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The demolition of the viaduct that
crossed the public area of Ronda de
Guinardo, between the buildings, has
allowed the reorganization of a calmed
traffic and has given the green areas for
citizen recreation the importance they
deserved. The topographic barriers are
now easily surpassed by means of
elevators, escalators and ramps that
increase the mobility through the whole
area.
The area towards the metro entrances,
the churros shop and the carousel have
been reorganized. Little playing fields
have been built and a free area for local
festivities fitted out. A driving area has
been created over the vertical wall that
used to support the viaduct. It is
accessible exclusively to residents and
service vehicles.
The project has been developed in
collaboration with Martínez Lapeña and
Elías Torres.
LA ROVIRA TUNNEL REDESIGN, SOUTH ENTRANCE
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WORK SITE
MANAGEMENT
Barcelona, 2008. 2009 - 2011
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• The park pergolas.
• Computer generated image of the Linear
Park proposal.
LA SAGRERA – SANT ANDREU LINEAR PARK
PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TENDER
PHASES 1, 2 and 3
Barcelona, 2011
The transformation of the railway system
of Barcelona by the covering of the
tracks and the building of the new high-
speed Sagrera Station provides the
opportunity to connect the urban tissue
of the neighborhoods of Sant Andreu-
Sagrera and Sant Martí. This
transformation offers the possibility of
creating a new public space in the shape
of a corridor that goes beyond the scale
of the neighborhood to turn in to an
important resource for the city at a
metropolitan scale. This new park will be
an example of the recovery of spaces for
citizen enjoyment and coexistence
based on the optimization of the
infrastructures that our dense cities
require.
The tender has been developed in
collaboration with Martínez Lapeña,
Auding, Clotet, Cicsa, Ravellat and Ribas
architecture and engineering firms.
IRALA SLOPE PARK ADAPTATION AND IMPROVEMENT
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Bilbao, 2011
The drafting of the Construction Project
to define the urban distribution of the
surroundings of the Irala Park in Bilbao is
commissioned as a part of Bilbao Ría
2000. The main determining factors
considered in the design are
accessibility, the connection of spaces at
different levels, the provision of public
space and garden areas and over all the
possibility of the project being reversed
when the time comes to undertake the
designed Miribilla tunnel.
The design for the adaptation and
improvement of the Park includes an
undeveloped space located between the
current end of the Ferrocarril Avenue, the
Virgen de Montserrat Street and the
building of the old Flour-Bakery Factory.
The improvement of the urban
infrastructure of the Virgen de Montserrat
Street and its, temporary, connection
with the park are also included. The
replanting of the slope and the
adaptation and improvement of the parts
of the slope under the rear of buildings
that look out over this space, is also
included in this area. The operation has
a total surface area of 3,900 m2, with
different degrees and intensities of
intervention.
An urban development is proposed that
aims, through a series of minimum
gestures, to achieve the diaphanous
character and visual permeability of the
space while attaining the accessibility
between the different levels through a
series of comfortable paths that enable
to connect the existing urban network.
• Computer generated image of the
pedestrian street along the highest level.
• General floor plan of the distribution
proposal.
• Park shapes and volumes.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE PALMA-AIRPORT STRETCH IN
CAN PASTILLA
STUDY OF ALTERNATIVES
Palma de Mallorca, 2010
•View of current state.
•Section 1. Current state and Alternative B
proposal.
•General plan of Alternative B
The improvement of the airport and Can
Pastilla access is in line with the territorial
and urban system revaluation project
carried out by the Bahía de Palma y
S’Arenal and promoted by the Platja de
Palma Council.
This study of alternatives proposes, in a
joint manner, the road access to Can
Pastilla remodelling –Ses Fontanelles
and other alternative access,
pedestrians, cyclists, buses, taxis and
tram which are to be introduced in this
area.
The rail corridor covering has been an
objective pursued by the Barcelona City
Hall for a long time. The aim was to
improve to a great extent the
environmental conditions regarding
noise, vibrations and barrier effect about
the permeability of people and vehicles
of the Sants station Southern
neighborhoods, which are in a rather
precarious situation.
