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http://hdl.handle.net/2117/3464
2024-03-28T18:35:59ZLa dimensión urbana de la comida: Barcelona como pretexto
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/402361
La dimensión urbana de la comida: Barcelona como pretexto
Sauquet Llonch, Roger Joan; Salvadó Aragonès, Núria; Fuertes Pérez, Pere
2024-02-21T09:31:22ZSauquet Llonch, Roger JoanSalvadó Aragonès, NúriaFuertes Pérez, PereAlejandro Zohn: structure & form
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/383841
Alejandro Zohn: structure & form
Rueda Velazquez, Claudia; De Renteria Cano, Maria Isabel; Mària Serrano, Magdalena
Alejandro Zohn (1930-2000) studied both at the same time civil engineering and architecture in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. From his student times he became interested in the plastic and formal qualities of ruled structures and concrete. This is evidenced by his final works and his engineering thesis "Nuevo Mercado Libertad” in the San Juan de Dios neighbourhood, in 1955. A couple of years later, the thesis became one of the main buildings in the city. This design project will determine his personal path in architecture: using the hyperbolic paraboloid, a ruled surface that solves not only the roof but the entire building, obtaining spaces of great interior and exterior expressive richness, which are halfway between architecture and sculpture. Added to this is the use of a reduced range of traditional materials in conjunction with industrial materials. This article explores the origin of this way of designing and unfolds the compositional mechanisms that the architect-engineer uses in his design projects. Starting from a basic unit that, singularly or systematically repeated, solves a wide range of architectural typologies, Zohn creates a set of masterful works that have spatial qualities in accordance with the specificity of the place, with the properties of the materials and with the programe requirements.
2023-02-22T09:29:28ZRueda Velazquez, ClaudiaDe Renteria Cano, Maria IsabelMària Serrano, MagdalenaAlejandro Zohn (1930-2000) studied both at the same time civil engineering and architecture in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. From his student times he became interested in the plastic and formal qualities of ruled structures and concrete. This is evidenced by his final works and his engineering thesis "Nuevo Mercado Libertad” in the San Juan de Dios neighbourhood, in 1955. A couple of years later, the thesis became one of the main buildings in the city. This design project will determine his personal path in architecture: using the hyperbolic paraboloid, a ruled surface that solves not only the roof but the entire building, obtaining spaces of great interior and exterior expressive richness, which are halfway between architecture and sculpture. Added to this is the use of a reduced range of traditional materials in conjunction with industrial materials. This article explores the origin of this way of designing and unfolds the compositional mechanisms that the architect-engineer uses in his design projects. Starting from a basic unit that, singularly or systematically repeated, solves a wide range of architectural typologies, Zohn creates a set of masterful works that have spatial qualities in accordance with the specificity of the place, with the properties of the materials and with the programe requirements.Market halls as activators of public space: Barcelona's metropolitan food system
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/368082
Market halls as activators of public space: Barcelona's metropolitan food system
Gómez Escoda, Eulalia Maria; Fuertes Pérez, Pere
Barcelona is characterized by a unique food supply system based on 38 public market halls, 2,331 supermarkets, 1,997 food stores and 1,562 bakeries evenly dispersed in the urban fabric. The city is a model of what happens in the 35 municipalities that surround it and make up its metropolitan area, where another 52 markets catalyze food trade around them. As happened in many other European cities, market halls were open-air exchange spaces until they were covered as cities modernized, a process that ordered circulation in public space, extracting from it a relationship with food that had been inherent to urban condition for centuries. But while in the 60's many cities began to dismantle their public food system, Barcelona disregarded this trend and continued to erect market halls until tripling their number, reinforcing a multi-scale constellation dispersed throughout the metropolitan territory. The case becomes even more unique when looking at the metropolis, in which 30% of the market halls were built from 1976, the year of the elaboration of the General Metropolitan Plan in force since then. Today, patterns can be detected in which the proximity of a market hall triggers the use of nearby ground floors for commercial activities related to food and other daily programs, and intensifies the use of the public space around it. This article presents an ongoing investigation in which, on the one hand, the architecture of the ninety market halls is analyzed, with the hypothesis that each building type determines the surrounding urban space in different ways; and on the other hand, the urban fabric in which markets are inserted, the population density that they serve, and the variety of food trade in their proximity are observed and compared.
