Cabanyal Center of Research

El Cabanyal, Valencia, Spain
Projects II, ETSAV, UPV
Individual Project, September 2009
Supervisor: Marta Pérez Rodríguez

Urban Regeneration,

‘El Cabanyal’ is a maritime district of Valencia whose origin dates back to thirteen century. Nowadays this neglected area of the city claims for its urban transformation. The project aims to equip the neighborhhod with new uses, while improving the quality of the urban life.

Its secction talks about a continuous learning journey which starts in the public square, gets inside the building progressively, and ends in the library body.

The continuous line emphasize the retroactive relation between the new building and its surroundings. Meanwhile an independent volume breaks away this continuous line characterizing its private nature.

Isabel Recubenis Sanchis

architect / urban thinker