After drafting and managing the covering
projects, Esteyco takes part in the later
development, together with the
architects of Barcelona Regional. The
action extends from the covering area to
the annexed to the rail corridor ones. In
the sea side some of these areas are
taken up by rail installations belonging to
Metro, which have to be dismantled,
whereas in the mountain side the rail
corridor is used due to the elimination of
two of the six existing tracks. This fact,
together with the provision of ramps,
stairs and lifts among the different levels,
enables the creation of a big passable
avenue perfectly integrated in the urban
environment, constituting an important
area of great quality.
• Transverse section.
• View of the state of the area prior to the
works and infographics of the project
proposal.
• Urban planning general plan.
RAIL ACCESSES TO SANTS STATION. PHASE I
URBAN PLANNING PROJECT
Barcelona, 2005-2010
BCNsit
MONITORING OF TRANSPORTS INFRAESTRUCTURE
Barcelona, 2008-2011
The technical assistance to the
Infraestructure Management of the
Barcelona Council, for the monitoring
and coordination of all the actions
belonging to Transports Infraestructure,
which are planned, projected and carried
out in the city, is controlled through
BCNsit. Being the main aim of the
contract the non-municipal promotional
actions – Generalitat de Catalunya
(Catalan Parliament) and Mº de Fomento
(Ministry of Development), mainly –, the
monitoring purpose is the rational
integration of the new infraestructures in
the urban environment, with the
demanding determinants that it entails,
as well as the impact minimization of
those on the city and its citizens.
Some examples of these projects and
works are: the High Speed Line,
stretches: Torrassa-Sants, Sants-
Sagrera; Sagrera-Nus Trinitat, Nus
Trinitat-Montcada; tube line 9, stretches
1, 2, 3 and 4 and line 10; extensions of
the lines 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Metropolitan
Railway of Barcelona (FMB); Transport
Interchanges of Diagonal, Arc del Triomf,
Sagrera-Meridiana; accessibility
improvement actions in FMB, tunnel of
Aigües Ter Llobregat (ATLL); the
covering of the rail accesses to Sants
and the entrance of the Bus-HOV lane to
the city.
• Inphographic of the Public Facilities
Boulevard.
• General floor plan of the project.
• Cross section through the Park.
• Elevation of the Gran de Sant Andreu Street
footpath wall, Park area.
The transformation of the old Barracks of
Sant Andreu has made it possible to
incorporate two important areas of 5 and
6 Has in to the city. Drafting the
Modificació del Plan General Metropolità
a les Casernes de Sant Andreu i Sector III
(Modification of the Metropolitan General
Plan of Sant Andreu-Sagrera) document,
enables the future integration of those
areas within their own environment and
the city, the definition and zoning,
specifying areas for residential use,
public facilities and open spaces.
Two systems of public spaces, which
continue the urban structure of the
neighborhood, are proposed for the 11
Ha. To the West, a large park that
continues the pedestrian itineraries of
the urban fabric and is surrounded by
the library, the senior citizen center and
the residence hall. To the East, a
Boulevard with public facilities for the
neighborhood and district is arranged. In
the center, the residential area and
shops, concentrated along the Passeig
Torres i Bages, take the shape of a
powerful built front that relates the civic
scale of Sant Andreu to the Trinitat. This
front, with arcades and shops on the
ground floor and residential units on the
four upper floors, allows transverse flow
to the public facilities and green spaces
located on the lateral edges.
Interspersed among the public facility
fabric, the housing is arranged in
longitudinal bands, following the
alignment of the existing trees.
The project is developed from the
document of Criteria written by the
architect Manuel de Sola-Morales
URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF LES CASERNES DE SANT
ANDREU
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Barcelona. 2008-2009
NEW NEIGHBORHOOD OF LA MARINA DEL PRAT
VERMELL
URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Barcelona, 2009
The new neighborhood of La Marina del
Prat Vermell, promoted by the
Modificación del Plan General
Metropolitano (Metropolitan General Plan
Amendment) driven by the Barcelona
City Council, defines the transformation
of industrial land use in La Marina del
Prat Vermell, in a progressive in time
process that would allow a temporal
coexistence among the new residential
and economic activity uses, the current
activities with the buildings that the
project, of a later development, would
allow to keep.
The development proposals are binded
to the principle of sustainability, with the
aim of creating an habitable
neighborhood with an use, energy
management and respect for the
environment policy.
The Plan Especial de Infraestructuras
(Special Infraestructure Plan), considers
both the deployment of the distribution
of the road network, public transport,
streets and green areas developing and
the deployment of all the facilities of the
new neighborhood, where it is projected
to build nearly 11.000 new houses.
