urban planning
© Bimsa, Martí Llorens
© Bimsa, Martí Llorens
The demolition of the viaduct that crossed the public area of Ronda de Guinardo, between the buildings, has allowed the reorganization of a calmed traffic and has given the green areas for citizen recreation the importance they deserved. The topographic barriers are now easily surpassed by means of elevators, escalators and ramps that increase the mobility through the whole area.
The area towards the metro entrances, the churros shop and the carousel have been reorganized. Little playing fields have been built and a free area for local festivities fitted out. A driving area has been created over the vertical wall that used to support the viaduct. It is accessible exclusively to residents and service vehicles. The project has been developed in collaboration with Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres.
LA ROVIRA TUNNEL REDESIGN, SOUTH ENTRANCE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WORK SITE MANAGEMENT Barcelona, 2008. 2009 - 2011
The transformation of the railway system of Barcelona by the covering of the tracks and the building of the new highspeed Sagrera Station provides the opportunity to connect the urban tissue of the neighborhoods of Sant AndreuSagrera and Sant Martí. This transformation offers the possibility of creating a new public space in the shape of a corridor that goes beyond the scale of the neighborhood to turn in to an important resource for the city at a metropolitan scale. This new park will be an example of the recovery of spaces for citizen enjoyment and coexistence based on the optimization of the infrastructures that our dense cities require. The tender has been developed in collaboration with Martínez Lapeña, Auding, Clotet, Cicsa, Ravellat and Ribas architecture and engineering firms.
• The park pergolas. • Computer generated image of the Linear Park proposal.
LA SAGRERA – SANT ANDREU LINEAR PARK PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TENDER PHASES 1, 2 and 3 Barcelona, 2011
The drafting of the Construction Project to define the urban distribution of the surroundings of the Irala Park in Bilbao is commissioned as a part of Bilbao Ría 2000. The main determining factors considered in the design are accessibility, the connection of spaces at different levels, the provision of public space and garden areas and over all the possibility of the project being reversed when the time comes to undertake the designed Miribilla tunnel. The design for the adaptation and improvement of the Park includes an undeveloped space located between the current end of the Ferrocarril Avenue, the Virgen de Montserrat Street and the building of the old Flour-Bakery Factory. The improvement of the urban infrastructure of the Virgen de Montserrat Street and its, temporary, connection with the park are also included. The replanting of the slope and the adaptation and improvement of the parts of the slope under the rear of buildings that look out over this space, is also included in this area. The operation has a total surface area of 3,900 m2, with different degrees and intensities of intervention. An urban development is proposed that aims, through a series of minimum gestures, to achieve the diaphanous character and visual permeability of the space while attaining the accessibility between the different levels through a series of comfortable paths that enable to connect the existing urban network.
• Computer generated image of the pedestrian street along the highest level. • General floor plan of the distribution proposal. • Park shapes and volumes.
IRALA SLOPE PARK ADAPTATION AND IMPROVEMENT
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Bilbao, 2011
The improvement of the airport and Can Pastilla access is in line with the territorial and urban system revaluation project carried out by the Bahía de Palma y S’Arenal and promoted by the Platja de Palma Council. This study of alternatives proposes, in a joint manner, the road access to Can Pastilla remodelling –Ses Fontanelles and other alternative access, pedestrians, cyclists, buses, taxis and tram which are to be introduced in this area.
•View of current state. •Section 1. Current state and Alternative B proposal. •General plan of Alternative B
IMPROVEMENT OF THE PALMA-AIRPORT STRETCH IN CAN PASTILLA STUDY OF ALTERNATIVES Palma de Mallorca, 2010
The rail corridor covering has been an objective pursued by the Barcelona City Hall for a long time. The aim was to improve to a great extent the environmental conditions regarding noise, vibrations and barrier effect about the permeability of people and vehicles of the Sants station Southern neighborhoods, which are in a rather precarious situation. After drafting and managing the covering projects, Esteyco takes part in the later development, together with the architects of Barcelona Regional. The action extends from the covering area to the annexed to the rail corridor ones. In the sea side some of these areas are taken up by rail installations belonging to Metro, which have to be dismantled, whereas in the mountain side the rail corridor is used due to the elimination of two of the six existing tracks. This fact, together with the provision of ramps, stairs and lifts among the different levels, enables the creation of a big passable avenue perfectly integrated in the urban environment, constituting an important area of great quality. • Transverse section. • View of the state of the area prior to the works and infographics of the project proposal. • Urban planning general plan.
