General Planning of Jaen
Location: Jaen
Author: José Seguí Pérez. Architect
ESTUDIO SEGUÍ
Date: 2006
Commission: Jaen Council Hall, by national Competition
Population: 110.000 habitants
The Contest of the new Plan of Jaén, was convened by the City of Jaén. The Plan is designed as a set of strategic projects capable of boosting the new economic model of territorial transformation generated by these new infrastructures in order to find new opportunities for the city.
To rediscover the urban and territorial structure of Jaén, based mainly on its radioconcentric model of axes and rounds, recognizing its urban compactness to avoid its residential dispersion, and to select the strategic projects capable of dynamizing economically and qualifying its urbanity, would be its main urbanistic objectives and Where it would be located its strategic projects: the Intermodal Station (of Railway and bus), the Technological Park and its City of Transport, the Fair and Major Events, the Sanitary City, the Extension of the University, the Central Park, The Arts and rehabilitation of the old FFCC Station, the Linear Parks …, as well as the residential extensions of the North and the West, limiting and sealing the growth of the South (the Sierra) and the East (Vega de los Ríos) . Particular attention is paid to the disseminated sectors of the Vega de los Ríos that are given back and controlled through specific regulations.
