SALGUEIRIÑOS URBANIZATION PROJECT. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. LA CORUÑA

At first it was left unnoticed.

In between the facilities, the earthworks and the road geometry, the birth of Corgo stream, humble in his expression, it seemed inhibited. Only the bank trees forming a jubilant gallery forest oaks, bidueiros, salgueiros and chestnut betrayed it.

Its water training is manifold, with widely scattered outcrops forced to do and bring to the surface a complex network of underground capture and driving.

The buddle where an old woman even did the laundry once a week, the winding path through the trees, the  direct pipeline to the Catholic Monarchs Hostal (an almost archeological discovery), everything seemed to us like emotional passages, dreams around water.

And that's how urban facilities, hot asphalt, accessible sidewalks were replaced by the newly appointed river, gradually eroded as a stone erodes the endless drop.

Margins were cleaned and four  carved granite squares as scenery of a ladder-tier, the laundry face wash and alphabet combinations of stone and water:

Step, riffle, bench, waterfall, plating, fountain, paving, pond, blockwork, siphon.

DATA:

Architects: Jose Maria de Lapuerta, Carlos Asensio.

Team: Project Leader: Paloma Field. Architects: Fernando Gaforio, Juan Queipo de Llano, Esther Jimenez. / Delineation: Fernando Lozano. Maximiliano Sanchez - Industrial Engineer / José Espinós - Civil Engineer

Promoter: XESTUR CORUÑA, INSTITUTO GALLEGO DE VIVIENDA Y SUELO

Surface: 13 Ha

Dates. Project: 1998 Construction: 2001-2003