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Nalón (ES) - Winner
TEAM DATA
Associates: Guillermo Pozo Arribas (ES), Justo Diaz Diego (ES) – architects
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TEAM PORTRAIT
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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 Nalón estuary has been a heavily anthropized territory. However, it keeps an enormous potential from the ecosystem and local economy perspective. Therefore, instead of erasing the past or recreating a long-lost natural environment, we propose an organization of the territory that enhances proximity relationships with the environment, from which the biodiversity and ways of life that are already latent in the environment emerge naturally.
2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
Since the beginning, we believed the questions on the site required an integrative answer. For this reason, we propose a multidisciplinary and long-term project organized in three groups of measures that intervene in the territory in an interdependent way: (1) Community measures, to ensure inclusivity and equity, (2) Natural measures, to guarantee the good health of the ecosystem and biodiversity and (3) Hybrids measures, to ensure coexistence between the natural environment and uses.
PROJECT:
It is the largest site scale in which we have worked. We believe that interventions in this type of setting require multidisciplinary approaches and should be thought with a long term perspective. Some examples of reference projects we have been inspired by are those developed by teams like LandLab, AldayJover, or some interventions carried out in countries such as the Netherlands and the United States.
SITE:
The intervention in Nalón Estuary affects multiple environmental variables so we believe it requires a collaborative and multidisciplinary perspective. To face this challenge, we propose a constant dialogue with Asturias Goverment and the municipalities. After a deep research, we proposed a long-term solution that is adaptable and flexible enough to incorporate future changes, during the upcoming phases of the project and its posterior life.
REFERENCES:
After a long friendship since we were kids, our first architecture collaboration was during Europan 15. After this fructiferous experience working together, we kept collaborating in smaller architecture projects and competitions. On May 2023, we saw Europan 17 as great opportunity to keep developing and deepening in our common perspective about architecture and territory.
6. How could this prize help you in your professional career?
As many young architects, winning a competition such as Europan is a great opportunity to transition into a professional office and carry out the proposed ideas. This prize is a great accomplishment, but it also can be the beginning of a new challenging path.
TEAM IDENTITY
Legal status: architecture office
Team name: padd estudio
Average age of the associates: 30 years old
Has your team, together or separately, already conceived or implemented some projects and/or won any competition? if so, which ones?
It is the first time we have won an architecture competition. We have participated in other competitions both individually and collectively, working for architectural firms, but this is the first time we have won a first prize. The sensation is very gratifying. We believe it is very exciting and motivating to receive such a positive outcome.
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