RAIL ACCESSES TO SANTS STATION. PHASE I URBAN PLANNING PROJECT Barcelona, 2005-2010
The technical assistance to the Infraestructure Management of the Barcelona Council, for the monitoring and coordination of all the actions belonging to Transports Infraestructure, which are planned, projected and carried out in the city, is controlled through BCNsit. Being the main aim of the contract the non-municipal promotional actions – Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Parliament) and Mº de Fomento (Ministry of Development), mainly –, the monitoring purpose is the rational integration of the new infraestructures in the urban environment, with the demanding determinants that it entails, as well as the impact minimization of those on the city and its citizens. Some examples of these projects and works are: the High Speed Line, stretches: Torrassa-Sants, SantsSagrera; Sagrera-Nus Trinitat, Nus Trinitat-Montcada; tube line 9, stretches 1, 2, 3 and 4 and line 10; extensions of the lines 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Metropolitan Railway of Barcelona (FMB); Transport Interchanges of Diagonal, Arc del Triomf, Sagrera-Meridiana; accessibility improvement actions in FMB, tunnel of Aigües Ter Llobregat (ATLL); the covering of the rail accesses to Sants and the entrance of the Bus-HOV lane to the city.
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MONITORING OF TRANSPORTS INFRAESTRUCTURE Barcelona, 2008-2011
The transformation of the old Barracks of Sant Andreu has made it possible to incorporate two important areas of 5 and 6 Has in to the city. Drafting the Modificació del Plan General Metropolità a les Casernes de Sant Andreu i Sector III (Modification of the Metropolitan General Plan of Sant Andreu-Sagrera) document, enables the future integration of those areas within their own environment and the city, the definition and zoning, specifying areas for residential use, public facilities and open spaces. Two systems of public spaces, which continue the urban structure of the neighborhood, are proposed for the 11 Ha. To the West, a large park that continues the pedestrian itineraries of the urban fabric and is surrounded by the library, the senior citizen center and the residence hall. To the East, a Boulevard with public facilities for the neighborhood and district is arranged. In the center, the residential area and shops, concentrated along the Passeig Torres i Bages, take the shape of a powerful built front that relates the civic scale of Sant Andreu to the Trinitat. This front, with arcades and shops on the ground floor and residential units on the four upper floors, allows transverse flow to the public facilities and green spaces located on the lateral edges. Interspersed among the public facility fabric, the housing is arranged in longitudinal bands, following the alignment of the existing trees. The project is developed from the document of Criteria written by the architect Manuel de Sola-Morales
• Inphographic of the Public Facilities Boulevard. • General floor plan of the project. • Cross section through the Park. • Elevation of the Gran de Sant Andreu Street footpath wall, Park area.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF LES CASERNES DE SANT ANDREU CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Barcelona. 2008-2009
The new neighborhood of La Marina del Prat Vermell, promoted by the Modificación del Plan General Metropolitano (Metropolitan General Plan Amendment) driven by the Barcelona City Council, defines the transformation of industrial land use in La Marina del Prat Vermell, in a progressive in time process that would allow a temporal coexistence among the new residential and economic activity uses, the current activities with the buildings that the project, of a later development, would allow to keep. The development proposals are binded to the principle of sustainability, with the aim of creating an habitable neighborhood with an use, energy management and respect for the environment policy. The Plan Especial de Infraestructuras (Special Infraestructure Plan), considers both the deployment of the distribution of the road network, public transport, streets and green areas developing and the deployment of all the facilities of the new neighborhood, where it is projected to build nearly 11.000 new houses. INFORMATION SUMMARY
Surface of the area: 750.339 m2 • Number of houses: 10.865 • 47.5 % subsidized housing • 52.5 % unsubsidized housing •Street stretches: 10.402 m •Public developed space: 269.325 m2 •Green areas: 133.425 m2 •New trees: 2.012 unidades •Bus lane: 7.246 m •Bicycle lane: 4.419 m •Planned electrical power: 87.500 Kw •Planned gas power: 113.000 KWh/h •Telecommunications: 13.926 m •Waste network: 6.104 m •Drinking water demand: 2.755.971 m3/año •Ground water demand: 80.598 m3/año Cost of works Phase 1: 53,218,504 euros. S = 91,667 m2. Phase 2: 54,912,044 euros. S = 94,912,044 m2
NEW NEIGHBORHOOD OF LA MARINA DEL PRAT VERMELL URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Barcelona, 2009
The work carried out by ESTEYCO in the Project Management (PM) belongs to the overall management of the actions and development works to be executed by BAGURSA (entity under the authority of the Barcelona city council). They are related to the Housing Plan 2006-2007, in the city of Barcelona.
