Holcim in the news

26 February, 2010

These days we´ve read alot in the news about the discrepancies, in Torredonjimeno, of the new use for the Holcim lot.

At the end of 2008, the cement factory closed its doors, leaving 120 people out of work.

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Skatepark in San Juan

7 February, 2010

Location: San Juan de Aznalfarache, Seville (Spain), 2010.
Innitiative: To take advantage of a new overpass in a building free zone to stitch in a park and insert a skate park in order to re-establish activity in the area.

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Żyrardów‎ ParkPort

29 January, 2010

Location: Żyrardów‎ (Poland), 2009.

Client: City of Żyrardów‎

Initial Target: Analysis and proposals for attracting new economic activities to repurpose obsolete industrial spaces in the downtown.

Proposal: To reprogram the area as a new infrastructure that allows the connection of the city to Bolimów Natural Park. An economic recovery strategy adapted to the environment.

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CDH Strategic Plan

27 January, 2010

Location: Huelva. Spain, 2007

Client: EPDA

Initial Target: Plan for the refurbishment of an historical sport facility.

Proposal: Based on the analysis of the recent history of the complex, the and the present context of sport facilities in Huelva, the proposed STRATEGIC PLAN draws a full sport program as well as includes an economic recovery strategy to convert the place again in a social meeting point for the whole city.

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Mairena Footbridge

26 January, 2010

Location: Mairena del Aljarafe. Sevilla. Spain, 2009

Initial Target: A pedestrian footbridge over the road to connect the new underground station to PISA, a nearby business park, for pedestrians and bikers.

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Holcim in the news

25 January, 2010

This past 23rd of December, Europa Press published in its digital edition the following news:

Holcim paralyzes the demolition of the plant in Torredonjimeno on the possible arrival of a new investor.

Villablanca Dancing

25 January, 2010

1. CULT_URE.  Mr. “S” writes: “ My village is called Villablanca and is situated in the southwest of Spain, close to the border of Portugal.

It was founded towards the end of the 15th century, it´s purpose being the re-conquest. The strategy of the Marquee of Ayamonte was to ceed land of the municipality so they could be cultivated to produce tribute.

It´s first inhabitants were neighbours of close by Portugal and natives of the peninsular North. That is to say, foreigners.

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Footbridge and Library

25 January, 2010

The City Hall of Mairena del Aljarafe has announced the installation of a new City Library to be located at the new Exchange Transport Complex, currently being built by the “Ciudad Expo” underground station.  It is easy to imagine the impact of this decision will have over the project  since this location to the new public library: it will attract more pedestrian flow and have a positive influence over the economical activities in the area.  The development of cultural uses and events will also bring new life to this part of the city.

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Delivery of the Holcim project

15 January, 2010

HTDX is a study for the repurposing of the old concrete factory of  Torredonjimeno (Jaén) For this we have developed:

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Other Tabladas in Europe

15 December, 2009

This last week we found two cities that are working in the same direction as us, with Sevilla and it´s River. Sofía, in Bulgaria and Zyrardow in Poland. These two european cities are looking for similar strategies in order to be kinder and competitive, renewing themselves while looking around. Read More »

Urban Acupuncture

30 November, 2009

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Presentation Tablada

20 November, 2009

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An Exquisite Corpse?

18 November, 2009

Note:
- Exquisite corpse (also known as “exquisite cadaver” or “rotating corpse”) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse. This post is an “exquisite corpse” of different news.
- The river is also an “exquisite cadaver” , an assembly formed by its natural flow and successive alterations that society has realized to bring about certain activities.
- The river as “ exquisite corpse ”, also reveals the critical state to which it the above mentioned ecosystem  tends to.

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Tablada as a strategic location

9 November, 2009

We find in the  Bulletin Del Estuario del Guadalquivir , October 2009 Number 1,  this link to a number of the  Magazine of Public Works from 1907  in which is described the cutting of Tablada in the River Guadalquivir according to the project of D Luis Molini.

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Tablada and the estuary of the Guadalquivir

5 November, 2009

If we had the time and the pacience to read everything that has been written about Tablada in the last 10 years we would be surprised to discover that almost the only vision of this grassland in all this literature is represented of its continental position, removed from the sea that not long ago covered it.

 From the Platform Marshlands of Tablada we have limited to look at Tablada from the position of its river, from the river or from what is left of the estuary that this area conformed during centuries.

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Lively Tablada

29 September, 2009

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Look at the River. Look from the River

26 September, 2009

All this began by speaking of the Guadalquivir. We have done nothing else. We have not spoken of buildings, nor of construction, nor the PGOU. We have not spoken of use nor sharing, we have only listened to voices that perhaps have not reached others. And over all, we have looked around us:

 Looking at the river from Seville or from the Aljarafe has permitted us to learn that the river demands more space, more volume, that we look at its origin and better understand its nature of Big River, Living River.

Looking from the river to Seville or the Aljarafe, has demonstrated the opportunity to define its landscape from the water, of establishing a new relationship between both shores, with the river as a protagonist, in the natural, in the economic.

It is time for those who have not heard these voices or have not dedicated these looks deal with feeling them with us, before continuing to attribute to us others that have never existed.

Invitation

26 September, 2009

A few months ago returning to Seville from the Aljarafe, i got out of the car, got the camera and took a snapshot of a phenomenon that, even though it occurs with some frequency on spring mornings, it never stops surprising me. I refer to the morning fog that sits at the height of the waterlevel of the actual river of Seville and like a fluid spills over the meadow of Tablada, as if flooding it.

I uploaded the images and printed them out in postcard format. As giddy as a schoolgirl, i shared them with some friends… Later i could not stop myself from showing them to the world. With some surprise i discovered the fascination it provoked in others.

In this way one began forging the possibility of a question: what would happen if little by little Tablada was flooded? Little by little there began appearing other postcards, that contextualized the phenomenon from normaly irreconcilable perspectives. We began to meet at larger and larger tables, each one contributing his postcard and we could see how they overlapped one another.

Since then we´ve worked with the intention of documenting this possibility, evaluating responsibly what benefits and risks contemplate. Until today, many are the experts consulted feel like participants in this open process.

Today we create a larger table: Do you like our postcards? Which are yours?