Platform tram Zaragoza Tour with architect Iñaki Alday
The city, which has been rethought by architect, a new image with the reform of the urban environment for the integration of the tram
- The architect Iñaki Alday, European Space Prize Urban public, has a modern concept of city that gives priority to pedestrians and bike
- There will be a walk, including a new tram ride from the city (which will open to the public in the coming weeks) that will observe the changes of urban approach: recovery of boulevards, design of new street furniture (bus shelters tram vegetation), recovery of symbolic spaces, bike lanes, playgrounds, terraces ...
ACT: The Zaragoza Iñaki Alday
PROGRAM:
10h: arrival in Zaragoza
10:30 am: meeting tram stop Valdespartera
11:15 am: Tour and travel by tram: rethinking the city, processing urban, stories and anecdotes of Iñaki Alday. Screening of selected excerpts from "The Illusion Travels by Streetcar
" by Luis Buñuel
12:30 h: Visit of the Water Park
13:30 pm: Lunch with the Mayor of Zaragoza, Hon. Mr. Juan Alberto Belloch
in the town hall (Plaza del Pilar)
16h: AVE or airport
Iñaki Alday, architect internationally recognized as one of the foremost experts in architecture and landscape, has been chosen to redefine the environment urban city of Zaragoza in recent years. Water Park (known as the emblematic element of the recovery of the banks in Zaragoza) the Power Plant (which is the first central world to combine power generation with an art installation) or the urban integration of the new tram (which has helped transform the city's mobility with a change of priority Pedestrian road traffic) are some key works that have changed the configuration of Zaragoza. Alday has professional office, "aldayjover architecture and landscape", in Barcelona and Zaragoza in 1996. As an architect has won numerous awards
European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002) or García Mercadal Award (2001 and 2005) and was a finalist FAD Awards (2002), the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture (2004), the English Architecture Biennial (2005) and the European Landscape Prize (2008). He has taught at the School of Architecture Barcelona, \u200b\u200bUniversity of Navarra and in numerous international universities where he lectures regularly, as the University of Virginia (USA), University of Arizona (USA) KTH Stockholm and the ETH Zürich.