Maigret's focus began on infrastructures in and around cities. She was primarily concerned with how to design around shifting water systems. The great lakes has an infrastructure that fails frequently in heavy rains, disrupting local ecologies with run-off and other forms of pollution.
An example of this issue in a visible and explorative format was the Green River project by Olafur Eliasson. He was interested in the kind of response a city would have to what appeared an abrupt and toxic change in their visible waterways. He poured a non-toxic green dye into the river as a catalyst to view a responding time frame and effort.
Her focus also included micro climates which support unique ecologies. Through design intervention unique scenarios become possible. These micro ecologies also exhibit themselves in the work of Patrick Blanc with his Green Wall Facades. In particular was the focus on Herzog & de Meuron's Caixa Forum, in Madrid, Spain. This facade goes through seasonal changes and adds a new dynamic as well as beneficial properties to the cityscape.
Ecosystem Urbana, also in Madrid, is has constructed several green space pavilions that create micro climates, reestablish landscapes, and provide communal spaces. This "Symbiote" project provides evaporative cooling for another beneficial element for both the plantings and the people.
[images courtesy of nemetonmagazine.net, adaptiveresue.net, and genetologisch-onderzoek.nl]
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