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A few months after the end of the underground of the train tracks upon arrival at the station in Murcia, the student of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) David Cano Lacárcel raises, in his final project of the degree in Architecture, the debate that is yet to come: what to do to integrate the neighborhoods that the train has divided over the last century and a half.
Recovering green spaces, space for pedestrians and the relationship of neighbors with the station is the objective of the urban design carried out by the student, who proposes that rail traffic becomes an “integrative claim†with terraces and public spaces that fly over the tracks.
"The visual enjoyment of the trains can be an attraction for the area after so many years of conflictive relationship," said Marcos Ros, who along with Fernando García has directed this Final Degree Project, "one of the best I have directed," ensures.
Academic work includes the rearrangement of road traffic to provide a direct link with the highway to the station, through a roundabout in the current San Pío X underground passage, the extension of Pintor Pedro Flores Street and the revival of trade at south of the semi-pedestrianized roads of Marqués de Corvera, which would become the axis of vertebration of Carmen and Santiago el Mayor and where the student places the new station.
The current one would remain as a railway museum.
The project gives great importance to the green spaces to “sew the urban fracture†that the roads have left and projects a large park in the abandoned land occupied by the old gas tanks, where it proposes the creation of an outdoor cinema using the Mediator of a building and the installation of a stage and hospitality premises.
Urban gardens and pedestrian routes are other ideas of David Cano's work that contrast with the municipal plan approved in 2006 and that was based on financing the burial with the large capital gains generated by new buildings of up to fifteen floors.
"They would be decontextualized towers next to houses of two and three heights," criticizes the new architect by the UPCT, which points out other shortcomings of this planning such as "isolation of pedestrian areas, surrounded by up to ten lanes of traffic" or the consideration of Roundabouts like green space.
"It would not be the best way to recover spaces for neighbors," he adds.
The proposal of the student of the School of Architecture and Building of the Polytechnic of Cartagena starts from the study of the consequences in urban evolution and in the socioeconomic indicators that the railways have had in the neighborhoods of Santiago el Mayor, San Pío X and Barriomar .
"Its urban morphology is broken down, with empty and unused areas that still persist, a large percentage of homes are in poor condition and the levels of unemployment and population without studies are much higher than those that exist north of the roads," he summarizes David Cano
“His project eludes debates that have already been overcome and faces the urban integration of the affected neighborhoods in all areas, from road reorganization, to public spaces, through social and commercial facilities,†highlights Marcos Ros.
“It is an outline of the potential of the neighborhoods of the south of Murcia and the benefits that would be achieved with an environmentally and socioeconomically sustainable urban planning,†adds Fernando García, recalling objective 11 of the SDGs.
Source: UPCT
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