khams nazarat. el barranco as commons
Chiva (ES) - Runner-up
TEAM PORTRAIT
VIDEO (by the team)
INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
The proposal addresses two key aspects. 1. The understanding of care as a collective process of reappropriation and resignification of our relationship with our territories, together with the opportunity of “interpreting” the ravine as a common. 2. The need for inclusive and transposable decision-making means to address conflicts arising from varied sensibilities. The proposed incremental methodology lies in the intersection of these two aspects, as an integrative and incremental tool through which to identify conflicts and propose transformations.
2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The methodology has helped provide a comprehensive response that, while offering tools to identify conflicts from multiple perspectives, manages to maximize the impact of projects in addressing diverse issues while minimizing the required investment to do. The set of 18 short, medium, and long-term strategies is proposed as the beginning of a process to be developed and reviewed over time, prioritizing the enhancement, protection, and activation of the multiple cultural, environmental, and visual resources.
PROJECT:
Three key references that have been specially inspiring for the development of this proposal would be: 1. The Llobregat River Park, and the solutions carried out in addressing complex governance challenges, 2. The Ter River intervention by Martí Franch and 3. Alday Jover's winning entry for the 2020 Bosque Metropolitano competition for the Manzanares-Gavia-Bulera fluvial system restoration.
SITE:
In coherence with the proposed system, the project envisions a structure the stability of which relies on the connections between diverse actors with different sensibilities and approaches to the territory (governmental organizations, associations, cultural entities, etc.), and the continuous bridging of interdependencies between their agendas and lines of action.
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We met in the research phase of the project, having part of the team explored and written in the past about some of the issues raised by the site. Also, this part of the team is actually from Chiva, something that has definitely helped in the analysis and diagnosis as in the adjustment of the proposals to the local context. This close knowledge of the traditions and sensibilities, together with the previous experience of the team in working with a multidisciplinary approach has helped develop a comprehensive proposal.
6. How could this prize help you in your professional career?
There is, on one hand, the encouragement to keep on working in the same way and consolidating the geo-design-based approach that relies on working systemically with existing patterns and dynamics. On the other hand, there is the exposure that comes with the publication of the competition results, as a means through which to participate in the discussion on contemporary spatial planning trends and “good practices”.
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Average age of the associates: 32 years old
Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? if so, which ones?
Regarding developed projects, the main recent commission has been the drafting of the Green Infrastructure Masterplan for the Paterna Tecnological Park in Valencia.
Regarding competitions, it is worth pointing out the following recent awards:
• First prize in the Valencia South Green Corridor competition, as part of the local team supporting the Belgian office OMGEVING (2023)
• Participation in the team lead by Peñín arquitectos that obtained the second prize in the Desembocadura Park competition, also in Valencia (2023)
• Highest ranked proposals by the jury in the Silla Station Park competition with Pablo Navarro and the Tarongers open spaces competition with Elisabet Quintana and Pablo Navarro. (Both competitions were held in 2022)
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