Roundabout, Valence

The challenge was to achieve a high level of landscaping, with an important plant endowment, in a emblematic roundabout.

El reto consistía en lograr un gran nivel de ajardinamiento, con una dotación vegetal importante, en una rotonda emblemática.

A roundabout at the entrance to the city should be not only the encounter with nature, but also an area for the consumption of culture, “… the garden, which is a source of health and pleasure, is a work of art, and it has a great influence on the evolution of the city. “

Addressing the complexity that sets the subject led us to expand approaches and views, some more scientific others more artistic, cross-linking and hierarchizing the criteria of valorization that each of them defines.

Understanding the rotunda under these approaches induced us to go beyond its object itself, its form.

It was not only a matter of pointing out and exalting its aspects in a fragmentary way, such as our masterful management of the vegetation or its location in the main circulation axis, but trying to approach its intimacy, its first virtues, trying to reveal in its essence the logic of its own trace, immersed in the logic of the urban layout of the city.