. Reach out to us. Urbidermis is a part of the flourishing city.

We talk with landscape designer Kathryn about “spaces that fit”, years collaborating with Urbidermis and the key elements for the future of landscape and urban design. All the while keeping people at the centre.

We look at years of collaboration with Urbidermis and the importance of conversations. Of knowing how to listen, to read the changes that society needs and design quality solutions.

In conversation with Pablo Martínez, architect and co-founder of 300.000Km/s: "It is important to consider that, on the one hand, professionals in the city diagnose it, think about it, design it, project it, plan it, but ultimately, it is the citizens who make the city."

In conversation with Lucía Millet, architect and co-founder of Cierto Estudio: "The street of the 21st century is a simpler street, with less information, less hierarchical, and more democratic."

In conversation with Joan Roig, architect and co-founder of Batlleiroig: "Our opinion is that the real solution lies in putting one of those at the center of all problems. And what we put at the center is nature."

In conversation with Claudia Nieto, environmentalist and CSR director at Intramundana: "It is important to put nature at the center of our political, economic, and moral decisions, because we depend on it."

Cierto Estudio is an architecture studio founded in 2014 by six young architects: Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol, Carlota de Gispert, Anna Llonch, Lucia Millet and Clara Vidal.

Barcelona has chosen a revamped model of urban development, designed to enhance the life of its citizens and to adapt to the impacts brought about by climate change.

The DTAH studio has redesigned what was once the first playground in Toronto; a location that has great social and environmental significance, surrounded by both historic buildings and new construction.

On the banks of the River Thames, in the London borough of Newham, the Royal Docks area - the Royal Group of Docks - comprises three docks: the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock.

Landscape Forms, the official partner of Urbidermis in the USA and Canada, delivers excellent European design – one that is functional, elegant and sustainable – in North America.

Previously renovated in 2005, Marina Palamós is undergoing a profound and ambitious transformation, aimed at considerably enriching the port’s coastal heritage and the quality of its landscape.

Allow us to introduce you to our new, improved website, exemplifying our renewed commitment to a greener, more connected city designed with people in mind.

“Our process involves understanding what is most appropriate for the moment we are living in, for the people who use and live with the objects we design, achieving suitable commercial success”

At the beginning of 2021, Storm Filomena, which carpeted Madrid in up to half a metre of snow, damaged a third of the city's trees. An unprecedented catastrophe for urban forestry, with hundreds of thousands of trees damaged, split or fallen.

Since 2003, a beautiful rural estate of 200 hectares dating back to the 10th Century has been the home of the central offices of the companies of the Intramundana Group: Urbidermis, Belloch Forestal and Santa&Cole, amongst others.

Initially published in 1982, it is a masterpiece on urban forestry with more than 550 fountain pen illustrations of 212 tree species grouped by family.

"People don't always recognise good design but they appreciate it, because it improves their lives", he revealed brilliantly in one of his unmistakable speeches.

Since it was founded at the beginning of the eighties, Batlle i Roig architecture firm has received admiration not only for its role in the rehabilitation of the Spanish landscape during this decade, but also for the design of new urban spaces from the nineties to the present.

In Air-Pot® cultivation, the shape of the container wall guides each root towards a hole where the increased amount of air dehydrates the root tip, stimulating root branching and maximising the ability to absorb nutrients, water and oxygen.

Catenary lighting elements enable an escape from compositional rigidity in outdoor spaces, offering the freedom to compose a scene which is adapted to new social and situational dynamics.

The Canon de Belloch arises in response to a question that is not always well- conceived: which species of trees for linear planting are most suitable for the urban environment?