The Ecological City

When half of humanity lives in cities, the architecture and the town planning are called to play a major role in the limitation of the ecological footprint of the human activities and in the serach for long-lasting solutions.
Associates of Architecture-Studio and their team have developed, through their projects, a knowledge of and a particular focus on the environment and on vernacular cultures. The project of Deh Sabz, a new "green city" of more than three milion inhabitants in the North of Kabul, is particularly extraordinary because of its size and specific features of the site.
This work is a testimony to the work of one of the biggest agencies of French architecure, which along with a regard for the social, topographic and cultural contexts, has no other ambition than to participate in the assertion of contemporary and responsible architecture