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Espacio publico

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Project • By MRDParks

Deportivo BLS

We find a privileged site in the highest part of the region, a large free area with surprising views and abundant nature. The program had under its premises the objective of unifying and generating pride, belonging and positively impacting the users of the municipality and adjacent areas.  Omar Luis Salvatierra The tools; education and culture through an agora, we generate urban and social connection and bond through a public square, promoting youth and family interaction in the children's play area and of course sports through a professional court football stadium with stands for up to five hundred people.  Omar Luis Salvatierra A very extensive space, with rugged and wasted shapes, led us to carry out specific analyz... More

Project • By MRDRurals

Santa Maria Petapa

Taller MRD and DFArquitectos collaborate to revitalize the Santa María Petapa market in Oaxaca, Mexico, offering it a new opportunity after the devastating earthquake of 2017. Established by the Urban Improvement Program (PMU) and headed by the Secretariat of Agrarian and Territorial Development and Urban (SEDATU), this project had as its main objective the unification and integration of a previously urban and socially fractured space. By preserving the site's distinctive cultural elements, such as ocher-toned brick and clay structures, the team not only managed to preserve its origin, but also forged a lasting legacy. Jesús Omar Luis Salvatierra Jesús Omar Luis Salvatierra What we found on the site was an ur... More

Project • By BOV EstudioUrban Green Spaces

Plaza del Zarrón

A space for all people. With our eyes set on at the wall and the old quarter of Almazán and imagining the movement of its inhabitants (all of them), we seek to obtain the most natural possible response to establish a real and proper relationship between this new public space and both parts of the town (the old quarter and the expansion), eliminating the previous sensation of barrier, with a 5-meter difference level, which made this passage difficult or insurmountable for some of its inhabitants.  Javier Bravo It is from this conversation between the town and its people, when the lines and folds of the new "Plaza del Zarrón" are born, making possible different routes and ways of being that represent each user withou... More

Project • By Openact ArchitecturePavilions

Sava Activities

Sava Activities is an on-going public urban design project aiming to reintroduce the riverbanks of Zagreb’s Sava River to the daily life of the city. Initiated as a competition proposal in 2015, the project had been developed around the flood related characteristics of the river. Unlike the other European capitals which are established around a river, Zagreb’s urban growth had been formed with a tendency to move away from Sava. As the wildest branch of Danube, Sava River historically had harmed and destructed Zagreb, but now regulated with the construction of the embankment; its riverbanks carry the potential to be rethought as vital urban spaces of Zagreb. Due to increasing water levels which occur several times a year, no pe... More