A GARDEN IN BEWEEN: PERMANENECE AND MOVEMENT - THE RAILWAY LANDSCAPE IN VALLADOLID
ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION V:CONTEMPORARY GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE
UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID/SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
The Garden In Between: Permanence and Movement, is a Project defined by its localization, an evicted industrial area (320 000 square meters) inside the city, dedicated to the train industry, mainly train repair and machinery making. The objective of the project is to rehabilitate the area, transforming it into a green space, creating a park oriented towards the future whilst looking back into the past. With these objectives in mind, we aim to achieve three goals:
- To face present and future challenges, like the increasingly older population, or the climate crisis, by restoring local ecosystems in the area and increasing its resilience.
- To connect the area with the rest of the city, divided by the railway.
- To preserve the memories of the park by conserving the warehouses of an industry which has had a huge impact in the city, warehouses that might present new job opportunities for the community.
The project is planned to develop in stages. Following this logic, we have divided the area into strips and fully developed the first strip for the first stage. We mainly use two strategies in the Garden In Between: to empty and reuse the old warehouses; and to 'green-up' the area, using indigenous flora, allowing its spontaneous growth, to help revive the biological life inside the city. It will be a garden in motion, not only through the planned steps, but by the action of nature itself over time.