Santuyano Boulevard
The project converts the existing urban motorway into a public space - a boulevard - that links, restores and enhances the social and territorial links between the heart of Oviedo and its landscapes. It does so beyond the scale of the boulevard, reaching the territorial scope that helps to imagine a city in which the balance between urban factories, infrastructures and landscape is more sustainable. The project proposes a double landscape, urban and vegetal, horizontal and lying at midday, which stages the agreement between artifice and nature that the citizens demand.
The Santuyano boulevard is an ‘urban lounge’, a walking space of intense social activity, the way out of the heart of Oviedo towards its rural landscapes to the east. The ‘meadows’ are calm atmospheric carpets of vegetation that introduce the rolling landscapes of Asturias into the interior of Oviedo.
The boulevard is associated with the uneven urban fabrics of the south, delimiting, grouping and stitching them together. The ‘meadows’, gently sloping at midday, establish a continuous vegetation surface that reaches the northern neighbourhoods and shapes their cornice. The boulevard is a powerful linear boulevard with a variable section and paving along its length. The ‘meadows’ extend a large green carpet on which apple, ash, chestnut and oak trees grow in a regular and random mesh, crossed by paths and tracks.
