Madrid never sleeps

Academic urban project on Erasmus semester

In collaboration with: Andrea Camila Guzman Mendez, Alfredo Murgueytio Pastor and Marta Wróblewska

With the guidance of Juan Arana Giralt and Carlos Lahoz Palacio

 

 

After the individual analysis done by each member of our team, understanding that we do not only come from two different places in the world (Poland - Peru) but also have different ways of understanding it. On what we agree is that a city should be a place of opportunities where a person should be able to connect with others with social and cultural differences. A place that invites you to look after and enjoy the environment outside of your living private space. A place in which the pedestrians are the most important piece, where they should be able to choose their best ways of mobilizing. From this point of view, our first designing layer was creating significant green spaces throughout the project range of possibilities. A place where there is always something to see and do. And finally but not less important, a place that is not static and could change throughout the years..

 

Also, we decided to place a green bridge in the middle of the project emphasizing it as the heart of the project but also thinking that this will be the first step to cover someday all train tracks. Then we connect every green space and the two transport station by green boulevards that will help to create a green ring.

Second, we limited the roads in such a way that in the present we are advising people that will come to the project to opt for a different way of mobilizing leaving the private transport and choosing a more efficient, easier and sustainable way of mobility such as the public transport. At the same time, we kept bus routes and the two stations proposed in the basic plan but added a new way of mobilizing (cable car) that will connect the two sites of the project separated by train tracks in different parts of the project.

Third, we decided to make all the project walkable and create plazas that will reinforce the idea of how Madrid works. Forth, we transform each plot into a single function in a mix-use plot. Last, we convert the project in a multi-functional city in which we wanted it to work 24 hours.