Madrid Rio Project - Resort in the city center

An unusual example of a fundamental transformation of urban space, the authors found an art agency The July 16. In the center of attention today, the capital of Spain, Madrid. Unique model of the functioning and development have developed without the clever technology and complex circuits. All that is needed for the successful implementation of the project - children's drawings, made the usual pencils and paints.

His appearance in Madrid Rio Project must, first and foremost children. Back in 2005, the City announced a contest for the best children's picture "of a dream." And kids dream about the most ordinary things: sea, sun, rides and games outdoors. Thus, children with a light hand, in Madrid, began large-scale campaign to reorganize the urban space.

To implement these plans into reality had to invent imaginative moves. For example, to find a huge area, where a fit Disneyland park, and even the beach. Ideal platform was the most lively area of ​​Madrid - the coastal area of ​​the river Manzanares, where day and night noise of the engine is not faded, and hazardous waste have turned the river into the gutter.

As a result, children's drawings became a master plan on total reconstruction of the downtown area. Solutions have been built into a single system and found that the harmless children's drawings helped at once to get rid of a wide range of problems - from environmental to social and economic.

The project started in 2008 with a rather extraordinary step: Madrid was dug under the second city, where all traffic is shifted. Downtown has finally turned into a pedestrian zone with avenues, and the river Manzanares has regained its historical value: in the crystal clear water, swans and ducks, and over the river bridge designers have put 23 on which you can walk, ride bikes, sit on the shops.

But the most ambitious work was developed in the coastal zone. While the adults relax on the beach or walking in the shadow of exotic trees, children frolic on the playground, at 17, the attractions and bathe in the river.

And for the restless thoughtful designers have provided several centers for extreme sports: a set of climbing and the Velodrome. Surprisingly, as a reduction of only two highways has created a full-fledged resort in the heart of the city. On the territory of several parks designers hid three fitness club, a football field, numerous holiday homes and galleries.

Performance of children's desires require considerable financial cost. The total project cost amounted to 485 million euros. But can you talk about the cost of material, when day and night in the river Manzanares does not stop ringing laughter of children?