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| Ibón Areso, promoter of Ría 2000 Bilbao, Francisco Burgos, head of Madrid Río, Enrique Bardají, of Mahou-Calderón, and José María Ezquiaga, from Madrid Centro, participate in the Expert Forum held within the framework of South Connection | South Connection lays its foundations in successful cases such as those of Madrid Río, the transformation of the Bilbao estuary or the current Mahou-Calderón, urban and landscape regeneration projects, which seek to integrate the city with the natural environment and provide the large cities of new spaces for culture and economic and social activity.A Forum of Experts, organized by the Official College of Architects of the Region of Murcia in collaboration with the Murcia City Council within the framework of the South Connection participatory process, has brought together four of the most influential architects this morning at the Artillery Barracks, both nationally and internationally, for large-scale projects in the transformation of cities: Ibón Areso, promoter of Ría 2000 Bilbao; Francisco Burgos, head of Madrid Río; Enrique Bardají, from Mahou-Calderón; and José María Ezquiaga, from Madrid Centro.These are projects that, like South Connection, have in common the use of spaces, the transformation of the environment without losing its identity, generating a new concept of landscape, giving prominence to green areas, new areas of enjoyment and children's play and the creation of spaces for different social, cultural and economic uses.The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the councilors of Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, and the Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé, and the president of the Official College of Architects of Murcia (COAMUR), María José Peñalver, has inaugurated the act that has been followed in person, with a maximum capacity of 36 people, and online, through the YouTube channel of the City Council."We are going to undertake the greatest social, urban and economic transformation that our municipality has experienced and for this we need to surround ourselves with the best, know the steps that others have already taken and listen to the proposals of our neighbors, who are the true connoisseurs of the environment in the one who lives ”, highlighted the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro.Similarities with South ConnectionThe four architects have intervened individually with a detailed exhibition of their most relevant projects, those that bear a close similarity to South Connection.
They have also had the opportunity to learn more about the case of Murcia from the hand of Jesús López, municipal architect and coordinator of the project that will allow the recovery of more than 200,000 m2 of public spaces after the burial of the railroad tracks.In this way, Ibón Areso, former mayor of Bilbao, architect and promoter of the Ría 2000 Bilbao project, recommends an alternative focused on seeking opportunities.
“The railway transformation must convert obsolete areas into areas of opportunity, areas that today are problems in areas of occasion.
South Connection will be very important for the next 100 years and the key is to get the job design right, make it attractive, eliminate barriers, reconvert spaces and not oppose a new linearity ”, he pointed out.The case of Madrid Río is related to that of Murcia due to the integration of the roads that circled the center of the city and the conditioning of the surroundings of the Manzanares River.
Madrid Río is today a point of connection between the urban nucleus and the exterior landscapes that surround it with large green areas, sports spaces and children's play areas.For its manager, Francisco Burgos, doctor architect and founder of Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos, "South Connection is an interesting project to extend the city to the south, a unique opportunity to create a link between the different landscapes that Murcia has."Another of the success stories that this Forum of Experts has counted on has been that exposed by Enrique Bardají, architect and general director of E.
Bardají, responsible for Operation Chamartín or Mahou-Calderón, the latter designed to make the space freed after the demolition of the Vicente Calderón stadium and the old Mahou factory a more social, participatory and sustainable area.The expert has made a tour of the different phases that the project is currently in, highlighting the importance of the participatory process carried out from its inception, among residents, agents involved and the Madrid City Council, the development of the urban initiative up to the simultaneity of the urbanization and building works, which is the point where it is currently.For his part, José María Ezquiaga, architect and director of Ezquiaga Arquitectura Sociedad y Territorio, is responsible for Madrid Centro, an example of how to reinvent local public space as a great argument for urban transformation.
This project prioritizes pedestrian and cycling mobility, economic activity, rest and meeting.Ezquiaga has coincided with the rest of the speakers in the opportunity for Murcia to make the South Connection a unique infrastructure, of social cohesion, which must give prominence to the natural environment, but has also highlighted "the need to go beyond the roads and act with ambition on the edges, thus directing the recovery towards the orchard ”.South Connection, a project developed by allThe creation of pedestrian and cyclable routes, the construction of living spaces, the increase in free spaces and the general use of trees and vegetation will focus the urbanization work that will be carried out in the spaces freed after the integration of the railway network in the city .“The new Murcia will be conceptualized by means of a new urban structure related to green infrastructures and the new normality.
The underground will have a length of 8 kilometers and the central point will be the station.
Our goal is that where there is a large strip of suture now there is a seam through the connection that is projected from the Vía Verde de Los Ramos to Nonduermas and Alcantarilla, crossing the city on its east-west axis ”, highlighted the municipal architect and manager of South Connection, Jesús López.Experts from the university field, professional associations, associations, social organizations, municipal boards and neighbors are the protagonists of South Connection.
The City Council is currently immersed in a participatory process that will serve to collect the proposals of these groups through different actions, such as the Experts Forum, held today, and the Neighborhood Forum, which will take place tomorrow, at 7:00 p.m.
, in the Artillery Barracks.The consistory will be responsible for surface treatment, an action that is subject to the railway work.
“To do this, the first thing we are doing is quantifying the different variables that affect the project, such as mobility.
The contributions we are receiving are a guarantee of success.
Citizens are participating and we are distributing their proposals by themes and groups.
The goal is to make the best possible project together.
We want to respond to all circumstances, since such an ambitious participation project has never been undertaken ”, López concludes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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