Landscape & Urban Design Issue 36 2019 | Page 62

GRANT ASSOCIATES’ MASTERPLAN FOR NEW DISTRICT IN MADRID WINS OUTLINE PLANNING A masterplan by British duo architect Key to Grant Associates’ landscape district, as well as providing 15km Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and strategy is the creation of a green of cycle paths. The parks will feature landscape architect Grant Associates corridor that will act as a spine for the a variety of tree-like, geometric to create a new business and whole district. canopy structures that offer shade, residential district in north Madrid The spine will be a continuation of ‘El shelter and visual interest. These has won outline planning. Paseo del Castellana’ – Madrid’s main ‘Fractal Trees’ will complement a thoroughfare and promenade. series of water features that also aim to mitigate Madrid’s hot summer The proposal for Madrid Castellana months. Norte aims to transform a vast, The idea is to restore a pedestrian 500-hectare tract of neglected land character to this most northern close to Chamartín railway station. stretch of Paseo de la Castellana, and The parks will furthermore break create a gateway to El Monte de El up the linearity of the masterplan Constituting the most significant Pardo, a protected forest parkland by extending out from Paseo de la regeneration plan for Madrid in over lying just a few kilometres northwest Castellana in a series of wave like 20 years, and one of the largest scale beyond the city limits. formations, with larger green spaces at the core of the neighbourhoods, masterplans in Europe, the project also involves the renewal of the area’s New green parks will serve to link the diffusing into smaller spaces towards transport infrastructure. different neighbourhoods of the new their edges. 62 Landscape & Urban Design Issue 36 2019