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The jury of the contest of ideas promoted by the Planning Department of the City of Cartagena to reshape the area, has ruled in favor of Antonio López Sánchez Valencia, with their work UP, aims to create a space where the pedestrian, views the sea and the green areas are key players
The Valencian Antonio López Sánchez, through its project and collaboration UP Alejandro Ferrer, and Enrique Martínez Andrés Casany, has won the contest of ideas promoted by the Planning Department of the City of Cartagena in order to convert the Plaza Santa Molina Lucia in a renovated space in built in a neighborhood that used to be divided in two.
The project, beyond the purely architectural, sees a place for meeting and relaxation that covers some 8,000 square meters and is committed to the pedestrian and vegetation, creating a green axis linking the dense urban fabric of the neighborhood.
This will include many trees in tree wells along the promenade underground.
One of the elements that give character to the square will be elevated container whose shape recalls the traditional container port and acting as a lookout to the port.
With a very functional character, include rest areas and contemplation, while generating shadows.
It is also envisaged in the smallest, with a playground, and the materials used furniture to be integrated into the action, with banks modular concrete and wood.
The jury, which was chaired by the Town Planning, Joaquín Segado, and composed of technical experts and representatives of the Ministry of Public Works and Planning of the Autonomous Community, the College of Architects of Murcia and Cartagena City Council has awarded the second prize of ideas Lozano Jose Valdivielso (Sevilla), Inmaculada Sánchez Pérez and Ignacio Villegas Perez, for his project Aorta, and the third prize Quintas Pedro López (Madrid), Jaime Lamu Chueca, Coral Álvarez Miguel and Sergio Soria Soria, where demand pattern.
Have also been granted three runners-up: Rosa Maria Fraga Escudero (Madrid) and Octavio Tarancón Burg by 29 X 1; Enrique Mínguez Martínez (Murcia) and Islands, which has enjoyed the cooperation of Mary Vera Moura, Emin Engin Kemik, Diego Meseguer and Aurora García Domínguez Martínez, Inés García Clariana and, with the collaboration of Mónica Ibáñez, submitted to the contest You really paint.
STORY OF A PLAZA
The idea of creating the Molina Plaza Santa Lucia, an essential element in the work to end the degradation of the former fishing village, emerged in the 80's when the City Council conducted the mating of the gully that was previously discovered, to try execute an integration of previously separate district into two sectors.
Then removed a pumping station for wastewater degraded the area with frequent discharges to the Rambla, and now proposed action is intended to restore the environment and remodeling of space understood as a place integrator citizenship.
Currently, the district of Santa Lucia is in the process the declaration of the Integrated Rehabilitation, a measure taken to promote the rehabilitation of homes listed there.
The ARI covers the area bounded by James Street, The Long, La Huerta, Pedro Sánchez Meca, Bardiza, Drums and Francisco Jorquera.
Molina Square is located in the center of this area developed around it the main commercial and social activity in the neighborhood.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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