Barrio Alto

The Barrio Alto project aim is to create a new attractive quarter not dependent on the centrality of the town by proposing an urbanism which mixes garden city and metropolitan city, industrial and other urban facilities. Everything is mixed up by a system of variables generated by a few rules the origins of which are always changing and the spaces varying. The soft and reversible system of variables which generate the proposed urbanism is based on contextual matters like the plateau extending on the horizon of Valladolid as a metaphoric concept and the existent topography. It is also based in more abstract matters like: connectivity (functional roads)... connectivity (fun-labyrinth roads)... attraction/repulsion between the built and the unbuilt... a metropolitan character through metropolitan facilities... special amenities in strategic sectors... large surface facilities for industrial/cultural use... liberated ground level to create an opportunities focus/attractor... high density housing... 25% of the surface for green areas. The intermediate housing level as the intimacy level creates a dialectic relation with the rest of the intervention, established by a constant public character. In order to achieve intimacy all the houses are developed around an east-west void, pertaining to each dwelling, which crosses the entire housing section, illuminating the ground level.