PROJECT: Urban park Valdebebas

LOCATION: Valdebebas Park. Madrid

DATE: July  2009 

SPONSOR: Madrid City Council

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ARCHITECTS: JON MONTERO MADARIAGA, ESTHER CATALÁN TERUEL, ELENA DEL POZO FERNÁNDEZ, MONTERO-GRÀCIA ARQUIECTES S.C.P

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BUDGET: ------- 

BUILT SURFACE: 80 hectares. 

Before the development of the project, the semi-natural conditions of the future park made us think about the type of treatment and appropriate management for a green area which serves as a focal point for a new urban development while verge of a great Forest Park .

The project is conceived as a park-transition between the urban public space (hard) and public space forest, trying to focus the intervention on the area closest to the urban area, the more distant we are from the urban area more limited will be the intervention, reducing it to the park paths.

After locating the main routes, these are understood as roots of the new Forest Park as a "leaf".

These paths are born in two gateways to the Park Forest, crossing the watercourse.

These routes take sinuous forms by concrete walls and stone walls, thus achieving better adaptation to the land surveying and permitting in same points of these routes appear to be areas and stretches of vegetation, and the creation spaces with square characteristics.

Places where the topography is flatter and permits it, identifying viewpoints and landmarks to enjoy the magnificent views of the mountains and remarkable visual connections.

The perimeter of the park or transition zone between these routes "roots" and the urban grid is solved by creating a platform-organically strip about 30m wide and situated at an elevation of the new city, in which install all equipment needs and services of an urban park of this size.