2022-06-07T12:01:56ZGómez Escoda, Eulalia MariaFuertes Pérez, PereBarcelona is characterized by a unique food supply system based on 38 public market halls, 2,331 supermarkets, 1,997 food stores and 1,562 bakeries evenly dispersed in the urban fabric. The city is a model of what happens in the 35 municipalities that surround it and make up its metropolitan area, where another 52 markets catalyze food trade around them. As happened in many other European cities, market halls were open-air exchange spaces until they were covered as cities modernized, a process that ordered circulation in public space, extracting from it a relationship with food that had been inherent to urban condition for centuries. But while in the 60's many cities began to dismantle their public food system, Barcelona disregarded this trend and continued to erect market halls until tripling their number, reinforcing a multi-scale constellation dispersed throughout the metropolitan territory. The case becomes even more unique when looking at the metropolis, in which 30% of the market halls were built from 1976, the year of the elaboration of the General Metropolitan Plan in force since then. Today, patterns can be detected in which the proximity of a market hall triggers the use of nearby ground floors for commercial activities related to food and other daily programs, and intensifies the use of the public space around it. This article presents an ongoing investigation in which, on the one hand, the architecture of the ninety market halls is analyzed, with the hypothesis that each building type determines the surrounding urban space in different ways; and on the other hand, the urban fabric in which markets are inserted, the population density that they serve, and the variety of food trade in their proximity are observed and compared.Local as available: redefining tradition
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/364470
Local as available: redefining tradition
Fuertes Pérez, Pere; Farré Moreto, Raimon
The meaning of local in architecture cannot be conceived today without considering the effects of a global world. Available materials are not produced locally, as they used to be, and tradition — as a collective knowledge based both on locally obtained materials and on socio-cultural demands — is no longer a useful learning tool in metropolitan areas like Barcelona, where new architecture is designed and built without considering such historical link. The scale of knowledge has dramatically changed and has become more generalist, but the requirement of real sustainability calls this scenario into question. In this respect, Vallès School of Architecture, ETSAV, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, is now reassessing its five-year undergraduate curriculum towards a gradual integrated learning approach around the work and reflection of students in the design studios, and the topic of this Conference is an opportunity to examine this reassessing process in the light of the interaction of local and global issues in architectural education. This paper exposes some recent academic experiences which could be used as a lever to reorient ETSAV and explores the scope and potential of redefining tradition to regain the consideration and logics of a basic working tool, according to what local availability may involve in diverse areas of knowledge.
2022-03-17T17:31:16ZFuertes Pérez, PereFarré Moreto, RaimonThe meaning of local in architecture cannot be conceived today without considering the effects of a global world. Available materials are not produced locally, as they used to be, and tradition — as a collective knowledge based both on locally obtained materials and on socio-cultural demands — is no longer a useful learning tool in metropolitan areas like Barcelona, where new architecture is designed and built without considering such historical link. The scale of knowledge has dramatically changed and has become more generalist, but the requirement of real sustainability calls this scenario into question. In this respect, Vallès School of Architecture, ETSAV, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, is now reassessing its five-year undergraduate curriculum towards a gradual integrated learning approach around the work and reflection of students in the design studios, and the topic of this Conference is an opportunity to examine this reassessing process in the light of the interaction of local and global issues in architectural education. This paper exposes some recent academic experiences which could be used as a lever to reorient ETSAV and explores the scope and potential of redefining tradition to regain the consideration and logics of a basic working tool, according to what local availability may involve in diverse areas of knowledge.Patio as a structural invariant. Buildings with patio facing adaptive reuse in Barcelona
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/364467
Patio as a structural invariant. Buildings with patio facing adaptive reuse in Barcelona
Fuertes Pérez, Pere; Sauquet Llonch, Roger Joan; Salvadó Aragonès, Núria
Certain architectural structures have the ability to persist over time when a building undergoes a change of use. This is the case of patios, according to the conclusions of a study focused on the reused buildings of Barcelona recently developed. The survey of this architectural element should enable us to better understand the behaviour of these buildings. If we define the open-air inner courtyard of a building as a patio, this study is especially interested in those who have the capacity to organize spaces, systematize circulations — along with stairs and corridors — and configure the building as a whole. This set of structuring patios particularly applies in a dense city like Barcelona because their position and size also provide liveability to interior rooms. In light of these qualities, such patios can be regarded as an essential piece of both the formal and the bearing structure of a building. The location and attributes of these patios can be associated with the potential for adaptive reuse: they can help achieve a lower impact on the architectural and formal structure of a renovated building, when used appropriately. Hence the patio can be seen as an indicator of how a new programme adapts to the existing support. 171 out of 565 buildings documented and analysed in Barcelona — a thirty percent of the overall — have at least one patio of a kind whose characteristics have outlived one or more renovation processes. The percentage rises to 50% in Ciutat Vella and Eixample districts, where density and architectural typology make them particularly relevant. Buildings with patios match different uses and periods from the 11th to the 20th century. In spite of the expected differences, the studio draws conclusions on the understanding of material transformations and changes of use they have undergone. In short, with regard to buildings included in this category — both heritage and common ones — this paper helps verify the hypothesis that the very existence of a patio is responsible for the persistence of the internal arrangement and structure and must be carefully considered in future interventions when addressed to extend the life-cycle of a building.
