Javier Torrego Pérez

Javier Torrego Pérez

Around the corner

Zagreb, Croatia.

Participants: Javier Torrego Pérez

Tutor: Chema Lapueta

University: ETSAM

Like most of the cities with medieval origins, Zagreb has an old town, in this case it is fragmented in two. The best connected with the city is, without a doubt, the Kaptol, which is articulated with it through the most important square in the city, where its circulations flow from it´s main streets and squares. The other half of the old town is the Gradec, with poor accessibility due to a great difference in elevation with the lower city and a tortuous access route, with a meager human flow capacity. This town, although not very accessible, contains a large part of the cultural program that the city offers. That is why it is proposed to make all these experiences accessible to inhabitants and tourists through an urban intervention that is committed to a consecrated language in the city: the fragmentation of private space with public space as a wedge.

Taking advantage of the strategic location of some of the historic buildings affected by the Zagreb earthquake in 2020, through its consolidation, establishing a forceful connection and constituting a new quality access to this area of the old town, thus preventing it from falling in marginal uses as a result of its original condition.

This new public space is structured in three bodies according to their order of elevation: lower, intermediate and upper, sewing 8 pre-existing elements through 4 plaza terraces with wide ramps, elevators and escalators that incorporate the old routes and routes of the block. occupying the site of the now demolished buildings of Illica 9.

^{The connection problem of the historical center of Zagreb.}

^{An almost stagnant block.}

^{The opportunities arising from the consolidation after the earthquake in 2020.}

^{Urban insertion.}

^{Axonometric drawings regarding the urban insertion and geometric contextualization.}

^{Axonometric drawings regarding program and circulations.}

Plan drawing of the level +0,00m / +6,75m.

Plan drawing of the level +0,00m / +6,75m.

^{The 5 thresholds.}

^{Stankoviae palace reload.}

Cross section 01. / South elevation.

Cross section 01. / South elevation.

^{Stankoviae palace interior perspective}

^{Longitudinal section 02}

^{Exterior visualization of the new alley, perspective frame.}

^{The construction of the new alley, construction systems.}

^{The construction of the new alley, constructive cross section.}

^{Ramps study models.}

^{Library under the ramps, perspective sketch.}

^{Universal accessibility.}

Cross section 03. / 04.

Cross section 03. / 04.

^{Ramp building, perspective frame.}

^{Ramp building, model iteration.}

^{Ramp building planymetry + perspective frames.}

^{Ramp building, construction longitudinal section.}

^{Context study models.}

^{New urban space around the church of St. Katerina.}

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4 de febrero de 2023

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