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Eighty students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena in the course of Architectural Projects I have been working in recent months to offer their proposals for redevelopment of the square of the King of Cartagena.
The exhibition, which opened Thursday by the Vice Chancellor for Student and University Extension, Francisco Martínez, can be viewed until April 7 in one of the showrooms located in the entrance building to the Old Barracks Seamanship Instruction (CIM .)
As pointed out by José Laborda, professor of this subject in the Degree of Architecture, the decision to undertake this work on the Plaza del Rey, whose renovation was underway, aimed precisely not to interfere in its reform: "Just going to develop an exercise meeting with the urban concept of place and familiarize students with the knowledge of public space. "
The result of the work is summarized in the eighty models that students have developed and the projection of the drawings prepared that accompanies the exhibition.
Proposals to solve exactly the affect that was one of the fundamental weaknesses of the Plaza del Rey: the lack of shade.
Students have conducted a thorough investigation of this landmark public space of the city that has shown the original structure of the square and how it was precisely to enhance the plaza when it was decided to transfer the original entry of Arsenal to its current location "as a military courtesy, "the professor Laborda.
"We visited the place slowly, perceive their patents anomalies, placed in it over recent time. We managed not to see them, stripping them and return to the site perimeter essential. We found then that the shape of the entrance portico added merit Arsenal urban space, the plaza had his reference, "says the professor.
Source: UPCT
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