OPEN BUILDING IN VALENCIA1946 - 1988

unitarian cases from thesis of Javier Perez Igualada

GENERAL LOCATION GROUPS IN VALENCIA

The new neighborhoods were built on the periphery of the Valencia city between 1946 and 1988. The following examples

are included in the Javier Pérez Igualada thesis: "The open building city. Valencia, 1946-1988"

VIRGEN DE LA FUENSANTA GROUP (1957 - 1960)

VIRGEN DE LA FUENSANTA GROUP LOCATION

Vírgen de la Fuensanta group was designed in 1957 (one month after the great overflow of the river Turia) and built between

1958 and 1960 as a residential Plan of Flood affected families. It is located between the streets Tres Cruces and Tres Forques as

principal and reference streets.

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. Aerial Photo. 1965

The original group is structured with a branched road, where streets in cul-de-sac stem from a broken central axis, relating the weft of the

road with the different blocks orthogonally in the case of dead ends, so parallel in the case of the central axis and at an angle close to the

"Colonia Española de México" square.

In the Vírgen de la Fuensanta group we can find clearly the zoning uses.

Linear blocks are only housing, commercial zones are located in a central location around a neighborhood center with church, school and

shops.

The homes (58 m2 and 65 m2) are projected at equidistant linear blocks. They have five plants with similar dimensions and two bays,

the interstices are green areas in the project. These blocks as we have said previously are oriented differently to provide different types of

environments and perspectives.

As the branched road hadn´t parking, had to open new roads for that space.

The green areas projected between linear blocks were greatly reduced to create new parking spaces and streets mentioned. In the equipments, a sports hall and an extension campus was

added.

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. Current Views.

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. General section.

The areas are between 58 m2 and 65 m2.

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. Floor plans of linear blocks.

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. Section and Elevation of liner blocks.

The group is a collection of 880 homes with neighborhood equipments all built in a unified way, which Pérez Igualada words

"involves the addition to the city from a urban party.".

Virgen de la Fuensanta group. Current views.