2022-03-17T17:26:09ZFuertes Pérez, PereSauquet Llonch, Roger JoanSalvadó Aragonès, NúriaCertain architectural structures have the ability to persist over time when a building undergoes a change of use. This is the case of patios, according to the conclusions of a study focused on the reused buildings of Barcelona recently developed. The survey of this architectural element should enable us to better understand the behaviour of these buildings. If we define the open-air inner courtyard of a building as a patio, this study is especially interested in those who have the capacity to organize spaces, systematize circulations — along with stairs and corridors — and configure the building as a whole. This set of structuring patios particularly applies in a dense city like Barcelona because their position and size also provide liveability to interior rooms. In light of these qualities, such patios can be regarded as an essential piece of both the formal and the bearing structure of a building. The location and attributes of these patios can be associated with the potential for adaptive reuse: they can help achieve a lower impact on the architectural and formal structure of a renovated building, when used appropriately. Hence the patio can be seen as an indicator of how a new programme adapts to the existing support. 171 out of 565 buildings documented and analysed in Barcelona — a thirty percent of the overall — have at least one patio of a kind whose characteristics have outlived one or more renovation processes. The percentage rises to 50% in Ciutat Vella and Eixample districts, where density and architectural typology make them particularly relevant. Buildings with patios match different uses and periods from the 11th to the 20th century. In spite of the expected differences, the studio draws conclusions on the understanding of material transformations and changes of use they have undergone. In short, with regard to buildings included in this category — both heritage and common ones — this paper helps verify the hypothesis that the very existence of a patio is responsible for the persistence of the internal arrangement and structure and must be carefully considered in future interventions when addressed to extend the life-cycle of a building.Satellite Rooms: Francesc Mitjans’ Modern Housing Resilience in Barcelona
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/364458
Satellite Rooms: Francesc Mitjans’ Modern Housing Resilience in Barcelona
Mària Serrano, Magdalena; Rentería Cano, Isabela; Rueda Velazquez, Claudia
Barcelona has a large number of apartment buildings built throughout the twentieth century, whose sizes exceed the current needs and possibilities of its inhabitants. The new variants in lifestyles, combined with housing high prices, require other sizes and forms of organization. The transformation of existing typologies to respond to current demand would facilitate intelligent reuse of the Modern housing heritage of the city.
In the Modern Movement there were formulated, typological proposals of housing with satellite segregated rooms that made possible the adaptation to the variable needs that covered social requirements beyond the traditional family nucleus, incorporating spaces to rent, to welcome a relative or set up an office. This paper proposes rescuing design project strategies, based on these lessons that architectural modernity offered on minimal housing—with shared spaces and equipped independent rooms—and applies them to built-in housing stock by Catalan architect Francesc Mitjans in Barcelona.
The objective is to establish criteria for channeling the adaptation of these buildings for their reuse, preserving the organizational, spatial and material values of their architecture, and ensure that the existing typologies do not fall into obsolescence, are not transformed and segregated without criteria and speculatively, as it is beginning to happen in Barcelona, and that residential use is not expelled from the city centre.
