Work for the course: Urbanism IV
Authors: Antonio Fernández Tapia, Axe Galdeano Daverio, Noemi Tuesta Couce and Patricia Tuesta Couce
Location: Murcia
We choose a specific area in the region of Murcia, a piece of land between two villages: El Palmar and La Alberca. This rural area is crossed by a highway with high capacity of traffic that bounds for Cartagena, on the coast.
Systems inside systems/ Sinergies are the intregation of different systems in order to create a new element. It is a concurrency action between two or more causes whose effect is higher than the sum of the individual effects.
Searching:
//We find the other direction: We enhance the intermediate pathways that connect central facilites.
//Public space as infrastructure: connecting long distances and building the urban borders.
Strategies:
//Rehabilitation of the old homestead (Caserío del Palmar) with great architectural value. We also regenerate other disused plots in order to reconfigure the access to El Palmar. The main road becomes thicker and the highway junction to get to the village is modified. The bike path is continued.
//Burial of the highway. The rural area becomes an agrarian park as a continuation of a natural park called El Valle. A new neighbourhood is created in La Alberca as a urban border associated with the park.
The new landscape is a hybridation of three elements: farming, urban and land; that becomes park, work space and city. The slow path links this hybrid landscape as a new overlay infrastructure.
The materials are important. The abrupt changes of materials represent the limits. We walk on concrete but we can litterally touch the ground and grass. The path is made of red-coloured gravel as a strong contrast to the orchards.
Thanks for looking!
