New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Project category

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

Email user
info@pircaproject.com

Basic information
Project title
1home1dream

Full Project Title
1home1dream (Pirca Project phase 1)

Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.
Self-construction system for disaster/war/low-income zones with waste/local materials with rapid execution time using PIRCA mold producing recycled concrete pieces for housing,

What was the geographical scope of your project?
Cross-border/international

Where was your project implemented?
Location 1
Kosovo

Location 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
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If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Ukaraine, Iraq, Indonesia, Syria, develpment countries

Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your project refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)

Has your project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your project won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Is your project fully completed
Yes

Please indicate a date (mm/yy)
2022-01-01

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project).
- First name: Alejandro
  Last name: Rodriguez
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Spain
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Avenida Nules nº7
  Town: Burriana
  Postal code: 12530
  Country: Spain
  Direct Tel: +34 618 56 13 68
  E-mail: info@pircaproject.com
  Website: https://www.pircaproject.com/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
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In case my project is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my project in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the project
Please provide a summary of your project.
1home1dream was designed for resilience in disaster/war/low-income zones to provide a self-construction system as a solution for climate and humanitarian refugees, using an inexpensive mold set for self-production of concrete pieces (with low amount of cement even NO cement in favor of lime for construction) with high use of local and waste materials (recovered from seas and shores for carbon-negative housing, cost near zero and very low execution time. The mold set has no maintenance so the system means a creator job for poor families producing pieces for other families or selling them with the know-how to others.
PIRCA mold was inspired by the metallic mold created by Walter Gropius to reconstruct Germany after II Wolrd War.
The system will be shown at the 48th Innovation Fair of Geneve Apr 26-30/2030 in the Spain zone (1home1dream stand)

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.
resilience

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
self-construction

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
low-carbon-footprint

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
inexpensive

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
fast-execution-time

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
The system was designed to reduce the enviromental impact in housing reducing (even eliminating) the use of Portland in favor of roman concrete (using lime for construction) and high amount of waste materials and no conventional arids (debris, recycled concrete from demolition, plastic and tires with the proper granunlometry, crashed crystals. Sea water can be used in the mix).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sTDM1jyOUk
Plastic bottles can be used as pasive fire barrieres or isolation as well in the invisible internal ventilations inside paraments.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
PIRCA mold was inspired by the metallic mold created by Walter Gropius to reconstruct Germany after II Wolrd War.
The different incremental houses that provides in the webpage of PIRCA Project shows an inexpensive and polyvalent interior spaces for families with different schedules of construction depending on family possibilities and necesesities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjyqDCdp1U
The design garantee the proper water collection with potential energy to be used later. The house can be constructed semi-burried with the same structure to reach the best energy inertia exploitation and all the flows use Earth gravity.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
According to the UN net World population grow, 200 000 newborns come to life daily, if we resolve their problems with actual construction procedures, we will destroy the planet in less than 50 years. So, we are providing a NO TECH system for the 70% of the population worldwide who live under 5 dollars/day to construct, update or reapir their own house, with tehir own effort in their own countries, avoiding traspass these problems to other continents. Any development country can adopt this system to avoid people running from they own country in order to avoid loose young population with this way to create jobs in the construction industry.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project
This project is inclusive, the pieces can be managed for any member of a family. The weitgh of each piece is less than 15 kg so can be produced and collocated by any member of the family no matter age or gender of the constructor.
Is a simple way to reuse waste materials to produce collective goods. All the family can (maybe the correct word is: must) participate.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was.
The stakeholder is all people who don't hás the necessary resources to buy a constructor enterprise a traditional house for the family. The humanitarian and ecological NGO´s organization can help to acquire to the stakeholders about the set (around 30 molds:15 euros/each) and provide Internet connectivity to show the know-how and feedback to 1home1dream startup.
The mold can be sold in bricolage stores.
We are the owners of the patent.
https://consultas2.oepm.es/pdf/ES/0000/000/01/21/40/ES-1214044_U.pdf

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was.
The project was designed for global use. No special acknowledgments are necessary to use our system. Certainly the morphology of the pieces provide facility to the inclusion in paraments other disciplines such as electricity, plumbing, isolation, fire extinguishing and air movement from/to the rooms to the exterior and from the bottom to the roof of any construction.
The possibility to use lime for construction for producing roman concrete revives links with manufactured lime for construction in almost all places (no volcano region) to produce excellent concretes (like roman concrete, still in use for 2000 years). Certainly, all can be produced in place, so, the carbon footprint is reduced effectively worldwide.

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries
The pieces are produce for the moment in molds impressed in 3d printers, The samples walls are only for probing hardness and sample construction.
The innovation will be showed in the 48th Inventions Fair of Geneve (26-30/Apr 2023)

Please provide documents showing the results, outcomes and impacts of your project
Web link
Web link
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1NTW6Q82M
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ATU5JXD_qw&t=326s
Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project
The product does not exist, is a new product, and can be used for the global population, with global results and a global reduction of carbon footprint in housing.
We are expecting in the future sell the rpoduct in bricolage stores as Ikea, Obramat, etc.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.
The innovation is the result of 40 years working in housing in different regions, Central America & Europe mainly.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.
The product can be reproduced globally and we are trying to introduce it in Turkey, Indonesia, Chile; Ukaraine, Iraq, and Syria where conflicts and/or natural disasters are common.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions
The possibility to use waste materials with propewr granulometry provide to be used worldwide.
The challenge is global,...., and our innovation is global too.
Adobe can be used.
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- CLPengllish.docx
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