• Different pictures of some urban development projects carried out in the city of Barcelona during the years 2006-2007.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHEMES, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT Barcelona, 2006-2007
The main objective of the proposal is to favor and increase the connections of the historic city with the river, encouraging the use of river beds as connection axes, and restraining urban growth in the fertile lowlands. To that end it is necessary to promote some elements of the physical environment, the geological diversity, the unique “entrenched meander” and the slopes. City-river connections are improved with the incorporation of the green areas of the edge of the historic city to the slopes, promoting their lookout character by planting autochthonous species adapted to the environment, using riparian vegetation in the river beds and oak as an enclosure for “the entrenched meander”. Along the edge of the city towards the fertile lowland a more open and organized structure is favored . The aim is to offer a view of the river as a connected basin and not as a discontinuous line, which is the current situation. To reestablish and promote visual relationship between city and river, promoting routes and viewpoints, visual points in the areas of major interes for citizens and the tourist activity. It is considered to recover public waters in those areas where the river has been occupied by uses incompatible with its conservation, selecting those that protect the environment and eliminating non-protected constructed elements. They try to improve the supply-demand relationship between the river and the territory and model the regularity of the flows to recover the perception of the river as a basin and favour the river connectivity in a transverse and longitudinal sense. For the historic town surroundings, it is considered to recover, due to their environmental values, the oak landscape, that occupy the mountains and hills which constitute Toledo backdrop. Cigarrales (old states next to the river) are protected as landscape and cultural heritage, containing their expansion as urban structures, and the impacts that roads generate in the slides is minimized.
• Integration proposal of roads and ring roads of the south and west sides that have a strong negative impact on the historic city landscape. They are “naturalized”, making them of mixed use, vehicle and pedestrians, giving priority to pedestrians over traffic.
INTEGRATION OF THE TAJO RIVER INTO THE CITY OF TOLEDO INTERNATIONAL IDEA TENDER Toledo, 2008
The Txorierri Valley is connected by the railway line Deusto-Lezama with insufficient frequency for a metropolitan type service like this. It is mainly due to the only existing track in the stretch Casco Viejo-Lezama. As a solution, partly, for these problems, the construction of a new double track rail tunnel under the Artxanda Mount is proposed. It would allow to reduce the current frequencies and gain access in a future to the Loiu Airport. The project, of 3 km long, has two distinct stretches complying with the characteristics of the environment where it is located. The initial stretch runs through a consolidated urban area of Bilbao, in the surroundings of Matiko Station, goes past in tunnel under the Artxanda Mount, crosses under the Corredor del Txorierri Motorway and runs through a rural area till it connects to the current line in Sondika. The main action is the execution of the Artxanda tunnel in double track, of 1.876 m long and their two evacuationventilation galleries of 239 m and 224 m. Gallery 1 connects directly to the outside, while gallery 2 connects the new tunnel with the current one in the Deusto-Lezama line, that is equipped as an evacuation route. The railway layout in the urban environment of Bilbao is buried mainly because of the need to open the entrance of the new tunnel with enough overburden on its way under Artasamina street. The burying and covering of the railway corridor is a required objective to improve environmental conditions, regarding noise, vibrations and barrier effect over the pedestrian permeability among neighborhoods. The urban development on surface allows the streets permeability and solves the creation of a green pedestrian axis that connects the new Matiko station area and La Salve street at the other end of the freed area.
