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Madrid (ES)
Scales L/L
Team composition Architect mandatory
Location Colonia Casa de Campo, Madrid
Population 11,676 inhabitants
Reflection site 35,50 - Project site 35,50 ha
Site proposed by Madrid City Council
Actors involved Directorate for Urban Regeneration and Latina District
Owner(s) of the site Madrid City Council
Commission after competition
- Preliminary project for the urbanisation of the collective open spaces owned by the municipality, with the possibility of extending it to other open spaces.
- Development and implementation of the proposed participatory process to involve the population.
More Information
SITE / CONTEXT
Madrid, with more than three million inhabitants, has an economically and socially very diverse population. It is a complex city, in constant transformation, made up of very different urban fabrics, characteristic of the different periods in which they were built.
Madrid City Council is promoting a Strategic Neighbourhood Regeneration Plan for pre-1985 residential urban fabrics .
This Plan defines more than 400 neighbourhood units (UB) as territorial areas suitable for the diagnosis and urban regeneration project. The Action Plan is the instrument to implement the regeneration strategy in each neighbourhood unit, in order to transform them into healthy neighbourhoods. Almost half of these units are neighbourhoods built between the 1950s and 1980s to shelter the immigrant population. These peripheral residential estates are made up of large ‘superblocks’ in which different types of free-standing residential blocks have been arranged, forming an ensemble alien to the traditional notions of streets, plots, etc.
The open spaces, which barely make up a minimal road network, are characterised by the presence of mostly inter-block spaces for collective use, halfway between the public and the domestic. Poorly urbanised and lacking in accessibility, these collective spaces present biophysical conditions of opportunity compared to other more compact neighbourhood units.
The Colonia Casa de Campo is one of these neighbourhood units of the open block city. It is both the reflection and project site.
Located to the west of the municipality, it is bordered to the north by areas of high environmental quality, either consolidated (Casa de Campo) or potential (Meaques stream). Its south-eastern and south-western limits are formed by important road infrastructures that separate it from other similar units.
In its road network, several renovation works are being carried out.
It has been declared a preferential area for urban regeneration due to its socio-economic conditions of vulnerability.
In order to characterise the colony, the average parameters of this type of neighbourhood units have been used, including socio-spatial indicators. The socio-economic index integrates data on household income and the real estate value of the buildings.
QUESTIONS TO COMPETITORS
The competition proposes a reflection on the urban regeneration of Colonia Casa de Campo.
The aim is to produce an Action Plan, a comprehensive proposal for urban regeneration that will include: a qualitative diagnosis, the design of a participatory process and a proposal for intervention in the open spaces. Its replicability to other similar neighbourhoods will be assessed.
How should this Action Plan be conceived to be a tool for urban regeneration?
How should this regeneration be oriented to transform the neighbourhood into a healthy one?
The projects on open spaces must improve their conditions of accessibility, safety, sustainability and coexistence. It is a challenge to rethink open spaces as catalysts for transformation towards a healthy neighbourhood. This proposal begins in the municipal collective spaces, which are immediately available, halfway between public and domestic, but can be extended to other open spaces and even built-up spaces.
What is the role of these collective spaces in the urban regeneration of the neighbourhood? How can these spaces improve sustainability and health?
How could they be managed by involving citizens?
Questions on the site
Is it possible to have a 3d (ifc or other format) of the intervention area?
It is possible to use the three-dimensional viewer of the geoportal in the following link: https://geoportal.madrid.es/IDEAM_WBGEOPORTAL/visor_3d.iam
And even download the model in this link: Modelo tridimensional de edificaciones de la cartografía base municipal. - Geoportal del Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Quite a bunch of the folders in the site folders are empty. Is this data gonna be uploaded at a later moment?
Could you please specify which folders you are referring to? We see them correctly
Is there an information about which collective spaces are in neighbourhood ownership? And what sort of ownership does that imply? Some sort of community of owners who convene regularly about issues of the shared property? ¿Existe información sobre qué espacios colectivos son propiedad del vecindario? ¿Y qué tipo de propiedad implica? ¿Algún tipo de comunidad de propietarios que se reúne periódicamente para tratar asuntos de la propiedad compartida?