2022-03-17T16:14:31ZMària Serrano, MagdalenaRentería Cano, IsabelaRueda Velazquez, ClaudiaBarcelona has a large number of apartment buildings built throughout the twentieth century, whose sizes exceed the current needs and possibilities of its inhabitants. The new variants in lifestyles, combined with housing high prices, require other sizes and forms of organization. The transformation of existing typologies to respond to current demand would facilitate intelligent reuse of the Modern housing heritage of the city.
In the Modern Movement there were formulated, typological proposals of housing with satellite segregated rooms that made possible the adaptation to the variable needs that covered social requirements beyond the traditional family nucleus, incorporating spaces to rent, to welcome a relative or set up an office. This paper proposes rescuing design project strategies, based on these lessons that architectural modernity offered on minimal housing—with shared spaces and equipped independent rooms—and applies them to built-in housing stock by Catalan architect Francesc Mitjans in Barcelona.
The objective is to establish criteria for channeling the adaptation of these buildings for their reuse, preserving the organizational, spatial and material values of their architecture, and ensure that the existing typologies do not fall into obsolescence, are not transformed and segregated without criteria and speculatively, as it is beginning to happen in Barcelona, and that residential use is not expelled from the city centre.The Reuse of Housing Buildings in Barcelona. The Versatility of Old Constructive Structures
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/364445
The Reuse of Housing Buildings in Barcelona. The Versatility of Old Constructive Structures
Mària Serrano, Magdalena; Monteys Roig, Xavier
There are 1,463 buildings in Barcelona, from different times from the first century to the present day, that have changed their functions once or more times throughout their life. This paper analyses those cases in which changes in use relate to housing and it does it in two opposite ways: In one way, examining houses –mostly with building structures of bearing walls– that have endured functional modifications without losing its main attributes. In the opposite way around, studying buildings with other uses than housing –many of them built with isotropic structures or large structural spans– that have been converted into dwellings. On the other hand, and in both cases, the analysis addresses how the urban situation of the building conditions the use to which it will tend to be transformed.
2022-03-17T16:03:44ZMària Serrano, MagdalenaMonteys Roig, XavierThere are 1,463 buildings in Barcelona, from different times from the first century to the present day, that have changed their functions once or more times throughout their life. This paper analyses those cases in which changes in use relate to housing and it does it in two opposite ways: In one way, examining houses –mostly with building structures of bearing walls– that have endured functional modifications without losing its main attributes. In the opposite way around, studying buildings with other uses than housing –many of them built with isotropic structures or large structural spans– that have been converted into dwellings. On the other hand, and in both cases, the analysis addresses how the urban situation of the building conditions the use to which it will tend to be transformed.Learning by comparing
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/364444
Learning by comparing
Mària Serrano, Magdalena; Musquera Felip, Sílvia
The subject Comparative Architecture, carried out in the MBArch Master of the ETSAB (UPC), proposes the comparison of 10 pairs of images as a methodology for learning architecture. Throughout the course, students elaborate 10 texts in which the multiple relationships established between two architectural or artistic works emerge; highlighting those aspects of both images that otherwise would not have arisen.
In this matter, the choice of comparable examples, as well as the historical, stylistic or disciplinary mainstreaming of the works is essential, since they allow establishing relationships that go beyond typological, spatial or temporal patterns and allow very different discourses depending on the chosen 'opponent'.
The paper will explain, based on 10 arguments, the teaching methodology implemented during 10 courses taught in Comparative Architecture (2010-2020). A learning system that is, at the same time, an instrument of analysis and a project tool, which aims to sharpen the gaze and the critical sense of the student.
From the necessary 'archaeological survey' of disassembling the apparent forms to reassembling them through the comparisons made, concepts such as: version, analogy, contradiction, deformation, transformation, extension, reference, paradox, reminiscent or hyperbole, arise. Terms that are found in the connections that are established between the images and that grant a unitary argument to the personal recomposition that the comparative process entails.
As an example, we will explain, among others, the master lines that arise from the mutual enlightening of works such Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio in Como (1936) and the Rafael Moneo’s Murcia City Council (1998); the AEG by Peter Behrens (1913) and the Fronleichnamskirche in Aquisgran by Rudolf Schwarz (1930); or the Rotating House drawing by Paul Klee (1921) and the Kal’at Sim’ân Monastery plant in Syria (450-470). Works whose comparison show the mysterious qualities that brought them together.
