"LA LOMA DEL CALVARIO" PUBLIC SPACE. TÍJOLA, ALMERIA

The project area lies within one of these "unresolved" spaces, one that also has great cultural and religious significance for the town.

The urban renewal of the setting of Tíjola's La Loma del Calvario, requires a respectful approach in order to establish the future of a space charged with collective memory. This approach must also be able to reinterpret and add quality to the public space that surrounds the Loma del Calvario as an area for new uses, in order to recover the direct relationship between the itinerary and the public space with the natural milieu and the more urban areas. This will allow the town to establish new ways of relating with its edges as well as giving the space its "marginal centrality" back with respect to the town and the territory.

The Loma will accommodate the town's new leisure facilities and bring together new uses and public spaces along its edge. Within this square-gardens-park system, the pine grove, as a strategic resource and the symbol of the reforestation of urban space, determines the reconfiguration of the way the Loma is accessed, while it also becomes the element around which public space is organized: it distributes uses, helps to lay out itineraries and enables us to establish the materiality of the proposal. Collective memory and popular festivities have generated a strong collective conscience that is channeled to become the driving force of the renewal of the Loma as well as of the complex system of interlinked open spaces.

Likewise, the vacant areas that exist between Nueva Calle Puntal and the Loma are reorganized. We propose an "urbanized" reforestation for these mid-hill spaces, and include retaining walls that generate terraces and define existing paths and tracks. This park becomes the pre-space of the Loma del Calvario.

Following the line of the existing trail, the path is extended sideways, like a rug, in order to incorporate each of the milestones or alcoves as we head up. In other places the paving changes subtly to entice people to stop, meditate and discover the landscape: these are slight extensions on each of the path's curves or turning points that help, on the one hand, to reduce its gradient and make it more comfortable, and on the other to generate a series of vantage points, since it is from there where one can grasp the best views of the valley and of the town.

Year 2015

Work started in 2015

Work finished in 2015

Client AVRA

Contractor AGUAEMA

Cost 360000

Status Completed works

Type Parks, Public Gardens / Public Squares