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Superimposing public and private spaces is the “urban microsurgery” solution that the student Mara Martnez lvarez-Robles proposes to regenerate a dense and consolidated neighborhood like El Carmen, in Murcia, with hardly any free space for new public constructions.
So the student has designed social equipment for the roofs of buildings and private apple courtyards, with the aim of creating new places of social interaction.
The project, supervised by the professors of the Urban Research Laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Marcos Ros and Fernando Garca, focuses on one of the most vulnerable areas of El Carmen, between the streets of Marqus de Corvera, Floridablanca and Industry, characterized by high buildability, the shortage of public and pedestrian spaces and the social vulnerability of its population, largely migrant.
The student has designed pergolas and shadows to create on the roofs of the buildings "chat spaces and living areas" for which she also proposes the use as a summer cinema projecting on the medians of the buildings.
"The roofs are the fifth facade of the building and in Madrid and Istanbul are already being used as a public space," says the architect by the UPCT.
His proposal includes the installation of solar photovoltaic panels and the structural rehabilitation of buildings that lend themselves to public access to their roofs.
Mara Martnez, a neighbor of the El Carmen neighborhood, has also projected walking tours and traffic speed reduction elements that avoid the feeling of “overwhelm” for pedestrians and recommends the complete pedestrianization of Diego Hernndez street, which connects the Floridablanca street with the train station, and perform other traffic calming operations.
“Mara's project has been an opportunity to work on what would be the methodologies to rehabilitate this type of densified neighborhoods, looking for the opportunities in which to intervene to solve the lack of endowments and public space.
Contrary to what happens in historic centers and social housing neighborhoods, the methods to intervene in these types of neighborhoods are less experienced, and that probably in the coming years we will begin to see many proposals, ”says Professor Fernando Garcia
The work with which he finished his degree in Architecture at the UPCT started from surveys of neighborhood residents and interviews with students of the IES El Carmen and users of the Women's Center to learn about the perception of urban problems that the neighborhood has.
He also collated these opinions with those of people from other neighborhoods in Murcia, finding "many prejudices, associated with migration and poverty, of those who do not know El Carmen," said the newly titled.
The pre-registration in the UPCT degrees, among which is the Fundamentals of Architecture, concludes today at 2 pm.
Source: UPCT
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