Reorganization of the Victoria Kent Park

Camas, Spain

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Reorganization of the Victoria Kent Park

Camas, Spain

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Type

Landscape + Planning › Public Park

YEAR

2011

The
intervention takes place in a park area in which the expectations of the original
project didn’t reach the estimated reactions, leaving a marginal area with no
treatment other than the concrete block paving, out of scale and without an
intended use. The situation is bound to lack of maintenance of urban furniture
and equipment. It is detected lack of recreational areas, as the wooded areas
are fenced with hedges that prevent people from resting in the shade.The project
seeks the recovery of this area by incorporating dynamic elements of activity.
The original pavement is removed and replaced by a more natural treatment, with
the addition of numerous plant elements.It is
important to note the strong railway character of the area from the past, with
several old buildings for railroad equipment remaining, which is intended to
give cultural uses. The intervention considers a complementary roll of such
uses.Three
elements respond to initial ideas: a small grandstand with a stage, a kiosk and
a meadow plant as a connection to the rest of the park, which contains the
addition of a new tree mass.The
organization of the kiosk area responds to this marked railway character present
in the atmosphere. Two prisms displaced relative to each other, as wagons,
remain near the station. The proposed use is transferred to the formalization
of the two elements. One, as a pergola, is implied only through a structural
skeleton, the other, a glass box that contains the kiosk, covered by sheets of
cor-ten steel, some of which make sliding doors that open completely, exposing
the interior. The materialization of this kiosk searches an industrial and
practical reaction, without superfluous additions (also limited by the very
economic budget).For both
the grandstand and the stage and so the urban furniture, have been used existing
elements in the area. The 80% of the pavement is been recycled from the
demolition and the old seats have been restored.