The Desembocadura Park, promoted through a competition of ideas by the previous progressive government of Compromís and PSPV and whose project was awarded in March 2023 to the (Con)fluir project led by the Valencian architect Carmel Gradolí, gains momentum after several months of indefinition. The new government, which blocked or directly canceled other renaturalization plans of the previous company, ratified the project, coinciding this Thursday with the opening ceremony of the Green capital. 30 years later, Desembocadura Park will complete the special plan for the Turia Garden Ricardo Bofill and will be the cornerstone of the new green capital of Valencia.
With a global budget of 35 million eurosthe Desembocadura Park, paradoxically without direct access to the sea as it will end up in an urban forest, will be built in three phases. The first will be the stretch that goes from the Astilleros bridge to Natzaretwhat it will cost 16.7 million euros, of which the port will contribute 13. The Councilor for Urban Development, Juan Giner, announced this week to Gradolí’s team that he will soon be entrusted with the drafting of the executive project of the first section, where the water will be maintained and in which part of the hard work of the slopes will be eliminated to being able to plant trees and generate walkable paths.
The definitive project must be drawn up by the end of the year in order to begin execution of the works. According to the architect, whose office was already responsible for the development of Rambleta Park, the green capital “will give visibility to the Desembocadura Park project” and hopes that it will serve to promote further renaturalization because “the city needs it”. .” Others like Vitoria have already made progress. The Basque capital, “green capital” in 2012, is surrounded by a green ring where it is possible to see deer. “The transformation of this city is something that has been going on for many years and also a change in urban culture.”
A tree-lined balcony to camouflage the port wall
He Desembocadura Park it will resolve the meeting of the river with the port a “wooded balcony” which will connect the two banks and will at least partially camouflage the border with the industrial site. The current e inaccessible concrete slopes built by the port to channel the water arriving at the site (from the residues of the Oceanogràfic, from the urban collector and from the accumulation of rainwater) They will be raised at least partially and replaced by natural slopes with vegetation and trees. The city and nature will advance on the port territory to connect the final stretch with Natzaret. Gradolí assures that the regeneration of the final stretch of the river is also a historical compensation to the neighborhood of Natzaret which lost its beach in the 1980s due to the southern expansion of the port.
THE water decontamination in the final section it will depend on the construction of different storm tanks, on Grao and Ibiza Street, which will stop the first discharge of contaminated rainwater into the river. The mayor, Mª José Catalá, also asked the architects to consider the construction of the final section of the project in the project northern collector (project suspended by the previous government) which would go under the park in addition to the bury the train tracks, something that Gradolí assures, was already taken for granted in the initial project. Regarding water quality, Gradolí comments that “it is what it is” and its improvement depends on the construction of reservoirs and the reduction of discharges. “It will certainly never be mineral water, but that’s what happens in other cities.” “This has not stopped Manzanares from becoming an urban park or hosting Olympic events on the Seine.”
Settings in the project
The PP government and Vox also want the extension of the Alameda seafront to be taken into account when designing the section of the garden that corresponds to the Grao PAI, a traffic axis that the previous Urban Development councilor eliminated for greater renaturalization of the seafront . It remains to be seen how the other proposals of the (Con)fluir project which involves the reduction of traffic lanes on the Astilleros bridge will be refined.
The international competition of ideas for the Desembocadura Park for the organization of the final sections of the ancient Turia canal contemplates the environmental recovery of 245,000 m2 Surface. The scope of the competition goes beyond the Desembocadura Park (85,000 m2) itself and covers the two hanging sections upstream of the Astilleros bridge, up to the Oceanographicthus including the ordering of the end of Alameda and the PAI del Grao. The budget for the construction of the final sections of the old canal.
Desembocadura Park is the result of agreement signed in 2018 by the Municipality and the Port Authority of Valencia to ennoble the border between the port and the city and is part of it, moreover, together with the Eastern Sports City (95,000 m2) of the special plan south zone 1 of the Port of Valencia (“Nazareth plan”).
2024-01-13 06:00:39
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