Our strategic ally – ESPINET UBACH within four contest winning proposals Medellín River Park - AGS Promotora de Proyectos Inmobiliarios, Cartagena, ColombiaAGS Promotora de Proyectos Inmobiliarios, Cartagena, Colombia

From a total of 57 bidders, our strategic partner Espinet Ubach was selected within four winning proposals for the Medellin River Park project.

The four proposals were select as initiatives that overflowed in more creativity to give the city of Medellin more quality public space. The ruling will be on October 18.

Among the teams competing in the second round of the competition, the architect españolMiguel Espinet, believes that the proposal is a solid work, have ideas well explained and easy to integrate into town and economically reasonable.

Likewise, the architect Juan Carlos Aristizabal, Architecture Mapping, go to your computer as a proposal contains important strategies in mobility, landscaping, restoration of water sources and existing buildings.

The concept of the jury
To choose the four initiatives that go to the second round of the competition, the jury assessed in three days a total of 342 plates of the 57 proposals submitted. On October 4, explained the mayor Aníbal Gaviria, selected teams must provide more detail in their work from the observations of the jury, to be considered as preliminary drafts, of which the winning designs will be chosen, which is detach the first works to be implemented until 2015 and the inclusion of his spirit in the future development of the city.

THE RIVER WILL CHANGE – LIVE IN THE TOWN

Luis Fernando Arbelaez, jury, independent architect and urban planner
“The river has been periphery and edge of town. In the first part of the last century spoke of ‘Otrabanda’ to refer to anything built after the western side. What we want is to bring both sides, making it a place of confluence that forms comprehensiveness with existing urban fabric and provide continuity. Is obviously favor the pedestrian and bicycle, but will have to contemplate mobility systems for vehicles.
I must say that water will be starring as never before and will be the big item to preserve “.

A jury of foreign architects Ginés Garrido (Spain), Peter Rowe (USA), Laura Spinadel (Austro-Argentina), Manuel Delgado (Venezuela), plus Colombian Martha Fajardo, Jorge Pérez (Medellin Planning Director ) and Luis Fernando Arbelaez (independent architect and urban planner), and unanimously chose four winning proposals for the Medellin River Park project, a total of 57 that were presented (17 foreign and 40 domestic).

Since this competition was anonymous, on Friday August 9 at noon, Mayor of Medellin gave the name of the architectural firms that designed the winning proposals, which will go to the second stage of the competition and will be developed as a blueprint.

The selection criteria, in addition to consider urban analysis, environmental, and cultural mobility, assessed “the potential of evolution presented by the proposals, in addition to” the clarity in the formulation (…) run time (…) and reasonable costs. “

This project of 28 kilometers along the river, who will speak a total of 423 hectares, has covered three sectors: a sector north, between the creek and workshops Wood Metro in Bello, a Middle industry between the confluence of the Zuniga creek and river and creek mentioned Wood (the jurisdiction of Medellin), and a southern sector, which continues to link Caldas variant in South Ancon.

On Friday August 9, 2013, in the committee room No. 5 of Plaza Mayor, located at Calle 41 No. 55-80 in Medellin – Colombia, was launched to the public hearing on “READING FINAL REPORT EVALUATION oF THE JURY, AND OPENING OF tHE URN oF ENVELOPES oF IDENTIFICATION oF THE FIRST ROUND “,” International Public Competition to two rounds of Draft Urban, Landscape, Architectural river Park in the city of Medellin. “

Our strategic partner ESPINET UBACH, was selected for the second round.