2022-03-17T15:59:20ZMària Serrano, MagdalenaMusquera Felip, SílviaThe subject Comparative Architecture, carried out in the MBArch Master of the ETSAB (UPC), proposes the comparison of 10 pairs of images as a methodology for learning architecture. Throughout the course, students elaborate 10 texts in which the multiple relationships established between two architectural or artistic works emerge; highlighting those aspects of both images that otherwise would not have arisen.
In this matter, the choice of comparable examples, as well as the historical, stylistic or disciplinary mainstreaming of the works is essential, since they allow establishing relationships that go beyond typological, spatial or temporal patterns and allow very different discourses depending on the chosen 'opponent'.
The paper will explain, based on 10 arguments, the teaching methodology implemented during 10 courses taught in Comparative Architecture (2010-2020). A learning system that is, at the same time, an instrument of analysis and a project tool, which aims to sharpen the gaze and the critical sense of the student.
From the necessary 'archaeological survey' of disassembling the apparent forms to reassembling them through the comparisons made, concepts such as: version, analogy, contradiction, deformation, transformation, extension, reference, paradox, reminiscent or hyperbole, arise. Terms that are found in the connections that are established between the images and that grant a unitary argument to the personal recomposition that the comparative process entails.
As an example, we will explain, among others, the master lines that arise from the mutual enlightening of works such Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio in Como (1936) and the Rafael Moneo’s Murcia City Council (1998); the AEG by Peter Behrens (1913) and the Fronleichnamskirche in Aquisgran by Rudolf Schwarz (1930); or the Rotating House drawing by Paul Klee (1921) and the Kal’at Sim’ân Monastery plant in Syria (450-470). Works whose comparison show the mysterious qualities that brought them together.Ordenanzas en base metabólica: el replanteo de las ordenanzas de densificación en tres urbanizaciones del Vallés (Barcelona)
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/345506
Ordenanzas en base metabólica: el replanteo de las ordenanzas de densificación en tres urbanizaciones del Vallés (Barcelona)
Sauquet Llonch, Roger Joan; Castiñeira Palou, Isabel; Gómez, Nieves; Donés, Chantal
Las áreas de baja densidad residencial en Cataluña toman el nombre
de ‘urbanizaciones’. Algunas nacidas a principio de siglo XX y muchas otras de forma ilegal durante el tardo-franquismo, estos asentamientos se caracterizan por las casas unifamiliares en medio de parcelas de entre 400 y 1.000 metros cuadrados. A pesar de todas las patologías urbanas y ambientales atribuidas a este tipo de tejidos hay indicadores como el de la biodiversidad o el de la calidad ambiental del aire que son notablemente mejores que los de la ciudad compacta. Así mismo, es de los pocos espacios urbanos dónde aún se puede experimentar, desde de la rehabilitación, nuevos tipos residenciales de densidad media que rompan la dicotomía casa - bloque.
Estas áreas crecen a partir de las necesidades vitales de los habitantes que construyen cuando necesitan más espacio. Aprovechando esta realidad metabólica, el artículo se plantea hasta qué punto la forma de planificar el urbanismo ‘clásico’, que interpone límites meramente volumétricos a la obra nueva o a las ampliaciones, es efectiva, o bien podría ser substituida por la regulación compleja de un intercambio de intereses entre el habitante, que necesita obtener más superficie y más rendimiento de su parcela, y la globalidad, que necesita mejorar la sostenibilidad ambiental y social de este tipo de tejidos. Desde distintas plataformas docentes de la ETSAV, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC) se ha estudiado pormenorizadamente tres áreas de baja densidad de la comarca barcelonesa del Vallès, proponiendo un sistema normativo con el que, mediante condicionantes, se regulan las aspiraciones de crecimiento de los habitantes limitándoles o premiándoles en función de las bondades sociales y ambientales de la intervención arquitectónica que pretenden realizar.
2021-05-12T12:27:08ZSauquet Llonch, Roger JoanCastiñeira Palou, IsabelGómez, NievesDonés, ChantalLas áreas de baja densidad residencial en Cataluña toman el nombre
de ‘urbanizaciones’. Algunas nacidas a principio de siglo XX y muchas otras de forma ilegal durante el tardo-franquismo, estos asentamientos se caracterizan por las casas unifamiliares en medio de parcelas de entre 400 y 1.000 metros cuadrados. A pesar de todas las patologías urbanas y ambientales atribuidas a este tipo de tejidos hay indicadores como el de la biodiversidad o el de la calidad ambiental del aire que son notablemente mejores que los de la ciudad compacta. Así mismo, es de los pocos espacios urbanos dónde aún se puede experimentar, desde de la rehabilitación, nuevos tipos residenciales de densidad media que rompan la dicotomía casa - bloque.
