MASTERPLAN FOR THE RAILWAY AREA_Valladolid, Spain, 2005-2006
Pedro Ruiz, Collaborating with Richard Rogers España
With the arrival of the high-speed train in the city of Valladolid, the new railway become subterranean and the old installations are removed from the city.
The vacant space raises several challenges:
- creating new centres that complete the historical centre;
- articulating the existing city and the new spaces with high-speed's future underground station;
- erase the rupture that the railroad routes were creating along the corridor;
- creating three neighbourhoods balanced in the three urban pieces of Talleres, Ariza and Argales;
- re-using the emblematic buildings of the railway history;
- join the historical centre and the lower socioeconomic level eastern districts.
The principles of urban permeability (railway breaking, union of the centre and the suburbs) take form of a green corridor in which linear equipments are located, with segregation of traffic and only one motor rail in every sense.
The creation of new neighbourhoods and centralities is based on an urban form orientated towards an internal functioning and on uses mixity. The urban piece of Talleres consists of a north front with the future high-speed station and hotel and commercial uses, the utilization of the historical buildings for public equipments and the south half for residential uses. In Ariza the residential uses are located opposite to a linear park. Argales mix residential uses, with major presence of social housing, with trade and workshops.