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+ BIOMETHANATION AND COMPOSTING PLANT
PINTO. MADRID
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The architectural and landscaping project presented aims to create a unique and singular identity, a re-founding location based on the three elements from the complex: the natural environment, with its outstanding promontory; the artificial environment created by the architecture; and the industrial processes of classifying and recycling the waste inside it.

In order do this, a synergetic layout of the individual elements has been proposed in such a way that some of them are on others creating an effect of mutual need and natural-artificial unity. The complex will appear as a promontory that dominates the surrounding flatland and consists of two complementary slopes. From the highway it will appear as a natural hill inviting people to climb up and reach the Pavilion, which tangentially crowns it. From inside the Pavilion (an Orientation Centre) the eastern slope will be seen as a set of terraces that gradually descend like a mosaic bits garden, forming an artificial landscape symmetrical and complementary to the natural one, being encountered only from that position. Below it, different treatment ways will reproduce the natural topography and that one created by the architecture, laying it out in a linear organization of successive terraces that echoes the gravitational character of the selection and recycling process. Due to this, it has been decided not to separate the Orientation Centre from the remaining installations, but rather to site it a top the process allowing us to understand it from the first unloading operation to the final storing of the recyclable products obtained in a perfect continuity with the visitors area and the natural setting.



Pinto Card
BIOMETHANATION AND COMPOSTING PLANT
PINTO, MADRID. 2001

Firm Contest. Adjudged Proposal Client:
Department of Management and Environment Develop.
Government of Madrid

Architects: Iñaki Ábalos, Juan Herreros
Collaborators: Renata Sentkiewicz, Wouter Van Daele
Consultants: Intecsa-Inarsa, S.A
Installations: Comsa Medio Ambiente, Urbaser, Dragados
Graphic Information: Gestalt
Financial Study: José Torras


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