Lonja and Central Market Sourroundings

Elisabet Quintana, Blanca Peñín (Peñín Arquitectos S.L.P.), Olga Tarasó y Julià Espinàs (Espinàs i Tarrasó S.C.P.)

Planifica, ingeniería

Dicotec, aparejador

María Pedro, jardinería

Alejandro Marqués, estructura

Arnau Boix, estrategias sociales

Inés Novella, perspectiva de género

Daniel Dent, Alvaro Martí

The project proposes the urban regeneration of the surroundings of the Lonja de la Seda, the Central Market and the Church of Santos Juanes, all of them listed as Assets of Cultural Interest (BIC) of the city of Valencia. The two main spaces of the scheme are the Market Square, which is characterized by being an emblematic urban space in which the different monuments cohabit, and the Ciudad de Brujas Square, an unattended space that currently lacks a minimum of urban quality.

The intervention aims to dignify the existing urban space as a unitary ensemble, providing it with urban activity, character and quality, and integrating gender perspective and respect for social and cultural diversity. Thus, the work has been developed from different standpoints, including the urban, architectural, heritage related, functional, landscape and environmental.

Hence, this is a transversal proposal from different disciplines and approaches with the sole objective of making the city.