Francisco de Vitoria University is located in Madrid, near the natural wooded area of El Pardo, which is full of different species of trees such as holm oaks and pines. It seemed appropriate to maintain the larger ones and establish some integration between the university campus and the natural environment.
Parking asphalt surfaces often produce a tabula rasa, removing easily and permanently any trace of any previous conditions. The distribution of parking spaces is optimized to maintain existing trees and the areas occupied by them, determine the geometry of pedestrian walkways from the parking lot to the university. These paths vary in size depending on the estimated flow of passersby, setting a new tree structure.
The parking spaces are indicated by circles of different sizes and colors pretended to avoid the generic entity of this type of non-places to bring a new image linking it to its prevelege location in a natural environment.
Design: Ignacio Borrego and Felipe Samarán
Colaborators: Lukasz Uminski, Mattia Franceschini, Irene López, Javier Sánchez Vidal
Civil engineering: Alexandri Ingeniería Civil S.L.
Painting: Ralva S.A.
Location: Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
Developer: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain.
Area: 13.000 m2
Year: 2016
Photographs and video: Miguel de Guzmán and Icaro films
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