Title: A void in Valdebebas
Name of the project: Workshop Master 2, ENSALyon
Date: November 2008
Location: Madrid, Spain
Program: Public space
Team : Lya Blanc, Bertrand Batoz
Name of the project: Workshop Master 2, ENSALyon
Date: November 2008
Location: Madrid, Spain
Program: Public space
Team : Lya Blanc, Bertrand Batoz
This
project was conducted as part of a 10-day workshop in Madrid, by a Spanish and
French team.
The objective was to make proposals for an innovative urban project on neglected areas on
the outskirts of Madrid.
The area is a void of 400 000 m² bordered
by a railway and above which passes a motorway.
The site has a bowl topography.
We
proposed a design based on the congestion of activities and on time in order to
create encounters between different populations.
The
activities (to play, to rest, to do sports, to learn, to party, to garden,
etc.) are distributed according to frequencies throughout the site. Meetings therefore
happen at different times in different places. The challenge was to make the
site interesting without building anything on it.
