E13 Workshop, Badajoz (ES)

As a preamble to the Europan 13 Forum of Results in Badajoz (ES) in October 2016, Europan and the Junta de Extremadura proposed the E13 Winning Teams to gather for 4 days to design scenarios on the session topic –"The Adaptable City"– applied to 3 urban contexts in the region. Three urban situations were proposed for the workshop, all three located in 2 nearby towns – Olivenza (with 2 sites) and Valencia de Alcántara. The scenarios that we publish today were presented during the Forum of Results in the late afternoon of Thursday Octobre 13th, bringing to light their relations with the winning ideas.

WORKSHOP SITE 3 – VALENCIA DE ALCÁNTARA // USES & RHYTHMS
How Can Urban Rhythms Be a Motor for Urban Reappropriation??

Valencia de Alcántara is a rural town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants, 80 km West of Cáceres and North of Badajoz. The spatial opportunities were very clear, as the Junta de Extremadura asked for inspiring concepts for the city as a whole and especially for a number of vacant or largely underused buildings in the centre. The rhythms were to be found in the imbrications of scales, from the architectural to the urban and regional, against the backdrop of elsewhere also well-known problems –declining economy, rural exodus, demographic change and the question of the future of agriculture. The teams tried to engage dynamic interactions between the conceptual approach, the local situation and the different actors & stakeholders, and to transpose them in a storyboard, from macro to micro scale, and vice versa.
Four scenarios emerged from the discussion, to discover clicking on the picture here under: