NEW CONCEPT URBAN LANDSCAPE
NEW CONCEPT URBAN LANDSCAPE
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Tomás García Píriz (CUAC Ar quitectura) + Jo se Luís Muñoz
Tomás García Píriz + Jose Luís Muñoz
Loja, Granada, Spain
Via Crucis: 521㎡ Isabel I: 1,625㎡ Val del Omar: 376㎡
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2010
Javier Callejas Sevilla
Val del Omar Plan
Via Crucis plan
NEW CONCEPT Look at Each Other 8
IsabelI Plan
Nothing in life exists in isolation. Looking at each other has become an ordinary state and a way of being. The relatively independent balconies, which were named after three historical characters, look at each other as a whole and watch the city. The past and present of the ancient city seems appear right before people's eyes. 9
NEW CONCEPT URBAN LANDSCAPE
NEW CONCEPT URBAN LANDSCAPE
Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho Marx in Duck´s Soup, maintains a hard dispute with the nation of Sylvania in the famous Marx´s Brothers film from 1933. The still black and white photo in which the nation of Sylvania appears, comes from an image from the 30´s of the city of Loja. An image that shows the superb situation of this beautiful Andalusian town, located between the two sides of the valley of River Genil, in the East part of the province of Granada.
Brothers, Isabel the Catholic, Washington Irving, Ibn Al Jatib, Morayma and others are given life in these places. The final result is a new way of understanding the city through a new cartography of spaces that constitute a unique landscape.
Topography defines the particular scenery of the city of Loja. To understand this The Relationships Among the Balconies characteristic, it´s necessary to connect all of the city’s district topographical features that are The detailed study of the visual angles that each balcony establishes with the others, combined to make up the city’s identity. generates specific directions towards them. These directions are going to be a key factor in the project of these areas. Each balcony is looking at the others. Thus, from each balcony, The need of recovering different abandoned places in the city of Loja, raised the opportunity we participate in the position of the rest of the spaces that integrate the group. of creating a network of public areas, designed as balconies to lean out to the city. The Development of the Balconies The project here presented shows a group of areas, or as we said before, balconies, places The links that each balcony establishes with the others, derive in angles and directions. This to lean out, but also to be looked at, places of the city, its scenery and history. is developed in a pattern of possibilities for the different elements (street furniture, pavement, artificial lighting…) that configure the public area. A study of the specific spatial conditions will All of these balconies are related among them, all have common features, and with these establish the criterion of selection. common components a pattern is created. The project draws these relationships, and it reinforces the existing links. Every element that configures the areas is directed to the others. Benches, pergolas or bowers and pavement focus our look to the other balconies. Going back again to the film Duck´s Soup, each of these balconies are related to a famous historical character in some way connected to Loja. As we mentioned before, the Marx
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Each one of the balconies is going to have a unique pattern, due to the relationship Isabel the Catholic established among them. Of the twelve projected public areas, three are shown: The answer to a heterogeneous situation is made from only one material, steel, that unifies and distinguishes the proposal. Steel carpets, footprints and pergolas communicate with the Via Crucis other balconies from this privileged point. This way, with the minimum elements, as pergolas The position in view of a landscape is drawn by three different ways, three ways of observing and shaded places, benches, fences and artificial lighting, a fragmented area is recovered. a platform, a staircase and a balcony. This project is established in a partially built-up area, with superb views of Loja. Already built It is a place abandoned by the presence of two platforms lightly built-up, around a massif and unused, abandoned platforms are an object in the intervention. Rusty steel gives unity to of limestone. Three elements are introduced to empower the attention to the surrounding the proposal of the public area, while the use of a new artificial lighting and a specific street landscape. A platform shows us the horizon, a staircase frames the prominent elements and furniture will define different environments for an outdoor auditorium. the balcony enhances the historical city. Pergolas are light and fragile. The different superimposed structures and their diagonal Val del Omar directions configure an image of delicate elements. The shades, and other different elements, The project is built around three preexisting elements, a staircase and two trees. The very such as pergolas, benches and fences are related and the result is the image of a steel uneven piece of land (12 meters) is a complicated context to create a public area to sit in. wood. Two floating platforms, developed between the trees, generate a raised space looking at the horizon. The garden passes under these three elements to reach a retaining wall which concludes the intervention.
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