The urban integration project for Zaragoza Tram, by "aldayjover architecture and landscape" are in luck, because just got the award for Best Urban Integration Project of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP). The award of UITP, whose official ceremony will be next May 9 in Warsaw (Poland) on the occasion of celebrating the international day UITP Local Rail Summit 2012. The jury singled out the project for their commitment to open public space to citizens: allow transit through the population much more convenient, fast and sustainable, both on foot, by tram or bike.Iñaki congratulations to Margaret and her team!

The proposal of Tram Urban Integration prioritizes weaker users forcing the pedestrian continuity and removal of architectural barriers, reforming historically isolated points, adjusting the position of the stops and establishing a coherent system of paving and urban elements throughout the city democratizing the quality of treatment of public space.


Render © sbda +Tranvías de Zaragoza.

Project memory.

From the 60, as in other Spanish cities began a rapid transformation of the spaces of road traffic, which had been both reduced and often with little separation between pedestrian and vehicle. The tram had lived with few vehicles, cars and pedestrians until the industrialization of the late 50's progress to the binomial associated car and great paved avenue. In Zaragoza, the walker's central Paseo de la Independencia gives way to 12 lanes in a display of modernity applauded in the press of the time. And in the 70 disappear almost all trams Spanish, being precisely that of Zaragoza the last to be removed.

The Zaragoza of 70, like many other Spanish cities, is under the total dominance of private vehicles, power walkers using the Gran Via, Ferdinand and Sagasta as car parks. It is in the 90's when you start a gradual reversal of this process of primacy shot in Zaragoza is embodied in the successive reforms of the Plaza del Pilar Street and Paseo Alfonso of Independence. After the efforts of "aggiornamento" city with the goal of the EXPO 2008 (banks, green belt, cycle paths ...) proposes a radical revision of urban mobility through public transport.

The commitment to implement the tram in the city of Zaragoza with a first line that runs through it completely from north to south, crossing the historic center, it becomes an opportunity to regain space for pedestrian walks to reform obsolete and solve problems of continuous pedestrian in addition to traffic calming, public transport priority and the introduction of cycle lanes in a systematic and continuous. Urban integration is the incorporation into the public space of all logical that cross the city: pedestrians, cyclists, public transport, private vehicles, neighbors, merchants, visitors, history, culture, urban development, vegetation, water ...

The proposal gives priority to the weakest users and pedestrian continuity forcing the removal of architectural barriers, reforming key squares and historically isolated from traffic by adjusting the position of the stops combining the logic of the urban transportation and establishing a system of paving and coherent urban elements throughout the city, to democratize the quality of treatment of public space without differentiating neighborhoods.

Shelters, as the other elements, are designed in accordance with the severity of the climate of Zaragoza, a shade cover and wind protections becomes an element of identity, a large shadow with night lighting, capable of accommodating all seeming complexity in the simplest installations.

Render © sbda +Tranvías de Zaragoza.

TECHNICAL SHEET.

Developer.- Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
Program.- Integración Urbana de la implantación del tranvía de Zaragoza.
Date of project.- 2009-2010
Date of building.- Phase 1 2010-2011, F phase 1
Architects and Team.- Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, author arch.; Jesús Arcos, arq. responsable. Ana Quintana, Alina Fernandes, Raquel Villa, Jordi Hernández, Marta Castañé, Bruno Seve, collaborator arch. Bruno Remoué & associats, (mobility).

Render © sbda +Tranvías de Zaragoza.

Marquee Zaragoza Tramway

Facing the usual canopy busstop of Nordic origin, which keep the rain off and lets through the sun, the canopy tram, in Zaragoza, seeks to protect from sun and intense heat, and wind from area. A broad and deep shadow that generates small places in the city, with a black cover, opaque, self-finished superiorly with a garden plant of dry weather and little soil, "sedums", which isolates it from solar radiation. There is not a repetition frame structure, extensible, this is a canopy that is supported, without any apparent effort, on two volumes of glass and a central cabinet. Its apparent simplicity holds all connection elements and control of electricity, lighting, telecommunications and semaphores, and this allow a platform without of visual noise. At night, cabinets lamps become recognizable to returning to the tram stop, creating a quality environment especially in urban space. these marquees allow transform a darkness place with the sun to a point of light at dusk.

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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 the NAI in Rotterdam.

Iñaki Alday (Zaragoza, 1965) is a partner with Margarita Jover of aldayjover Arquitectura y Paisaje, an office founded in 1996 that deals with public works and landscape architecture with a careful and specific common approach to the site. Among others, he has been awarded the FAD Award (2009), the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002) and the 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 books "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 was 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, an office founded in 1996 that 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 theGarcía 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 was a Project professor and Department of Interiors coordinator of BAU school between 1998 and 2009, visiting professors at several colleges, and maintaining 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 at the University of Virginia, a position to be taken in January 2012.

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Published on: April 27, 2012
Cite: "ZARAGOZA TRAM awarded by UITP" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/zaragoza-tram-awarded-uitp> ISSN 1139-6415
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