Estas áreas crecen a partir de las necesidades vitales de los habitantes que construyen cuando necesitan más espacio. Aprovechando esta realidad metabólica, el artículo se plantea hasta qué punto la forma de planificar el urbanismo ‘clásico’, que interpone límites meramente volumétricos a la obra nueva o a las ampliaciones, es efectiva, o bien podría ser substituida por la regulación compleja de un intercambio de intereses entre el habitante, que necesita obtener más superficie y más rendimiento de su parcela, y la globalidad, que necesita mejorar la sostenibilidad ambiental y social de este tipo de tejidos. Desde distintas plataformas docentes de la ETSAV, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC) se ha estudiado pormenorizadamente tres áreas de baja densidad de la comarca barcelonesa del Vallès, proponiendo un sistema normativo con el que, mediante condicionantes, se regulan las aspiraciones de crecimiento de los habitantes limitándoles o premiándoles en función de las bondades sociales y ambientales de la intervención arquitectónica que pretenden realizar.The construction of an Urban Food System. Barcelona 1957-2020
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/341379
The construction of an Urban Food System. Barcelona 1957-2020
Fuertes Pérez, Pere; Gómez Escoda, Eulalia Maria
The urban form of Barcelona can be explained through the distribution of food supply systems. Thirty-eight public food market halls — reachable at a walking distance of five minutes from half of the city's households — are complemented by a private system formed by 1,522 specialty stores and 2,809 supermarkets that provide fresh edibles to citizens.
Half of the market halls active today were built late after 1957, at a time when the architectural type was in decline or disappearance in most cities. With the country under a political dictatorship, a municipal strategy was developed to expand the public market system — born a century earlier, in the mid-19th — to strengthen small commercial centralities in peripheral neighborhoods. In many of these cases, the construction of the market hall was a milestone that preceded the services of any other facility or the arrival of public transportation systems.
In 1986, a new public governance implemented an ambitious reform and expansion model to "make municipal markets the centre of the fresh food distribution network" which turned market halls into triggers for the regeneration of food retail premises. As a consequence and since 1998, 18 buildings have been updated and four more are under works as part of a policy sustained over time that has managed to consolidate an urban model that can now be diagnosed.
The research deepens in the exploration of the urban evolution of the food commercial fabric as a result of the implementation of public control policies since 1957. Given the distribution of the system in the city, public markets have the capacity to become a tool capable of exercising control over food prices and to be the stage for a public commitment to the introduction of new practices related to healthy feeding habits.
2021-03-10T11:17:56ZFuertes Pérez, PereGómez Escoda, Eulalia MariaThe urban form of Barcelona can be explained through the distribution of food supply systems. Thirty-eight public food market halls — reachable at a walking distance of five minutes from half of the city's households — are complemented by a private system formed by 1,522 specialty stores and 2,809 supermarkets that provide fresh edibles to citizens.
Half of the market halls active today were built late after 1957, at a time when the architectural type was in decline or disappearance in most cities. With the country under a political dictatorship, a municipal strategy was developed to expand the public market system — born a century earlier, in the mid-19th — to strengthen small commercial centralities in peripheral neighborhoods. In many of these cases, the construction of the market hall was a milestone that preceded the services of any other facility or the arrival of public transportation systems.
In 1986, a new public governance implemented an ambitious reform and expansion model to "make municipal markets the centre of the fresh food distribution network" which turned market halls into triggers for the regeneration of food retail premises. As a consequence and since 1998, 18 buildings have been updated and four more are under works as part of a policy sustained over time that has managed to consolidate an urban model that can now be diagnosed.
The research deepens in the exploration of the urban evolution of the food commercial fabric as a result of the implementation of public control policies since 1957. Given the distribution of the system in the city, public markets have the capacity to become a tool capable of exercising control over food prices and to be the stage for a public commitment to the introduction of new practices related to healthy feeding habits.