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RUNNER UP CZ136 – YES WE BRIDGE
Juan Pedro Donaire Barbero (E) architect/ Sevilla
Contributors:
Ignacio Nunez Bootello (E), Pablo Baruc Garcia Gomez (E), Jesus Maria Nunez Bootello (E), Delia Isabel Pacheco Donaire (E), architects
The project makes visible the lack of an overall spatial concept that has to solve the local situation by introducing a much more comprehensive view on the necessary urbanistic agenda: How should we link which things? How can one spatially solve the local knot in order to provide a framing condition for a sustainable, mid- and long-term development of the whole area, addressing as well north south and east west connections? The project’s large scale clearly reflects the conflict between big events and urban everyday, both in a spatial and programmatic sense. At the same time this carpet-like transformation of the linear public space can be seen as a centre of a development whose potential existence can be introduced through the very fact of its large scale. The concept of a transversal figure, which stretches across the rail tracks, provides an open threshold between the new public space and its surroundings if one follows the movement from north to south and vice versa (excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes).
