In June of 2017, the city of Madrid, Spain‘s Area of Sustainable Urban Development—in partnership with the College of Architects of Madrid—announced a design competition to remodel eleven public plazas in the outskirts of the Spanish capital city as an urban regeneration strategy for the city´s periphery.
As part of the strategic plan, Regenerate Madrid says that the competition, called PLAZ-ER, seeks to “contribute to the creation of an upgrading program for the civic plazas located on the city´s periphery, understood as representative spaces with a singular and identifying character for the local areas population that should be reinforced through the new project.”
“The plaza is where citizen identity is formalized, for this reason, this type of public space is fundamental for social cohesion in the area”, the organizers state.
The eleven chosen plazas are divided by “difficulty of function, size and complexities.” The competition is open to qualified architects, with either a degree from Spain or from legally recognized schools abroad, particularly in the UK, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
The period for design submission ends on August 21, 2017.