The document describes a student workshop to design a model for a green town. Key aspects of the proposed town include a quiet life, prioritizing citizen well-being, minimal technology, and being self-sufficient for food and energy. The students created a scale model of the town situated in a small valley surrounded by hills. The model included low-density housing surrounding a central community area, as well as wind turbines, solar panels, forests, and sewage treatment. The workshop concluded that building the scale model promoted collaboration skills and that both a technical and organic approach to planning can explain values around environmental and social well-being.

1. GREENTOWN
WORKSHOP
THE EXPERIENCE
AND GENERAL
CONCLUSIONS.

2. Our proposal for a green
town was the following:
Quiet life.
Personal relationship and well-
being of citizens must be given
priority.
Minimum presence of technology.
Food and energy self sufficiency.
Nature is inside the city.

3. Our model:
Principles
 Community buildings
(public facilities) are in
the center.
 Low density residential
areas surrounding the
center.
 City like a garden.
 Vegetation in the
buildings; also food
production.
 Wind farm for
energy production.

4. THE KEY PRINCIPLE IS TO
REPRODUCE TO ESCALE
 The condition that determines
much of the later work is that
the territory and the city are on the
same scale.
The chosen scale is 1: 2000,
so that 1 inch of the model is 20
meters from the reality

5. PREPARATION OF THE
MODEL
TERRITORY
It was decided that
the relief should
resemble that of
Cuenca and its
surroundings

6. Size of the model: 2 x 1 m
Terrotory consists of a
narrow valley -source
of a river that winds
later on its plain-
bounded on one side
by an elongated ridge.

7. The relief was built with styrofoam plates 5
cm thick. Finally it was painted by dry brush
technique. This work was made by the artistic
and visual education teacher.

8. THE TOWN
 Once decisions
were agreed by
students, they
reflected them in
a drawing which
was later used as
the basis fot the
making of the city.

9. It was decided that
residential buildings would be
orange and the other (institutional,
industrial, commercial, etc..)white.

10. Other items that students
had to prepare
WIND TURBINES
Made of toothpicks

11. Solar panels
Transparent acetate
sheets

12. Forests
Made of
needles
and bits of
green
scourer

13. Tanks for sewage
treatment

14. No cars can circulate inside
the city center

15. Town grows in an organic way.
No polluting
industrial area
integrated in
town.

16. Conclusions
 Scale model
construction is an
interesting way to
working together, as it
promotes social skills.
 Technical approach is
suggested to learn
planning strategies
 Personal relationship
and well-being of
citizens must be given
priority.

17. Conclusions
• Organic approach is
suggested to explain values
about relationship between
town and environment,
health and social well-
being.
• Both ways are
complementary
because education is
the force behind
change the reality …
• And reality
knowledge is
the starting
point.

18. THANKS A LOT!