The initial project area is the municipally-owned public areas shown on the map (yellow).The project may be extended, exceptionally and justifiably, to other privately owned collective spaces identified on the map (grey), but considering that the execution of works in these spaces could be delayed. This map (see “New documents after launch”), drawn up by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, identifies three forms of ownership of these collective spaces:
- Per plot: a single Community is the owner of the collective spaces (dark grey on the plan).
- Jointly owned: several Communities are the owners of the collective spaces (plain green on the plan).
- Remaining original owner: the original developer remains the owner of the collective spaces (hatched green on the plan).
Governance of collective spaces:
- Private easements: collective spaces must provide access and views to the dwellings they serve.
- Public easements: many collective spaces have public rights of way.
- Use: the conditions of use of collective spaces are decided by the owner, by majority vote.
- Conservation: the City Council assumes the conservation of private collective spaces for public use (blue on this map). But not their refurbishment.
- Works: works are decided by the owner, by unanimity.
- Decisions: the communities of owners meet regularly.
- Other initiatives: Both the neighbourhood residents' association and the homeowners' associations submit requests and receive requests related to the collective spaces.
In the framework of the Regenera Madrid Plan, the necessary tools are being developed to regulate privately owned collective spaces, which will allow for future municipal works.
El ámbito inicial del proyecto son los espacios colectivos de propiedad municipal que se localizan en el mapa de la ficha (amarillo). El proyecto podrá extenderse, excepcional y justificadamente a otros espacios colectivos de titularidad privada que se identifican en ese mapa (gris), pero considerendo que la ejecución de obras en los mismos podría demorarse. Este plano, elaborado por por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, localiza tres formas de la propiedad de estos espacios colectivos:
- Por parcela: una única Comunidad es la propietaria de los espacios colectivos (gris oscuro en el plano).
- Resto mancomunado: varias Comunidades son las propietaria de los espacios colectivos (verde liso en el plano).
- Resto de propietario original: la promotora original continúa siendo la propietaria de los espacios colectivos (verde tramado en el plano).
Gobernanza de los espacios colectivos:
- Servidumbres privadas: los espacios colectivos deben proporcionar acceso y vistas a las viviendas a las que sirven.
- Servidumbres públicas: muchos espacios colectivos tienen servidumbre de paso público.
- Uso: las condiciones de uso de los espacios colectivos las decide el propietario, por mayoría.
- Conservación: el Ayuntamiento asume la conservación de los espacios colectivos privados de uso público (azul en este mapa). Pero no su reforma.
- Obras: las obras las decide el propietario, por unanimidad.
- Decisiones: las comunidades de propietarios se reúnen con regularidad.
- Otras iniciativas: Tanto la asociación de vecinos del barrio como las comunidades de propietarios presentan solicitudes y reciben requerimientos relacionados con los espacios colectivos.
En el marco del Plan Regenera Madrid, se están elaborando los instrumentos necesarios para regulazar los espacios colectivos de propiedad privada que permitirá en el futuro la ejcución de obras municipales.
Is there some information about the ownership of the houses? ¿Existe alguna información sobre la propiedad de las viviendas?
All the dwellings in the Casa de Campo housing state are private. The dwellings in each building are grouped into a Community of Owners, which is the owner of the common elements.The tenure status, expressed as number of rented households in relation to the total number of dwellings, of the state is 27,92%, compare to the district average of 20,92%, or the 20,80% average of the comparisonsample of similar open block regeneration units.
Todas las viviendas de la colonia Casa de Campo son de titularidad privada. Las viviendas de cada edificio se agrupan en una Comunidad de Propietarios, que es la propietaria de los elementos comunes. El régimen de tenencia, expresado en número de hogares en régimen de alquiler respecto del número de viviendas totales, de la colonia es de un 27,92%, frente al 20,92% de media del Distrito ó al 20,80% de media del conjunto de ámbitos de regeneración de bloque abierto.
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Re-sourcing from social dynamic How to transform urban areas and enclaves into open neighbourhoods? How to constitute the smallest urban entity of proximity, exchange and governance, consisting of humans and more than humans? Open urban neighbourhoods can be enablers of citizenship and accommodators of diverse temporalities of stay. They may be pivotal sites for initiating and implementing social and ecological changes, rippling through the rest of the city, thus being valuable for the European Green Transition.
Promoting open Neighbourhoods
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