Landscape Regeneration & City Dump Recycling Plant
Valdemingómez, Madrid, España
FIRST PRIZE. EUROPEAN COMPETITION
MoMA, NEW YORK (2005) GROUNDSWELL “Constructing the new contemporary landscape”
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Program: City-dump recycling plant
Year: 1996-1999
Status: Built
Area: 15.000m2
Client: Vetresa-RWE Process and City Council of Madrid
The project is part of a series of interventions intended to arrive at a rational system for treating and recycling waste in Madrid, as well as at the incorporation of the closed tip within the future Southeast Regional park, one of the most attractive ventures of the city to sew up the social and environmental differences between north and south.
The recycling plant brings together a heterodox rubbish selecting and processing complex, storage, workshops and offices, all beneath a vast green inclined roof which echoes the gravitational nature of the process as well as the original hillside on which it sits, a hillside “put back” by making use of the compound produced.
