The project concept cover 3 scales of action, in different phases. 3 memories, reinterpreted in a contemporary code that introduce 3 new productive models, which, were always there.
Project description by Terrario arquitectura
Memories tell us about previous territory configuration. These areas acquire a particular intensity, as if they had stored a kind of the territory conscience, that expects the coming productive logic patiently to rise the local economy activity.
The productive reconversion of Oliva should happen by reactivating its territorial identity and consolidating everything that reminds the municipality memory. A simultaneous intervention, covering 3 scales of action, in different phases. 3 memories, reinterpreted in a contemporary code that introduce 3 new productive models, which, were always there.
On a territory scale, discontinuities into the biological network due to dispersed urban growth pose a risk for Oliva’s wide eco-systems. A new soft mobility plan is proposed to connect the city with its territory and by promoting a landscape network of green corridors. Electric bus lines, cycling and pedestrian paths ready the area to implant a productive use: non-stationary tourism that links its interests to natural environment preservation. The territory now could be an area that embraces urban activities instead of a vacant space between cities and could recover its permeability with biological network.
The urban area of Els Rajolars registers a high risk of flood that is used as an opportunity to create a sustainable water network along the whole project. We also duplicate soft soil surface instead of concrete floors, improving the permeability of the area. A natural soil recovery is proposed instead using artificial chemicals by mycorrhizaed species plantation. It allows productive landscape plantation on a fertile soil. The self-sufficient green urban space is created and supplied by natural resources instead of cities’ domesticated nature. Each productive specie takes a part in a closed cycle of matter and energy. We proposed a high-quality public space where production is reconciled with environmental health.
At urban block scale, some elements establish the industrial landscape memory. Chimneys, lattice brick walls and the gable roof silhouettes define that such characteristic image in this area. Selective demolition places a new urban scenery, which can hold new temporary activities until its final programmatic transformation. It is mixed residential and industrial plot, where living-working binomial from classical urbanism is broken. Flexible spaces can hold workshops and new synergies are promoted between living and production.