INFORMATION SUMMARY
Surface of the area: 750.339 m2
• Number of houses: 10.865
• 47.5 % subsidized housing
• 52.5 % unsubsidized housing
•Street stretches: 10.402 m
•Public developed space: 269.325 m2
•Green areas: 133.425 m2
•New trees: 2.012 unidades
•Bus lane: 7.246 m
•Bicycle lane: 4.419 m
•Planned electrical power: 87.500 Kw
•Planned gas power: 113.000 KWh/h
•Telecommunications: 13.926 m
•Waste network: 6.104 m
•Drinking water demand: 2.755.971 m3/año
•Ground water demand: 80.598 m3/año
Cost of works
Phase 1: 53,218,504 euros. S = 91,667 m2.
Phase 2: 54,912,044 euros. S = 94,912,044 m2
• Different pictures of some urban
development projects carried out in
the city of Barcelona during the years
2006-2007.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHEMES, URBAN
DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Barcelona, 2006-2007
The work carried out by ESTEYCO in the
Project Management (PM) belongs to
the overall management of the actions
and development works to be executed
by BAGURSA (entity under the authority
of the Barcelona city council). They are
related to the Housing Plan 2006-2007,
in the city of Barcelona.
The main objective of the proposal is to
favor and increase the connections of
the historic city with the river,
encouraging the use of river beds as
connection axes, and restraining urban
growth in the fertile lowlands. To that end
it is necessary to promote some
elements of the physical environment,
the geological diversity, the unique
“entrenched meander” and the slopes.
City-river connections are improved with
the incorporation of the green areas of
the edge of the historic city to the slopes,
promoting their lookout character by
planting autochthonous species adapted
to the environment, using riparian
vegetation in the river beds and oak as
an enclosure for “the entrenched
meander”. Along the edge of the city
towards the fertile lowland a more open
and organized structure is favored .
The aim is to offer a view of the river as a
connected basin and not as a
discontinuous line, which is the current
situation. To reestablish and promote
visual relationship between city and river,
promoting routes and viewpoints, visual
points in the areas of major interes for
citizens and the tourist activity.
It is considered to recover public waters
in those areas where the river has been
occupied by uses incompatible with its
conservation, selecting those that
protect the environment and eliminating
non-protected constructed elements.
They try to improve the supply-demand
relationship between the river and the
territory and model the regularity of the
flows to recover the perception of the
river as a basin and favour the river
connectivity in a transverse and
longitudinal sense.
For the historic town surroundings, it is
considered to recover, due to their
environmental values, the oak
landscape, that occupy the mountains
and hills which constitute Toledo
backdrop. Cigarrales (old states next to
the river) are protected as landscape
and cultural heritage, containing their
expansion as urban structures, and the
impacts that roads generate in the slides
is minimized.
INTEGRATION OF THE TAJO RIVER INTO THE CITY OF
TOLEDO
INTERNATIONAL IDEA TENDER
Toledo, 2008
• Integration proposal of roads and ring roads
of the south and west sides that have a
strong negative impact on the historic city
landscape. They are “naturalized”, making
them of mixed use, vehicle and pedestrians,
giving priority to pedestrians over traffic.
ARTXANDA TUNNEL AND MATIKO URBAN DEVELOPMENT
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Bilbao, 2007
The Txorierri Valley is connected by the
railway line Deusto-Lezama with
insufficient frequency for a metropolitan
type service like this. It is mainly due to
the only existing track in the stretch
Casco Viejo-Lezama. As a solution,
partly, for these problems, the
construction of a new double track rail
tunnel under the Artxanda Mount is
proposed. It would allow to reduce the
current frequencies and gain access in a
future to the Loiu Airport.
The project, of 3 km long, has two
distinct stretches complying with the
characteristics of the environment where
it is located. The initial stretch runs
through a consolidated urban area of
Bilbao, in the surroundings of Matiko
Station, goes past in tunnel under the
Artxanda Mount, crosses under the
Corredor del Txorierri Motorway and runs
through a rural area till it connects to the
current line in Sondika.
The main action is the execution of the
Artxanda tunnel in double track, of 1.876
m long and their two evacuation-
ventilation galleries of 239 m and 224 m.
Gallery 1 connects directly to the
outside, while gallery 2 connects the
new tunnel with the current one in the
Deusto-Lezama line, that is equipped as
an evacuation route.
