new york - paris
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domestic topography - europan6
santa cruz de tenerife 2001 - - mentioned
the project sets out to solve a landscaping and town planning problem: the expansion of the city of santa cruz de tenerife towards its periphery across a topography marked by a succession of ravines that cannot readily be crossed. here the "in between cities" idea has less to do with a local fracture than with a process left hanging, an urban fabric that cannot succeed in formalising and structuring its own limits. the project can be described more as an original form of urban organisation, a reaction to a singular topography, rather than an extension of the añaza plateau. the topography is not considered a mere spatial context, framing or framed by the project, but as an active component with a fundamental role in the design process.