• Infographics of the bury project, with Matiko Station in the background. • Sketch with the surface town planning proposal. • Type section of the south tunnel - slope intersection. • Current situation of Matiko area.
ARTXANDA TUNNEL AND MATIKO URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Bilbao, 2007
The planning approved by Benahavis (Málaga) PGOU (General Urban Development Plan) determines an area of the ville located in the zone of tourism growth, specifically in the south-west of it. It is known as Sector S.U.P. “Montemayor Bajo” and it has a surface of 257 ha. It borders to the South with Cancelada Dam and the new “Los Flamingos” residential area; to the West with Guadalmansa river; to the East with Toro stream; and to the North with Montemayor Alto area and “Marbella Club” golf courses. The development project includes those works which are necessary to achieve the sector’s development regarding internal viability and external connection, such as gradients and topographic model, infrastructures and drinking water services network, electricity supply and public lighting, separated sanitation networks, gas, irrigation and telecommunication installations, as well as all the required elements to achieve its total operational capacity. The main actions carried out in this project are the following: Organising the residential use together with the foreseen commercial-hotel use which are integrated in the areaprotecting the existing landscape and balancing up the needed equipment to develop the area. ROAD, connecting the Cancelada road with the new urban area according to the PGOU previsions. Existing roads will be maintained and improved by means of secondary routes in order to provide this sector with the required accessibility. FACILITIES AND SERVICES; trying to get the best physical and environmental location of the facilities in an area which do not have them. Placing sports facilities, including highlevel physical and environmental features, taking advantage of its location which consists of views over the coast and the whole sea until Gibraltar. Residential buildings have been divided into the following typologies of houses: DETACHED (R-AIS, 69.561 m2t), SEMIDETACHED (R-AD, 99.143 m2t) and FLATS (R-N, 62.758 m 2 t).
•Section of road Type A. •General plan and cross section of the residential area.
MONTEMAYOR BAJO RESIDENTIAL AREA IN BENAHAVIS DRAFT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Málaga, 2006-2007
The action area is located at the east of Terrassa and comprises three Development Action Areas with a total surface of 124.300 m². The development proposal, made in collaboration with the architect Manuel de Solà-Morales, is considered from a landscape point of view, looking for a new topographical and infraestructure configuration of the free spaces for public use, in the definition of the necessary works for the implememtation of a group of 1,600 dwellings, as well as in the layout and definition of the new facilities and services network. The respect for the existing pine woods, along Álava street and down the road, defines the rough field of the main free space. Urban forest space, of “soft” surfacing and transverse roads, that means a close and equipped prediction of the spaces of the Natural Park in which La Gripia valley will become in the future, according to the stipulations of the Urban Management Plan. •3 Development Action Areas (abbreviated as PAU in spanish) • Total surface: 124.300 m² • The designated green zones and landscaped open spaces area represents a 50% of the intervention..
• Aerial view of the urban development. • Detail of the pedestrian roads among pine trees. • Project model. • Plan of the development with the roads.
TORRE-SANA URBAN DEVELOPMENT, TERRASSA
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND SITE WORKS MANAGEMENT Barcelona, 2004. 2005-2008
Tender of Ideas for the urban planning project of the Sector Grao in Valencia, next to the old Turio River bed, developed in collaboration with the architect Carlos Meri. Proposal information summary: A total surface area of 50,70 hectares and an above ground, buildable area of 688.577 m2, for residential and tertiary uses.
• General view of the current state of the area. • Images of the scale model of the urban planning proposal.
THE SECTOR GRAO PLANNING - VALENCIA TENDER Valencia, 2005