The railway layout in the urban
environment of Bilbao is buried mainly
because of the need to open the
entrance of the new tunnel with enough
overburden on its way under Artasamina
street.
The burying and covering of the railway
corridor is a required objective to
improve environmental conditions,
regarding noise, vibrations and barrier
effect over the pedestrian permeability
among neighborhoods.
The urban development on surface
allows the streets permeability and
solves the creation of a green pedestrian
axis that connects the new Matiko station
area and La Salve street at the other end
of the freed area.
• Infographics of the bury project, with Matiko
Station in the background.
• Sketch with the surface town planning
proposal.
• Type section of the south tunnel - slope
intersection.
• Current situation of Matiko area.
The planning approved by Benahavis
(Málaga) PGOU (General Urban
Development Plan) determines an area
of the ville located in the zone of tourism
growth, specifically in the south-west of
it. It is known as Sector S.U.P.
“Montemayor Bajo” and it has a surface
of 257 ha. It borders to the South with
Cancelada Dam and the new “Los
Flamingos” residential area; to the West
with Guadalmansa river; to the East with
Toro stream; and to the North with
Montemayor Alto area and “Marbella
Club” golf courses.
The development project includes those
works which are necessary to achieve
the sector’s development regarding
internal viability and external connection,
such as gradients and topographic
model, infrastructures and drinking water
services network, electricity supply and
public lighting, separated sanitation
networks, gas, irrigation and
telecommunication installations, as well
as all the required elements to achieve
its total operational capacity.
The main actions carried out in this
project are the following:
Organising the residential use together
with the foreseen commercial-hotel use -
which are integrated in the area-
protecting the existing landscape and
balancing up the needed equipment to
develop the area.
ROAD, connecting the Cancelada road
with the new urban area according to the
PGOU previsions. Existing roads will be
maintained and improved by means of
secondary routes in order to provide this
sector with the required accessibility.
FACILITIES AND SERVICES; trying to get
the best physical and environmental
location of the facilities in an area which
do not have them.
Placing sports facilities, including high-
level physical and environmental
features, taking advantage of its location
which consists of views over the coast
and the whole sea until Gibraltar.
Residential buildings have been divided
into the following typologies of houses:
DETACHED (R-AIS, 69.561 m2t), SEMI-
DETACHED (R-AD, 99.143 m2t) and
FLATS (R-N, 62.758 m 2 t).
MONTEMAYOR BAJO RESIDENTIAL AREA IN
BENAHAVIS
DRAFT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Málaga, 2006-2007
•Section of road Type A.
•General plan and cross section of the
residential area.
TORRE-SANA URBAN DEVELOPMENT, TERRASSA
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND SITE WORKS MANAGEMENT
Barcelona, 2004. 2005-2008
• Aerial view of the urban development.
• Detail of the pedestrian roads among pine
trees.
• Project model.
• Plan of the development with the roads.
The action area is located at the east of
Terrassa and comprises three
Development Action Areas with a total
surface of 124.300 m².
The development proposal, made in
collaboration with the architect Manuel
de Solà-Morales, is considered from a
landscape point of view, looking for a
new topographical and infraestructure
configuration of the free spaces for
public use, in the definition of the
necessary works for the implememtation
of a group of 1,600 dwellings, as well as
in the layout and definition of the new
facilities and services network.
The respect for the existing pine woods,
along Álava street and down the road,
defines the rough field of the main free
space. Urban forest space, of “soft”
surfacing and transverse roads, that
means a close and equipped prediction
of the spaces of the Natural Park in
which La Gripia valley will become in the
future, according to the stipulations of
the Urban Management Plan.
• 3 Development Action Areas
(abbreviated as PAU in spanish)
• Total surface: 124.300 m²
• The designated green zones and landscaped open spaces area represents a 50% of the intervention..
• General view of the current state of the
area.
• Images of the scale model of the urban
planning proposal.
Tender of Ideas for the urban planning
project of the Sector Grao in Valencia,
next to the old Turio River bed,
developed in collaboration with the
architect Carlos Meri.
Proposal information summary:
A total surface area of 50,70 hectares
and an above ground, buildable area of
688.577 m2, for residential and tertiary
uses.
THE SECTOR GRAO PLANNING - VALENCIA
TENDER
Valencia, 2005