The urbanization of the Easo-Amara Railway Widening will be transformed with 480 homes and sports equipment

The 'Living in the Urban Forest' project of the Catalan group JPAM City Makers has been selected for the development ofthe urban transformation of theEaso-Amara Railway Widening , one of the main urban regeneration operations planned in San Sebastián . The initiative envisages 480 homes and sports equipment in this area.

The proposal, based on the contributions of the citizens received, has obtained the highest assessment in the two main criteria set out in the competition: 33 out of 33 in terms of integrating citizens' demands and institutional needs, and 15 out of 15 in terms of mobility.

Amado Martin, Jorge Perea and Samuel Llovet are the architects of theJPAM City Makers team. The technical assessment highlights that 'Living in the Urban Forest' "has been able to integrate within the same coherent proposal the different needs of programme, public space, mobility, accessibility and urban functioning."

During the presentation, Housing and Urban Agenda Counselor Denis Itxaso stressed that the new project will make it possible to transform the space liberated by the burial of the Mole and "overcome one of the main physical barriers that have separated different parts of the city for decades."

Itxaso has announced that instead of the old Topo railway station, a sports centre with a swimming pool will be built in the middle of Easo Square, "paying off our debt to that neighborhood."

For her part, the Mobility Sustainability Advisor, Susana García Chueca, has explained that the public body Euskal Trenbide Sarea (ETS) is working on the architectural reprints and facilities of the underground passage of the Mole, 4.2 km and three underground stations, so that it is possible to release 21,000 m2 of landon which residential buildings and public spaces can be built.

  
Theproject will make it possible to move towards a new urban connection between the Romantic Esplanade and Amara Nuevo , forming a large urban axis over the space previously occupied by the railways.
  
The competition, promoted jointly by the Basque Government and the City of San Sebastián, will allow progress to be made in drafting the amendment of the General Urban Management Plan (PGOU).