Year:
2006

Client:
VILLA DEL PRADO CITY COUNCIL

Location:
Villa del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Services provided:

• Master Plan
• Urban Catalogue

Description:

Social and economical changes over the last decade have had a deep repercussion on territorial structures and systems, and have affected traditional patterns of development, emerging new phenomenon, such as different location and attraction criteria, based on new communications, stronger link to territorial system axis and nodes, as well as some other particular or differential aspects which have modified traditional concepts of centre and outskirts.

Along this changing process, urban and territorial system has been acquiring more and more weigh in the economical and social development of Villa del Prado, municipality located southwest of Madrid and bordering Toledo. In order to facilitate and embody these changes, the necessary writing of a Master Plan has been commended to TECNIA.

In broad lines, Master Plan intends to accurately adapt current reality of Villa del Prado municipality and new expected expansions according to the following criteria:

o To design a city taking into account a compact urban model, growing and continuing the current one, structuring and overlapping previous and future urban network, but always taking care of the natural landscape.

o Environment protection concern.

o Protection of municipality's historical and monumental values.

o To establish a rational usage of natural resources according to collective, public and private necessities within land planning frame, avoiding waste of scarcity goods such as land in a sustainable way both economical and social.