IMPRINT - THE RAILWAY LANDSCAPE IN VALLADOLID

Valladolid is a city located in the north central of Spain, within the region of Castilla y Leon. The work area is about abandoned train mechanical workshops.

After analysing one of the urban problems, the division of the city caused by railway lines, we project a landscape idea that tries to alleviate this problem.

The train brings with it many elements that condition the aesthetics of the city. One of them is the Wall that protects it and creates a visual and communicational barrier between the two parts of the city.

For this, the following compositional strategies will be carried out, all with the purpose of tying, linking the city and allowing connections. Through an overlapping of plots, chosen not per case, but following pre-existing and historical criteria.

The superimposition of plots tries to represent the imprint of the passage of time throughout the different eras that have transformed the city. The different historical periods, which have favoured the growth of Valladolid, have each done so in a different way, and this is what we have wanted to transfer to the project, in such a way that each plot represents a period of history linked to each representative aspect of the project.

The whole complex, in turn, will obtain an industrial character due to its historical past as railway workshops.