aldayjover architecture and landscape, with the collaboration of KLM Kelly Lestard Maldonado arquitectos, has been announced as the winner of the International Design Competition High Park- Parque en Altura Barrio 31-Retiro, in the city of Buenos Aires, with the proposal named ‘Vertebrando’, exaqueo with the proposal ‘Alto Parque’.
aldayjover architecture and landscape with KLM Kelly Lestard Maldonado arquitectos will be in charge of leading the masterplan, collaborating with the City of Buenos Aires technical teams and the authors of the proposal Alto Parque (Vila Sebastian Arquitectos).
 
The International Ideas Competition is part of the Neighborhood 31 Integration Plan, which is being carried out by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, with the aim of improving the quality of life and encouraging the construction of a community. The project of the Park in Height seeks to transform and provide the entire urban-environmental quality area, allowing a better articulation of the different zones within the Barrio 31 and a greater integration of this with the rest of the City (improving connectivity and mobility of its inhabitants). On the other hand, it will allow the incorporation of a large number of green areas and recreation, favoring the access of people to the benefits of public space.
 

Description of project by aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje

The Ilia Highway crosses over the Villa 31 and arrives to downtown Buenos Aires to the north end of 9 of July Avenue, and will be transformed into a 1.3 miles linear park. The park will connect the neighborhood with the rest of the city and will become the main public space of the most paradigmatic informal settlement of Argentina. More that 45,000 people will have direct Access to a park that will structure the neighborhood and is part of a broad initiative that provides infrastructures, social housing and street upgrade.

The main challenge of this elevated park, beyond the technical resolution of vegetation and water on top of a concrete structure, is to connect the underneath streets and reinforce the transversal connectivity in Barrio 31. The park is designed as a new backbone that will articulate the existing network and transform the informal villa into a cohesive neighborhood with pedestrian, bicycle and public transportation mobility systems. The railway lines to the south and the motorway connection to the north will no longer be the physical barriers that have kept the neighborhood isolated during its 50 years of development.

The Project is part of the Integration Plan of Barrio 31, by the City of Buenos Aires with the support of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID). The Plan is incorporating sewage and drinking water lines, electrical networks, and street pavements, as well as improving the livability in the current housing.

The 1.3 miles of highway transformed into an elevated urban park, with a total area of 21 acres, will provide public space to an extremely dense urban fabric. Crossing completely the entire neighborhood, will become the structural spine that the informal settlement is lacking, accelerating the urban and social transformation that the Barrio is undertaken after decades of social activism. The Project includes educational and entrepreneurship opportunities for a new type of social development driven by the strong communities of Barrio 31.

aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje is an architectural practice founded in 1996 with offices in Barcelona and Virginia (USA) and consists of two partners architects, Margarita Jover and Iñaki Alday, director of the department of architecture at the University of Virginia, three architects, team leaders and a variable number of architectural associates and students of final years of career. Its main workload refers to projects and project managers of facilities and public buildings and public spaces and landscape interventions. It has also developed various projects and work-family and multifamily housing and interventions in heritage buildings.

Among the major awards include the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002), two first prizes Garcia Mercadal (2001 and 2005) and the FAD Award City and Landscape (2009), finalist of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture on two occasions (2005 and 2009), FAD Award (2002), the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture (2004) and the European Landscape Prize (2008), and the Nomination Award for European Architecture Mies van der Rohe (2009). His works have been exhibited at the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris and in the NAI in Rotterdam.

Iñaki Alday (Zaragoza, 1965) is a partner with Margarita Jover of aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, office founded in 1996 which deals with public works and landscape architecture with a careful and specific common approach to site. Among others, he has been awarded the FAD Award (2009), the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002) and García Mercadal Award (2001 and 2005), besides being a finalist in the Spanish Architecture Biennial (2005 and 2009) or the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial (2004). Has been an associate professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSA del Vallès (UPC) between 1996 and 2005, and holds master's teaching in several courses and specialization courses in different universities. He is the author of the book "Learning from all your houses" (Ed. UPC), "ARQ CAT" (Ed. COAC) about contemporary Catalan architecture and "Water Park" (ACTAR), founded and directed between 2003 and 2005 the magazine "Z Arquitectura." In May 2011, Iñaki Alday has been appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture and the Ellwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture of the University of Virginia, as Full Professor (tenured).


Iñaki Alday is co-director of the Yamuna River Project. Alday's work is characterized by promoting a new attitude in response to the professional and academic challenges facing the transformation of our environment. Find the role of architecture and architects, as an interdisciplinary work and integration of scales, along with new non-traditional programs such as hybrid infrastructures. Social and environmental ethics are some of the challenges that must be faced with a global vision.

Margarita Jover Biboum (París, 1969) is a partner with Iñaki Alday of aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, office founded in 1996 which deals with public works and landscape architecture with a careful and specific common approach to site. Among others, he has been awarded the FAD Award (2009), the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002) and García Mercadal Award (2001 and 2005), besides being a finalist in the Spanish Architecture Biennial (2005 and 2009) or the Ibero- American Architecture Biennial (2004). She has been Project professor and Department of Interiors coordinator of BAU school between 1998 and 2009, visiting professor at several colleges, and maintains activity in several master teachers and specialization courses in different universities. Is the author of "Water Park" (ACTAR) and jury in awards such as Europan (2009) and FAD (2010).

Margarita Jover has been appointed Faculty Research in the University of Virginia, position to be taken in January 2012.

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